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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah

I have had some experience with this "lost tribe of Israel" in NYC, I have seen them with tables outside the subway and also in Manhattan. I have tried to listen to them twice, but in both instances my experience was quite similar to what is portrayed in the news with screams of insults. In my very limited experience they are extremely racists and insulting. The message I picked up from my brief time with them is that they feel they are the elite people of God (similar to LC) and they are persecuted by the phony believers (everyone else, again similar to LC). However, the distinction between true believer and phony is simply the color of your skin, it is an extremely flesh centric religion. On top of that the person I was listening to in Manhattan was saying that all sins that a black person might have committed are not their fault but due to the oppression they have experienced by whites, so the real person responsible for all their sinful past are the whites. The very convenient doctrine of "you are responsible for all the sins I have committed".

The lost tribe of Israel? What we had at the Lincoln Memorial was a clash of cultures, or tribalism on full display. There was the Hebrew tribe, the Catholic tribe, and Native American tribe. They all had their territory, and were all standing their ground.

The catholic kids can't be blamed. They grew up in Kentucky, which is a MEGA state. Thus the MEGA caps. They were also mimicking Trump, their hero, their personality cult leader. But they're just stupid kids, a hundred of them with just two chaperones. They certainly didn't make their catholic school look good.

But neither did the Hebrews make Israel look good, nor the Native American make Indians look good, even tho he was trying to defuse the clash.

In the end they were all bad actors. And they should all give us warning about thinking and acting in tribalistic ways. They all suffered from 'us/them syndrome,' like Lee's LC.

The Hebrews claimed to be teaching the kids. The whole thing should be lessons for us, to break free from tribalistic thinking.

But so far, no great leader -- Jesus, Paul, Buddha, or any other -- has been able to remove tribalism from human nature.