[Apologetics] Luciferian Death Cult

[Stuart D. Gathman]

On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Jim Murphy wrote:

> I just cannot believe this type of attitude, but it's par for the course
> these days.  Just look the other way on one thing after another.  I was
> going to forward some interesting stuff on this horrible cult, but based
> on the weak response from the group (3 people) I'm not going to bother.

I am not "looking the other way".  In fact, it would be nice if there was
some way to look without seeing/hearing such horrors.

I am just as horrified as you that such things are not only done - but
commonplace.  And the clubs and frats nowadays are EVEN WORSE!  What I am
objecting to is the implication that having belonged to such a club at Yale is
unusual - and marks the members as especially evil.  Yes, I would be quicker to
trust someone who had not been in such a club - but those people are hard to
find!  Half my Christian friends from GMU (Protestant and Catholic) were
members of such clubs - though of course they were quickly convicted to stop
going.  People join these clubs because they are the "in thing" and everybody
does it - and they are lost and don't know any better - or are even attracted
to the thrill of the forbidden.  And then there are gangs...

A similar example is Free Masonry.  Yes, I know about the evil occultic
nature of Free Masonry - and I strongly condemn it as I do occultic
frats and clubs.  But many, many people as Masons.  A good portion 
of the upper management for your Grocery Store are probably Masons.  So
you had better stop buying groceries!  At the lower levels, members aren't even
aware of the true nature of the organization.  Many Church members, Catholic
and Protestant, continue as Masons oblivious to the evil they are supporting.
This is horrible!  But because it so common - suspecting people because they
are Masons is not a useful prejudice.  

If you want to make a dent in this problem, people need to hear the
Gospel, so that they will have a mental framework for realizing the peril
of such clubs, and the spiritual power to resist the pressure to join.

In summary, I am claiming that your reasoning is specious - *not* that
occultic clubs should be winked at.

P.S. Art: the horribleness of the club is irrelevant.  I'm sure it
is/was very horrible - and is more horrible now than it ever was.  I don't
need to pollute my mind with details of yet another horrible club - I've heard
too many such details already.  Horrible, occultic, perverted clubs
are a dime a dozen in today's world.

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