Different images for many different people the simplest definition of a cult is a system of religious veneration and devotion directed toward a particular figure or object but cult can also be defined as a misplaced or excessive admiration for a particular person or thing this is considered the cult of personality that we give to our leaders our movie stars who are rock gods we worship their voices and their ideas every time we purchase one of their songs by a tickets to their movies or vote for them in our elections over the next few days and weeks pundits and talking heads will make grand statements and accusations about the model bomber suspect regarding his motives and reasonings and while many will blame donald trump and whatever else our cowardly bomber reid tweeted or posted about in his social media be if you will take a step back and ask the bigger question. Arent we all just a bunch of cult members at the end of the day whether through religion politics or pop culture is not
A vote away from going a little mad sometimes well i think its time we start practicing some independence and start watching the hawks. Welcome aboard the watch of the hogs i am tire over the road and im to have a flawless reverend Sun Myung Moon was born in what is now north korea in 1920 and by 1954 he had founded what was to become the Unification Church after a 5 year sentence at a north korean labor camp he considered the cold war between communism and democracy to be the final conflict between good mean evil in the 1960 s. He began to hold mass wedding ceremonies and which partners were matched by the church about 982 he was holding mass wedding ceremonies for the arranged marriages in places like Madison Square garden but moons church often called moony years as their members wasnt just about forced arranged marriages it was also a lucrative business that used media to perpetuate the reverence extremist believes in 1902 the unifier the Unification Church and moon started the Was
Give to our leaders our movie stars are our rock gods we worship their voices and their ideas every time we purchase one of their songs by a tickets to their movies or vote for them in our elections over the next few days and weeks pundits and talking heads will make grand statements and accusations about the bomber suspect regarding his motives and reasonings and while many will blame donald trump and whatever else our cowardly bomber reid tweeted or posted about in his social media be if you will take a step back and ask the bigger question. Arent we all just a bunch of cult members at the end of the day whether through religion politics or pop culture is not joining a Political Party nothing more than pledging your allegiance to its leaders to follow and do what they condition you to believe is the name of the game or guard list of the leaders last name is Clinton Schumer Sanders Mcconnell paul or even donald trump are we really as independent minded as we like to believe we are or
Suspended at one point on wall street as stocks plummeted again despite the announcement of massive stimulus plan. The World Health Organization says its concerned some countries still arent doing enough testing to prevent the spread of corona virus more than 8000 people globally and now confirmed to have died after catching the virus the number of reported cases this past 200000 italy has reported 475 new deaths the highest death toll for a single day of any nation since the 1st case was detected in china late last year malaysia is racing to track down potential corona virus carriers after its confirmed cases jumped to 790. 00 nearly 2 thirds of those a link to a religious gathering late last month that spread the virus to at least 6 other countries and despite many governments announcing massive stimulus packages asian european and u. S. Markets have plummeted again as well as oil prices u. S. Markets were suspended for 15 minutes for the 4th time in a month the team barbara has more
Im sorry so much going to thank you for joining us a long list of conflicts and uncertainty over the wests role in the world those are the top issues at the Munich Security Conference that is kicking off this hour a World Leaders top Security Experts diplomats are all now gathering for the central meeting in southern germany on everyones mind the big global issues the war in syria where a government offensive and it live has triggered a full blown humanitarian crisis another issue concerns over the shrinking influence of the west in shaping Global Security it is even spawned a new term west lists next. And we have our chief Political Editor michelle you look at the Munich Security Conference for us where she is watching in on everything thats happening there for us jaime said and i want to ask you about that term west listener what are people there saying about this. Well many feel that it is kind of appropriate and thats exactly what the security conference always aims to do is kind o