Is HBO's documentary about 'Heaven's Gate' an excuse to attack Christianism?

One thing that really stands out in CNN's docuseries about the 'Heaven's Gate' cult for HBO is how it desperately tries to link the cult with Christianity. But maybe this explains why the CNN produced a documentary about a cult that was news almost 25 years ago... 

Let me share just a couple of thoughts about it.

Watching it left me wondering why Clay Tweel's documentary about a millenarist UFO cult is so filled with comparisons between this cult and Christianism... I have seen many documentaries about Heaven's Gate and about other cults (several about Jim Jones' Peoples Temple, for instance) and never seen anything similar before... One thing is that the cult founders took elements from Christianism in the origins of the cult; and another is that, in the documentary, every element of the cults' history and characteristics is compared to some element of Christianism.

For instance, the comparison by sociologist Reza Aslan of the change in the group's beliefs after Bonnie Nettles' death (one of the two founders), with an alleged change in what he calls the "Jesus movement" (sic) after Jesus' crucifixion, arguing that Jesus' death contradicted the "Jewish definition of the Messiah"... Well that is why it's called Christianism and not Judaism, isn't it?

The same Reza Aslan claims that the concept "cognitive dissonance" was created in the theology field, what is false...  In fact, Aslan, when he speaks about cognitive dissonance in the Heaven's Gate cult and in early Christianism, shows a perfect example of cognitive dissonance himself, by ignoring the fact that Jesus' figure was a rupture from established Judaism... An evidence of this is that Jesus' fate was decided by the Jewish people, not by the Roman authorities, when they choose him over Barabbas to be executed. So he was a rupturist figure from the "Jewish definition of the Messiah" already before his death.

While I was looking at it I saw other parallelisms that could have been brought up but were ignored.

Regarding the genderless society proposed by Marshall Applewhite, the same day I write this, we learnt that:

Mr. Potato Head brand goes gender-neutral, dropping "Mr." title https://t.co/R5sMUIt869

— CBS News (@CBSNews) February 27, 2021

And what about millenarism, and Applewhite's meassage 'follow me or you are doomed'...?

Christianism Persecution World Rate

Index Mondial de Persécution, by Portes Ouvertes.

Breivik called Benedict XVI "God’s Rottweiler"

"An extensive online book written by Anders Behring Breivik criticizes Pope Benedict XVI for defending the rights of immigrants, especially Muslims.

In his manifesto, “2083—European Declaration of Independence,” Breivik calls Benedict XVI “God’s Rottweiler,” and accuses him of “embodying elements of the sensible and the silly Christian ways of treating the Islamic threat.

“Although Benedict has stressed the need for 'reciprocity' in Christian-Muslim relations and urged Islamic countries to ensure religious rights for Christian migrants, he has also said that Christians should continue welcoming Muslim immigrants with open arms,” Brievik wrote.

(...)

Massimo Introvigne, a sociologist and representative of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, recently spoke with Vatican Radio and responded to reports labeling Breivik as a fundamentalist Christian.

Introvigne said it was ironic that Breivik’s book was posted online by a minister of the “Church of Satan,” which is legally recognized in Norway. He added that Breivik, who was baptized in the Lutheran Church of Norway, is not a fundamentalist Christian, but rather a ‘cultural Christian’ who uses the Christian heritage of Europe as a pretext for attacking Islam.”

The sociologist also pointed out that Breivik belongs to the Grand Masonic Lodge of Norway." [ewtnnews.com]

Copt Christians Prosecution

Some people may (want to) think that the attack against Copt Christians in Alexandria, Egypt, with 21 victims, is an isolated act of madness by Al-Qaeda. This would be a big mistake; what we see now is the (sometimes not so) slow but resolved pursuit of the Islamist to annihilate Christianism.

[Islamization Watch]


[Voice of the Copts]

Hitler and Islam

There has been many people and historicians obsessed with uniting Adolf Hitler with Christianims, but we can find really "interesting" quotes from Hitler about Islam:

"In the Spanish people there is a mixture of Gothic, Frankish and Moorish blood. One can speak of the Spaniard as one would speak of a brave anarchist. The Arabian epoch—the Arabs look down on the Turks as they do on dogs—was the most cultured, the most intellectual and in every way best and happiest epoch in Spanish history. It was followed by the period of the persecutions with its unceasing atrocities.
1 August 1942
Only in the Roman Empire and in Spain under Arab domination has culture been a potent factor. Under the Arab, the standard attained was wholly admirable; to Spain flocked the greatest scientists, thinkers, astronomers, and mathematicians of the world, and side by side there flourished a spirit of sweet human tolerance and a sense of purist chivalry. Then with the advent of Christianity, came the barbarians. Had Charles Martel not been victorious at Poitiers—already you see the world had already fallen into the hands of the Jews, so gutless a thing Christianity!—then we should in all probability have been converted to Mohammedanism, that cult which glorifies the heroism and which opens up the seventh Heaven to the bold warrior alone. Then the Germanic races would have conquered the world. Christianity alone prevented them from doing so.
28 August 1942" [Wikipedia]