The Ravening Wolf: Catholic-Hating Organization Reemerges

[Digitonomy]

This is a few months old, but it’s quite a good article, and I don’t think it’s been posted here before. Plus, it’s got a photo of Mr. T.

On this sunny summer afternoon, they’re handing out heavily footnoted, paranoid screeds proclaiming the end of the world is nigh and branding the U.S. government an enemy agent of the “satanic” Catholic Church. Followers of Alamo (pronounced “ah-LAH-moe”) tuck these same tracts — which Alamo claims have a circulation higher than “USA Today, The New York Times, L.A. Times and many other national publications combined” — under windshield wipers in parking lots around the country. Claiming “homosexuality is caused by demon possession” and “the Vatican, the one-world government and church are spiritually powered by that old serpent called the Devil,” this white-hot propaganda comes straight from the mouth of a self-fashioned prophet and convicted tax cheat. Since his release from prison in 1998, Alamo has secluded himself within a guarded compound in a small town near Texarkana, Ark., as opposition from residents and ex-followers mounts…

“They’re full of conspiracy theories about Waco and Jim Jones and stuff, and they hate, I mean hate, the Catholic Church,” offers one man, a diabetic on an irregular income. “They can be a little pushy about the whole saving-your-soul thing. But they do have a really nice salad bar.”…

Alamo blames the Catholic Church for every evil imaginable, including communism, Nazism, the two world wars and even the Jonestown Massacre. “Narcotics, prostitution, pornography, booze and black market - every filthy thing – can be traced right back to the Vatican,” the cult leader has written. Hatred of Catholics isn’t Alamo’s only unorthodox belief. In 1993, he published a tract called “The Polygamists” which argued, “the Holy Scriptures proclaim polygamy to be righteous.” Fourteen years later, he still pushes that message, producing daily radio broadcasts that are beamed around the country and the world and proclaim a holy man’s right to take multiple wives.
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[stbruno]

More reasons to pray, I guess

 

[Pacbox]

I remember reading this article much earlier this year. It was suprising to find that Southern Poverty Law Center identifying them as a hate group. I used this in my report on a hate group that I could be targeted by for my Victimology class.

I think this is the first sort of “official” mention of a hate group that specifically targets Catholics.

Also important to mention, Alamo seems to have gone off the deep end, if you read the whole article. He’s now under investigation for child molestation charges and marrying child brides, some as young as 12.