Msg # 481   
Date: 05 Jul 91 14:55:30
From: Tom Posey
  To: Whoever
Subj: the most dangerous cult of all
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-                     THE DANGEROUS CULT                              -

What religious cult's practitioners have denied the divinity of Jesus? .

What religious cult has calculatedly murdered its opponents, and those
that even disagreed with it? .

What religious cult, where ever and when ever it has achieved secular
power, has outlawed other beliefs, sometimes making such beliefs a
capital crime? .

What religious cult has locked up its members, denying them all contact
with the opposite sex? .

What religious cult's practitioners have been seen mutilating their
bodies in the name of their beliefs, from ritual whippings to castration? .

What religious cult has required monetary donations from its members, so
that its higher echelons could live in luxury and comfort? .

What religious cult has refused its membership access to its sacred
writings? .

What religious cult has edited those sacred writings to make them conform
to the views of the leaders of the cult? .

What religious cult regularly practices religious cannibalism? .

What religious cult practices magical rituals to improve its members
status within the group and after death? .

What religious cult enjoins total celibacy upon its membership as the
best way of life? .

What religious cult, while preaching pacifism, has encouraged, and even
started, wars? .

What religious cult has preached hatred of certain ethnic groups? .

What religious cult has placed the female of the species in a subservient
position, blaming her for all the ills of Mankind? .

What religious cult fills its membership full of guilt at being human and
alive? .

What religious cult has burned books that disagree with its teachings? .

What religious cult has forced its moral, ethical, literary, artistic,
scientific and recreational views on whole nations? .

What religious cult has been documented to have practiced genocide, both
racial and cultural? .





If you answered "Christianity" to each of the above questions, you were
right. Each of the above has been a belief, or a practice, of at least
one and in several cases most Christian sect(s) from within 40 years after
the death of Jesus.

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