Posted on 04/24/2015 5:00:04 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
“The Turkish people are very hospitable people,” she said with surprising warmth, seeing as they had murdered her husband and dozens of other members of her extended family, just a few of the 1.5 million Christian Armenians killed by the Turks during the first genocide of the 20th century. Grandmom knew the Turkish people well, not just from having grown up in southern Turkey, but from having returned several times to the “old country” later in life, during more quiescent times.
However, continuing her story, she intimated to me that the Muslim Turks lived under the spell of strange forces.
“They were very hospitable and would invite you in,” she said. “But, if a distant signal was given – it sounded something like a trumpet – then they would instantly change, and would attempt to harm you. Yet if the signal sounded again, they would immediately switch back to normal.”
“Even,” she added by way of illustration, “if they had injured you after the first signal, as soon as the second signal sounded, they would bind up the very wounds they had inflicted on you.”
As I said – a very, very strange tale, with overtones of “The Manchurian Candidate” and its post-hypnotic suggestions (remember the Queen of Diamonds?) triggering murderous, pre-programmed behavior.
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This explains a lot of Obungus bizarre behaviour
It sounds like a kind of partial--selective--demonic possession.
It’s the power of Groupthink. It will make normally sane people believe things that would have considered ludicrous just a few years earlier.
For example, same-sex marriage. Ten years ago, it was a dismissed slippery slope argument. A red herring. It even failed in California.
Now if you don’t support it, you are some way-out nutcase.
“....it sounded something like a trumpet...”
Maybe a call to prayer from a Mineret?
Excellent comparison.
Bkmrk.
wow...........thank you for post
Islam is organized demonic possession.
How can it be anything other than a cult in countries like Pakistan, where a majority believe that apostasy should be punished by death?
Keeping whole populations uneducated (or allowing only particular kinds of education) is how you control them.
It’s easy to lead people who have no ability or inclination to doubt or challenge what you say.
Ignorant populations and rigorously indoctrinated populations ARE the tools of any fanaticism that comes along.
Sounds like the video game Resident Evil 4...
Islam is a Cult, it discourages free thought, questioning of authority and literally creates adults who are utterly incapable of being fully realized adults.
Maybe the first trumpet was a “the ISIS types are coming and you’d better show you’re targeting Christians”, the second trumpet meaning “it’s OK, they’re gone”.
...I could see something like that causing such behavior. It’s not that they wanted to harm, it was harm or be harm and they took the cowardly position (inherent to Islam).
You see, whether it’s ISIS, al-Qaida, Boko Haram, the Al Nusra Front or other modern-day jihadists, or their Turkish predecessors in the Ottoman Caliphate a century ago; whether, for that matter, it’s the Christian-hating automatons of North Korea or in other communist nations throughout the world – when it comes to those who persecute Christians, we are looking at people firmly in the grip of exceedingly dark forces.
I am firmly convinced that Islam is the religion of Satan. Why are so many young Muslims, even from here in the US, joining ISIS, even though their atrocities and brutality are well publicized? Those young Muslims are being deceived by the Great Deceiver, Satan himself. I can't fathom any other explanation.
Here's a link to a powerful video, "Who Would Dare to Love ISIS? (A Letter from the People of the Cross)", that sends the message to those murderous savages that we Christians embrace Jesus and love and that there's still a chance for them to redeem their souls from an eternity burning in the fires of Hell:
"Who Would Dare to Love ISIS? (A Letter from the People of the Cross)
The purpose of the 5 prayers a day in the Muslim religion is to perpetuate brainwashing. Years ago I stood directly in front of a group of praying men in a prayer room inside Dome of the Rock and even though their eyes were wide open, they didn’t see me or show any sign of seeing anything at all. That convinced me that the rote prayers are some sort of hypnosis/brainwashing.
Sir Robert Anderson, in his theological book on THE SILENCE OF GOD, in the first chapter tells of the beginnings of the slaughter of the Armenians in 1895. It is horrible to read and to think a human could do this to another. But then, the attackers were moslems.
http://www.davidcox.com.mx/library/A/Anderson,%20Robert%20-%20The%20Silence%20of%20God%20%28b%29.pdf
I am reminded of a line in THE RUNAWAY TRAIN in which the prison escapees terrorized a woman. She yells...”YOUR ARE ANIMALS! ANIMALS!”
JOHN VOIGHT says back “WORSE than animals! HUMAN!”
“Richard Wurmbrand, the heroic Romanian evangelical pastor, spent 14-and-a-half years in a Romanian prison suffering starvation and torture for the crime of boldly preaching the Gospel of Christ in what was then a brutally repressive communist nation. When, two years after his final release from captivity, Wurmbrand testified in May 1966 before the U.S. Senate’s Internal Security Subcommittee, he stripped to the waist to reveal 18 deep wounds covering his torso, the result of years of unspeakable abuse.
And yet, as Wurmbrand proclaims in his classic book, “Tortured for Christ,” he and his fellow Christian prisoners well understood that the communists, especially those who imprisoned and tortured them, “knew not what they did.” He recognized deeply that his persecutors were all programmed “Manchurian candidates” – brainwashed slaves of “principalities and powers,” of “rulers of the darkness of this world” and “spiritual wickedness in high places.”
Until he died at age 91 in 2001, Wurmbrand’s message, one faithfully carried forward by the international ministry he founded, Voice of the Martyrs, has always been: “Hate the evil systems, but love your persecutors. Love their souls, and try to win them for Christ.”
“With striking compassion for his jailers, in “Tortured for Christ” Wurmbrand writes:
The enormous amount of drunkenness in Communist countries exposes the longing for a more meaningful life, which communism cannot give. The average Russian is a deep, big-hearted, generous person. Communism is shallow and superficial. He seeks the deep life and, finding it nowhere else, he seeks it in alcohol. He expresses in alcoholism his horror about the brutal and deceitful life he must live. For a few moments alcohol sets him free, as truth would set him free forever if he could know it.
So genuine was Wurmbrand’s concern for the souls of his tormentors that, over the years, quite a few of them were converted to the Christian faith, ending up in prison with him – and glad for it!
Contemplate, if you can, Wurmbrand’s last act before leaving Romania after years of living 30 feet underground in a communist prison – no sunshine, no fresh air, always hungry, treated brutally and sadistically day after day, year after year.
“In December 1965,” writes Wurmbrand, “my family and I were allowed to leave Romania”:
My last deed before leaving was to go to the grave of the colonel who had given the order for my arrest and who had ordered my years of torture. I placed a flower on his grave. By doing this I dedicated myself to bringing the joys of Christ that I have to the communists who are so empty spiritually.
I hate the communist system but I love the men. I hate the sin but I love the sinner. I love the communists with all of my heart. Communists can kill Christians but they cannot kill their love toward even those who killed them. I have not the slightest bitterness or resentment against the communists or my torturers.
How is such an attitude possible? Says Wurmbrand:
I have seen Christians in communist prisons with fifty pounds of chains on their feet, tortured with red-hot iron pokers, in whose throats spoonfuls of salt had been forced, being kept afterward without water, starving, whipped, suffering from cold – and praying with fervor for the communists. This is humanly inexplicable! It is the love of Christ, which was poured out in our hearts.
Finally, in words reminiscent of some of the early Christian martyrs of the First Century, Richard Wurmbrand shares with the reader the presence of God he experienced in his filthy prison cell:
God is “the Truth.” The Bible is the “truth about the Truth.” Theology is the “truth about the truth about the Truth.” Christian people live in these many truths about the Truth, and, because of them, have not “the Truth.” Hungry, beaten, and drugged, we had forgotten theology and the Bible. We had forgotten the “truths about the Truth,” therefore we lived in “the Truth.” It is written, “The Son of man is coming at an hour when you do not expect Him” (Matthew 24:44). We could not think anymore. In our darkest hours of torture, the Son of Man came to us, making the prison walls shine like diamonds and filling the cells with light. Somewhere, far away, were the torturers below us in the sphere of the body. But the spirit rejoiced in the Lord. We would not have given up this joy for that of kingly palaces.
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