The language is that of a cult leader. Islam is a closed system, based entirely on the writings of Mohammed. Followers are to live by every word as the law of their lives.
When the "proof" of faith is written words and not the Spirit of God, human authority will always be made primary.
A cult is always dominated by a specific person who is elevated above the common members of the faith. Those outside the cult are evil, dangerous and dispensible, except as potential converts.
The power of cult to dominate the life and death of its members is seen today most clearly among the criminal cabals of Islam.
The confusion of average Muslims about Muslim fanatacism is paralleled by the confusion of average Christians when confronted by the cultists of Marxist culture in the latter part of the 20th century.
Environmentalism, the elevation of sodomy to cult status, abortion rights, attacks on capitalism as greed, animal rights, and so forth, are all violent assaults on western culture by avowed terrorists. For decades traditional people were at a loss to counter the madness of these destroyers of civilization.
The Clinton presidency was the ascendency of their agenda. Now, finally, it is being reversed, not without screams and howls. We are learning how to beat these horrors back into their caves.
It is a good thing for the honorable Christians of America to join with the honorable Muslims of Iraq to bring each of our cultures out of the insanity of extremism into the light of peace and understanding.
It is also seen in every communist system that's ever been tried. But then I think any system rooted in Marxism to be a cult in the precise sense you indicate. Notice both Islamofascism and communism are implacably opposed to the idea of the value, dignity, and liberty of the human person that we hold so dear in our own authentic, traditional American culture.
So welcome to World War III. It is not "optional."
Great post, Amos. Thanks for the ping!
Thanks for the ping!
“A cult is always dominated by a specific person who is elevated above the common members of the faith.”
Good post, Amos. Thank you.
Every culture has its share of crazies. From this none seem to escape. However, I think it is the cultish nature of the Moslem faith which explains why so many followers of Muhammad conduct much of their day-to-day lives rationally, yet do so abuse and humiliate their women, and permit the most wild and improbable tales to turn them into instantaneous raving lunatics.