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'...?

[Documentary] Kosovo: Can you imagine?

[Documentary] Newsnight. Kosovo: Did atrocities continue? [BBC]

"The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) abducted civilians in Kosovo who were then mistreated and in some cases killed, a BBC investigation has found.

The BBC News investigation also studies claims that some of those held in Albania were killed for their organs, and that physical evidence gathered by UN investigators in Albania was destroyed by the International War Crimes Tribunal." [BBC]

There is around 2000 missing people in Kosovo, after the war. Investigations suggest that they were taken to detention camps, ruled by the KLA, in Albania, in front of the eyes of the United Nations throught the border. In Albania, the abducted serbs, gypsies and others, were kept at Kükes or to Burrel, were they would be killed to take some of their organs.

Carla Del Ponte, war crimes ex-chief prosecutor, claims, based on what she describes as credible reports and witnesses, that Kosovan Albanian guerrillas transported hundreds of Serbian prisoners into northern Albania where they were killed, and their organs "harvested" and trafficked out of Tirana airport. [The Guardian]

Crossing Continents: Kosovo [BBC Radio]

[Documentary] Dispatches - Undercover Mosque [Channel 4]

[Documentary] Selling a War [Channel 4]

"The selling of Gulf War. How the public relations industry sold the Gulf War to the U.S." [Part 1] [Part 2]

[Documentary] Moral Combat: NATO at War [BBC]

“In the months that followed the KLA played a subtle but deadly game in which the willingness of the Serb police and Yugoslav army to commit atrocities against civilians was skillfully manipulated to coax the international community into action.”

“The Americans knew that because it had to be Nato, the chances of the Serbs accepting the deal were very small. They had a second acceptable outcome in mind.

"That meant the Serbs rejecting the plan and the Albanians accepting it," Assistant Secretary of State Jamie Rubin told me. Then, he added, there would be clarity where previously there had been confusion, clarity as to who was to blame, as to who Nato should oppose and who Nato should support.”

"Washington was shocked. A war that had been entered into with such confidence, and which those who had advocated it believed would be over very quickly, was now spiralling out of control." [BBC]

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[Documentary] Kosovo: Nove anni dopo [Rai3]

[Documentary] Stolen Kosovo [Czech Television]