by Don and Joy Veinot | Aug 14, 2025 | Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus Resurrection, Resurrection, Soul, Transhuman
What does it mean to be human? Are we merely physical beings with sentience (the ability to perceive or feel things) due to electrical activity in our material brain? When we breathe our last, and our material brain dies, do we simply cease to exist? This is a...
by Joy Veinot | Jul 31, 2025 | Buddhism, Conspiracy Theories, Counterfeit, Cults and Religions, False gods, False Teacher, Immorality, Jehovah's Witnesses, karma, MCOI Journal, Mormonism, Pantheism, Reincarnation, Relativism, Roman Catholic, Salvation, Scientology, September/October 1996
(Originally printed in the September/October 1996 Issue of the MCOI Journal) There is a cult system for everyone. There are more cults and cult-like organizations in our society today than I have space here to list. Each holds appeal for a different type of person,...
by Don Veinot | Jun 12, 2025 | Authoritarian, Books, Christ and the Church, Cults and Religions, Culture and Society, Fear, Jehovah's Witnesses, Legalism, Mormonism, Politics, Racism, Shepherding, Spiritual Abuse, Word Faith
Intimidation comes at us on a variety of fronts, sometimes in subtle ways. It might come from the political arena or even religious groups. Sometimes we can be intimidated even by family or work associates. Most of the time it is destructive, of course, but in some...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Mar 20, 2025 | Atheism, Atheist, Charles Taze Russell, Egypt, Evangelism, Faithful and Discreet Slave, False Prophet, False Teacher, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus - Michael the Archangel, Paganism
In the 1990s, We were among the early adopters of a new service called America Online. Originally named PlayNET in 1985, they changed their name to America Online in 1988. We signed up in 1991 or 1992, and were so early that we didn’t need to have numbers at the end...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Mar 13, 2025 | Atheism, Christ and the Church, Creationsim, Cults and Religions, Culture and Society, Defend the Faith, Evolution, Jehovah's Witnesses
There are many things in life that we believe in by faith. This is true of Christians and non-Christians, Creationists and Darwinian Evolutionists, those who believe in God and atheists alike. Some do not want to admit this is the case, but it is true nonetheless....
by Don and Joy Veinot | Jan 30, 2025 | Adultery, Climate Change, Cults and Religions, Deceiver, Deception, Evangelical Left, Gaia, Gender, Gender identity, Global Cooling, Globalism, Identity Politics, Immorality, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus - Michael the Archangel, Liberalism, Nature Religion, New Age, Paganism, Post Christian, Progressives, Social Justice
The 2002 musical film, Chicago, set in the 1920s, demonstrates the ease with which the public can be deceived – especially if you know how to manipulate the press into selling your narrative. The basic story line is that of a married woman, Roxie Hart (played by Renée...
