Source: Empiria magazine

Extremes having fatal consequences

End of the century discontent, anxiety, fanaticism

The social discontent coming forward in the religious shirt intensifies approaching all ends of the century, the subcultures expand, the number of the sects consisting of the selected ones grows and the zealotry opens his head. The anxiety is growing in generality, onto the extremes truth inclination, the fanaticism. The prophets appear, above the laws standing, onto the superior order doers, the revolutionary change or redemption offering and the voluntary martyrs. We have to pay attention to them after all although their number is insignificant in his proportion because they are their overheated emotions, their wanderlust, them turning onto acts with tragic outcome from the reality may have them grasped.

United States were the witnesses of more manifestations with an extreme ideology in the past decade. David Koresh avow himself a prophet and Jesus's reincarnation, Texas state sect leader, it provoked armed firefight with FBI's people, then after nearly 60 daily protraction onto his believers lighted it their fortification-like camp. From among his followers almost a hundred people met their death in the fire. Marshall Applewhite, the Gate of the Heavens name sect's high priest, it "new Messiah", wanted to save 38 of his followers onto the otherworld onto the final decay from a condemned Earth. Since their soul may have traveled by his comose chevelure coming for them simply, from a common resolution they relinquished their body voluntary - all of them were suicides between ritual frameworks.

Onto warning the "guilty" government with a man's private airplane kamikaze onto a manner had the White House in his sight and almost fallen down. An other from behind the fence post it passed machine gun round onto a presidential building. The some other way onto warning praying ones mutual several afro-americans a church was kindled in noon states, in California mutual two synagogues. The devout militaristic ones protesting against the practice of the legal abortion hospitals, health centres were blown up, sisters, security men were wounded, 9 doctors, a hired attendant and a policeman were killed it with referring to the "holiness of a life". The sovereign power's symbol, blowing up the Oklahoman government building required 168 victims. The bomb attack striking and his executor Timothy McVeigh and his accomplice, Terry Nichols themselves were regarded as a divine agent, who in one of their hands with dynamite, they fight with the Bible in the other one attaining the "holy aim" in his interest.

And here the freshest example. 21 year Benjamin Smith, a undergraduate wounded two men killed in the course of his running amok and seven other ones seriously. Not accidental just July on 4, on the holiday of the national independence Smith, the believer of the superiority of the white race a fire opened on Chicago ones departing from a synagogue, wounding six heading home ones, then Northwestern University afro-american ancestry was shot his basketball trainer, who was walking peaceful with his children on the street, dead. An american student with East-Asian ancestry wounded after two unsuccessful attempts finally, then following day in the morning shot dead an 26 year asian undergraduates - direct Bloomington on space before a small town's methodist church.

Clinton president in connection with the case it made a statement to, "Smith was with some kind of unreasoning hatred for everybody who was not white". Added it to it but, that there is an agenda on a domestic landscape yet against the racial hatred because of that although USA battles against the ethnic hatred in Kosovo. "Everybody has to examine it, what dwells our heart on deep one's" - said it.

Washington Post wrote it in connection with the Oklahoman tragedy, certain groupings considering themselves a christian patriot - with which McVeigh and Nichols sympathized - his aim, "to retrieve the country the Jews and liberalists directed it from a demonic government". The decline of America is attributable to an international conspiracy according to the groups' ideology, a "new world order" directed by way of the jewishness with the forming of a consequence being due, on the row of which they are the masses, lacking representations of interest  they are driven out from the power and they grow poor gradually. One based on this the Washington power elite is regarded as their enemy, the bankers are hated, the liberal press and the secular public education. The fact that the world came to maturity for the decay is believed in and on Satan his days they are counted.

The Creator World's Church name labour organization, that the serious influence the counterpole of minority labour organisations won came onto existence and for which Smith was his active member, is based on similar principles practically. Smith made a statement about the radical underground movements in that manner in one of the documentaries, their propaganda despite the charges not racist anti-semite manifestation, but self-defence, or the protection of the own race - and than fundamental patriotic duty like this.

Mat Hale, the organism right his completed leader distanced himself from Smith's despotism though, so far but was not going, that awarded it would be. In Smith but was so much honour that he did not try to get away through the thing on the road of legal equivocation after he sent his laming helplessness sensation and his encroaching hatred onto an expression, but killed himself.

The political and alienation with social background merely personal, with a religious character him expressing himself with the coming of the mille-centenary multiplies for them the American believer the number of souls, who buy an one-way air-ticket instead of return one into Jerusalem. Their position is terminated, their house and all of their chattels are sold, next direction the Holy Land! It is known, it is known for sure entirely, since the prophecies and signs all point it out, Jesus's second coming ensues on the turn of the millennium. The Israel authorities - who menstruate their trouble with their own orthodox fanatics - already more distant, odd, a zealot appearing of public danger was put back onto the airplane and they were sent home nice. Instead of them but newer and the miracle waiting rooms and it arrive to die for an eternal life in my newer carcass desiring.

Hanna Kuliffay

July. 1999.

Addenda:

The figure 666 is named the "number of the beast" in the closing chapter of the Bible, the "Book of Revelation," otherwise known as "The Apocalypse of John." Chapter 13, Verse 18 of the book, with its apparent reference to the coming of the Devil -- "his number is six hundred threescore and six" -- has for centuries absorbed meanings its author never intended. There is even a name for the fear of the number: hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia. To celebrate the so-called Devil's Day, Chicago's Internet-based Radio Free Satan hosted a massive party in Los Angeles, while a Netherlands-based evangelical organization called on Christians in 21 countries to hold a 24-hour prayer vigil against Satanic forces. Marketing executives have been quick to cash in on the date, from a special release of the classic horror film The Omen, to conservative US commentator Ann Coulter using the day to release her latest book on "godless liberals". Several Christian websites suggested Tuesday would bring people closer to "the rapture" -- when God calls his Christian faithful up to the heavens, with  www.raptureme.com showing a rise in its "rapture index" to 157. Rumors flew about whether the beast, who is also know as the antichrist according to some apocalyptic theories, would be revealed on the symbolic date. For nearly 2000 years, believers have identified potential antichrists.

Sophie Nicholson: Devil theories spread across Internet on '666'. June 6, 2006.