- Any “prophet/messiah” who claims to be infallible is a liar
- Any “prophet/messiah” who claims that all those who criticize him or disagree with him are evil and doomed to God’s eternal wrath is a liar
- Any “prophet/messiah” who demands isolation from those who have consistently loved, supported, and been honest with you, and who jeopardizes your financial security is a liar
- Any “prophet/messiah” who insists that no one cares about or understands you as much as they do is a liar
- Any “prophet/messiah” who believes he or she is exempt from the laws of God and society, and is entitled to divine immunity from consequences, is a liar
- Any “prophet/messiah” whose power is based on fear, abuse, and threats is a liar
- Any “prophet/messiah” who claims to be your sole source of salvation when the Apocalypse happens is a liar
Heaven’s Gate
Heaven’s Gate was a doomsday cult founded by Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles, who adopted a variety of nicknames over the years, including The Two, Bo, Do (rhymes with Bo), Peep, and Ti. Marshall and Bonnie declared themselves extraterrestrials who traveled here from the Kingdom of Heaven, a story they clearly preferred to the documented fact that they met in a psychiatric hospital where he was a patient and she was a nurse.
Heaven’s Gate actually evolved from a 1975 organization called the Human Individual Metamorphosis, whose members left their loved ones, careers, and earthly possessions behind to gather in a desert in Colorado awaiting a UFO that never came. The Human Individual Metamorphosis evolved into Total Overcomers Anonymous, formed by Do after Bonnie’s death from cancer in 1985 and united in Do’s apocalyptic belief that the earth’s population was about to be “recycled.” That group evolved into Heaven’s Gate when Do relocated them to San Diego in the mid-1990s.
Do taught his followers that our souls are separate, superior entities that temporarily take up residence in our bodies and that our souls’ separation from our bodies is the final act of metamorphosis. His soul, by the way, had once resided in the human body we know as Jesus Christ after traveling here in a spaceship two thousand years ago. The extraterrestrial beings who travel throughout the universe in those spaceships are on a mission to elevate humanity’s level of knowledge, which is why Do referred to extraterrestrials as the “level above human.”
The purpose of Heaven’s Gate’s members was to prepare themselves to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, believing as they did that they were separate from and superior to the evil forces that control Earth. Once their preparation was complete, they believed, they’d be transported to the kingdom by committing suicide as a group, liberating their souls from their earthly bodies. Their souls, after a brief period of sleep, would ultimately be absorbed by a “level above human” who was waiting for them on board a spaceship that, according to Do, was hidden behind Comet Hale-Bopp that was passing close to Earth in 1997.
Do was clearly warning the rest of us that the end of life on our planet was imminent in a videotaped message in which he said, “You can follow us, but you cannot stay here and follow us. You would have to follow quickly by also leaving this world before the conclusion of our leaving this atmosphere in preparation for its recycling. ”
On March 22, 1997, shortly after that videotape was made, thirty-nine members of Heaven’s Gate, including Do, lay down on mattresses in their immaculate San Diego house and killed themselves with a mixture of phenobarbital and vodka.
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