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K.D.
What exact criteria do the Messianics believe that Scheerson met to be considered Messianic ???? Did he perform miracles?

I find this part of their movement to be especially disturbing.

Scheerson sounds like "just a man" with many "opportunistic" tendencies...

Many cultic group founders are considered to be messianic by many of their followers. Some psychoanalytical studies have been done on available information outside the cult about them. These studies have concluded that many of them were mentally unbalanced meglomaniacs. Hence their obsessions with perfection, cleanliness, neatness, surface perceptions and absolute obedience, qualities which permeate the cults they founded. 2 examples are Escriva, the founder of the Opus Dei cult, and Moon, the founder of the Moonies cult. While I have not done extensive study on Schneerson, my hunch is that one would find most of those qualities within him as well.



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