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Point by Point - how COVID is a real Cult!
« on: December 29, 2020, 10:02:09 AM »
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  • Catholicism                     
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    1. Greetings: "Go with God", "God bless", etc.   
    2. Sacrament of Communion: kneel, tilt head back slightly, open mouth to receive Communion
    3. Dogmas: the Church declares certain things to be true and beyond discussion.
    4. Heresy: questioning or denying any dogma makes you a heretic, subject to punishment, isolation, and ridicule
    5. Hierarchy: Pope, cardinals, bishops, priests who are tasked with teaching the truth to the general public. Their words alone carry weight and are to be heeded; they are more than an average person.
    6. Holy Water: devout believers keep a font of holy water by the entrance of their home, to be devoutly used upon entering the home. Also found near the entrance of every church.
    7. Veiling:   Women veil themselves as a show of submission to God and to their husbands.
    8. Body movement: One must genuflect when walking in front of the Tabernacle, make the sign of the cross when passing a Church or cemetary.
    9. Prayer: One should pray to God on a regular basis, including set vocal prayers. These vocal prayers are not meant to teach anyone, but to bring to mind and reinforce truths previously taught (dogmas of the Catholic Faith)
    10. Confirmation: Upon coming of age, a special Sacrament is given which gives the person added strength to profess his Faith. It involves a renewed personal commitment to the Faith.
    11. Censorship: The Church rightly forbid the Faithful to read heretical works, and censored books that were dangerous to the Faith.
    12. Excommunication: Those who refuse correction and persist in heresy are given a trial, and if they persist in their heresy, are formally condemned by the Church as heretics to be avoided.
    13. Apologetics: It is praiseworthy to teach the Faith to our friends and neighbors, and correct any errors about the Church when you hear them. Also, it is a beautiful thing to convert someone to the Faith.
    14. Sin: With a few exceptions, No one is free from Original Sin, and no one can hope to be completely free of Actual sin. St. Paul said he was not conscious of any particular sins on his soul, but that didn't necessarily mean he was in the clear. All men are sinners.
    15. Doom: The worst doom is to suffer Eternal Death in Hell. To avoid this, you must believe the Church and follow Her laws and prescriptions.
    16. Priorities: Avoiding damnation -- the ultimate doom -- is to be done at all costs. Countless inconveniences and labors must be borne to save your soul and avoid hell. Even death must be suffered if necessary to avoid hell.
    17. Avoid the World: Stay unspotted from this world, "be in the world but not of the world", avoid contamination by absorbing worldly errors and ideas. Avoid association with worldlings and worldly pursuits.
    18. Retreats: Occasionally take a week in silence to withdraw from the World, pray, go to Confession, and strengthen your spiritual life
    19. The New Man: The Old Man has been put to death in Christ, so that the New Man might be born
    20. Purpose: Our purpose in this life is to avoid sin, root out vices, grow in virtue, and grow in love of God, so as to gain merit for Heaven.
    21. Social Kingship of Christ: The law of Christ should not just be a personal thing some choose to do privately, but should be 
    enshrined in public laws and practiced publicly. Christ and His law should reign in society, the business world, and our day-to-day lives, in our homes.
    22. Morality: Right and Wrong are defined by God's law, as interpreted by the Church.
    23. Church: On a regular basis, we must go out in public and practice our Faith by worshipping God, in Rites given to us by the Church, alongside other men who live in our area. Seeing others practicing the same religion gives us social validation and strengthens us somewhat. Man is a social creature after all.
    24. Only Death to be Feared: Similar to #15 and #16, the only death to be feared is dying in mortal sin. Countless saints died in hundreds of different ways, but they all went straight to Heaven. We don't recoil in horror, but rather envy them for their current happiness. We don't count or consider the exact manner in which people die -- only one aspect: "Did they die with hope of salvation or not?"
    25. The Supernatural: There is a world co-existent alongside our own, which we can't see, but which exists just as real as the one we see all around us. If we could see this world, we would be able to see God Himself, angels, devils, human souls, and grace.
    26. State of Our Souls: We can't know for certain the state of our souls. A person in the state of Grace and a person in the state of Mortal Sin both appear the same to our naked eyes. We can never be certain that we are pleasing in God's sight. Only God can judge us infallibly.


    Cult of COVID
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    1. Greetings: "Be safe", "Stay healthy"
    2. Sacrament of Testing: kneel, tilt head back slightly, open to receive swab up your nose
    3. Dogmas: the WHO declares certain things to be true and beyond discussion.
    4. Heresy: questioning or denying any part of the COVID-19 narrative makes you a heretic, subject to punishment, isolation, and ridicule
    5. Hierarchy: spokesmen and officials of the WHO, Government appointed ministers teach the truth to the general public. Their words alone carry weight and are to be heeded; they are more than an average person.
    6. Hand sanitizer: devout believers keep a dispenser of hand sanitizer by the entrance of their home, to be devoutly used upon entering the home. Also found near the entrance of every public building.
    7. Masks:   Believers mask themselves as a show of submission to the authorities, especially the Cult of COVID hierarchy.
    8. Social Distancing: One must carefully maintain a 6-foot distance from every other person.
    9. Incessant announcements: Over the P.A. at every store, repeat mantras about "together we can stop the spread of COVID in (our state)", "we're in this together", "wash your hands", "sneeze into your elbow", "if you're sick, stay home", etc. These are not meant to teach anyone, but to bring to mind and reinforce truths previously taught -- dogmas of the Cult of COVID.
    10. Vaccination: A serious and special treatment is given which shows a special commitment to belief in the Cult of COVID. It involves a renewed personal commitment to the Cult.
    11. Censorship: The Cult forbids its followers to listen to "heretical" doctors, or read blogs/watch videos that oppose or tend to disprove the Cult of COVID dogmas.
    12. Excommunication: Those who refuse correction and persist in opposing Cult of COVID dogmas are quickly and summarily condemned by Cult high priests as heretics to be avoided. They are cancelled, careers ruined, kicked off Social Media, etc.
    13. Apologetics: It is praiseworthy to bring friends and neighbors into the Cult of COVID, and correct any errors about the Cult when you hear them. Also, it is a beautiful thing to convert someone to the Cult.
    14. Illness: No one can claim to be immune, or healthy. Even if you think you are healthy, you could be an asymptomatic spreader. All men have COVID, or at least are presumed to have it.
    15. Doom: The worst doom is to die of COVID. To avoid this, you must believe the Cult and follow its laws and prescriptions.
    16. Priorities: Avoiding death by COVID -- the ultimate doom -- is to be done at all costs. Countless inconveniences and labors must be borne to save yourself from COVID. Even death by medical neglect, ѕυιcιdє, loss of career, loss of business, poverty must be suffered, if necessary, to avoid catching/dying from COVID.
    17. "Coccooning" or avoiding the World: Stay at Home to avoid contamination and stay pure.
    18. Quarantining: Occasionally spend 14 days at home, not going out at all.
    19. The New Normal: Our old life is dead and gone; COVID practices are the New Normal.
    20. Purpose: Our purpose is to avoid getting COVID, avoid spreading it to others, instruct others not following the guidelines, and by so doing
    reduce the case and death count as much as possible -- even if it means bringing up the death count in other areas (ѕυιcιdє, heart disease, cancer).
    21. Social Kingship of COVID: COVID and its containment measures should not just be a personal thing some choose to do privately, but should be 
    enshrined in public laws and practiced publicly. Guidance from the WHO on containing COVID should reign in society, the business world, and our 
    day-to-day lives, in our homes.
    22. Morality: Right and Wrong are defined by the WHO and other officials in charge of the Cult of COVID.
    23. Church: On a regular basis, we must go out in public and show our adherence to the Cult of COVID by our dress and behavior: use of hand sanitizer, wearing a mask, social distancing, and using the greetings such as "stay safe". Seeing others practicing the same Cult gives us social validation and strengthens us somewhat. Man is a social creature after all.
    24. Only Death to be Feared: Similar to #15 and #16, the only death to be feared is dying of COVID-19. Countless people die every day in hundreds of different ways, but their deaths are normal. We don't recoil in horror, but rather envy them for having avoided COVID. We don't count or consider any other form of death other than "COVID-19". Only one means of death is counted and fills us with horror: "Did they die of COVID-19 or not?"
    25. The Supernatural: There is an invisible world co-existent alongside our own, which we can't see, but which exists just as real as the one we see all around us. If we could see this world, we would be able to see the COVID virus, as well as see its behavior. It knows when you've spent more than an hour at the pub, whether you're sitting at your table at the restaurant or not, and whether you're at a small business or a Big Box store.
    26. State of Our Health: We can't know for certain that we are healthy. A person with COVID and a healthy person can both appear the same to our naked eyes. We can never be certain that we are free of COVID. Only a PCR test can judge us infallibly.

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    Re: Point by Point - how COVID is a real Cult!
    « Reply #1 on: December 29, 2020, 10:08:52 AM »
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    Re: Point by Point - how COVID is a real Cult!
    « Reply #2 on: December 29, 2020, 10:14:12 AM »
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  • Here's another talk that compares it to a cult: 


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    Re: Point by Point - how COVID is a real Cult!
    « Reply #3 on: December 29, 2020, 10:48:28 AM »
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  • I heard from someone that read the full 5000 page Covid bill just signed by Trump.
    Where you are going to get $600.00

    It will be a Federal Crime and a Felony to say there was fraud in the 2020 Election.

    Also

    It will be a Federal Crime and a Felony to say that the Covid scamdemic is a fraud.

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    Re: Point by Point - how COVID is a real Cult!
    « Reply #4 on: December 29, 2020, 12:22:54 PM »
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  • I heard from someone that read the full 5000 page Covid bill just signed by Trump.
    Where you are going to get $600.00

    It will be a Federal Crime and a Felony to say there was fraud in the 2020 Election.

    Also

    It will be a Federal Crime and a Felony to say that the Covid scamdemic is a fraud.
    If it says that, can we have some verbatim quotes?


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    Re: Point by Point - how COVID is a real Cult!
    « Reply #5 on: December 29, 2020, 12:29:41 PM »
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  • Catholicism
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    Cult of COVID
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    This can easily have the effect of having people view Catholicism as a cult to be shunned. The tons of non-Catholic "Christians" who criticize covid will become even more convince that Catholicism is a cult to be avoided and condemned.

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    Re: Point by Point - how COVID is a real Cult!
    « Reply #6 on: December 29, 2020, 01:16:43 PM »
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  • This can easily have the effect of having people view Catholicism as a cult to be shunned. The tons of non-Catholic "Christians" who criticize covid will become even more convince that Catholicism is a cult to be avoided and condemned.


    We can't be ashamed that we believe in a religion. When you have a secular man-made religion created around a virus, that isn't a religion but a cult.

    It sounds like you're a bit ashamed to be adhering to a religion.

    As I see it, those anti-Catholics would be equally ashamed to be adhering to a MUCH LESS VENERABLE (1 year old vs. 1,987 years old), man-made religion. And so they would be throwing off the masks, hand sanitizer, etc. so they're not part of that RIDICULOUS cult, just as they cast off Catholicism.

    But look around! Do you see so many people unmasked? Do you know anyone off CathInfo who doesn't believe in the COVID scam? I know very few. And at the grocery store I'm all alone with my naked face.

    I just re-read your post, and noticed you said The tons of non-Catholic "Christians" who criticize covid  
    I'm not seeing it here. I know one guy who goes to "The Country Church" who totally agrees with me on COVID. And a few Lutherans. But again, when I go to the grocery store, out of maybe 250 shoppers I'm the only one without a mask. If they truly thought it was silly, they wouldn't even mask up at this large grocery store -- it's obvious they're not "enforcing". Smaller places, yes. The library forces you. The UPS store forces you. But the major grocery chain which "owns" this area, as well as their lone competitor Wal-mart -- both of them let you alone completely if you walk in un-masked, despite the Texas state mandatory masking order. AND the recent explosion in so-called "cases".

    There are a TON of non-Catholics. They should all be against this silly cult, by your logic.
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    Re: Point by Point - how COVID is a real Cult!
    « Reply #7 on: December 29, 2020, 01:22:46 PM »
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  • I don't think it's its own cult.  I think it's just a subset of the liberal cult.  For example, the whole religion of environmentalism.
    For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders, insomuch as to deceive (if possible) even the elect. (Matthew 24:24)


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    Re: Point by Point - how COVID is a real Cult!
    « Reply #8 on: December 29, 2020, 01:28:46 PM »
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  • To give credit where it's due, I did get the idea from Dave Cullen. Even a few of the items in the list. He's in Ireland, and a philosopher (though I don't believe he's Catholic, he's at least "spiritual" and respects the Catholic religion somewhat for the practical benefits it offers society).

    He believes that the COVID cult fills a void in peoples' hearts where religion and religious practice used to be. He's on to something, certainly!
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    Re: Point by Point - how COVID is a real Cult!
    « Reply #9 on: December 29, 2020, 03:47:23 PM »
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  • We can't be ashamed that we believe in a religion. When you have a secular man-made religion created around a virus, that isn't a religion but a cult.

    It sounds like you're a bit ashamed to be adhering to a religion.

    As I see it, those anti-Catholics would be equally ashamed to be adhering to a MUCH LESS VENERABLE (1 year old vs. 1,987 years old), man-made religion. And so they would be throwing off the masks, hand sanitizer, etc. so they're not part of that RIDICULOUS cult, just as they cast off Catholicism.

    But look around! Do you see so many people unmasked? Do you know anyone off CathInfo who doesn't believe in the COVID scam? I know very few. And at the grocery store I'm all alone with my naked face.

    I just re-read your post, and noticed you said The tons of non-Catholic "Christians" who criticize covid  
    I'm not seeing it here. I know one guy who goes to "The Country Church" who totally agrees with me on COVID. And a few Lutherans. But again, when I go to the grocery store, out of maybe 250 shoppers I'm the only one without a mask. If they truly thought it was silly, they wouldn't even mask up at this large grocery store -- it's obvious they're not "enforcing". Smaller places, yes. The library forces you. The UPS store forces you. But the major grocery chain which "owns" this area, as well as their lone competitor Wal-mart -- both of them let you alone completely if you walk in un-masked, despite the Texas state mandatory masking order. AND the recent explosion in so-called "cases".

    There are a TON of non-Catholics. They should all be against this silly cult, by your logic.
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    I am not ashamed at all of being in the one true religion. And, you misunderstand. 
    The Republican party attracts mostly people who consider themselves Christian. You can see by the Trump rallies that they are most apt not to wear masks or distance. Just because you see people in your supermarket complying with masks and distancing doesn't mean they agree with doing so. 
    Protestants are generally anti-Catholic. Take a typical Protestant now, for instance, who disagrees strongly with covid rules and is already anti-Catholic. Reading this comparison will only make them loathe Catholicism more as a bad cult.
    This comparison really is only meant for Catholics to read. They can discern how the devil makes a travesty of Catholicism in an enslaving way.

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    Re: Point by Point - how COVID is a real Cult!
    « Reply #10 on: December 29, 2020, 10:02:02 PM »
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  • To give credit where it's due, I did get the idea from Dave Cullen. Even a few of the items in the list. He's in Ireland, and a philosopher (though I don't believe he's Catholic, he's at least "spiritual" and respects the Catholic religion somewhat for the practical benefits it offers society).

    He believes that the COVID cult fills a void in peoples' hearts where religion and religious practice used to be. He's on to something, certainly!
    Yes, God made us religious by nature.  If one rejects the one true religion, our religious nature must find expression in some other form.  All other forms of religious expression lead to hell.  Obviously, some forms are worse than others.  The Covid cult is particularly evil because it is nearly the opposite of Catholicism and it tolerates no dissent.  It even has the child-sacrifice component.  And it is endorsed by one of the most powerful nєω ωσrℓ∂ σr∂єr religionists in the world (guess who).