What I mean by the term sect in this article
By the term "sects" in this context, I mean associations that are also officially part of the Catholic Church. In Slovakia, there are many religious organizations that officially operate under a certain "certification" from the Catholic Church and are a full-fledged part of the Catholic Church. There are approximately 250 such religious communities within the Catholic Church alone throughout Slovakia (I am also counting all their branches: one Christian community can have multiple branches). They hold their own fanatical religious events, mostly in spaces other than churches. There is usually too much religious fanaticism, and excessive religious fanaticism is nothing other than sectarianism. If an independent team of psychologists were to conduct official scientific research on the intensity and degree of psychological manipulation in Catholic Christian communities, they would undoubtedly conclude that it is exactly the same or a very similar degree of intensity of psychological manipulation as in full-fledged sects. Simply put, even in Catholic Christian sects, the intensity of psychological manipulation is exactly the same as in full-fledged sects such as Jehovah's Witnesses, KS Milosť, etc.
How long will the state and politicians helplessly and passively watch as Catholic sectarian Christian communities laugh in the public's face?
Other sects (fanatical Christian communities) can also hide behind serious Protestant churches, such as the Evangelical Church – there is exactly the same principle as with the Catholic Church.
What is Campfest?
Campfest is a religious event that takes place once a year during the summer holidays in Kráľova Lehota (Liptovský Mikuláš district). The event is held on the land of a Protestant private owner, but the events there are shared by Protestant churches and Catholics.
It is a kind of alternative to the Pohoda festival, it is in tents, under the open sky, it is about religious music performances and lectures by authoritative Christian sectarian preachers. The goal is also to use music to psychologically manipulate people as much as possible and bring them to religious fanaticism.
It should be noted that this is not a regular Christian event, but rather events of sects under the guise of "Christianity". Sects present themselves as "Christians".
I write about the issue of the infiltration of sects into the Catholic Church, for example, in these articles, I will not repeat myself:
https://filozofia.nett.to/krestanstvo/sk/krestanske-spolocenstva-a-psychologicke-prvucy-manipulacie
https://filozofia.nett.to/krestanstvo/en/sects-officially-supported-by-the-catholic-church
https://filozofia.nett.to/krestanstvo/en/why-religion-and-church-is-not-the-way-to-god-religious-idea-of-god-vs-the-real-god
"Miracles" and miraculous "healings" in fanatical Christian communities https://filozofia.nett.to/krestanstvo/sk/zazraky-v-nabozenstve
My heart is breaking from the sadness of the following things:
– It is striking that the Ministry of Education and Kofola are among the sponsors of this event. Unfortunately, only ordinary fallible people work at the Ministry and Kofola, who do not understand the issue of sects and cannot distinguish a Christian church from a sect that has infiltrated the Catholic Church or a regular Protestant church.
– The fact that up to 6,500 mostly young people attended the event is a huge number for a country as small as Slovakia. Youth is our future. I consider it unspeakably painful, sad, and insidious that such a huge number of young people had their brains washed by cults.
I ask: how can a young person defend themselves against this sectarian manipulation when no one has told them that it is an insidious sectarian manipulative action? I find something like this very unfair to young people.
Furthermore, young people are promised how wonderfully and beautifully their lives will change for the better, how wonderfully they will be "reborn", "transformed" and "awakened" if they turn to religious fanaticism.
As a person who has struggled to escape religious fanaticism, and as someone with extensive experience in it, I know very well what it's about, how it harms people, how religious fanaticism destroys people and turns them into psychological wrecks.
Who warns young people not to become victims of these fanatical Christian sects? After all, there is no one to warn them. Sects exploit the disorientation and lack of information of young people.
Criticism of the passivity and inaction of the whole society
The whole society is very sick. The whole society is very inefficient. People spend a huge amount of energy on all sorts of nonsense, but not on what they should. On the one hand, alternative media and various Russophile debaters spend a huge amount of time and energy on propaganda for the pro-Kremlin political ideology, on the other hand, there is no one to protect and warn young people about sects. It is very sad that it is more important for people to do propaganda for the Russian president and Russian politicians than to warn youth and children about sects.
https://filozofia.nett.to/krestanstvo/sk/vznik-osvetovej-organizacie-na-sirenie-pravdy-o-krestanstve I consider it absolutely necessary to establish a non-governmental organization that will give lectures in schools to prevent cults, so that children and youth are warned. The lectures will discuss in detail the methods of psychological manipulation of Christian cults. If alternative media, instead of dividing people and inciting hatred between two camps of opinion (between pro-Russian and pro-American people), would rather devote their energy to warning against cults.
Where is our society heading? Who will warn the youth against the complexed, fanatical, authoritarian, sectarian religious preachers who have a need to constantly manipulate someone?
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Promotional materials from the Campfest website
https://filozofia.nett.to/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/buletin-campfest-2017.pdf
Nowadays, repairing broken appliances is often more expensive than buying a new one. Similarly, renovating an old house is more expensive than building a new one, and transforming an "old" person into the image of God is no easier.
However, God decided not to replace us, but from the first moment man "went wrong", He began to prepare a plan of salvation – transformation .
At CampFest 2017, we want to talk about transformation as an integral part of God's Kingdom. We believe that the price paid on the cross was high enough for the transformation of not only the individual, but also our families, relationships, friends, our communities, and society as a whole.
TRANSFORMATION IN DEPTH – personal transformation
Becoming a Christian does not mean just changing your FB profile, becoming part of an interesting community, or having clothes from a Christian shop. An encounter with Christ must cause a transformation of the heart, character, habits, goals, etc.
SALT ABOVE GOLD – transformation into "salt of the earth"
God's transformation in me, together with me, arouses the transformation of the environment in which I move. The transformation of my surroundings, class, family, school, village, city. The true church needs "two or three" and Jesus in the middle.
CONVERSION PRICE
The cross of Christ, the broken body and the spilled blood. A human sacrifice, a struggle, determination for God's action, willingness to offer one's life to the Lord God.