Opus Dei: harmless sect or evil cult?

[Alexander's Horse]

I've had some contact with Opus Dei people recently. They seem to want to recruit me.

Here are some web sites

http://www.opusdei.org/

http://www.mond.at/opus.dei/

http://www.odan.org/

What do you think?

[Pekka]

It's just bunch of perverts wanting to ass rape you in some ceremony. You're just a piece of ass to them. They're vultures, you're the prey.

That's why it was set up in the first place.

[Alexander's Horse]

But what if I, like, enjoy that sort of thing

[Meticulous Man]

What Pekka said

[Alexander's Horse]

you nordics and your obsessions, lol

[Pekka]

AH, well you're now informed. If you like it, by all means...

[Alexander's Horse]

But, excuse the pun, I could find out more

[Dr Strangelove]

Obviously they're aware of your past history, the mindless psychotic murders, etc, etc., etc., and they think they have a place in their organization for you. Just think, if you join you'll be able to do more than just ridicule libural heretics like John Spong, you'll actually be able to snuff them out.

[Will9]

Many former members regret ever joining Opus Dei. They say they would hand over entire paychecks without thought.

[molly bloom]

A bunch of cults.

[Barnabas]

Opus dei has a lot of caste homosexuals

[Harry Tuttle]

There are plenty of ways to participate in the Church that don't require additional "rules". I would be wary Horse. There seems to be an extraordinary amount of "interpretation" in Opus Dei.

[Barnabas]

My sincere opinion : Opus day is not evil or heretical, but it is not for everybody.

[Meticulous Man]

On the topic of Christian cults...

I'm currently serving in the Finnish Defence Forces and during my basic training period I shared my room with a guy who was a member of some Christian sect with origins in the US Midwest, some Identity Ministries blahblah. I've previously read a lot of stuff by similar people on the Internet but this was the first time I saw one of these guys live. My first impression of the guy was that he seemed to be pretty nice, polite and helpful, a person that anyone could get well along with. Then, gradually, he started exposing his religious and social views which included not only denial of evolution, but also extermination of the Jews (who, according to him, are the seeds of Satan), the Muslims who he thought were attempting to destroy our culture from the inside and the usual jazz, and gays, because he thought the Bible said that homosexuality was wrong. According to him, black people could be spared if they first would be "corrected". He had with him a lot of American-published books about biblical explanations of race differences and crap like that by nutjobs with "doctoral degrees" from some American joke universities. Every now and then he would start trying to convert the rest of the people in our room to his beliefs. I had, and still have, a hard time believing he was being serious even though I saw this with my own eyes. Considering that he otherwise seemed to be such a sympathetic person, his views seemed like a mental straitjacket that he willingly had accepted to wear. Religious idiocy like this should definitely be placed under a worldwide ban.

[Asher]

Is any one catholic sect more evil than another? Not really.