Due to my extensive and hard work on this blog, there are significantly fewer stupid people running their mouths on the interwebs. I had to look back in history a bit to find a good next victim. All I had to do was look back a few pages in the COL op-ed section to find this juicy member of a cult which COL eagerly published. Meet Raphael Aron, someone who couldn't have been happier about Australia's handling of covid. The man runs something called Cult Consulting, yet apparently sees no irony, none at all, in being a full-blown missionary for the Church of Fauci & Pfizer. You’d think someone who claims to spend his days helping people out of manipulative mind-control groups would be just a little more self-aware before writing 1,500 words bowing down to a multinational pharmaceutical-sanctified dogma. But no. Instead, he’s here to sell you salvation by syringe.
We are becoming increasingly polarized over vaccines, he cries, as if that polarization just happened like a weather pattern, rather than being socially engineered by exactly the kind of manipulative top-down messaging machines he pretends to fight against for a living. You’d expect a guy who helps people leave cults to recognize what a cult looks like when every institution, every celebrity rabbi, every government panel is screeching in unison: “OBEY THE DOCTOR. JUST ONE DOCTOR. THE RIGHT KIND OF DOCTOR. OR ELSE.” What he really means by this is that rather than being polarized over this issue, we should all just agree with his perspective on the matter and wallah! No more polarization!
This guy talks like a mind-control victim who thinks he’s the therapist.
“The vaccine-skeptics appear to need a place to belong…”
Oh, so now wanting social support makes you a cult member? Funny, because I seem to remember something about Gateway Family Counselling Centre being a "safe space" for confused people looking for identity. I guess forming communities is fine as long as they worship Raphael's brand of state-approved truth. What he really means when he says this is that we wants us to surrender to his biomedical fascism as accept the truths that his (not) cult pushes.
“They are sharing and promoting a range of conspiracy theories…”
Says the guy quoting the Chabad Central Bais Din of Israel like it’s the CDC. You're really going to call other people cultish while appealing to rabbinic authority in Israel as medical evidence? That’s not halacha, that’s halachic cosplay. You can't just slap a beard and hat on the Pfizer memo and call it Torah. The lack of self-awareness in this man is truly stunning.
And then there's this:
“We again turn to the Rebbe’s unambiguous response to questions about medical issues: 'Follow the doctor’s advice.' Not a Rov, a Mashpia… A doctor.”
Cool. Which doctor? Rochelle Walensky? Joseph Ladapo? Dr. Zelenko? Oh wait, not those doctors. Only the ones approved by Raphael’s gospel. He pulls out the Rebbe like a theological vending machine to validate whatever the current Western medical dogma is, which is basically Reform Judaism with more mRNA.
“If they are following the Rebbe, they need to encourage their communities to seek informed medical advice…”
Except you don’t want informed medical advice. You want conforming medical advice. You want doctors who parrot the party line, not ones who rock the boat. And if a doctor does dissent? Must be a quack. Or worse, a heretic. Paging Cardinal Aron of the Australian Inquisition.
“A hospital in Missouri created a private setting for patients afraid to be seen getting vaccinated.”
Ah yes. Brave rebels in hiding. Getting a vaccine is now the new mitzvah sheb’mesirus nefesh. But flip the roles and you’d be screaming about the unvaccinated being threats to humanity. The only acceptable conscience is the one that aligns with yours. Everyone else is either deluded, dangerous, or dead. Not like a cult at all.
Let’s not gloss over this gem:
“People seeking guidance, the vulnerable, others with mental health issues are becoming confused and perplexed…”
You know what’s confusing? A guy whose job is literally to help people identify coercion and psychological manipulation pushing this kind of one-sided fear-mongering propaganda. How do you call yourself a cult-expert when you parrot every talking point of Big Pharma’s emotional blackmail campaign?
This entire screed reads like someone who has so thoroughly internalized the mainstream narrative that he’s become a one-man moisd, not a consultant on cults, but an enforcer of orthodoxy. A religious zealot with a syringe for a scepter.
“This may appear to be a daunting task but it is the call of the hour…”
Here’s a thought, Raphael: maybe the call of the hour is not to become a mouthpiece for medical authoritarianism. Maybe it’s to help people think critically. Maybe it’s to recognize that a group demanding absolute conformity, punishing dissent, shaming non-believers, and excommunicating heretics might actually be the cult.
But of course, that would require introspection.
And that’s not really Gateway’s strong suit, is it?