CARGO CULTS Part 1 of 4

Comparing the Cargo Cults of the South Pacific with such modern phenomena as credit-card addiction, Oprah's new age philosophies and the Prosperity Gospel. All excerpts from clips used are in the public domain and available on YouTube, and are used for analysis and comparison purposes. No copyright is claimed for any part of this program.

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[cameron6697]

its gandalf, from harry potter

[dennissOiafricaOcom]

hahahaha wouldn't that be Dumbledore?

[Michael7477]

Thanks for uploading. Who is the bearded preacher please ? Thanks once again.

[dennissOiafricaOcom]

Hi Michael,

Thats me - Dennis Stevenson, from Cape Town, South Africa.

[dennissOiafricaOcom]

See also my website capewindjammers(dot)org or Cape Windjammers on facebook.

Thanks for watching.

God Bless.

[AssocaitedPress]

Christians think that this is RIDICULOUS.

[gaybutte]

We should really tell them.

[TheGreg6466]

this is nothing new, we have plane spotters, same thing really! lol

[TheGreg6466]

cults are dangerous, don't get suckered in!

[scott b]

Need to see a modern day cargo cult go to any geto in America.

[Peter Farrell]

The whole concept of cargo cults is mind-blowing. A comment by Idries Shah led me to Marvin Harris' brilliant "Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches." Whoever doesn't see the parallels to organized religion is blind. Every time I read (or watch a video!) about it I see more and more parallels to our everyday human psychology. Thanks so much for the reminder!

[babane09]

If I didnt know the white man and his ability to try to fool everyone and himself especially his undiscerning masses I would have believed this theory/story. I am sure the interpretation here is too simple and biased to be true. In short it is a variation of the nonsense that has been said of peoples everywhere else that was brutally attacked and stolen. The preferred mythi sthat of clueless, nearely subhuman peoples. Everyone is stupid but us (the white). ITS A LIE

[ImDiscombobulated]

And they would worship the people who crashed like the obama voters worshiped obama even though he hadn't done anything. More like Jim Jones than Jesus whom you seem to have much animosity for.

True what you said about Jesus though... He doesn't come to Earth as often as the Cargo pilots have done cargo missions between the lands. That you are correct.

[tayzlor]

this is brilliant

[cinesimonj]

In essence, the Cargo Cult and Christianity are little different.

These people don't understand something, therefore they believe it must be of supernatural origin.

That is the same as Christian belief on creation, life, nature.

The people(talking in the clips) who actually study phenomena like these would agree. They would not agree with the bizarre analogy you attempt to make with credit cards - you REALLY need to twist reality to use the Cargo Cult phenomenon to (predictably) sell religion.