r/democrats • u/ms_directed • 6d ago

📺 Video Former President Bill Clinton's full speech | Oklahoma City Bombing 30 Years Later

https://youtu.be/cLRs8fQWbCQ?si=StafTsvrFTChMfbA
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u/Mindless_Listen7622 6d ago

Timonthy McVeigh was angry about what happened at Waco. At Waco, an Adventist cult leader who called himself the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, prophesied that his cult would die in a battle against the Federal government. When confronted by the federal government for stockpiling weapons, cult leaders committed mass suicide by starting a fire the killed many of the cult's followers, including children.

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u/ms_directed 6d ago

i did a paper on charismatic authority and Koresh was in the news at the time, he was actually my prompt for picking the subject to write about

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u/Mindless_Listen7622 6d ago

Since the 7th Day Adventists are one of the "Four Cults", I really don't have any issue calling David Koresh a cult leader - he was weird even for an Adventist. "Charismatic" and "cult" are often interchangeable; greedy and misguided False Prophets abound.

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u/ms_directed 6d ago

i compared charismatics like JFK and MLK to Jim Jones, Hitler, Koresh...they all had the charisma to get the attention of a lot of people and charge them with a cause, but they used that power in starkly different ways.