{"id":10344,"date":"2019-06-04T11:15:11","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T15:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10344"},"modified":"2019-06-04T11:15:11","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T15:15:11","slug":"dismal-theology-related-quote-for-the-day-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10344","title":{"rendered":"Dismal theology-related quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><b>How can you help a friend who you think could be involved in a cult?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The key, says Lalich, is to keep the lines of communication open, since the cult is trying to do the opposite by <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">separating and alienating members from the friends and family<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.refinery29.com\/en-ca\/2019\/06\/234116\/nxivm-how-cults-work\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Courtney Shea<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now think of all the times you&#8217;ve heard Pastor Bubba howl and bellow that Jesus must always come first, that you&#8217;re not the spouse you should be unless pleasing Jesus is more important than your spouse, that you&#8217;re not the parent you should be unless pleasing Jesus is more important than your children.<\/p>\n<p>Again, then: First-century Christianity was a cult and, like all cults, the first Christians, including Jesus (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Matthew+12%3A46-50&#038;version=NLT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matthew 12:46-50<\/a>), understood that healthy marriages and families are a threat to their total ownership of believers.  The New Testament is the literature of a cult, and the result is that cult-like teachings are embedded deeply into Christian thought.<\/p>\n<p>Go to the park next Sunday morning.  Our Invisible Friend can find you there, too, if He has anything to say to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can you help a friend who you think could be involved in a cult? The key, says Lalich, is to keep the lines of communication open, since the cult is trying to do the opposite by separating and alienating &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10344\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10344"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10344"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10347,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10344\/revisions\/10347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}