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notaplaceofhonour · 2 months

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I was raised in the People of Destiny cult (later renamed, and more well-known as, Sovereign Grace Ministries, now Sovereign Grace Churches).

The valorization of martyrdom and The End Times was so ubiquitous it was ambient noise. We stood in the church lobby theorizing about who the antichrist would be, we argued about whether Jesus would rapture us all before, after, or during the Tribulation Period where Satan would be given free reign over the earth. There was a strong Christian Zionist fixation on Israel as the final battleground and capital of the coming Messianic Age. But the one thing we were all certain of was is that we were in the End Times, that we were not of this world and couldn’t get too attached to our lives here.

We were raised to believe our sin nature made us undeserving of life, that we deserved death and eternal conscious torture.

My parents read us the Jesus Freaks books (a series by Christian Rap group DC Talk about martyrs). I spent “devotional time” reading Fox’s Book of Martyrs. We had guest speakers from Voice of the Martyrs, their pamphlets were often stocked in our church’s information center. We grew up with our dad listening to right wing talk radio and making us listen to songs about how the Godless atheists were outlawing Christianity in America, that we could all become martyrs soon.

The group’s theology was damaging & traumatic in a lot of other ways that contributed to the suicidality I have continued to struggle with for the rest of my life. For a long time I did not believe I would live past 20. There are times when the idea of giving my death meaning by using public suicide to make a political statement has appealed to me.

So now, seeing so many social media posts glorifying the suicide of a US Airman this week, I have been furious. Reading his social media posts, I recognize so much about the way I was raised in his all-or-nothing, black-or-white mindset, the valorization of death-seeking & martyrdom, and the apocalyptic fire-and-brimstone imagery of self-immolation. The moment I saw people I followed celebrating his self-immolation, I said to myself “this feels like a cult”

So when I learned he was raised in a cult too, nothing could have made more sense to me. His political orientation may have changed, but his mindset did not—it was no less extreme or cult-like.

I’ve talked about so many of the reasons this response from the broader left scares me, including how it’s laundering that airman’s antisemitic beliefs, but I cannot think of anything that would hit me in a more personal place than this specific response to this specific situation has.

When I see the images, I think: that could have been me. That scares me, and what scares me more is that so many prominent people are overwhelmingly sending the message to people like me that there is nothing else we can do that would have a more meaningful impact than killing ourselves for the cause.

I do not believe that. I will not even entertain it. And having to see his death over and over and over again, to argue against people who are treating this like an intellectual/moral exercise or a valid debate we all have to consider has been immensely triggering and fills me with a rage I rarely feel. It’s unconscionable that we are even putting self-harm on the table, and that pushing back against that is somehow controversial.

There is hope. Our lives do have meaning. There are far more effective means of fighting injustice. And the world is a better place for having you in it. Don’t fall into believing this is a way to give life purpose.

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wh40kartwork · 5 months

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Death Cult Assassin

by Tamás Patkós

#death cult #warhammer #warhammer 40k #warhammer 40000 #40k #tamas patkos #imperium

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odinsblog · 8 months

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I mean, they been a cult. A death cult for the NRA, a hate group for the KKK, Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, etc etc etc. Republicans (writ large) are just an extension of the Tea Party & the Confederacy, and whatever other shitty misogynistic racist movements preceded those shitty misogynistic racist movements

I was about to say, “Here’s to hoping they gulp down ALL the Kool-Aid when he loses,” but if the election of 2016 taught me anything, it’s to never underestimate the propensity of a majority of white voters to vote for thee worst possible candidate.

(source)

Unfortunately, Trump’s loss at the ballot box and in court is not guaranteed, not by any stretch of the imagination.

They’re a cult.

So no matter what, let’s don’t get too cocky.

We still gotta do the work.

#politics #republicans #cults #trump or death #right wing nut jobs #tre45on #traitors #death cult #hate groups

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theatheistgirl · 1 month

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#art #photograph #capitalism #death cult #anarchism #words #beauty #cat #graffiti

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j0celynh0rr0r · 3 months

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xtreme-feeder · 2 months

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Thinking of starting a Mind Blowing Extremely Fucked up fetish cult, mainly feeding women to death with immobility but also other things

#ass so phat #big juicy ass #death feederism #feed #feedly #feeder/feedee #death feed #fatfur #feedism.#phat ass white girl #death cult

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charmedreincarnation · 11 months

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What type of weird cult is this where you people just lie on the internet. “Waking up with your dream life” as if it’s easy and you people aren’t just mentally ill. Wtfffffff

The best type of cult 😋🙌 to be intiated all you have to do is eat my butt like groceries ❤️

#death cult #loa #witchcraft #jennifer’s body #i am evil #your loss bestie

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religion-is-a-mental-illness · 9 months

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"Never trust a religion whose ultimate goal is the end of the world."

They'll do everything in their power to make it happen, celebrating the whole way. Religions are apocalypse cults.

#end of the world #end times #end of days #judgement day #end of times #judgment day #religion #religion is a mental illness #death cult #apocalypse cult

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oldmandoomer · 1 year

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Ink and colored pencil

GBFA

#art #hand drawn #dark art #sketchbook #artwork #inkdrawing #occult art #traditional art #deathtrip #doomer #underground artists #dsbm #only death is real #death cult

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notaplaceofhonour · 2 months

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“aw what are you too wussy to kill yourself?” jfc get a grip lmao

maybe spend less time telling people to give up their life and spend more time getting one

#cw sui bait #cw suicide #death cult #death cult shit

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jonahmagnus · 6 months

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Miss Mary Rose "Disaster" Baxter <3

#Paranatural #Pnat spoilers #pnat #paranatural #death cult #the death cult #Ms Baxter #doodal #my unfortunate art #<3 #wife tag

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nando161mando · 25 days

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s-e-c-t-i-o-n-8 · 3 months

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#Aborted #Despised Icon #death metal #deathcore #metal #death cult #vault of horrors #cattle decapitation #suicide silence #dying fetus #Bandcamp

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despazito · 11 months

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mark my words militarizing borders across europe on the eve of extreme environmental catastrophe, dwindling natural resources and inhabitable land will not end well for anyone

#yadda yadda the war machines runs on fossil fuel we'd rather go out on a great final quarter with an atomic bang than divest from oil #death cult #no i dont side with any government theyre all lame

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leimil · 2 days

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