Cutting Edge Ministries

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{{cquote|Why do other ministries report meaningless subjects like [[Flat Earth]], [[Hollow Earth]], and an exact day for the [[Rapture]] rather than prepare YOU for this spiritual assault coming upon mankind?|||Cutting Edge Ministries hawking their DVDs<ref>[https://www.cuttingedge.org/Cutting_Edge_Distinctives.htm Distinctive Cutting Edge Teachings on DVD]. Cutting Edge Ministries.</ref>}}
'''Cutting Edge Ministries''' is a [[webshite]] based in Wagener, [[South Carolina]] promoting a delicious mixture of [[fundamentalist]] [[Christianity]] and [[conspiracy theories]].<ref>They are not to be confused with [[James McKeever|The Cutting Edge, formerly Omega Ministries]], in Medford, Oregon, or dozens of other Christian organizations with the same name.</ref> They claim to be a "[[fundamentalism|fundamental]] [[independent Baptist]] Church outreach ministry" that believes the best way to run a ministry is to spam the internet with [[bullshit]] related to "Biblical prophecy of The [[New World Order]]".<ref>[https://www.cuttingedge.org/index.html#aboutus About us], cuttingedge.org.</ref> All of the site's content, including daily "news alerts", is peppered with advertisements for [[kook]]books and digital media from their online store. They are essentially the same as [[Before It's News]] and [[All News Pipeline]] with an emphasis on bizarre pseudo-Christian end times weirdness.

==Weird crap they believe==

If there is a [[conspiracy theory]] that can be tied to anything dealing with Christianity, the [[Book of Revelation]], and [[end times]] eschatology, you'll find it on their webshite or in one of the many piles of junk they offer for sale. Linking [[UFO]]s and extraterrestrial beings to the arrival of the [[Antichrist]] and a sign of biblical [[prophecy]] fulfilled may seem like [[Poe's Law|an elaborate joke]], but apparently the people that run this site are serious.

===9/11===
{{cquote|Construction began in 1966. Not only is this the year in which the Church of Satan was founded, when you add the digits together, they equal another '22'... The first elevator 'skyshaft' was set at the 44th floor -- 11x4... The towers were 1,368 and 1,362 feet respectively. '1,368' when added, equals '18', or a '6+6+6'. '1,362' added equals '12', a '6+6', another '11x6'|||Cutting Edge Ministries}}

{{cquote|'IT'S BULLSHIT' has 11 letters also.|||Dave Pawson<ref>David Mikkelson, [http://www.snopes.com/rumors/elevens.asp Yo Duh. Can significance can be found in numbers relating to the 9/11 attacks?] Snopes, 9 March 2008.</ref>}}

Cutting Edge goes completely bonkers over [[9/11]] and wholeheartedly embraces all kinds of [[9/11 conspiracy theories|conspiracy theories]] related to the terrorist attacks:

{{quotebox|Within a few hours of the infamous attacks of 9/11, 2001, Cutting Edge began to see the hideous occult hand of the [[Illuminati]], their 'signature' so to speak... We issued a series of articles detailing this use of the number "11", proving that the Illuminati was the planning, active agent behind these attacks.<ref name=sept11 />}}

The instances of the number eleven include the date of the attack; the number of the first aeroplane to hit the World Trade Center; the number of the plane which hit the Pentagon (77 - which, divided by seven, is 11); the fact that both towers were 110 stories tall; the fact that the buildings resembled an 11; the fact that one of the planes had a crew of 11, and so on.<ref name=sept11>[http://www.cuttingedge.org/News/n1756.cfm 9/11/2001 Attacks Occur "By The Numbers" -- Sacred Occult Numbers]. Cutting Edge Ministries.</ref>

===Harry Potter===
One of the site's main attractions is its collection of what are possibly the most thorough "''[[Harry Potter]]'' is of [[Satan]]" articles on the net.<ref>[http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/hpmain.html The True Danger of Your Child Reading the Harry Potter Books]. Cutting Edge Ministries.</ref> From reading the plot synopses, one gets the impression that they never actually read the books, because they are full of factual errors.<ref>[http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1397.cfm Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone -- Book Review], Cutting Edge Ministries. Just read this one. They cram the entire book into one paragraph.</ref> However, the author later shows obsession with small details that indicates they at least skimmed, or are [[Cherry  picking]]. The author seems particularly obsessed by colors:

{{quotebox|[Rowling] uses such unique colors, and they gave such a unique flavor to her novels, I felt in my inner heart that she was using them with a specific purpose, or drawing them from a specific source. Originally, I believed it possible that she might be using colors which were [[Mind control|Mind Control]] triggers.<ref name=colors />}}

Pointing to a pagan calendar tradition which associates each month with a colour, the author breathlessly declares his "MAJOR DISCOVERY" that Rowling uses the ''same colours'' in her books.

These evil colours, which "originate from the old Satanic Druid religion", include red, yellow, green, blue, orange, brown and white.

As if this wasn't absurd enough, the article also claims - without any explanation whatsoever - that green is Satan's favourite colour.<ref name=colors>[http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1485.cfm Major Discovery In Harry Potter Books!  Use Of Vivid Colors Now Understood And Their Mystery Unraveled.] Cutting Edge Ministries.</ref>  (This is presumably no relation to the Witchsmeller Pursuivant in the first Blackadder series identifying carrots as "the Devil's favourite food!")

===School shootings and the giant hexagram===
[[Image:HexagramMap.jpg|thumb|right|300px|IT'S A CONSPIRACY]]
Cutting Edge found out that six of the school shootings committed over a space of two years, when marked on a map,  form two rough lines: "they were planned events, not isolated, sporadic horrors", declares the site.  The two lines intersect in Hope, Arkansas, but Cutting Edge admits that it sees no significance there.<ref name=Clinton/>

Contributor Pastor Ron Riffe went on to suggest that they two lines were actually part of a hexagram, and dutifully plotted out such a shape on a map of the world. Disasters which occurred on or around the lines of this hexagram include the Venezuela floods, the [[Waco]] incident, the murder of Jonbenet Ramsey and the crashing of [[John F. Kennedy Jr.]]'s plane ("While his plane apparently did not go down right on the line, it went down close enough to it to raise one's eyebrows"). At the centre of the hexagram are the Galapagos Islands, "at which [[Darwin]] conceived his Satanic idea we now call [[Evolution]]".

What we have here is a [[Conspiracy_theory#Unified_conspiracy_theory|unified conspiracy]], and Cutting Edge continues down the rabbit hole by blaming it on the [[Illuminati]]:

{{quotebox|[I]t is highly conceivable that the Illuminati would create such a symbol, believing it would reverberate with Satanic power to aid them in achieving their global objectives<ref>[http://cuttingedge.org/news/n1350.cfm School Shooting Map May Be A Hexagram Extending From Canada To The Tip Of South America! The North Central Point Is Hope, Arkansas!] Cutting Edge Ministries.</ref>}}

...and they blame [[Bill Clinton]], who they naturally assume is in cahoots with the New World Order Illuminati:

{{quotebox|President Bill Clinton has committed his Administration to the disarming of Americans, in accordance with Illuminist objectives and [[United Nations]] directives... To accomplish this goal, we believe it highly likely that Clinton has committed his Administration to the exercise of powerful Black Magick [[Witchcraft]] to so enrage Americans against guns that they will rise up as one to demand that military troops disarm the public, by force if necessary."<ref name=Clinton>[http://cuttingedge.org/news/n1344.cfm School Shootings Have A Pattern That Implicate The President And His Government -- Gun Control Is The Objective! Black Magick Witchcraft Is The Power!] Cutting Edge Ministries.</ref>}}

===Freemasonry===
{{cquote|Freemasonry requires that it's members confess a belief in a supreme being. Any one will do!|||Cutting Edge Ministries}}

They claim that [[Freemasonry]] is a religion infested with an "[[occult]] nature" linked with New World Order conspiracies.<ref>[https://www.cuttingedge.org/fmcorner.html Freemasonry], Cutting Edge Ministries.</ref> They expose a purported letter from 2000 that says that they've been threatened that the masons will "[[persecution complex|dig up a lot of dirt]]" on them.<ref>[https://www.cuttingedge.org/free20.htm Is Freemasonry Preparing A Smear Campaign Against Cutting Edge Ministries And Christian Author Ralph Epperson?] Cutting Edge Ministries.</ref> They claim to have proven "beyond the shadow of a doubt" that Freemasonry is the worship of [[Satan]].<ref>[https://www.cuttingedge.org/free11.html Masonry Proven Conclusively To Be Worship Of Lucifer, Satan!] Cutting Edge Ministries.</ref> For added flair, they wholeheartedly embrace the [[Washington, D.C. street design conspiracy theory]] and cite it as proof that the city "was conceived as the occult center of power for Freemasonry in the United States."<ref>[https://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1081.cfm Freemasonry Source Confirms Our Article News1040 "masonic Symbols Of Power In Their Seat Of Power, Washington, D.c." -- That Government Center Was Created In 1792 As A Capitol Dedicated To Masonry!!] Cutting Edge Ministries.</ref> For good measure, they link Freemasonry to the [[Knights Templar]], which they claim are "satanic," and by Cutting Edge Ministries' logic, provide more proof that Freemasonry is satanic.<ref>[https://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1165.cfm Satanic Sources Claim Knights Templar To Be Satanic! This Is More Proof That Freemasonry Is Also Satanic]. Cutting Edge Ministries.</ref>

==See also==
* [[Berit Kjos]]

==External links==
*[http://www.cuttingedge.org/ Cutting Edge Ministries webshite]

==References==
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