What are your thoughts on the Waco Siege?

[OddBeMe]

I’ve been reading commentary on it and see some vast differences. Either it’s govt run amok or it’s a crazy cult abusing children. I’m in the middle. Or would respond “both”.

Also, who do you think started the fires?

We didn’t start the fire! It was always burning. Since the world was turning!

Govt run amok

Crazy Cult

Both

[Still-alive]

Just a huge blunder all around

[msc545]

I voted for "both"

[Wade12345]

It's a crazy cult, and honest to God the government should intervene and stop a lot of other cults. I don't know why we tolerate all the organized child abuse in both catholicism and protestantism. Half the freaking churches in this country the pastors falsely prophesy on a regular basis, and in the other half they abuse children on a regular basis. We'd all be better off if Christianity or anything like it were freaking BANNED.

WORSHIP GOD, NOT A MAN CLAIMING TO BE GOD.

Anyone asking you for TITHE needs to get off their sorry ass and get a real job of their own. tithe and offerings belong to widows and orphans, not lazy assed preachers who never had a real job in their lives. (Joel Osteen, Kenneth Copeland, Jimmy Swaggart, etc, etc, especially not Donnie or Gabriel swaggart as they've literally never done anything other than preach in their lives. Freaking con-artists is all they are.

I over-heard Joel Osteen prophesying "blessings" in the middle of Covid to his congregation just two days ago. He's a false prophet. Who do you think made Covid? God made everything, and God isn't about to bless one of the most wicked generations in human history. The LORD rebuke Joel Osteen. If the Law of Moses were obeyed, he should be hanged himself, or burned at the stake, for being a false prophet.

These child abusing priests and false prophets should be CASTRATED, if we started doing that again like they used to do in the U. S. 150 to 200 years ago, I bet the rate of child abuse would go down.

[Wade12345]

Look, former Branch Davidians who left the cult will tell you they were bat-shit crazy. He waas forcing marriages and annuling marriages and performing child marriages, and of course falsely prophesying the end of time over all these people and so on.

Don't defend this crap. It's not government over-reach. It's exactly what government is supposed to do.

One of the purposes of government is to stop perverts from raping children in the name of their false "rights".

You don't have a "right" to be a false prophet, and you sure as hell don't have a "right" to molest children.

[OddBeMe]

Its a toughy isn't it? everyone there is being sexually assualted or taken advantage of willfully.

[jshm2]

You forgot "neither"

As the government agencies didn't do enough on the intelligence end at the run up.

Also, ol' David Koresh probably would have went the way of Marshall Applewhite in a short time.

[OddBeMe]

so you'd vote both then.

[Sevenpointfive]

i really have nothing against cults unless you bring children into the mix and they did that. no child should be forced into that type of thing. it's like mormonism. it's wrong

[goaded]

Since most cults exist so that the leader can have lots of sex, children are going to be around pretty soon, whatever else happens. Have there been cannibalistic cults? They'd be pretty bad, too.

[OddBeMe]

@goaded yeah cult leaders seem to prioritize sex with young children/women.
But @Sevenpointfive is right, not all. Heavens Gate guys got castrated. So there’s that.

[goaded]

I'd never heard that. I suppose that was an exception.

[OddBeMe]

@goaded really? never heard of David berg or nxium? I even think heavens gate guy had his followers castrated.

[OddBeMe]

oh I said that already. sorry just watched the heavens gate doc so its on the mind :)

[goaded]

Lol, no worries!

[Stoner710]

I live near Waco. I’m not in danger