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The Most Repulsive Xtian Fundie Award Goes To...
December 17, 2013 at 3:55 pm
Christian evangelical fundamentalist leaders in the country that I live in are bent on being the most vile, offensive, dishonest, and repugnant people they can possibly be. Who is the worst person in the world?
In my humble opinion, this award goes to Ken Ham, leader of the sick, twisted, fucked-up, hate cult -- Answers in Genesis.
Is AIG a cult?
Let's take a look at a cult test from an Internet site called "The Orange Papers."
http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-cult_q0.html
Orange lists 100 criteria for mind-control cults. I have read his commentary on each one and compared those criteria to Answers in Genesis and its leader, Ken Ham, and found that AIG is, no doubt, a very dangerous mind-control cult. A majority of the criteria fit AIG to a T.
Evangelical xtianity as a whole can be described as a conglomeration of mind-control cults. I will not say that AIG is more dangerous than Christian Identity or the KKK -- but they come damn close.
Which fundie Christian cult do you think is the worst of the worst?
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RE: The Most Repulsive Xtian Fundie Award Goes To...
December 17, 2013 at 4:02 pm
The WBC is probably the most famous, but I recently heard they aren't accepting new people from outside the family. Hopefully they won't be around for long. AIG is certainly out there, since they play themselves up as in informative, scientific source. I don't know much about them, though.
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RE: The Most Repulsive Xtian Fundie Award Goes To...
December 17, 2013 at 4:08 pm
I'm going to go with the quite repulsive Peter popoff. Offering religion to people with psychological needs is one thing. Using it to give false hope to sick people, for money, is a whole other level of fucked up.
And James Randi fucked him up but GOOD.
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RE: The Most Repulsive Xtian Fundie Award Goes To...
December 17, 2013 at 4:11 pm
Another reason to hate religion! Yaiiii!
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RE: The Most Repulsive Xtian Fundie Award Goes To...
December 17, 2013 at 4:21 pm
(December 17, 2013 at 4:02 pm)Chad32 Wrote: AIG is certainly out there, since they play themselves up as in informative, scientific source.
Cue the video clip where Ken Ham tells kids not to listen to scientists.
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RE: The Most Repulsive Xtian Fundie Award Goes To...
December 17, 2013 at 4:32 pm
Or maybe he doesn't use the word scientific, but he certainly believes there's more truth in his site than in the mainstream scientific community.
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RE: The Most Repulsive Xtian Fundie Award Goes To...
December 17, 2013 at 4:36 pm
Ken Ham is repulsive, but not nearly as repulsive of Fred Phelps and the WBC cult. But to me it's a toss up between Phelps and Warren Jeffs, leader of the FLDS cult where he "married" himself to many underage girls. He had them all so brainwashed that they would do anything for him, including sexual favors. Right now I'm guessing the shoe is on the other foot and he's doing sexual favors for his cell mates.
Of course we can't forget Jim Jones and having his followers in Jonestown literally drink the Kool Aid, but you are probably talking about current living fundies.
I'm sure I could come up with a few other candidates, but just thinking about them makes my stomach turn.
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RE: The Most Repulsive Xtian Fundie Award Goes To...
December 18, 2013 at 4:11 pm
(December 17, 2013 at 4:36 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: Ken Ham is repulsive, but not nearly as repulsive of Fred Phelps and the WBC cult. But to me it's a toss up between Phelps and Warren Jeffs, leader of the FLDS cult where he "married" himself to many underage girls. He had them all so brainwashed that they would do anything for him, including sexual favors. Right now I'm guessing the shoe is on the other foot and he's doing sexual favors for his cell mates.
Of course we can't forget Jim Jones and having his followers in Jonestown literally drink the Kool Aid, but you are probably talking about current living fundies.
I'm sure I could come up with a few other candidates, but just thinking about them makes my stomach turn.
I hadn't thought about expanding it to include the dead ones -- in that case, I would have to go with Jim Jones.
Then I think -- what if, just what if, Ham decided that his followers ought to kill themselves. I have no doubt that a portion of them would actually do just that.
Answers in Genesis fits all but a very few of the 100 criteria on the orange papers cult test. I really don't think that AIG fits:
94. The use of heavy-duty mind control and rapid conversion techniques.
-- sleep deprivation
-- malnutrition
-- drugs
I don't think that AIG uses these tactics.
95. Threats of bodily harm or death to someone who leaves the cult.
Have not heard of that.
96. Threats of bodily harm or death to someone who criticizes the group.
Nor that.
97. Appropriation of all of the members' worldly wealth.
AIG is a greedy, money-hungry, and obscenely wealthy group, but they, as far as I know, have not asked for every single penny from their followers.
99. Total immersion and total isolation.
This is a practice among compound-style cults like the WBC and Church Universal and Triumphant. AIG is not one.
100. Mass suicide.
Not likely for AIG.
I put AIG at 94/100 on the cult test. From Agent Orange:
"So what's a passing score? That's a good question. Considering just how nasty all of the characteristics in that list are, I'd consider any group that scored 50% or more as both obnoxious and dangerous."
AIG is no doubt and with room to spare an extremely dangerous mind-control cult.
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RE: The Most Repulsive Xtian Fundie Award Goes To...
December 18, 2013 at 4:29 pm
Bryan Fischer definitely deserves a vote or two.
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RE: The Most Repulsive Xtian Fundie Award Goes To...
December 18, 2013 at 4:33 pm
THere are so many.
I loathe Ken Ham and Ray Comfort, but I hate faith healers and their ilk even more.
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