Cults

Question: What does Stand Fast Ministries, Calvary Chapel, Maranatha World Ministries, and the Promise Keepers all have in common? Answer: All are cults! That’s right, cults! There are many ways to decide whether a religious grouping is a cult. One way is to simply ask how they ordain their ministers. Most reputable religions require formal seminary and theological training in an accredited university. Cults ordain their ministers directly. Another way to figure out if you are looking down the gun barrel of a cult is to see how the cult views the role of women in society. Most cults view women as subservient to men. To determine how your cult views the role of women, have your cult leader take the “Lot Test.”

Lot, the nephew of Abraham, was an Old Testament character who lived in the city of Sodom with his wife and two daughters. The New Testament holds Lot in great esteem as evidenced by the passage in 2 Peter (2:6-8) where Lot is seen as a righteous man deserving his place in heaven. What makes Lot such a righteous man? God sends a couple of angels to visit Lot. When the lusty Sodomites hear about the angels, they gather in front of Lots house demanding Lot send out the angels. Instead, Lot offers his virgin daughters to be gang raped by the crowd. Hold on, it gets worse!

Lot and his family manage to escape from Sodom, but Lot’s wife, disobeying Lot’s orders, looks back on God’s destruction of Sodom. As punishment for her insolence, Lot’s wife is turned into a pillar of salt. Later, Lot and his two daughters hide out in a cave in the mountains above Zoar. One night, the older daughter decides to get Lot drunk so she can have sex with him because she wants to “...preserve seed of our father” (apparently she doesn't understand she already has half of Lot’s genes).The next night, the younger daughter does the same. Both daughters get pregnant , and Lot never knows he had sex with his daughters because he was drunk (Gen. 19:1-38). Lot is rewarded with a window seat in heaven. Why is this Bible story the basis of the Lot Test?” Because this entire Bible story is HORSE HOCKEY!

For centuries women all over the world have know that if Timothy gets a snoot full, little brother Timothy is not getting resurrected! Only traditional men living in a traditional society, with traditional family values, where women are seen as so much property, would find truth and value in the horror story of Lot. No daughter would sleep with her father, (ugh!), and no father in his right mind would sleep with his daughter, no matter how drunk he got! Which brings me to Jay Grant’s withered little column in the local newspaper two weeks ago.

Look into your black magic box and see if you can find the ancient Greek or Hebrew word for gigolo. I think the word is synonymous with holy man. If a woman has serial sex partners, she is a sinner and a whore. But if a man has serial sex partners, or sleeps with his daughters, according to your righteous Bible, he sits at the right hand side of God. Pull down your veil, Jay Grant, your hypocrisy is showing!