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Culture.

the world's most dangerous cult (it's not wahhabism). part i

11/18/2017

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Vahan Bogdasarian
 
Many people familiar with the Middle East believe that Wahhabism is the most dangerous cult in the world. Indeed, the intentions of the Wahhabists are as dangerous as they come.
But there is a cult more dangerous than this because, while ISIS is not a state actor and has no thermonuclear arms, this other cult is a major agent in manipulating the use of nuclear arms against people who are not their enemy but who they believe with all their hearts are the enemy of God and must therefore, based on a cult-like interpretation of the scriptures, be destroyed. This teaching pits the West against the Shia world (that’s the Muslims who are fighting ISIS and Al-Qaeda) and its nuclear armed allies Russia and China.
 
The danger of the cult in question lies in two areas:
 
1—their cult is alarmingly popular, particularly in the US, where over 50% of Americans polled favor Israel over the Palestinians (whose land they occupy) and, in addition, their desire for war has support from other powerful agents, both government and journalistic, in their own country and elsewhere.
 
2—Their cult teaches that God supports their desire for war and will keep them free from harm regardless of the risks and perils of the course of action – even a nuclear attack – that their government may undertake under pressure from them. Remember the soldiers in WW I sporting belt buckles with the inscription Gott mit uns. God is always for us, right?
 
The cult in question is Christian Zionism, which we will prove is in fact anti-Christian.

Past centuries have seen, in Europe, various cults strikingly similar to this modern one whose followers were fully convinced that they were executing God’s will and that He would protect them from all harm even as they marauded across Europe wantonly breaking God’s commandments not to kill or steal. This history of militant heretics is vividly portrayed with regards to numerous socialistic Christian sects by renowned Soviet mathematician and anticommunist dissident Igor Shafarevich in his book “The Socialist Phenomenon” (Социализм как явление мировой истории / Sotsializm kak yavlenie mirovoy istoriy).
 
These sects included the Cathars, the Apostolic Brethren, the Adamites, the Taborites, the early Anabaptists and numerous others, all of them imbued with a sense that certain obscure scripture verses conferred to them divine carte blanche to plunder churches and kill Christians with beliefs different from theirs. This conviction of self-righteousness is strikingly similar to the Wahhabist teachings in the Middle East.
 
Thomas Münzer,one of the founders of the Anabaptists, was a charismatic leader of the Peasants’ Revolt in Germany around the time of Luther’s Reformation. In his sermons, he railed against the local authorities, princes and church leaders, who he believed had arrogated to themselves rights that only God could wield and confer. He and his rebel followers plundered and burned churches and wantonly killed priests, citing vague scripture that he thought supported his lawlessness, though his actions violated Christ's Law of Love (more on this later).
 
At the beginning of the 14th century a “heretic” leader founded in Italy a sect that he called the Apostolic Brethren (Fraticelli Apostolici), which opposed the Catholics on several grounds. They opposed the Church not only philosophically but also militarily. According to Shafarevich:
 
“Victory in the wars with the Antichrist Pope, Dolcino foretells, will be won thanks to the interference of a foreign monarch. He pins his hope on Frederick, the King of Aragon and Sicily, who at the time was engaging in a fierce conflict with the Pope. (He had just strung up all the monks in Sicily who were suspected of supporting the papacy.)
Dolcino derived all this from his interpretation of the Biblical prophets”
He slaughtered people who disagreed with his take on scripture.
 
According to this Italian language text, Dolcino was eventually caught and made to watch as his wife was burned at the stake. Then it was his turn. Prior to this, he was subjected to unspeakable torture, such as castration, and his nose was cut off. Where was “love thine enemies” in this horrific clash of Christian vs Christian?
 
You probably will have heard of the sweet pacifistic Mennonites and Amish in Lancaster County PA. Before they were pacified, their Anabaptist forebears (we mentioned Münzer above) staged a reign of terror in Münster and elsewhere in the 16th Century. They were absolute caricatures of themselves. The first noteworthy leader, Jan Matthijs, after calling for all dissidents to be exterminated, declared war on essentially the whole non-Anabaptist world:
 
An excerpt from Shafarevich:
 
“The Anabaptists made a display of their power almost immediately in a terrible outburst of violence that took place … three days after the election. Monasteries and churches were destroyed, religious objects smashed and saints' relics thrown into the streets.”
 
To show his authority, Matthijs, personally executed one hapless citizen who disagreed with the bloody agenda. The obviously mentally disturbed leader had a vision in which he would take on single-handedly the enemy troops besieging the city. Proclaiming “God’s will be done,” he marched outside the city wall and was hacked to pieces by the lansquenets. Upon his death his comrade in arms Jan Bokelson (Jan van Leyden) announced that he would personally replace Matthijs.
 
If Matthijs was the hors d’oeuvre, Bokeleson was the main course. Once installed in power, he had himself crowned king of the world and began persecuting and killing unbelievers wholesale. He declared all things in common (communism), including all women. At one of his own frequent wedding parties, he saw an unfortunate guest whom he did not recognize and beheaded him on the spot. His pious wives stood round about the gory scene singing “Glory to God in the Highest”.
 
“One woman who refused to become the king's wife, in spite of his several proposals, had her head chopped off in the town square by the king's own hand, while his assembled wives sang "Glory to God in the Highest.’ “
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Relevant reading
 
Free download of Shafarevich’s The Socialist Phenomenon
http://robertlstephens.com/essays/shafarevich/001SocialistPhenomenon.html

11 Comments
Freespeach
11/20/2017 07:16:14 am

I don't care what they say, if I had to choose between a Christian jihadist and a Muslim jihadist, I'd take the christian one any day of the week, thank you!

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ralfralf
11/20/2017 07:17:33 am

But where would you go to find a Christian jihadist?

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Jackieeagle
11/20/2017 07:29:33 am

Thanks for all this information and for the tip about Shafarevich. I have located it and will download it and read it in my spare time. I have Anabaptist background and always assumed that the Anabaptists had always been pure and innocent. They are pacifists and refuse to serve in the armed forces. This certainly casts them in a new light. I guess getting defeated in Europe is the reason why they have turned over a new leaf. I wonder what my Mennonite family members and friends will say about this. I hope some will at least read the book "The Socailist Phenomena."

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American Samizdat
11/26/2017 11:21:27 am

This info is very, very interesting. I will look further into it. Do you think possibly, that these cults were influenced to be so vile and violent because of influence from Jacob Frank the Sabbartean crypto=Jew who influenced the freemasons of high rank to become satanists? Do you know of Sabbatai Zev, who had one million Jewish followers in 1666, and openly promoted satanism, sexual magic, saying evil was good, etc.. Many of his followers in the 15th -18th - 19th centuries, because they were so vilified and laws were being passed against them converted to Christianity, but in name only, and they secretly continued their satanic beliefs. During these centuries, when the public was more aware of them (not like today) they were called Maranos - Christians who were really Jews. It's said by some than Christopher Columbus was a Marano.

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JACKIEEGLE
11/26/2017 03:33:01 pm

I have not investigated the early history of these folks but please remember that the radical school of the Enlightenment movement was started by goyim like Voltaire and Rousseau. Evil does not have an ethnicity. On the other hand, you may be on to something. We do know who started the Neocon movement at any rate.

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Buzzwar
5/8/2018 10:38:27 am

Christopher Columbus was neither a marano nor a jew for the following reason
If there was a first name that a jew would never ever accept to bear it is Christopher (Cristobal). because it has the word Christ embedded in it.And we all know the “love“ of the Jews for the lord Jesus. Columbus first name was Christopher therefore he could not have been a jew nor a marano.

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Jackieeale link
5/8/2018 10:43:13 am

Good observation! Yes, hardly possible.

Leland Curtis Roth link
5/1/2018 10:13:35 am

"These sects included the Cathars,..." HUH? They knew reincarnation was a fact....& got wiped out for being heretics back in 1300's or so...http://www.cathar.info

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"The religion flourished in an area often referred to as the Languedoc, broadly bordered by the Mediterannean Sea, the Pyrenees, and the rivers Garonne, Tarn and Rhône -— and corresponding to the new French region of Occitanie.

As Dualists, Cathars believed in two principles, a good god and his evil adversary (much like God and Satan of mainstream Christianity). The good principle had created everything immaterial (good, permanent, immutable) while the bad principle had created everything material (bad, temporary, perishable). Cathars called themselves simply Christians; their neighbours distinguished them as "Good Christians". The Catholic Church called them Albigenses, or less frequently. Cathars.

Cathars maintained a Church hierarchy and practiced a range of ceremonies, but rejected any idea of priesthood or the use of church buildings. They divided into ordinary believers who led ordinary medieval lives and an inner Elect of Parfaits (men) and Parfaites (women) who led extremely ascetic lives yet still worked for their living - generally in itinerant manual trades like weaving. Cathars believed in reincarnation and refused to eat meat or other animal products. They were strict about biblical injunctions - notably those about living in poverty, not telling lies, not killing and not swearing oaths.

Basic Cathar Tenets led to some surprising logical implications. For example they largely regarded men and women as equals, and had no doctrinal objection to contraception, euthanasia  or suicide. In some respects the Cathar and Catholic Churches were polar opposites. For example the Cathar Church taught that all non-procreative sex was better than any procreative sex. The Catholic Church taught - as it still teaches - exactly the opposite. Both positions produced interesting results. Following their tenet, Catholics concluded that masturbation was a far greater sin than rape (as mediaeval penitentials confirm). Following their principles, Cathars could deduce that sexual intercourse between man and wife was more culpable than homosexual sex. (Catholic propaganda on this supposed Cathar proclivity gave us the word bugger, from Bougre, one of the many names for medieval Gnostic Dualists)

In the Languedoc, known at the time for its high culture, tolerance and liberalism, the Cathar religion took root and gained more and more adherents during the twelfth century.  By the early thirteenth century Catharism was probably the majority religion in the area. Many Catholic texts refer to the danger of it replacing Catholisism completely." Ibid

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jackieeagle
5/1/2018 03:16:09 pm

From Shafarevich's book: n 1225, Cathars burned down a Catholic Chruch in Brescia; in 1235, they killed the Bishop of Mantua. A certain Eon de l'Étoile, head ofa Manichean sect (1143-1148), proclaimed himself the son of God and the Lord of everything on earth. In this capacity, he called upon his followers to plunder churches.

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Leland Curtis Roth link
5/2/2018 11:09:13 am

Interesting....Obviously more details r needed since we know how slanted his/herstory can be🎶

Thanks for quick response Jack! Have fun with this link, too🎯

https://www.facts-are-facts.com/article/reincarnation-the-churchs-biggest-lie



Leland Curtis Roth link
5/2/2018 04:02:59 pm


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The Inquisition set up in the Languedoc was not the first Inquisition set up by the Roman Church. Bishops' Inquisitions had existed for centuries, but being local, never had the impact of later Papal Inquisitions. The Inquisition which is the subject of this page was the Medieval Inquisition, established informally by Dominican under Pope Innocent III in the early thirteenth century and formalised by later popes.
The more widely known Spanish Inquisition was set up around two centuries later by their Catholic Majesties Ferdinand (of Aragon) and Isabella (of Castile). In later centuries another Papal Inquisition would be created to exterminate Protestant ideas in Southern Europe. Like the Spanish Inquisition, it would follow the practices of the original medieval Inquisition in the Languedoc - the one we are talking about here.
The express purpose of this original medieval Inquisition was to discover and eliminate vestiges of Cathar belief left in the wake of the Cathar Crusades. During the crusades, ordinances had been passed which imposed new penalties for heresy. After the death of Innocent III in 1216 Honorius sanctioned Dominic Guzmán's new religious order, popularly known as the Dominicans after Dominic. The Dominicans in turn created the first formal Inquisition. In 1233 the next pope, Gregory IX, charged the Dominican Inquisition with the final solution: the absolute extirpation of the Cathars. Soon the Franciscans would join in too, but it is Dominic Guzmán (St Dominic) and his followers who have left the legacy of bitterness that endures in the Languedoc into the third millennium.
By the end of the fourteenth century Catharism had been virtually extirpated. Before the Crusade the Languedoc, under the Counts of Toulouse, had been the most civilised land in Europe. People here had preferred simple asceticism to venality and corruption. Learning had been highly valued. Literacy had been widespread, and popular literature had developed earlier than anywhere else in Europe. Religious tolerance had been widely practised. Jews enjoyed ordinary civil rights. The Languedoc had been the home of courtly love, poetry, romance, chivalry and the troubadours. All this was swept away by the Albigensian Crusade and Dominic Guzmán's Dominicans and their Inquisition. http://www.cathar.info/cathar_inquisition.htm




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