We can tell a tree by its fruits.
We have got from ISIS hatred, murder, theft etc. and the latest is sexual lust. Every evil thing they do they have to clothe it in religious legitimacy. They are children of the Devil who had dressed him up as God in order to be holy, their perversion of holiness that is.
Very unfortunate for our Muslim friends that ISIS misappropriated and abused Islam. They should be in the forefront confronting this threat. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey, Iran the larger neighbors should march on ISIS and save the innocent Muslims ISIS is killing. Yes, ISIS has been killing more Muslims than any other people
Sadly these Muslim states have lost their moral authority and also do not possess the means to decisively deal with ISIS. In the first place their religious fecklessness created a vacuum filled now by ISIS perversion of Islam. Saudi Arabia the birthplace of Wahhabism was most culpable. Leaders of these Middle Eastern Muslim states ought to all hang their heads in shame especially Iraq erstwhile PM Maliki. Your peoples and us deserve better.
The Americans, Europeans, Russian and Chinese should jointly act against ISIS even as every nation hunt down their sleeper cells within its borders.
Unlike Al Qaeda, ISIS is unrestrained. We can expect more perversions from them to the point it becomes so evil even many evil people cannot bear with it and will refuse to join them. My fear is that this end point is too far away to be meaningful but yes left to their own devices, they have been immorally built into them to self destruct were civilized people fail to act. Nazism and Hitler would have faced its own destructive end too on their own. Fortunately our forebears didn't wait for this to happen and instead took up arms and defeat them.
Closer home Kong Hee is facing judgement in our courts where his perversion of Christianity is daily on public display. For those who still keep faith with him, you can test what he is made of by the fruits he bore. This is not a good tree as it had been bearing counterfeit fruits. Bite into his fruits and see for yourself if it is sweet or bitter. But we can't help you if you are in self denial and insist on calling bitterness sweet. Those who claimed Kong Hee's ministry had been a blessing to them are non specific and unsubstantive about those blessings. To me they are living a lie because they fear the truth and passing off the fake for the real they could hide from the truth. In any society there are people who just want you to tell them lies, sweet loving lies. The first lie we tell ourselves is many of us thought more highly of ourselves than we ought to. Fortunately many do not venture farther than that but that is the germinating point for trouble.
ISIS version of Islam and Kong Hee's brand of Christianity if you care to do the work and understand were simply different branches to the main trunk of evil. Well one takes your life the other your money. True religion is about giving and false religion is about taking.
Update: 2:25pm
Those who perverts religion always start innocently. Often it takes a long time for the founder and purveyors to show their true colors. This happened when the leader is satisfied that he has emotionally captured a large enough following. Like in the CHC case, outsiders can see the misdeeds and distorted doctrine easily even without the benefit of knowing the right doctrine but the lost flock could not. In ISIS case this is really tragic as like the duped have become practically zombies. Often you are forced to destroy than rehabilitate them.
I wrote earlier that true religion is about giving and its impostor is about taking. However they all lure you in by giving but adherents might prefer to call it blessings. Once you are in their net, the giving turn to taking. In this sense it is pretty much like most scams promising big reward but you must first make a small investment. The end story is you are not getting a big reward but suffering a huge loss. It is heart breaking to see the brain washed ask the organization what more can we give. Some misled Muslim women are making their way across the world to ISIS to offer their bodies as sex toys to the jihadists. This is so devastating that I am sure some will kill themselves over this if and when they discover the truth.
It is just convenient for me that Singapore Daily today listed a Facebook post: City Harvest - Why I am no longer here, which is pertinent to the observation I have made about false religion repeatedly. Not an example I like but sufficiently explanatory.
It is sad there are so many dumb sheep who will follow false shepherds. I thought God gives us each a brain and yet people can be so gullible to "seek God" by just being "taken for a ride". A lack of proper awareness of what the various religions teach is probably a cause. Most people just like to be told of the easy way to achieve "salvation" without even realising they are susceptible to crooks and worst, evil people bent on pitching brother v brother.
ReplyDeleteCHC is the fruit of Christianity. CHC is after all comes from the same tree. The tree produces both good and bad fruits. Eat of that tree and look at their history, not just at the nice and holy bait.
ReplyDeleteThe mysterious thing about religion which defies all human understanding and logic(that is the reason for religious faith) despite all the heinous crimes their followers and leaders had commited for centuries, and even till this day.
ReplyDeleteThe secret to religion staying power, since her inception, is that religion is never to be blamed or is at fault. The fault always lies in the sinner, not the vehicle on which he or she carries out the crimes.
CHC is no real christian group. It is a classical case of a crafty group of people who exploit the name of Jesus Christ and just do a ra-ra show with money spinning in for their leaders. They twist and turn biblical verses to suit what they want to do and what they want their followers Just as many also exploit the names of Buddha and Mohammad for their own personal goals
ReplyDeleteThese are christians. Some are in denial of CHC christian roots because of the bad publicity they have brought to the religion.
ReplyDeleteTheir long and personal relationship and walk with tbeir god and jesus are real, at least to them.
These religious leaders sincerely believed god has blessed their lives and they are furthering god's kingdom - god answering their church( of thousands of devoted praying warriors) prayers
From this, you can intelligently draw your conclusion about this religion or continue to fantasy.
Religion is not about salvation of one's soul anymore...
ReplyDeleteIt's all about the money - people go to these "religious" places in hope of getting "blessed" so as to make more money...
This gives opportunities for people to prey on their followers' greedy and naivety :/
When people say they embrace a religion, they don't really bother to learn more about how it started and evolved. They just take the easy way of listening and being soothed by the leaders who, maybe at the outset have good intent (though most of those who eventually get exposed DON'T) but due to self-righteousness and greed, become abusive and explositative. Somehow they get a lot of sympathy as people who don't learn enough, discern well or just plain lazy being blind sheep will still rally behind such crooks. Well, let their Maker be the judge but the greatest sin is to cause the loss of someone else soul - it is fine these crooks lose theirs, but to cause the disillusion and loss of other people's souls??II
ReplyDeleteReligion often asks you to believe by faith and not by reason or perception. Once you have suspended these faculties, you will believe anything they want you to believe and therefore do anything they ask you to such as kill innocent people, give them money, or crossover to become holy prostitutes and give your bodies to men for sex and have holy orgasms with them.
ReplyDelete... agreed fully . And when sheepish followers suspended their God-given faculties, they will continue to support and contribute to a church that promotes promiscuous dancing and singing as a way of preaching the gospel. How perverted can the true gospel being turned into!
ReplyDeleteThere was a sect in USA called Children of God where the young women and some men were encouraged to get new converts by offering sex to newcomers to their church and even strangers. A city harvest crossover project taken to its logical conclusion. When religious conversion could not be achieved, they were even asked to solicit for donations to their church after sex. The project was called Flirty Fishing, as in Fishers of Men.
ReplyDeleteSome of these sex priestesses were women with boyfriends and husbands....
One of them said the sex with potential converts was more actually more adventurous and pleasurable than with their boyfriends. Because they were doing it for God, this removed all guilt about any sexual acts hey were asked to perform. Similar to how some women describe being sexually excited while being raped. I don't remember the conversion rate but it must have been very high. The sect or practice died out with the advent of AIDS.