Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "Guns For God: The Church of the AR-15" video.
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This is basically just a few steps before a Christian ISIS.
There are only a few things you really need to get there:
1. A dead mythic leader, preferrably a martyr;
2. A lawless or weak government country;
3. Poor living conditions pushed to an extreme, or at least the feeling of it;
4. Descentralized cell recruitment.
Weird how this is coming from South Korea, but it actually looks way more like something that should've come from North Korea. Dear gun nut leader.
All the rest seems to be already there. Set of beliefs based on paranoia. Power of judgement over other people's lives given willy nilly - I'll take other people's lives according to my own rules. Debasement of society/government value and roles (like police). Constant terror of being displaced, being shunned, having your "God given rights" taken. An excluding ideology where you and your peers are right and the rest is the enemy. Mythic origin themes. Political alignment with whatever serves them better. Traces of antisocial personality disorder in leaders and followers. Cherry picking sacred texts with surreal interpretations while ignoring most of the rest to conveniently serve their rethoric.
It not only is a cult, it's a special type of cult which people outside it should definitely be worried about. Because most cults people probably heard about are inwards facing, closed up and off, with victims mostly being members, or family of members. This isn't it. This is the kind of cult that produces the sort of extremism and radical thinking in which members going off the deep end or in bad situations in their lives could convert it to external violence towards communities not aligned to their "teachings".
In poorer countries that have been under violent government or control, with people that are struggling to get the very basic human rights, this sort of cult is exactly what originates and empowers terrorists. If I am right, or my group is right, and the majority is wrong, and God or some other deity gave me permission to use guns as a tool to make things right, then in desperate times I will employ this tool and I will make my voice heard, because this is my mission here on Earth, it is my God given right, and nothing else matters.
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