The Times Magazine
The Devil's Work : Could cults undermine democracy?
29 Oct 1994
Germany
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A 50 years after the end of World War II to his also 20th anniversary of the
first time cult concern was voiced in the House of Commons. This led to the
formation of fair, but for us there can be no victory celebration because the
few have not yet been joined by the many.
We are in
the equivalent of the between the wars period when Sir Winston Churchill and a
few others realized what was happening in Germany. They had read Mein Kampf and
believed Hitler was capable of carrying out his domination dream. They kept
warning us of the growing menace but nobody would listen, and the Fuhrer turned
a country into a destructive cult.
A Jonathan Meads,
writing about those years, said that the Germans were in thrall to a form of
messanic cult that disguised itself as a political party to - The Order of the
New Templars and the German Order. These were the predecessors of the National
Socialist Party.
Today a reverse masquerade is more
likely - a political party disguised as a messianic cult, with tax exemption
advantages. Today's Hitler would see the strategic sense in calling himself
reverend and claiming freedom to practice and proselytize his 'religion'.
Himmler created an ersatz stonehenge when he conducted
solstice ceremonies for members of his order who were expected to change their
names to pre-Christian ones. Because 'the new order was conditional on the
extinction of the old'.
A Pastor, Thomas Gandow, a
researcher and adviser on cults for the Lutheran Church of Berlin and
Brandenberg, has warned of new Fuhrer figures replacing the old Communist
leaders in Eastern Europe. "Cults are militant fighters for New World. They are
organized like armies... their goal is to achieve power... they exert influence
and prepare for the takeover."
We are familiar with
more recent ratings almost too bizarre to be believed, are aghast at the results
when irrational words become irrational acts.
There is
growing awareness, even among cult apologists, in that with the millennium less
than five years away the situation will become more volatile. This time we have
the support of the Germans who are most aware of where the road to
totalitarianism leads and in many former occupied countries particularly France,
there is vigorous opposition to groups which undermine the democratic system.
With the formation of the European Federation --
FECRIS - we are now all part of the resistance.
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