Manson Family Values

The Holy Bible instructs us to be watchful and wary because false messiahs exist in the world and we need to know the truth about these people for they can easily lead even the elect (children of God) away from His flock, like lambs attacked by wolves. These false messiahs don’t need to use truth or even logic to “enlighten” people, they simply use their limitless charm.

Charles Manson is one of these false messiahs. Using nothing but charm and hallucinogenic drugs, he was able to control the minds of dozens of followers throughout the late 1960’s. He had them convinced that he was Jesus Christ, and that his will was divine. The women were led to believe that they ranked below dogs in the hierarchy of the “family” and they were all right with that, because Charlie said it was so.

If Charley felt like it, he could simply kill someone without a second thought, and his followers would casually dispose of the remains, laughing and smiling, talking about releasing that person to the “one”, or the “oneness” of the universe. More often than not however, Charlie told someone else to do his dirty work for him, and they would comply in a heartbeat. This is because he had them all convinced that there really is no such thing as death, it is merely an illusion.

The danger of this kind of cult is that the truth vanishes into the debris of years of brainwashing, making it difficult, if not impossible for the members to think for themselves, or to distinguish truth from fantasy, fact from fiction. Their reality becomes what the false messiah makes it, putting his followers at his complete mercy.

It happened with Charles Manson, it happened with Jim Jones, and David Koresh. Whenever people place their trust, worship, and spiritual faith in another human being, calamity is almost always the result. People tend to be somewhat egocentric to begin with, and these religious leaders seem to be even more so to the point where they actually believe in their own divinity and immortality.

Whatever Manson did, his followers did also. When he carved an X in his forehead and proclaimed that he had “x-ed himself from this world”, his followers did the same, taking knives and razor blades and carving large X’s into their own foreheads. Later, when he changed that X into a Swastika, the family did the same without question and with few exceptions.