Ad hominem ("shoot the messenger") is a logical fallacy where someone attacks another personally rather than address the veracity of the message being delivered.
People who employ such
illogical tactics do so in a vain attempt to defend a position that is inherently weak and baseless, i.e. one that lacks any corroborating evidence.
This tactic has consistently and repeatedly been used against
ALL of God's Messengers throughout history, who delivered
HIS Truth to people that were too stiff-necked/stubborn and hard-hearted/close-minded to accept it. The parable of the vineyard that Christ-Jesus gave states this in story form.
Matthew 21:33-46
21:33 Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:
21:34 And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent His servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.
21:35 And the husbandmen took His servants,
and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.
21:36 Again, He sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise.
21:37 But last of all He sent unto them His son, saying, They will respect my Son.
21:38 But when the husbandmen saw the Son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come,
let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.
21:39 And they caught him, and cast [him] out of the vineyard,
and slew [him].
21:40 When the Lord therefore of the Vineyard cometh, what will He do unto those husbandmen?
21:41 They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out [His] vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render Him the fruits in their seasons.
21:42 Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the Scriptures, The Stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the Head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
21:43 Therefore say I unto you, The Kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a
NATION (not a church or organized religion) bringing forth the fruits thereof (the "10 lost tribes" -
the "House of Israel").
21:44 And whosoever shall fall on this Stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
21:45 And when the chief priests and politicians had heard his parables, they perceived that he spoke about them.
21:46 But
when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a Prophet.
It should be self-evident (obvious) from the parable that the vineyard is the Earth, The Householder is Father (God), His Servants are the Prophets, and His Son is The Messiah/Christ.
Which means that every time someone accuses a messenger of being in a "cult" instead of
THINKING about and discussing the actual content and merits of the message (truth) being delivered, they're actually proving they are incapable of rational thought, and cannot handle the truth.
The message throughout time has always been the same:
OBEY GOD ONLY.
It is God Who has stated, in no uncertain terms in His Law--which is the
ONLY real law there is on this planet--that it is against The Law to be a homosexual, or a p***phile, or an adulterer, and that these are capital
crimes.
So, instead of addressing the
REAL issue being discussed in this thread--how these sick and depraved sexually deviants have overplayed their hand by continually shoving their unnatural and unGodly perverted agenda down everyone's throats, as well as
THE SOLUTION to this issue according to our Creator and His Law--it's time for yet another spineless and irrational ad hominem "shoot the messenger" attack.
When every single unrepentant homosexual, p***phile and adulterer
face The Fire on Judgment Day, they'll be crying "why didn't anyone tell us this was going to cost us our eternal life" when, in fact, we've been repeatedly warned about that sort of abominable behavior for thousands of years.
Just as everyone is
lovingly being warned about it again
NOW., while there's still time to repent of all of this
evil.
A few relevant statistics to follow...