COVID-19 is the underlying trigger and justification for the injurious and deadly actions by governments around the world.

As previously documented, a pandemic, better termed a plandemic, was preplanned by world powers. https://www.asifthinkingmatters.com/blog/covid-19-is-about-money-power-and-a-one-world-agenda-not-saving-lives

Exposing this nefarious plan is one thing. It's quite another to get people who are moved by fear, ignorance, and dependence to believe anything other than what leaders say.

Such people are the prey of cults. A cult is best described as an intolerant, authoritarian, and group-think organization offering salvation to its believers. Examples that normally come to mind are Jonestown, Branch Davidians, Manson Family, and Heaven's Gate. There have been hundreds, if not thousands of them throughout history.

Nobody who belongs to a cult thinks that's what it is. They think they have the truth and anyone who doesn't agree belongs to a cult.

Truth can stand up to any disagreement. The lie, which cults are based upon, cannot.

Notice how COVID-19 beliefs and practices fit the 30 common characteristics of a cult.

1. Questioning, doubt, dissent, and tolerance are forbidden because belief and faith, by definition, mean certainty.

The C19 cult ridicules, discounts, and forbids questioning through censoring, ad hominem attacks, fake fact-checking, and calling anything contrary to the C19 doctrines, conspiracy theories.

2. Those who question, doubt, and dissent are to be punished.

C19 cultists fire, arrest, prosecute, and jail C19 heretics.

3. The group displays an unquestioning commitment to the leaders.

C19 cultists unquestioningly commit to government and for-profit medical and media industries.

4. The belief system, ideology, and practices are considered the Truth, the law

C19 cultists believe they have the truth and welcome mandates ("laws") that enforce C19 beliefs.

5. Mind-altering practices such as chanting, speaking in tongues, denunciation sessions, and debilitating routines are used to strengthen ties and suppress doubts about the group and its leaders.

C19 cultists chant death counts, cases, testing, masking, social distancing, disinfecting, and vaccines. They speak in nonsensical tongues that contradict facts, denounce unbelievers, and submit to and advocate all the C19 mandated routines.

6. The leadership dictates in detail how members must act and think.

C19 cultists uncritically believe the C19 narrative and live their lives in obedience to leader mandates.

7. A sacred text is often cited and interpreted by the ordained leaders.

C19 cultists see the sacred scribblings from C19 leaders in government, CDC, WHO, and Big Pharma as axiomatic truth. The government, high priests (Like "follow the science" Dr. Fauci), and the media are the interpreters.

8. The group is elitist, claiming a special exalted status.

C19 cultists believe they are the chosen ones and proudly display their virtue by masking, getting tested, standing on marks, and getting vaccines.

9. The leaders are considered messiahs, special beings, avatars on a special mission to save humanity.

C19 cultists view Dr. Fauci, other government bureaucrats, and mainstream media pundits as high priests with special "following the science" knowledge saving humanity.

10. The group has an us-versus-them mentality.

C19 cultists see themselves as saved and righteous and the unmasked and unvaccinated as a doomed enemy.

11. The leaders are not accountable to any higher authorities.

C19 leaders are not held to account for lying, censoring truth, or for the misery, maiming, and deaths as a result of their doctrines.

12. The group teaches that its exalted ends justify whatever means it deems necessary.

C19 leaders proclaim ruined economies and family businesses, social isolation, school closings, and injuries and deaths resulting from mandates and vaccines are worth the greater good of saving humanity from a mythical devil virus.

13. The leadership and group induce feelings of shame and/or guilt for noncompliance.

C19 cultists believe that disobedience to mandates jeopardizes all others and it is shameful not to comply.

14. Subservience to the leaders requires members to cut ties with family and friends if necessary.

C19 cultists cause social unrest, abandoned families, and climbing divorce rates.

15. The group is preoccupied with proselytizing.

C19 cultists flood the airways with propaganda from media, entertainment, government, and community leaders chanting the C19 mantra and offering financial incentives and perks for being compliant.

16. The leaders are preoccupied with making money.

C19 cult corporate behemoths are making billions from the C19 industry.

17. Members are expected to devote their time to the group and group-related activities.

C19 cultists have lives preoccupied with compliance to the C19 leaders.

18. Members are encouraged or required to socialize only with compliant group members.

C19 cultists only feel comfortable with fellow believers and shun the heretical unmasked and unvaccinated.

19. Members feel there can be no life outside the context of the group.

C19 cultists think they can only remain alive through loyalty to the C19 doctrines.

20. Members are told they must report anyone who voices dissent or does not obey the doctrines.

C19 cultists are told to report to authorities those who do not comply.

21. Within the cult, there is no mechanism for debate or having a disagreement fairly and openly adjudicated

C19 cultists are told by their leaders that they have the truth and therefore there is no point in debate.

22. Questioning is answered with the requirement of faith in the word of the leaders, not the encouragement of open and independent study and inquiry.

C19 cultists are cowed by the authority of leaders and assured that they must have faith in the C19 leaders who have their best interests at heart.

23. Leaders play to the most common denominators of human behavior, fear, and dependence.

C19 cultists fear a proclaimed lethal virus and depend upon leaders to be saved.

24. There is secret knowledge only held by the cult leaders.

C19 cult leaders with their esoteric statistics, virology, immunology, vaccinology, epidemiology, biochemistry, and genetics snow the laity leaving them with feeling that they have no option other than to obey and submit to leaders who say they have an edge on special "follow the science" knowledge.

25. Many cult doctrines require blind faith since they lack facts reason.

All C19 doctrines, including the claim that an experimental genetic injection is safe and effective, masks prevent infection, PCR tests are accurate, etc., require blind faith.

26. Sacrifice is required by the leaders and submitted to by the followers.

C19 cultists willingly sacrifice their freedoms, jobs, and possibly their lives by submitting to experimental genetic injections.

27. Often a brand of some sort is taken to signal the special position members hold in the world.

C19 cultists proudly display their injection site and some even video or picture it being given.

28. Special dress is required to show separation from the rest of the lost world.

C19 cultists proudly wear their virtuous masks, if saintly will also wear a face shield, and if heaven-bound will also wear a Hazmat suit.

29. The doctrines of the cult take precedence over facts and reason.

C19 believers ignore reason and facts and are willing to propagate lies to defend the greater good of the C19 faith.

30. Cult beliefs are held blameless from the problems they create.

C19 belief has resulted in unprecedented human misery and death but is exonerated from blame.

All group-think organizations are cults fitting the above definitions to one degree or another. As a result, society has always been a morass of cults vying and warring with one another.

By locking into a belief requiring faith, cults become immune to truth. Such is the sad state of the world as it swirls down the toilet bowl of cult lies and deceptions.

Truth, on the other hand, is a personal responsibility requiring belief in self. No matter how erudite and authoritarian another person is, they are mere puny humans like you in an unfathomable universe.

The most universal truth is that we have an obligation to open-mindedly pursue it. If that was the goal of humanity, the C19 debacle would have never gotten off the ground and countless millions would be spared death and horrific suffering.

Much more on truth and how to sort it out here. http://www.books.asifthinkingmatters.com/?think=bigquestions3e

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Words of Wisdom:
To believe in that which you do not constantly put to the test of open inquiry is one long sin.