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I have a legitimate question here..
Why is it that people cannot leave other people alone? Everytime I turn around there is some theory, usually unauthenticated, against different groups of people..
Originally posted by SpeakerofTruth
I have a legitimate question here..
Why is it that people cannot leave other people alone? Everytime I turn around there is some theory, usually unauthenticated, against different groups of people..
If it's not the Freemasons
It's scientologists
or Christians
or Occultists
or Jews
or Muslims
or Buddhists
or Hindus
Why not leave people alone? Now it's Opus Dei that are the "secretive" boogeymen. My God, does it never end?
Don't get the idea that I don't think that there is a conspiracy going on, but I think that 98% of the time we look in the wrong direction..
Mankind is a tribal social animal by nature. Every tribe thinks that their tribe is the best and the other tribes are lesser creatures. It doesnt matter if that tribe is your family, your ethnic group, your sports team or your religion... your tribe is always better than the other tribes. It has been this way since the first men sat around a campfire tens of thousands of years ago and will be this way 10,000 years in the furure.
Those who realize that we are all of the same tribe reach enlightenment by denying their nature, and that is not an easy thing to do.
Originally posted by rosetta
D. The writer Scott Hahn has come out with a book promoting himself as a member of Opus Dei (which generally discourages this sort of thing) and has also made a name for himself as a Catholic apologist (he is a converted Protestant preacher) by exploiting the fiction of Dan Brown that claimed Opus Dei members are professional assasins who are fighting against a goddess-influenced version of Christianity that seeks to deify Mary Magdalene instead of Jesus Christ.
[edit on 15-12-2006 by rosetta]
Originally posted by rosetta
"Opus Dei" cult.
It is an approved and supported group within the Roman Catholic church.
The infamous spy-traitor Robert Hensen was a dedicated and active member of Opus Dei.
There is an anti-cult activist group with a site,
The writer Scott Hahn
Throw Mel Gibson
and the rock star Madonna p
and it's a hoot!
Originally posted by thexsword
Opus Dei is just a bunch of Catholics that are stronger in their beliefs than most,
Opus Dei
Escrivá himself has also been a source of criticism. His opponents point out that Escrivá's personal mortification practices were even more extreme than the those typically performed by Opus Dei numeraries— in one incident, Escrivá flailed himself over a thousand times. Opponents likewise criticize Escrivá's maxim on suffering: "Loved be pain. Sanctified be pain. Glorified be pain!" Critics assert that Escrivá and the organization supported the Fascist governments of Francisco Franco and Augusto Pinochet, and it has even been alleged that Escrivá expressed sympathy for Adolf Hitler. According to a former Opus Dei priest, Escrivá once remarked that Hitler had been "badly treated" by the world and he further declared that "Hitler couldn't have been such a bad person. He couldn't have killed six million [Jews]. It couldn't have been more than four million."
Originally posted by SpeakerofTruth
I have a legitimate question here..
Why is it that people cannot leave other people alone? Everytime I turn around there is some theory, usually unauthenticated, against different groups of people..
Why not leave people alone? Now it's Opus Dei that are the "secretive" boogeymen. My God, does it never end?
Don't get the idea that I don't think that there is a conspiracy going on, but I think that 98% of the time we look in the wrong direction..
Originally posted by thexsword
To the best of my knowledge, Opus Dei is just a bunch of Catholics that are stronger in their beliefs than most