Last Thursday was the lecture on 'The Restoration of the Ten Commandments'. One of the questions asked right at the end of the lecture was What is appealing about joining such a group.
I have to say that one of the first things that struck me that the very name of this New Religious Movement (NRM) reminds me of the 1990's Conservative Party slogan Back to Basic. (During John Major's tenure as Prime Minister for those that can't remember). Therefore, one of the things I think might be appealing is the notion of getting back to the old ways of living and the old values.
I can actually see how a NRM can develop in regards to the notion of The Restoration of the Ten Commandments but find it difficult to understand some of the developments that occured in this NRM in regards to rituals. Having said that I feel it is incredible that certain things that were occuring did not get revealed until after the fire. But then again individual mass muderers have gotten away with murdering several people (often women) over several years before getting caught and sometimes have never been caught. Also there are so many people who are missing and never discovered. Still for these murders to have occured in the notion of the restoration of the ten commandments seems to be a contradiction. When I mention murders I refer to the bodies that were discovered which had been stabbed and poisoned in other graves and not those who died in the fire as it is still debated as to whether those deaths were suicide or murder.
I have to say that one of the first things that struck me that the very name of this New Religious Movement (NRM) reminds me of the 1990's Conservative Party slogan Back to Basic. (During John Major's tenure as Prime Minister for those that can't remember). Therefore, one of the things I think might be appealing is the notion of getting back to the old ways of living and the old values.
I can actually see how a NRM can develop in regards to the notion of The Restoration of the Ten Commandments but find it difficult to understand some of the developments that occured in this NRM in regards to rituals. Having said that I feel it is incredible that certain things that were occuring did not get revealed until after the fire. But then again individual mass muderers have gotten away with murdering several people (often women) over several years before getting caught and sometimes have never been caught. Also there are so many people who are missing and never discovered. Still for these murders to have occured in the notion of the restoration of the ten commandments seems to be a contradiction. When I mention murders I refer to the bodies that were discovered which had been stabbed and poisoned in other graves and not those who died in the fire as it is still debated as to whether those deaths were suicide or murder.
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