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Originally Posted by Textcritic

See, it's different for me. I grew up around people like Schnoebelen. In my church growing up we were always entertaining these traveling evangelists, apologists and cult "experts" who all had grande and highly disturbing tales of a sinister underworld with designs on global domination. They all had "insider information" and clandestine knowledge, and they all covered for their own credibility under the guise of the moral assumption that a Christian would never lie or intentionally distort the truth. Yet, time and time again, these solicitors of fantasy have invariably all been discredited and debunked. They all had books to sell, videos for purchase and classes to offer to those of us who were yet uninitiated, so there was always an incentive to perpetuate the rouse.


Who am I to argue? I'm someone who was exposed to this crap as a kid and fairly deeply affected by it growing up. I'm a person who still has friends and relatives that fall prey to the lies and half-truths of the truthers all in the name of right doctrine and correct religion. I have done an extensive amount of my own research and investigation and I continue to pay close attention. I am someone with some professional expertise in the study of Jewish and Christian religious literature, history, and phenomena. I would say that I am amply qualified to offer a well thought out and reasonable critique.


Only if it were presented and perceived as "fiction". It is not, and because of that lives are affected and people destroyed because of it.

Well, for your experiences, I am truly empathetic.