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[–] RoundSparrow@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

"An extraterrestrial being, newly arrived on Earth -- scrutinizing what we mainly present to our children in TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, the comics and many books -- might easily conclude that we are intent on teaching them murder, rape, cruelty, superstition and consumerism. We keep at it, and through constant repetition many of them finally get it." - January 9, 1994

[–] RoundSparrow@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

You don’t know what a cult is.

Here’s a tutorial

Yes, I do. You don't know what a "Media cult" is, I teach it over on !MediaCults@lemm.ee since so many Reddit meme addicts don't realize they are in a meme cult. Like most Americans in year 2025, you probably lack "media ecology" literacy, cults of media formats and media venues. Teachers like Marshall McLuhan from University of Toronto and Neil Postman from New York University in Manhattan are core teachers on the subject, but most Reddit users seem to have never studied the electric media influence upon populations / group thinking cults.

You don’t know what a cult is. You can tell by the way you claim anti-MAGA is one. Here’s a tutorial: if the organization only exists to stand in defiance of something, it isn’t a cult. Nothing “anti” can really be anything of the sort

I lived in Amman, Jordan, the Middle East studying this.

Jewish are a cult of Anti-Jesus / against the Quran and Bible. They have a word for it "gentile".

Muslims are a cult of anti-Jewish anti-Christian, they have a word for it "infidel"

Christians are a cult of anti-Muslim anti-Jewish, they have a word for it: "non-believer".

Trump; MAGA’s god emperor and apparently now pope.

I think you don't grasp The Pope is a cult leader too. But the thing you don't understand, is The Bible is a story cult. You don't need a human person, Jesus died over 2000 years ago.

Bible verse John 1:1 - God is memes and only memes. God is words and only words. God is language and only language. It was fully disclosed in the Levant.

L Ron Hubbard is dead, his science fiction stories live on, and so does the cult of his storytelling / fiction cult.

Nothing “anti” can really be anything of the sort

Rupert Murdoch's media networks, inclusive of Fox News HDTV, is another example of a "media cult", it is a cult of fiction storytelling to hate the poor, it is a wealth televangelism cult of the bling / status symbols of the wealthy. It is a cult of a pattern of media messages and memes, fiction storytelling.

 

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"It says to me that they don’t know how to apply their religious ideas to contemporary life, and to human beings rather than just to their own community. It’s a terrible example of the failure of religion to meet the modern world. These three mythologies are fighting it out. They have disqualified themselves for the future." - Joseph Campbell, age 83, summer of 1987, George Lucas Skywalker Ranch lessons to Star Wars audience

[–] RoundSparrow@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago

Bible verse "1 John 4:20" - you have never Seen Allah. You have never Seen God. You have never Seen Yahweh.


This has been an assertion for 2,000 years and nobody has seen God yet.

Bible verse John 1:1 assertion for 2,000 years; God is language and only language. God is metaphors and only metaphors. God is words and only words. God is poetry storytelling and only poetry storytelling.

Science fiction storytelling, not reality real.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 days ago

I’ve been on a kick reading books about early christianity for about eighteen months. Just fascinating stuff. Robert M Price has converted me (along with two other authors before him) to Christ Mythology. It’s the theory that Jesus was originally a figure in heaven but later the church made him a historical figure to better control the message by shutting down divine messages that any shmuck could receive with new teachings. We’ll never really know, but it’s been a fun journey.