Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt00235)

leonmaurer@aol.com wrote, in part:

> To forestall too much speculation... 
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Thanks, Leon. Lately I've been 
speculating about how cult-like 
behaviours/values might be seen to exist 
even in TS's, maybe, in some sense (ie, 
depending on how one might interpret 
cultishness). Many years ago I had an 
errand to do at the office of the 
Toronto Scientologists and formed the 
imnpression, just from vibes I seem to 
have picked up, that the person I talked 
to in there was weird and not a nice 
person. Then a little later that office 
was in the news quite a lot because they 
were raided by the police and 
investigated by the renevooers.

Gordon Urquhart in his THE POPES ARMADA 
wrote about his nine year experience in 
Focolare, which is one of the cults that 
Pope John Paul II has been promoting 
over the years. Apparently there are 
about 30 million members in 
fundamentalist, extreme right-wing cults 
promoted by that Pope. Apparently those 
cultists are fanatical in promoting 
their various agendas while working 
towards establishing a new world order 
based on their fundamentalist dictates.
They're very secretive, wouldn't mention 
the name of their cult if they come 
knocking on your door.

Speculatively,
Mauri