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SALEM WITCH TRIAL
In 
the
17th and 16th centuries some people became hysterical over what they
called witches. The most famous case was the killing of 25 innocent
people. Arthur Miller wrote a play called The Crucible
that was made into a movie based on this event. Miller wrote it
during the 1950s to illustrate the madness of witch hunts like the
one Senator Joseph McCarthy was doing. The UC has its Grand
Inquisitor as Hassan. He is like the judges at Salem and McCarthy who
are hysterical over religion. Hassan is in the tradition of
persecutors who never learn from the past. History will judge him
severely just as it does Rev. Parris in Salem in 1692 and Joe
McCarthy in the 50s. Those who side with Hassan are like those who
listened to the rantings of Parris and McCarthy. Carlton Sherwood
used just the right word when he said Rev. Moon went through an
inquisition. The result of Hassan has been that Rev. Moon had to go
to jail because Hassan has been effective as a cult leader of
psychology. Psychologists and the liberal media are the new threat to
the U.S. Constitution. Rush Limbaugh calls the intellectuals of the
left the real "cultists" who are "dangerous" not the Christian Right.
Hassan is buddies of those on the Left who fear Falwell and Robertson
even more than Moon. Hassan is part of a slippery slope that ends
with the smooth Clintons and Oprahs of the world dominating the
psyche of America.
Either you believe the Right or Left.
Either you are for freedom of religion or you are not. Either you
take the Boy Scouts and Rev. Moon to court in the attempt to destroy
them or you fight those who want to take away the freedom of the
followers of Lord Baden Powell or Sun Myung Moon. Hassan's goal is to
destroy what he feels is too "extreme" and not "normal." He stirs up
people to take action -- to kidnap and drag their opponents through
court. The courts of the Spanish Inquisition and Salem Witch Trial is
no different than what Rev. Moon went through in his court case.
Hassan dismisses all the common sense arguments by the most
distinguished legal scholar Lawrence Tribe who was Moon's attorney to
the mainline religions that supported Moon. Hassan is so possessed by
low spirits that he cannot see the similarities between himself and
Joe McCarthy. It just goes with territory for those who try new
things. Moon and his movement have never been shown to be a dangerous
organization that needs to be banned. It has been unjustly slandered
and insulted as being like Hitler and zombies out of the movie
Night of the Living Dead. 
Well, I am not a zombie and Rev. Moon is the antithesis of Hitler. In time the truth will rise and Hassan and his hysterical persecutors will be exposed just as McCarthy was. What is the difference from Jesus and Moon. If you take the criteria of Margaret Singer and her psychologist friends of what a cult is it boils down to the simple idea of a leader they see as too authoritarian. He demands adulation as the savior who is here to save the lost world. Jesus fits the criteria perfectly. Has Hassan, Singer and company ever explained how Jesus and Christianity is not a cult? Catholics follow a Pope and never have sex and have followers who fight with Protestants in Ireland. Sounds pretty bad to me. Jesus and his current followers don't look so normal to me. They all believe in some magical return of Jesus on the clouds. Don't people who believe in someone who walked on water need psychiatric help? The problem with the Hassans and Singers is that they cannot learn from the past and act like all stupid persecutors do.
One person wrote, "Written in 1953, The Crucible is a mirror which Miller uses to reflect the anti-Communist hysteria inspired by Senator Joseph McCarthy's 'witch-hunts' in the U.S."
A writer wrote, "The belief in witches and witchcraft was widespread in 1692 New England. One of the most ardent believers was Cotton Mather, a respected Boston minister who wrote on many religious topics.
"Mather’s 1689 book, Memorable Providences, describes a case of supposed witchcraft that had occurred in Boston the previous year. Three children had begun acting strangely after a disagreement with an Irish washerwoman, Mary Glover. After examining the children, Mather concluded that they were innocent victims of Glover’s witchcraft. The book was widely read throughout New England and was among the works in Reverend Parris’s library." Click Here to see more pictures about the Salem Witch Trials.
