Jim Parsons Joins Heaven's Gate Movie Inspired by Infamous UFO Cult
Parsons has officially joined the cast of The Leader, but his role has not yet been disclosed. He won't be playing Marshall Herff Applewhite, referred to as "Do" by his followers, who led the group alongside Bonnie Lu Lettles, also known as "Ti." It was previously announced that Tim Blake Nelson and Vera Farmiga were respectively playing Marshall and Bonnie.
Heaven's Gate followers were told by Marshall and Bonnie that their human bodies were mere "vehicles," compared to suits of clothing. The duo preached that they were, in fact, extraterrestrials who had come from the "kingdom level above human." Followers believed that they could evacuate the planet and return to their extraterrestrial form by abandoning everything they knew about human nature, including their families. After Bonnie's passing due to cancer in 1985, the group believed she had returned to the "Next Level" and would later come back to collect the rest of them.
In 1997, Marshall convinced his remaining followers that the arrival of Comet Hale-Bopp was their sign that it was time to leave the planet. Each member of the group willingly died by suicide under Marshall's direction before he ultimately joined them.
https://www.cbr.com/jim-parsons-heavens-gate-casting/
You know, Heaven's Gate followers had a very elaborate theology explaining how Jesus was an alien from another planet. They also watched The X-Files religiously.
Parsons has officially joined the cast of The Leader, but his role has not yet been disclosed. He won't be playing Marshall Herff Applewhite, referred to as "Do" by his followers, who led the group alongside Bonnie Lu Lettles, also known as "Ti." It was previously announced that Tim Blake Nelson and Vera Farmiga were respectively playing Marshall and Bonnie.
Heaven's Gate followers were told by Marshall and Bonnie that their human bodies were mere "vehicles," compared to suits of clothing. The duo preached that they were, in fact, extraterrestrials who had come from the "kingdom level above human." Followers believed that they could evacuate the planet and return to their extraterrestrial form by abandoning everything they knew about human nature, including their families. After Bonnie's passing due to cancer in 1985, the group believed she had returned to the "Next Level" and would later come back to collect the rest of them.
In 1997, Marshall convinced his remaining followers that the arrival of Comet Hale-Bopp was their sign that it was time to leave the planet. Each member of the group willingly died by suicide under Marshall's direction before he ultimately joined them.
https://www.cbr.com/jim-parsons-heavens-gate-casting/
You know, Heaven's Gate followers had a very elaborate theology explaining how Jesus was an alien from another planet. They also watched The X-Files religiously.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
