Cult that is

A big hello to Wayne Bent or, as he prefers to be called Michael Travesser, the Archangel Michael or even plain ol’ Jesus, if the followers of the wacky Strong City cult are to be believed. The cult are the focus of this excellent if somewhat chilling documentary. They also believe that today is the end of the world, so if you’re reading this guys OOPS, guess your infallible god fucked up again. Seeing as this is the third stab at predicting the apocalypse and the third time you were wrong it might worth questioning your source materiel. In this case the beardy pervert that slept with his son’s wife and fondled young naked children as they begged him to sleep with them.

I don’t know why cults offend me so profoundly, perhaps it’s the tape of the Jonestown mass suicide I heard a long time ago, a terrible ordeal of wailing and moaning with the echoing voice of the unhinged Jim Jones urging the mother to keep the children calm. Or the hijacking of a vulnerable person’s spiritual quest, which seems more like spiritual rape, an act I find fundamentally abhorrent. In Jungian psychology, there is a figure lurking in the subconscious Jung called “the shadow” this is all of your darker urges and weakness’ personified as a dark version of yourself. I think a more fundamental reason I get so offended is that I think recognise my shadow in both cult leaders and followers.


A total c**t