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This book is the testimony of a former Mason. Someone who was once
deceived by the false and unbiblical teachings of Freemasonry.
Great insights of the Masonic lodge are provided with biblical
perspectives.
Rizwan Qureshi is from Columbus, Texas, USA. He writes all his
personal knowledge, experiences, and 100 percent true information
about demons, pains, painless diseases, and cancer/infection
insects. He writes pure truth and only those things in this and
book 1, whatever he was dealing and experiencing by himself. His
source of knowledge is purely his own experiences with dealing with
supernatural, invisible demons, different kind of invisible pains
and painless diseases. According to him, cancer is a very easily
treatable and curable disease. As he sees it, thousands of demons
are residing in our houses around us. According to him, demons
cannot perform any physical activity by themselves. He explains
that, by nature, demons are very arrogant and extremely negative.
The author suggested several practical ideas, procedures, and
theories for common people, medical and modern science, on how they
can learn and handle demons, pains, painless diseases, and insects
responsible for cancer by themselves. The author is 100 percent
sure that after reading his books, everyone will be aware and will
be able to control the invisible parallel world around them. In
this book, he writes clear instructions for individuals on how they
can communicate and interact with the demons around them, how to
make demons around them their friends, and how to ask demons to do
some stuff for them. Author describes in detail how much stuff we
can expect our demon friends to do for us. Author writes very clear
and very easy instructions for an individual once someone decides
to learn how to communicate with demons. He advices everyone to
start practicing.
In the Afro-Cuban Lukumi religious tradition - more commonly known
in the United States as Santeria - entrants into the priesthood
undergo an extraordinary fifty-three-week initiation period. During
this time, these novices - called iyawo - endure a host of
prohibitions, including most notably wearing exclusively white
clothing.A Year in White, sociologist C. Lynn Carr, who underwent
this initiation herself, opens a window on this remarkable
year-long religious transformation. In her intimate investigation
of the ""year in white"", Carr draws on fifty-two in-depth
interviews with other participants, an online survey of nearly two
hundred others, and almost a decade of her own ethnographic
fieldwork, gathering stories that allow us to see how cultural
newcomers and natives thought, felt, and acted with regard to their
initiation. She documents how, during the iyawo year, the ritual
slowly transforms the initiate's identity. For the first three
months, for instance, the iyawo may not use a mirror, even to
shave, and must eat all meals while seated on a mat on the floor
using only a spoon and their own set of dishes. During the entire
year, the iyawo loses their name and is simply addressed as
""iyawo"" by family and friends. Carr also shows that this
year-long religious ritual - which is carried out even as the iyawo
goes about daily life - offers new insight into religion in
general, suggesting that the sacred is not separable from the
profane and indeed that religion shares an ongoing dynamic
relationship with the realities of everyday life. Religious
expression happens at home, on the streets, at work and school.
Offering insight not only into Santeria but also into religion more
generally, A Year in White makes an important contribution to our
understanding of complex, dynamic religious landscapes in
multicultural, pluralist societies and how they inhabit our daily
lives.
Bare-Faced Messiah tells the extraordinary story of L. Ron Hubbard,
a penniless science-fi ction writer who founded the Church of
Scientology, became a millionaire prophet and convinced his adoring
followers that he alone could save the world. According to his
'official' biography, Hubbard was an explorer, engineer, scientist,
war hero and philosopher. But in the words of a Californian judge,
he was schizophrenic, paranoid and a pathological liar. What is not
in dispute is that Hubbard was one of the most bizarre characters
of the twentieth century. Bare-Faced Messiah exposes the myths
surrounding the fascinating and mysterious founder of the Church of
Scientology - a man of hypnotic charm and limitless imagination -
and provides the defi nitive account of how the notorious
organisation was created.
Each year thousands of young people serve as door-to-door witnesses
to spread their "restored gospel." Have you ever wondered what you
would do if the Mormon Missionaries knocked on your door? Do you
know enough to carry on a conversation with them? If not, then this
book is for you. In this second and updated edition, author Janis
Hutchinson goes behind the appearances to examine the Mormon
missionary program, from its unorthodox theological beliefs and
political agenda for America, to its carefully planned strategies
to win converts. The book contains updated statistics, and is
heavily researched and documented with 46 pages of endnotes. "A
researcher's dream " stated one reviewer. It also includes a new
chapter not found in the first edition that describes the LDS
Church's present evangelistic manual, Preach My Gospel, in which it
outlines the missionaries' lesson material, pointing out how it
differs from the 1986 Uniform System for Teaching the Gospel, used
up until 2003. "One of the most impressive aspects of this book,"
another reviewer said, "is the respect that Ms. Hutchinson shows
toward members of the Mormon Church."
The Ghosts from Mama's Club is a fast-moving tell-all story about
escaping from the clutches of a cult. Children molded by a
high-control religious experience are cursed with toxic
residue-ghosts-that make it a challenge, crazy at times, to walk
away unscarred, as adults. This book is a sequel to Growing Up in
Mama's Club, a memoir about the author's sixteen-year experience
growing up as a Jehovah's Witness. Ghosts not only chronicles Mr.
Kelly's unlikely adulthood but the improbable lives of his wife of
forty-eight years and a sister who paid dearly for her
dysfunctional childhood.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An eye-opening, no-holds-barred
memoir about life in the Church of Scientology, now with a new
afterword by the author--the outspoken actress and star of the
A&E docuseries Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath Leah
Remini has never been the type to hold her tongue. That willingness
to speak her mind, stand her ground, and rattle the occasional cage
has enabled this tough-talking girl from Brooklyn to forge an
enduring and successful career in Hollywood. But being a
troublemaker has come at a cost. That was never more evident than
in 2013, when Remini loudly and publicly broke with the Church of
Scientology. Now, in this frank, funny, poignant memoir, the former
King of Queens star opens up about that experience for the first
time, revealing the in-depth details of her painful split with the
church and its controversial practices. Indoctrinated into the
church as a child while living with her mother and sister in New
York, Remini eventually moved to Los Angeles, where her dreams of
becoming an actress and advancing Scientology's causes grew
increasingly intertwined. As an adult, she found the success she'd
worked so hard for, and with it a prominent place in the hierarchy
of celebrity Scientologists alongside people such as Tom Cruise,
Scientology's most high-profile adherent. Remini spent time
directly with Cruise and was included among the guests at his 2006
wedding to Katie Holmes. But when she began to raise questions
about some of the church's actions, she found herself a target. In
the end, she was declared by the church to be a threat to their
organization and therefore a "Suppressive Person," and as a result,
all of her fellow parishioners--including members of her own
family--were told to disconnect from her. Forever. Bold, brash, and
bravely confessional, Troublemaker chronicles Leah Remini's
remarkable journey toward emotional and spiritual freedom, both for
herself and for her family. This is a memoir designed to reveal the
hard-won truths of a life lived honestly--from an author unafraid
of the consequences. Praise for Troublemaker "An aggressively
honest memoir . . . Troublemaker is the most raw and revealing
Scientology memoir to date."--Entertainment Weekly "Leah's story is
a juicy, inside-Hollywood read, but it's more than that. It's a
moving story about the value of questioning authority and how one
woman survived a profound crisis of faith."--People
What a strange and seemingly contradictory title for the latest
book in the hard-hitting, Pat Regan collection. In this
controversial, no-nonsense attack on fundamentalism Pat Regan
illustrates how the international public has been hoodwinked by the
devious forces of monotheism into blindly accepting alleged truths,
which are in fact nothing of the sort. Myth, Pagan traditions and
the bogus nature of world religions are all dealt with in the
illuminating pages of this book. Even life after death comes within
the exclusive sphere of this revolutionary work. The Devil God's
Best Friend takes us to new heights of spiritual awareness about
Planet Earth, the place we know as our organic home. Pat Regan's
unique Pagan background ensures that he is well-placed to openly
hammer out radical issues, such as the serious likelihood that
Jesus Christ was just a shrewd but extremely fraudulent invention;
created by 1st century myth-makers to promote their sectarian
agenda. The 'Devil' may be in the detail, yet the details are
stripped bare in this ground-breaking work. Also highlighted are
numerous compelling facts, such as how the Bible was a greatly-
adulterated fallacy, expediently finalised during a time when any
old lady living alone was fair game for witch-burning zealots. The
Devil God's Best Friend is an audacious book by a very
controversial author who is never afraid to 'tell it like it is '
This engrossing study will open minds and cut through the fog of
religious propaganda and ambiguity inflicted on humanity by the
self-righteous followers of one-god cults such as Christianity,
Islam and Judaism. The Devil God's Best Friend will potentially
provoke outrage everywhere and bring the fundamentalist lobby out
of the woodwork in droves It will also tell you 'why' the Devil
truly is God's best friend
As a Mormon, I carried a Bible to church with me for thirty years.
I was told that it had been translated incorrectly. I did not
realize the pearl of greatest price that I had in my hand. The
Bible and Mormon doctrine cannot stand together - one must fall.
When held up against the Bible, Mormon doctrine crumbles. A sure
foundation found only in Jesus Christ emerges. This book will
answer the question - What does the Bible say about Mormon
doctrine? Why can the Bible be trusted? What does the the Bible
teach about prophets and prophecy? What does it say about
priesthood and temples? Who is the God of the Bible? What is the
Trinity? What are covenants? What is the difference between law and
grace? What does the Bible teach about the Church? Most important
of all - What is the Biblical plan of salvation? Are you carrying a
Bible around and don't really know what it says about these
doctrines? If you read this you will realize that you may already
have the pearl of greatest price and not even realize it. Do you
really know the truth?
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