MEDIEVAL CONVENTS VS PAGAN CULTS

Over recent weeks, I have written on the evils of the Scientology cult in the USA at the hands of L Ron Hubbard fake war hero and science fiction writer.

I have combined the strategies of the pagan cults I have known and found that all have the same strategy of enslavement of followers.

All are dictatorships, managed with fear and punishment and destruction of family with followers able to leave only in a coffin. All are not Christian but dominated by a single man who names the cult after himself. That is a danger sign.

There were the Waco Davidians named after David Jabesh and Jonestown named after the Reverend Jim Jones the psychopath and pagan evangelist.

Christian churches are generally named after saints as taken from Scripture. They are not crazy psychopaths who have set up their own words as gospel truth and been prepared to punish all who criticize or question.

I have been reading the Readers Digest condensed book by Karen Armstrong entitled Through the Narrow Gate. It gave me the chance to compare the Catholic approach with those of the pagan cults. Please click:

Through the Narrow Gate | Karen Armstrong | Macmillan

https://us.macmillan.com/throughthenarrowgate/karenarmstrong/9780312340957/

Through the Narrow Gate is Karen Armstrong's memoir of life inside a Catholic convent. 

With refreshing honesty and clarity, the book takes readers o...

Karen Armstrong joined a Catholic convent in 1963 at the age of 17 years after seeking to be closer to God. Convents were all medieval in thinking but soon to be changed by Vatican Two.

On passing through the narrow gate, she was faced with a new world of discipline which she endured for over 15 years hoping to become closer to Jesus as the bride of Christ.

In the end she realized that despite struggling for all those years, her soul was becoming shriveled and damaged by loopy, neurotic and weird practices she was forced to accept by superior nuns without question.

She was to be the bride of Christ. That meant to the Mothers superior in the convent that she had to forego all love to focus on Jesus. She had to reject the love of her family and even any sisterly love with fellow novitiates.

The convent culture had a neurotic view of human relations. Jesus was not a being in heaven but a jealous, pagan and vindictive husband who gave hell to any nun who loved any other person except him. He had thousands of brides in every century.

This was not Gender Equality. How would the teaching nuns explain marriage to girls in the Catholic schools? Are all men jealous like Jesus? Do all girls have to love only their husband? There was denial of the need for people to show love to fellow human beings. Certainly not nuns.

Noviciates were to obey all rules, maintain silence, march everywhere in lines of three and in order of age and observe poverty, total obedience with a willingness to be punished and be grateful for having to polish tiled floors with a toothbrush.

They were to question nothing and make no decisions of their own. They accepted that they bathed once a week with convent soap and no talcum that had to be surrendered. They were not allowed to question the Mother Superior and her covey of senior authoritarian nuns.

Black is white, they may be told by Mother Superior.  But Reverend Mother black is black. How dare you question your reverend mother.

You are arrogant and too concerned with your own opinion. I am sorry Reverend Mother. I accept now that black is white. But the time bomb was ticking for Karen Armstrong.

Karen Armstrong was never given medical treatment until she was ill at Oxford University where she was sent to study for her degree in English Literature. She was sick in all her years t the convent.

She had anorexia nervosa from the unsuitable food she was forced to eat at the convent. Her sickness was seen to be arrogance by the primitive and silly nuns. 

She was told by the Reverend mother to tear all the feelings out of the novels she studied at Oxford and to focus on being a bride of Jesus.

At last she decided to leave the order after such a long separation from her loving family and living a life completely dominated by several neurotic and narrow minded nuns who followed the law but not the love of God.

She was escorted to the train by the Mother Superior, hugged and blessed before beginning the journey back to her family.

How different this was from the Gestapo approach of the Scientologists. The Catholic church accepted the young women as noviciates and let the families get on with their spiritual lives. 

There was no attempt in the church to destroy the family and take the children. Family members were not deemed the enemy who were to be reported on for any comment made against the church

Despite the strange ideas of the nuns, the focus was still on the love of God. Scientologists focus on power not the salvation of the soul. Scientologists are pagan.

The Scientologists are a political organization protected by neo-nazi security guards who are probably armed. They put followers in a prison and remove children from the families. As reincarnated adults from the past, they could be taken away by Scientologist thugs.

Some cult leaders seek sex with women in the families including wives and young girls. There is evidence of abuse of children in the Scientology sect that has been covered up. Children have died according to the Leah Remini TV expose.

Two cults in Papua New Guinea were set up by men who claimed to be brothers of Jesus, But the leader in the Taiping revolt in China in the 1800s used the same trick. But he told the followers that bullets could not harm them.

Both Mathias Yeliwan and Black Jesus sought to make pregnant the daughters of village followers in Papua New Guinea, But then they both died.

Yeliwan had killed and dismembered a young girl and claimed that she would rise from the dead in 3 days. Black Jesus was hunted down and killed with spears and bush knives.

Cults can not pass the test of time. The cult dies when the last cult fuehrer dies. Miscavige will be the last Scientology fuehrer.