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letsdothis2 ago

Best Friends of Utah: The Process Church of the Final Judgment to Animal Society

But another perspective of Best Friends also appears on their website--that it actually originated in Arizona in the 1970’s as The Foundation Faith, formerly known as the Process Church and considered a “cult” by some.

http://ernestbecker.org/i-am-not-an-animal/

Michael Mountain is one of the founders and the Past President of Best Friends Animal Society, which runs the nation’s largest sanctuary for abused and abandoned animals, along with rescue and adoption programs for homeless companion animals. Over the past 30 years, the situation for dogs and cats has improved dramatically, but for other animals things have gotten much worse, and Michael stepped down from Best Friends to explore the reasons why. This led him to Terror Management Theory and an understanding of how our fear of our own animal nature leads us to seek dominance over other kinds of animals. Michael assists in the work of several animal protection groups and maintains a blog at www.earthintransition.org.

http://ernestbecker.org/resources/terror-management-theory/

Terror Management Theory (TMT) was developed in 1986 by social psychologists Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, and Sheldon Solomon based upon Ernest Becker’s ideas.

Ernest Becker - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Becker

Ernest Becker (September 27, 1924 – March 6, 1974) was a Jewish-American cultural anthropologist and writer. He is noted for his 1974 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Denial of Death.

The Project on Death in America: twenty years on

To paraphrase the Beatles, it was 20 years ago this summer that a remarkable group of clinicians, academics and activists got together under the patronage of the billionaire philanthropist, George Soros, to create an initiative with the disarming goal of transforming the culture of dying – in a society that is perhaps more death denying than any other the world has known. Two women in particular – Dr Kathy Foley and Mary Callaway (pictured r. and l. here) – had a monumental role in driving this work forward over its nine years’ duration. From 1994-2003 the Project on Death in America (PDIA) played a prominent part in end of life care innovations in the United States.

The Project on Death in America was a program of the Open Society Institute https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/sites/default/files/a_transforming.pdf

An interesting blog with even more interesting comments on Michael Mountain: https://workingtohelpanimalstodaytomorrow.blogspot.com/2012/03/shocked-at-nathan-winograds-comments-at.html

BECAUSE WINOGRAD AND MOUNTAIN ARE WORKING FOR RICK BERMAN, who is a lobbyist for BREEDERS, puppy mill breeders, dog fighters, lab animal dealers, factory farm runners, and every other psycho animal torturer profiteer.

They have always lobbied AGAINST humane education.

Yes, that includes the AKC (and its legislative dept of which Barnette Barnette was part of) because the AKC is a puppy mill business!

Of course they don't want the younger generation learning about the animal abuse these profiteers commit! It might mean more laws and less money for the animal torturers.

How long is it going to take the rescue community to understand that Winograd and friends are FRAUDS. They are working for the profiteers, NOT the pets.

This has been known for some time now. I can't believe how gullible some people are. But I suppose this is how con artists keep going. Some people don't do their homework, and believe the con artists' lies. And the con artists keep cashing in.>

letsdothis2 ago

So it seems that it is this psychobabble of Terror Management Theory that is being used to convince progressives to abandon religion:

A terror management analysis of the psychological functions of religion by Kenneth E. Vail, Zachary K. Rothschild, Dave R. Weise, Sheldon Solomon, Tom Pyszczynski, Jeff Greenberg; University of Arizona

From a terror management theory (TMT) perspective, religion serves to manage the potential terror engendered by the uniquely human awareness of death by affording a sense of psychological security and hope of immortality.