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One day, my whole school was visited by this sect, I live in the Philippines, btw... So anyway, they showed us films that was supposed to enlighten us. It started out fine, until the afternoon part. I'm study psychology, so I knew more than to just watch. I analyzed what they showed us.
1.)A video about a two friends, one being christian, the other, not.
a.) At the beggining there was a small note saying it was a work of fiction. But then after the video, the speaker told us that it wasn't fake. And he gave us locations and stuff where it happened.
b.) It depicted so much fear it didn't seem Christian
2.)A video about a korean painter getting a fieldtrip with God to a place called Hell.
a.) The speaker told us that if we sinned, we wouldn't get to heaven. and stopped there.
b.) They included sins like "masturbation" and told us that masturbation is wrong. If we wanted to shoot sperm, we should do a wetdream instead. (But isn't the sin lust, and not masturbation? Isn't lust a sin of thought? Aren't dreams made up of thoughts?)
After that traumatic event (srsly, the scenes were graphic and would take your spirit away) My classmates went straight to their sect and signed up. I was devastated, but I dont think it's right...
I mean, they only want to worship God, you can't hate them, right?
The Answer
You shouldn't hate people, and you shouldn't make generalizations like "I hate all people from that sect, or that school, or that country, or that race."
However, you can decide that you don't think people should be doing something. Even if you think that worshipping God is a good thing, it's perfectly right to not want people bullied, attacked or manipulated into it.
You are intelligent and aware to look at the techniques of fear and lies that these people used to get people to sign up. That was wrong of them. The ends don't justify the means. That saying means that just because you are trying to achieve a good thing, doesn't mean it's okay to lie or hurt people, or do other bad things to make the good thing happen. It's always wrong to lie and manipulate others, even if you tell yourself it's for their own good, it's still wrong.
Just because they want people to worship God, doesn't mean they weren't behaving badly. What they wanted may have been good, but what they did was wrong.
It's okay to a take a look at this sect, and their behaviour, and think it's not friendly, respectful or truthful. It's okay to dislike what they are doing, and think they are very, very wrong.
It's never okay to hate people, even when they are behaving badly.
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