JOHN TRAVOLTA AND KELLY PRESTON VS. A CELIBATE MONK AND NUN

Anti cultists define cults as not being normal and then in the same breath say monks and nuns who take a lifetime vow of obedience, chastity and poverty in secluded monasteries are normal. Hundreds of thousands of priests and nuns for thousands of years are not victims of mind control. Superstar actors Tom Cruise and John Travolta and his wife, Kelly Preston who follow the leader of Scientology are brainwashed zombies ready to kill themselves and others at the command of their leader. Are Unificationists and Scientologists -- the two main cults stalked by Hassan -- more healthy psychologically, spiritually and physically than the tens of thousands of recluse Catholics? Elshtain writes that an "ideal" spiritual community "balances firm identity and openness to new possibility. A cult, once in motion, cannot be open in any genuine sense because openness, by definition, is a threat to total control over reality." do nunneries encourage 'openness to new possibilities?" The Pope will not allow any woman to have leadership in what many protestants still today call a "cult." Is Hassan with the feminists who fight against such injustice against women?

BALANCE

She loves the word "balance": "The great world religions balance themselves between love of the world and opposition to the world." "What characterizes non-cultish communities? First, the opportunity for each person, at his or her own pace, to grow through a freely chosen vocation." Tell me. Is Cruise and Travolta more balanced than a priest? Are they growing through a freely chosen vocation? What about a monk who works in the bakery every day for 50 years and rarely sees or talks to anyone? Who gets up at 4 o'clock in the morning to sit on cold floors for hours in a robe that looks exactly like everyone else's? Who has more individuality? Are monks more "balanced" than Scientologists like Tom Cruise according to Eschlain's definition? She thinks she is logical and has all her arguments lined up neatly, but she is rationalizing her own prejudices.

Elshtain wants people to get out of themselves. That is what religion does. And the stronger the religion then the more people will sacrifice. The major religions would not like their founders. Elshtain and Hassan would say today's Quakers are o.k. but they sure wouldn't like the early Quakers such as William Penn who founded Pennsylvania.

God wants us to live in religious communities. He wants balance and individuality, but He also has commandments to be disciplined and sacrificial. This is the message of Sun Myung Moon. This is the message of all great religions. The real dangerous leaders in America are not the the leaders of the Unification Church and Scientologists, but the leaders of the feminist movement. Millions of people follow Hugh Hefner and Helen Gurley Brown. Their magazines, Playboy and Cosmopolitan, are the bible for millions. They are the masters of so-called mind control. Of all men's magazines, Playboy has the greatest circulation. The Playboy Philosophy dominates America. But you will find no mention of Hugh Hefner in Elshtain's and Hassan's writings. The clean cut Unificationists and Mormons are the evil pied pipers of America.

Elshtain and Hassan haven't got a clue to how to solve society's problems. They attack strong religious beliefs. Perhaps when Unificationists finally get together as a community then the world will see how we should live a religious life. Anti-cultists are so afraid of new religions that they forget that Jesus was seen as a cult leader who violated every definition of what a religious leader is supposed to do by Elshtain and Hassan's definition. They do not know they Satan exists and therefore they do not know the kind of strength and guts it takes to fight him. They are wishy washy and push for mush. Because of their low standard and ignorance, they are no match for the truly evil forces at work that want to destroy what Elshtain and Hassan love so much -- the greatest nation on earth -- America. They are blind to that God works in mysterious and what seems at first to be revolting ways.

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