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Originally Posted by Sticks
In my days when I did internal affairs investigation we would have been down on him like a tonne of bricks
As for cults or as we called the "New Religious movements" I did studies on them for personal reasons and gathered dossier files on the various groups for countering purposes. A lot of the material came from an organisation called Reachout Trust who deal with this sort of problem.
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And to be serious here a lot of people may just want to laugh this stuff off as some wacko evangelicals going too far,
but,
realistically there can and have been serious consequences to these sort of pseudo-christian movements and I can tell you they are happy to draw in and involve people with psychological and emotional problems and in this case add alcohol and drug problems (brain damage, impairment, cognitive disorders).
OK.
Then the last thing these people need is to get pulled deeper and further into zealous, psychosomatic, hypnotic and often extremely manipulative emotional states,
and,
guess who ends up visiting them in the mental hospital?
Me.
Only problem is that while I'm trying to get them back to reality someone like David shows up and undoes any progress and (in good cult like fashion) convinces them I am obviously unsaved, unbaptized in the spirit or whatever crap they are on about.
Over on this side of the pond the ones I have had to deal with are people like Todd Bentley and more locally Patricia King.
Again, people will (for a while) mistakenly think David is just a funny prankster sort of guy or a 'jesus hippy' throwback,
but,
make no mistake about it - these kinds of groups cause real and serious damage and exploitation to what is often the most vulnerable people,
and,
I am serious when I say this is outraging and considered highly offensive by Christians.
Consider this - I showed a few clips of David and his mystic priest Crowder to some
pentecostal charismatic american holy roller christians
and they were absolutely DISGUSTED and quite seriously so repulsed they could barely tolerate it without feeling physically ill,
and,
wow that is that saying something when even Pentecostals think David a complete wacko and an offense to Christianity.
btw i've gotten into this with David, Crowder, Dunn and some of their friends well before this season and none of this is because of 'David the Housemate' who I notice is being fairly quiet so far.
Oh, in case you were wondering - he isn't really a monk although this cult group is into a kind of Roman Catholic Mysticism and takes up sort of mystic symbols and garb and accessories of that.
Vinnie on youtube did a superb job exposing the bizarre and pseudochristian falsehoods and cult and occult nonsense of these guys:
David's Prophet:
(well David is also considered a prophet and leader too. but Crowder is like their current High-Priest. I believe the dead mystic guy is their actual 'Pope')