Now most people in an argument save their taunts, like good cards in a game – and you know they are good cards, they will win you the game. Feel me? This girl believed in the Power of what she confronted me with …

She challenged me with: ‘If I do not give God my tithe, how will I get blessed?’

She thinks this of the resurrected Jesus of John 21. This is the Jesus who made breakfast for his disciples while they fished futilely for a commercial catch. And one that he gave to Peter in spite of his denial…

This same Jesus demands 10% of Bubbles money every month else He is not going to bless her.

To get that deeply into someone’s mind and take control of their Christian values, their actual understanding of the Father Christ came to reveal – takes some serious doing.

To use Christ to focus on the demonology that is a thread that runs thoughout the “Foundations” and away from the Father heart of God, means that the kind of fear this man panders, is deeply, deeply effective.

And evil.

What passion you have. I admire that. You’re right. I don’t know how “versed” I am in applied theology either. But I know religion and what it can do to the minds of the unsuspecting follower. I know my truth, I know who I am, and I am determined to never be under the control of another human being ever again.

I don’t know the situation with this Shofar (cult) that you speak of… it sounds like a powerful force that has “the gullible, greedy and lazy” under its spell. Religion can be very seductive. Yes… I can respect his skills in manipulation. He may even actually believe that he’s doing God’s work.

You keep doing what you do to tell your truth… and I believe truth will eventually speak for itself. And truth can never be killed. It will rise up again and again. His work is already finished. We just have to rest in the fact that the enemy has been defeated at the cross. Christ lives, and we are free.

Stripped of his designer clothes, the cultivated and melifluous veneer and tear away all the convoluted demon infested theology – right down to the bone, he is that kind of bitter revengeful beggar on a street corner who uses self-pity to induce a specie of passing guilt into his mark, by acting out a role of the socially downtrodden with the subtext that the mark is somehow responsible for that pain but he pays the mark, pocketing the cash and pronouncing a heart felt blessing on the mark from God Himself for the charity. Dissected, that is his entire game and nothing else. The dumbass mark doesn’t realise the beggar lives in a mansion worth three times his….

“Taking the whole gospel to the whole world” according to this great Holy Prophet as he keeps punting himself shamelessly and tirelessly from his pulpit while he decries how distasteful it is for for him to share how important he is to God, and what a terrible burden he carries for his “vision” – that the devil wants to attack* and attack* him with “lies” and stop him from being “obedient”. *(main mission for all the money he, so glaringly displays socially and so crudely craves for himself.)

But it all falls apart when the whole world lies bleeding locally on the streets ouside your “church” from xenophobic attacks or rather on the municipal rugby fields, out of sight – far from Oude Molen. It falls apart further when you find out the perpetrators of those attacks are local opportunistic youth, who because they have grown up ignored, abused, shunned spiritually and are living in the most inhuman filth and degradation and have been since Fred May came to Stellenbosch and began recruiting very young people fresh out of school to support “His Vision” and his “Mission to All Nations”, something by the way, which is not supported or recognised by any other of the highly respected Christian leaders I’ve spoken to in Stellenbosch. So he does not have any good publicity, none – so he has to try and generate it for the beggar business he makes of church.

Yeah, to actually “belong” to Shofar costs money, registration fees for his “Foundations” to be exact and if you have any music talent, you can pay for a course, sign away your intellectual property rights and right of personal veto and he might let you play in one of his multimedia productions that he uses to punt himself – but you, the musician, will never see a cent. That all belongs to “the ministry”. How much does it cost to be a Jew or Muslim??? Why does one have to pay him for the privilege of playing a guitar and singing songs about God – the real question one has to ask, is since he never paid for anything with his own money in this town, not one cent in his pocket is his, it all belongs to other people dumb enough to believe one can pay God for something you already have – why does he charge musicians to play and sing??? This is all readily available from documents on his website … probably not for long either …

Since the publishing of “Acid Alex”, Fred May has frantically needed to procure validation any way he can because of the expose in the book. He had to change his whole marketing image away from the cult of his own persona and to a generic, more graphically acceptable social demographic, post-apartheid fantasy, beer commercial form and more illustrative of the business’s hollow advertising blurb “For all Nations” – outside of Stellenbosch entirely – and woo Joy! Magazine and TBN media-darling Christians – who seem to spend their days claiming to be saving the world with money you can send to the bank account number on the screen or their website. Or order the CD and DVD or book available from CUM…

Commercial Christianity is a billion dollar industry and like all global organised crime, it stretches the globe sucking money in exchange for the promise of post dated divine blessings from the gullible, greedy and lazy. The biggest retail bookshop in Stellenbosch is CUM – and not one book in there, not even the BIBLE could prevent the mess of humanity on the municipal rugby fields in the last few weeks.

Remember, this is a man who basically walked into Stellenbosch a shameless grifter, so utterly lazy that his wife had to drive to neighbouring to teach so he had a cottage over his head and food in his belly – while he fought the devil by brainwashing a handful of younsters. He has become stinking rich doing it, given his lieutenants lives of luxury – so Linda, he might be a liar, a cheat and an evil prick who tried to frame me for pointing this out back in the nineties – but he is damned good at it, so you have to respect him as a professional.

I’ve seen him burst into rivers of tears almost instantly, on cue and better than a Hollywood actor – for some white person he never even knew or cared about, who died in a car accident. That shower of misery was generated because two words applied to someone in Shofar and under his sphere of psychological control: “Post Probate”.

In my opinion, whenever I saw those tears, it was the time it was going to take to get the property deeds to the Shofar lawyers or the cash money in Shofar’s bank account that he was really crying over…

I hear ya! But all I was trying to say was that even if the guy had credentials up the yin yang, the credibility (or lack thereof) of his claims would not change one bit… not in my eyes.

The hysteria lies in this Linda: The founder/leader/guru person is a man named Fred May, has NO theological degree. He never studied at a theological college. He has never studied a B.Sc – yet, of course, He claims to be an expert, personally led by God and anyone who questions him, will get struck down with cancers.

Among other things, he claims to have raised the dead … now there is some real hard science for you…

And they’re spreading. Started in Stellenbosch, they now have ten churches/congregations around South Africa, one in Windhoek Namibia, and one in London.

So that’s my summary of Shofar. In the Old Testament, it is the name of an instrument, a ram’s horn.

Good post. I’m not very good at keeping up with all that you write, so remind me… what exactly is Shofar? All I know is that it’s from the OT, correct? Very legalistic, right? Is that your religion?

Good list of fundy traits. I only have one thing to say – I personally don’t trust anyone based solely on their credentials. Not only pastors, but any other professional as well. Even doctors, lawyers, teachers, etc. I have to be convinced on a case-by-case basis that they have something worthy to listen to or learn from. I guess I’m a skeptic at heart.

Will you come and tell me what you think about my numbers theory?