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The sooner this guy self destructs, the better for us all. Tamaki's 700 'sons' swear oath of loyalty

The leader of Destiny Church, Brian Tamaki, who not long ago anointed himself bishop of the church he founded, has now proclaimed himself the church's "spiritual father" and designated the male members of the church as "spiritual sons".

At a special service during the church's annual conference in Auckland at the weekend, about 700 male members of the church swore a "covenant oath" of loyalty and obedience to Mr Tamaki and were given a "covenant ring" to wear on their right hands.

A church document describes the covenant as "a solemn oath of commitment that is binding, enduring and unbreakable. You are bound to covenant ... Covenant is an irrevocable, undissolvable oath of commitment".

There's another word for that kind of relationship; slavery. And if these 700 "sons" don't wake up to their "father's" serious ego problem, they will become his shock troops next.

There's a time to stop this dangerous crap, and it is now, before it gets out of hand. He has feet of clay like the rest of us, someone needs to dig them up pronto, although he is as cunning as a fox, he already has the antidote in their veins.

"You will hear all sorts of statements and opinions but you must be
prepared to ignore them and consistently hold him in the same high
regard no matter what you hear."

Somewhat surprisingly, the protocol says that Mr Tamaki is human and does make mistakes.

However, the sons must "be prepared to defend against any problems arising out of his mistakes.

A
loyal man is supposed to 'cushion' the effect of a mistake on Bishop
and to protect him. NEVER intentionally expose his weakness."

Now, we know that he knows that there is something under the covers. All that matters is what that something is.

Comments

[Shiana]

It's amazing how one guy can give a whole group of people a bad rep.

It's annoying because I can see that part of what he claims are the drivers for this are that to produce and encourage the men of their community to be good, upstanding and contributing citizens...which is a good thing...why add all the bullshit around it.

This guy seems to have lost the essence of what God intended the church and humans to be. "Hello Brian, this is God...it's not actually about you...let's remember that shall we?"

rant over. daughter out.

[Earl Mardle]

Ah, light of my life, good to see you stepping into papa's patch.

As you might guess, I don't allow anyone to speak for god, not even your dear self, if she wants to talk to me, pick up the phone.

But my main interest in Tamaki is not his religious finagling so much as the role he is trying to play in all our futures.

This is how it always happens when the old order starts to collapse, the poor finally wake up to the reality that they have been robbed by the establishment and cast into a permanent underclass, essentially slaves.

At that moment they are ready for radicalisation and "leadership" and people like Tamaki offer it.

They make their followers dress smartly and behave completely by the book, in his case his own interpretation of the bible.

In exchange they get a sense of purpose and structure and growing power. Then the demagogue starts using them to impose his forms and norms on the rest of us.

People who have been indoctrinated to believe that they must do as they are told, without question, that they must defend their leader at all costs, even when they feel he might be wrong, are ready to become the storm troopers of the next generation.

Don't for a moment think that it can't happen here.

Increasing poverty and powerlessness, degradation and growing anger in a society that is under huge stress and possibly on the cusp of a major disruption is a formula for the fascist outcome.

The question that we all have to ask is what have been our contributions to this state of affairs and how, if at all, we can reverse or divert the course for these people.

Remember that once Hitler got his teeth into the people at the bottom of the socio-economic heap, even sending him to prison didn't change the outcome.

To abort Tamaki we will need to discredit him, but we will also need to offer his followers something in exchange, something that they have not so far had from other churches nor from the society they are forced to live.

Serious issues my dear. Hard work to come.