If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be my disciple.
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Sounds like a normal family. As a lawyer, I encounter them all the time.
Well then – Fuck You too!
@ RR @ #1
This was the very book and phrase that Charles Manson used to convince young women to hang around. He picked up on the language patterns that some preachers used and was able to recruit people into his weird little cult who had grown up in super religious households where the faith was being used to control the family members, often with some serious brutality being involved as well.
He apparently had a knack for spotting naive young Christian girls in bus stations and the like, knew which questions to ask and how to respond to certain attitudes. Using the Book of Luke was one of his main tools.
@3 Didn’t know the Manson background re this verse. I wonder if Goldy did? Anyway, most Christian girls don’t turn into mass killers despite their upbringing. The Christian politicians do, though, and now they have nuclear weapons. Not good. At least atheist commies aren’t expecting a trainload of virgins if they pull the trigger. They have a motive of self-preservation.
Will the real Jesus Christ please stand up.
Oh and Luke was written for the Gentiles, so I guess that Charlie was looking for gentile girls at bus stations.
@3 LSD had a lot more with Charles Manson recruitment success than his use of Luke, or eastern religion in his recruitment effort. In fact he never intended to be a cult guru, and his recruitment of people was simply to support his criminal endeavors.
@6 Or it might have had something to do with him being a paranoid schizophrenic who’d recruited a bunch of other paranoid schizophrenics. Kind of like North Korea, or the Drumpf White House.