THE GOSPEL OF MIND CONTROL
Some religious leaders have turned Christianity into a multi-million
dollar business. The pulpit is being used as an instrument for financial gain
and many preachers have become very successful in the process. Nevertheless, preachers are not satisfied
with 32 room mansions, luxury jets, chauffeured limousines, and house servants;
they still want more. Therefore, gospel ministers have learned to use the power
of the pulpit to control the minds of their followers. For years they have used
brainwashing as a tool to justify the killing of gay, lesbian, and transgender
individuals. They spent months, as well as thousands of churchgoers’ dollars,
to influence lawmakers to pass laws to limit the right to marry. They have
continued to teach parishioners to disobey the Supreme Court ruling of marriage
equality. They have banned same-sex couples from the church and made heroes and
heroines of those who denied basic civil rights to individuals of different
sexual orientations.
In recent days preachers have looked women directly in the eyes and told
them that men have the god-given right to make nasty, vulgar, and
disrespectable remarks about them. The
greatest horror of this is that some women believe it. And just when you
thought it couldn’t get any worse, preachers are using the wrath of God to
dictate how people should vote. They have stood before congregations and told
thousands of people they will go to hell if they do not vote for a certain
candidate.
There is a bright light at the end of this tunnel. Those who call
themselves the masters of the pulpit find it difficult to control the minds of
America’s youth. Recent public opinion polls prove that the majority of young
Americans do not think that preachers have the right to tell them how to vote.
America is a nation born in hate, lives in hate, and enjoys the turmoil
that hate brings. America’s youth are trying to shape a different America. They
have seen the beauty in the diversity of skin color. They have learned there is
no threat in the friendship with individuals of different sexual orientations
and that knowledge can be acquired from people of different ethnic origins. In
spite of what is being taught in many churches, young Americans bring hope to a
closed social environment where change is slow, and a stagnated mind opposes
all forms of progress.
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