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aymon de albatrus #fundie #crackpot web.archive.org

In essence, Art is entirely a human endeavour unnecessary for the practicalities of life, but done solely for personal ‘aesthetic’ reasons perceived as pleasant to the human eye and for human consumption alone. It has no place in the worship of God, indeed it is an offence to Him, for whatever reason humans do art, it is an imitation of things He has created, and a bad one at that which pretends to equals (or even surpass) His creation, thus offending Him. It can be said that when man tries to emulate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature (God’s creation) it is like him defecating in a pot, lifting it up and saying to God: "look at what I have done for you". The second commandment clearly forbids the making, the displaying and the worshipping of any product of art: "You shall not make to you any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth." (Exo 20:4).
This is because art takes away the glory which is due ONLY to God to give it to the man made Statue/Image itself of the person represented other than God. For example take the many images of "Christ". Imagine, if when someone wanted to talk to you, they made themselves a hollow, lifeless plaster doll, that they said represented you, brought it into your presence and instead of talking to you directly, they talked to the lifeless plaster doll, as if it were you, all the while ignoring the real you who was right there with them. Would you think someone who did that was very foolish? Would you be offended by someone who "sees you" as a plaster dummy or a bit of paint on a canvas? And if, after your telling them that you don't like them doing that, and emphatically telling them not to do it, they kept doing it anyway, would you become angry with them? By His own words, it makes God very angry too. You aren't a dummy and God isn't a dummy either. The same holds true for using statues or images to worship or pray (or even to hang around) to Jesus or the dead saints of the past (just as it's wrong to worship or pray to the living saints of the present).

Li Hongzhi #ufo #fundie #conspiracy web.archive.org

TIME: Why does chaos reign now?
Li: Of course there is not just one reason. The biggest cause of society's change today is that people no longer believe in orthodox religion. They go to church, but they no longer believe in God. They feel free to do anything. The second reason is that since the beginning of this century, aliens have begun to invade the human mind and its ideology and culture.
TIME: Where do they come from?
Li: The aliens come from other planets. The names that I use for these planets are different . Some are from dimensions that human beings have not yet discovered. The key is how they have corrupted mankind. Everyone knows that from the beginning until now, there has never been a development of culture like today. Although it has been several thousand years, it has never been like now.
The aliens have introduced modern machinery like computers and airplanes. They started by teaching mankind about modern science, so people believe more and more science, and spiritually, they are controlled. Everyone thinks that scientists invent on their own when in fact their inspiration is manipulated by the aliens. In terms of culture and spirit, they already control man. Mankind cannot live without science.
The ultimate purpose is to replace humans. If cloning human beings succeeds, the aliens can officially replace humans. Why does a corpse lie dead, even though it is the same as a living body? The difference is the soul, which is the life of the body. If people reproduce a human person, the gods in heaven will not give its body a human soul. The aliens will take that opportunity to replace the human soul and by doing so they will enter earth and become earthlings.
When such people grow up, they will help replace humans with aliens. They will produce more and more clones. There will no longer be humans reproduced by humans. They will act like humans, but they will introduce legislation to stop human reproduction.

Aymon de Albatrus #fundie #crackpot web.archive.org

God is to be prayed to or worshiped ONLY IN THE SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH, and displaying fake pictures of Him in not acceptable and an offence to Him. My strong advice to anyone that has any such religious statues or pictures, or even art pieces as his personal possession, is to destroy them immediately for they are useless and may even be cause of stumbling, yours or others! Once in the home of a catholic friend I saw a porcelain statue of Mary in pieces put back together with glue, I said to her: "See this idol of yours, it could not even protect itself, toss it away." She did not say anything but kept on in keeping the idol and presumably still praying to it. If this is not idolatry, what is?

Secondly, art exalts for the sake of art how man sees things his way, not God’s. These are all distorted visions of reality; otherwise it would not be art, as per the definitions above. In other words they are all lies. We may even say that art in effect even breaks the 9th commandment: "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour." (Exo 20:16) in that what the artist proposes to people (his neighbour) is a lie and not reality.

Thirdly, art glorifies man and his abilities, rather than bringing glory to God alone: "Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God." (1Co 10:31) "For who makes you to differ from another? and what have you that you did not receive? now if you did receive it, why do you glory, as if you had not received it?" (1Co 4:7)

And the glory that art brings to man is really a miserable one at that, for man’s reproductions and inventions are very pathetic things when compared to the excellence of the original creation of God. Of course these pretentious and false reproductions do indeed offend God, for He is the truth, whilst art is false: "Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes to the Father, but by me." (Joh 14:6)

As defined above, Art is entirely a human endeavour unnecessary for the practicalities of life, but done solely for personal ‘aesthetic’ reasons perceived as pleasant to the human eye and for human consumption alone and therefore it is at odds with the reason God gave it to mankind and consequently not acceptable to Him.