The following post is about a month old. The Christian today....whether they be Fundamentalist (particularly Fundamentalist)....Evangelical or of Reformation traditions....are familiar with cults that claim to be Christian but have absolutely nothing to do with the Christian Faith. We are familiar with how a person can be so duped by a charismatic individual that all common sense and reason goes out the window....but thirty years ago we were more than just familiar with these cults as many books were written, television and radio ministries regularly apportioned time to warning of cults, and the general topic was at times in our Bible studies and even in our conversations. I myself ran an ad in the local newspaper trying to generate conversation with people being lured by these cults....but topics such as this have faded in favor of politics....and we defend the Constitution far more today than we defend the Bible....and since we have we not stayed vigilant on how easily a person can be taken in by a charismatic individual.....since we have not stayed vigilant on what their methods were....we have ourselves fallen for such a charismatic leader....Donald Trump.
I've related this before......37 years ago when I came into the Christian faith I found myself smack dab in the middle of the study of apologetics.....with an emphasis on 'Christian cults'....those being religious sects that call themselves Christian but deny essential doctrines of the Christian faith. There is always a charismatic individual at the core of the new religion who simply mesmerizes everyone....and 'scriptures' where the devotee does not read anything but official teachings.....and a strictly enforced disciplinary system to discourage criticism. The guru or the prophet can do no wrong.
I watched the pep rally in Michigan last night....I think that I've seen all the pep rallies....and cultic behavior is what comes to mind. There is absolutely no need for these rallies (or tweets) other than to keep the people in line and stirred up....constantly feeding them the same information over and over and over again. Stand back and look at this as if it were a rock star and your teen that you were worried about.....you would see the problem and want them to go a little easy in the fan worship but there's no way they will listen to reason. The excitement of it all has a hold on them.
Or stand back and just observe Donald Trump at the rallies. There are telltale signs all around that there is something not quite right....but you have to distance yourself from the politics of it to see it. Few have the nerve to critique him. He has become a master at stabbing us in the back and then somehow turning that around to make it sound like one more promise kept.
Think of this logically. President Trump lists the same accomplishments at every pep rally....and this for a year now......that alone should tell you that there is psychological manipulation going on here......and he ignores his abject failures and backslidings as if they never happened. Isn't there anyone in these crowds that can pick up on this?
The disaster of a communist as our president and the terror that the thoughts of Hillary Clinton succeeding him instilled in us served to give Donald Trump a free pass in anything he would do. The Deep State coup has turned him into a martyr. A stock market that would have climbed (temporarily) under any conservative president has made him a hero.
Whether North Korea or the Middle East or globalism becomes the catalyst for a conflagration....our president is going to need wisdom....and that wisdom would have to come from God....but what we have seen so far is Nebuchadnezzar...."look what I have built!"
I've related this before......37 years ago when I came into the Christian faith I found myself smack dab in the middle of the study of apologetics.....with an emphasis on 'Christian cults'....those being religious sects that call themselves Christian but deny essential doctrines of the Christian faith. There is always a charismatic individual at the core of the new religion who simply mesmerizes everyone....and 'scriptures' where the devotee does not read anything but official teachings.....and a strictly enforced disciplinary system to discourage criticism. The guru or the prophet can do no wrong.
I watched the pep rally in Michigan last night....I think that I've seen all the pep rallies....and cultic behavior is what comes to mind. There is absolutely no need for these rallies (or tweets) other than to keep the people in line and stirred up....constantly feeding them the same information over and over and over again. Stand back and look at this as if it were a rock star and your teen that you were worried about.....you would see the problem and want them to go a little easy in the fan worship but there's no way they will listen to reason. The excitement of it all has a hold on them.
Or stand back and just observe Donald Trump at the rallies. There are telltale signs all around that there is something not quite right....but you have to distance yourself from the politics of it to see it. Few have the nerve to critique him. He has become a master at stabbing us in the back and then somehow turning that around to make it sound like one more promise kept.
Think of this logically. President Trump lists the same accomplishments at every pep rally....and this for a year now......that alone should tell you that there is psychological manipulation going on here......and he ignores his abject failures and backslidings as if they never happened. Isn't there anyone in these crowds that can pick up on this?
The disaster of a communist as our president and the terror that the thoughts of Hillary Clinton succeeding him instilled in us served to give Donald Trump a free pass in anything he would do. The Deep State coup has turned him into a martyr. A stock market that would have climbed (temporarily) under any conservative president has made him a hero.
Whether North Korea or the Middle East or globalism becomes the catalyst for a conflagration....our president is going to need wisdom....and that wisdom would have to come from God....but what we have seen so far is Nebuchadnezzar...."look what I have built!"
