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Why I Think Cults Are Allowed To Operate

I am interested in cults. It’s like a hobby. I adopt one, learn something about it, and then go on to the next. But why are cults allowed to operate (consider the crimes committed against minors by the JWs, or the fact that the Scientologists lock people up and subject them to hard labour).

I think I have the answer: because cults collect lots of data on their members. And this data is shared with the big cult. Because what they are doing today to the Scientologists they will be doing tomorrow to you.

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Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwWYt3PL8vo

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Big Government As God: Surah 64 With Exposition

In this talk I read through surah 64 and discourse by way of tangents other topics, including that of government tyranny.

1 What is in the heavens and what is in the earth gives glory to God. To Him belongs the dominion, and to Him belongs the praise; and He is over all things powerful.
2 He it is that created you; and among you is a spurner of guidance, and among you is a believer; and God sees what you do.
3 He created the heavens and the earth in truth, and He formed you and made good your forms; and to Him is the journey’s end.
4 He knows what is in the heavens and the earth, and He knows what you conceal and what you make known; and God knows that which is in the breasts.
5 Has not the report reached you of those who ignored warning before? Then they tasted the evil consequence of their affair; and they will have a painful punishment
6 For it is that when their messengers came to them with the clear signs: — and they said: “Shall mortals guide us?” — then they denied and turned away! But God is self-sufficient; and God is free from need and praiseworthy.
7 Those who ignore warning claim that they will never be raised. Say thou: “Verily, by my Lord, you will be raised! Then will you be informed of what you did; and that is easy for God.”
8 So believe in1 God and His messenger, and in the light which We have sent down; and God is aware of what you do.
9 The day He gathers you for the Day of Gathering: that will be the Day of Mutual Overcoming in Trade. And whoso believes in God and works righteousness, He will remove from him his evil deeds, and make him enter gardens beneath which rivers flow, they abiding eternally therein forever; that is the Great Achievement.
10 And those who ignore warning and deny Our proofs — those are the companions of the Fire, they abiding eternally therein; and evil is the journey’s end.
11 No calamity befalls save by the leave of God. And whoso believes in God, He will guide his heart; and God knows all things.
12 And obey God, and obey the Messenger; but if you turn away — then upon Our messenger is only the clear notification.
13 God, there is no god save He. And in God then let the believers place their trust.
14 O you who heed warning:1 among your spouses and your children is an enemy to you, so beware of them. But if you pardon, and overlook, and forgive, then is God forgiving and merciful.
15 Your wealth and your children are only a means of denial; and God, with Him is a great reward.
16 So be in prudent fear of God as much as you are able, and listen, and obey, and spend; it is better for your souls. And whoso is protected from the avarice of his soul, it is they who are the successful.
17 If you lend to God a goodly loan, He will double it for you, and will forgive you; and God is appreciative and clement,
18 The Knower of the Unseen and the Seen, the Exalted in Might, the Wise.

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Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCPTEYnsl5s

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Second Part Of “The Shahada” In The Qur’an: Surah 63 With Exposition

In this talk I discourse on subjects arising in surah 63.

1 When the waverers come to thee they say: “We bear witness that thou art the messenger of God.” But God knows that thou art His messenger, and God bears witness that the waverers are liars.
They have taken their oaths as a cover, then they turned away from the path of God — evil is what they did
3 For it is that1 they believed, then denied! Then were their hearts sealed, and they understand not.
4 And when thou seest them, their forms please thee; and if they speak, thou listenest to their speech as if they were propped up pieces of dry wood. They think every blast is against them. They are the enemy; so beware thou of them. May God curse them! How are they deluded!
5 And when it is said to them: “Come, the messenger of God will ask forgiveness for you,” they turn aside their heads, and thou seest them turning away, waxing proud.
6 It is the same for them whether thou askest forgiveness for them or hast not asked forgiveness for them; God will never forgive them. God guides not the perfidious people.
7 Those are they who say: “Spend not on those with the messenger of God until they disband.” And to God belong the treasuries of the heavens and the earth, but the waverers understand not.
8 They say: “If we return to the city, the more honoured will drive therefrom the meaner.” But to God belong power and glory, and to His messenger, and to the believers, but the waverers know not.
9 O you who heed warning: let not your wealth or your children divert you from the remembrance of God; and whose does that, it is they who are the losers.
10 And spend of what We have provided you before death comes to one among you and he says: “My Lord: hadst Thou but delayed me to a near term, that I might give charity and be among the righteous!”
11 But God delays no soul when its term comes; and God is aware of what you do.
63:1-11

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Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd0ITJk1uVc