Religions and cults on the streets of Brixton
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Manter
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OhFrom your description of the general atire sound probable these were members of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. See Brixton Buzz
Brixton 1 – Twelve Tribes of Israel 0. Homophobic street preachers forced out of Windrush Square
that’s a shame
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hiraethified
They're fucking awful. Real bigoted cunts.Oh
Manter
Lunch Mob
It looked vaguely interesting as I walked my son past. But hate speech on the streets is not a good thing at all
friendofdorothy
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I can't help but laugh everytime I see that lot - they look like extras out of star wars. Makes their intolance and homophobia all together less scary.From your description of the general atire sound probable these were members of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. See Brixton Buzz
Brixton 1 – Twelve Tribes of Israel 0. Homophobic street preachers forced out of Windrush Square
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hiraethified
They maybe laughable but I nearly got into a fight with one of these aggressive clowns when he got close up and personal and did that weird bloke heads rutting nonsense. That said, it was a pleasure seeing them getting booted out of Windrush Square.
Brixton 1 – Twelve Tribes of Israel 0. Homophobic street preachers forced out of Windrush Square
Idris2002
Christmas Eve, you know?
Is there any overlap or continuity between these eejits and the older British Israelism tradition?
(British Israelism are probably the Ur-Loons, the OG nutters: British Israelism - Wikipedia )
(British Israelism are probably the Ur-Loons, the OG nutters: British Israelism - Wikipedia )
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Highly unlikely. British Israel was one of many esoteric/exotic religious fashions in the nineteenth century Britain and America. The Mormons - still a powerful church or cult - is based on that lost tribes idea. But they are white - in fact the Mormons operated a colour bar until about 50 years ago.
With the 12 Tribes it's all about being black and having a back story to account for slavery. I've no idea what the ultimate theology/ideology is, but here are their leaflets, since you ask. These are a couple of years old. Their internet links are US based, but they seem to have Birmingham and London followers - who post on Youtube (naturally). The Brixton group used to be vigorously against mixed relationships. Don't know if this still holds.
GarveyLives
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This is very interesting - and very sad.
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This was on Mail online today. Seems to indicate that Black Hebrew Israelites are unstable to the point of murder.
Jersey City shooting revealed on surveillance camera footage | Daily Mail Online
GarveyLives apologies for quoting the Daily Mail - not allowed as a source by Wkipedia, but maybe there are other sources?
Jersey City shooting revealed on surveillance camera footage | Daily Mail Online
GarveyLives apologies for quoting the Daily Mail - not allowed as a source by Wkipedia, but maybe there are other sources?
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hiraethified
And another
www.brixtonbuzz.com
Street Preachers of Brixton: The one with the echo effect, Sept 2020
Seen and heard bellowing out the message from the Qur’an in the centre of Brixton last Sunday was this fella, who had decided to add some dramatic echo to his excessively loud PA system.
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hiraethified
This guy was loud and annoying
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Street Preachers of Brixton: the backstreet prowler, Oct 2020
Currently disturbing the peace and prowling the empty alley behind the Barrier Block in Brixton is this young preacher, banging on and on about Jesus Christ and demanding people ‘repent.̵…
www.brixtonbuzz.com
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hiraethified
...and another!
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Street Preachers of Brixton: The perambulating, passionate one, Sept 2020
The corner of Electric Avenue and Brixton Road (outside Boots) has increasingly become popular as the perfect spot for an afternoon’s extra-loud street preaching. However, this lady seen last…
www.brixtonbuzz.com
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hiraethified
And another
Street Preachers of Brixton: the Taste Jesus guy, October 2020
Perhaps it’s the ongoing coronavirus crisis that has led to more and more street preachers appearing on the streets of Brixton – here’s another one spotted opposite Windrush Squar…
www.brixtonbuzz.com
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hiraethified
Yet more although this guy was useless
Street Preachers of Brixton: the incomprehensible one on Pope’s Road, Oct 2020
Street Preachers of Brixton: the incomprehensible one on Pope’s Road, Oct 2020
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hiraethified
The quiet one
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Street Preachers of Brixton: the quiet one mumbling away in a folding chair, October 2020
Reciting religious texts on the corner of Coldharbour Lane and Brixton Road at barely audible levels was this bloke, who decided to take it easy and plonk himself down in a folding chair.
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Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
it's the quiet ones you have to watch out forThe quiet one
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Street Preachers of Brixton: the quiet one mumbling away in a folding chair, October 2020
Reciting religious texts on the corner of Coldharbour Lane and Brixton Road at barely audible levels was this bloke, who decided to take it easy and plonk himself down in a folding chair.
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hiraethified
Here's a central London one
www.urban75.org
In photos: the arms-aloft street preacher with a speaker in a shopping trolley, Whitehall, London -
Seen strutting along Whitehall, music blaring and arms aloft was this fella who had a Big Message for everyone. Happily he had no microphone - he let his banner do the talking - but his portable speaker in a shopping trolley was blaring out religious songs as he perambulated towards Parliament...
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Starry Wisdom
Yeh he'll come back soon armed with the wrath of God and he'll be mightily pissed with all those who have taken his name in vainHere's a central London one
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In photos: the arms-aloft street preacher with a speaker in a shopping trolley, Whitehall, London -
Seen strutting along Whitehall, music blaring and arms aloft was this fella who had a Big Message for everyone. Happily he had no microphone - he let his banner do the talking - but his portable speaker in a shopping trolley was blaring out religious songs as he perambulated towards Parliament...
CH1
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I'm posting this as a curiosity - an Al Jazeera film about a Korean Christian cult which has elements of Jonestown about it. They are showing it on Al Jazeera TV this week.
This lot get their true believers to move from South Korea to Fiji, where Grace Road Church miraculously transforms into Grace Industries which is into agriculture, building, hotels, dentistry - you name it.
The Korean church members offer their labour free, in return for public beatings by the woman founder, who makes Mrs Thatcher look like a pussy cat.
The reason I;m postin g this really is that I find the editor 's ongoing commentary on street preachers slightly uncomfortable. I was taught not to mock the afflicted.
Fortunately the nearest we've got to the dangerous cult in the film below are the Jehovah's Witnesses or the Scientologists.
The unfortunate Brixton Street preachers are hopelessly inefficient compared tho these cults.
This lot get their true believers to move from South Korea to Fiji, where Grace Road Church miraculously transforms into Grace Industries which is into agriculture, building, hotels, dentistry - you name it.
The Korean church members offer their labour free, in return for public beatings by the woman founder, who makes Mrs Thatcher look like a pussy cat.
The reason I;m postin g this really is that I find the editor 's ongoing commentary on street preachers slightly uncomfortable. I was taught not to mock the afflicted.
Fortunately the nearest we've got to the dangerous cult in the film below are the Jehovah's Witnesses or the Scientologists.
The unfortunate Brixton Street preachers are hopelessly inefficient compared tho these cults.
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hiraethified
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Do you? I've googled extensively and there is loads about an American cult in Michigan which ran amusement parks and a baseball team.
Sounds a bit light-hearted for the typical Brixton Road prophets
The religious sect that became baseball's answer to the Harlem Globetrotters
The House of David was an Adventist cult that banned alcohol, sex and shaving. But it also loved baseball – and its teams toured the country to enraptured crowds
TopCat
Putin fanboy
I do indeed. They were a collection of black preachers who mainly set up outside the KFC in Brixton in the early 2000's.Do you? I've googled extensively and there is loads about an American cult in Michigan which ran amusement parks and a baseball team.
Sounds a bit light-hearted for the typical Brixton Road prophets
The religious sect that became baseball's answer to the Harlem Globetrotters
The House of David was an Adventist cult that banned alcohol, sex and shaving. But it also loved baseball – and its teams toured the country to enraptured crowdswww.theguardian.com
They were big on condemning people in the name of the lord. Particularly homosexuals and those unbaptised.
It was heartening that they usually drew a mixed crowd who abused them, scuffled with them, and regularly stormed up the police station demanding they be arrested.
Calling for deviants to be crucified was quite unusual. Telling kids in pushchairs they and their parents were going to burn in hell would cause people to go garretty.
I liked to heckle them though this was sometimes a bit tense. Me shouting "I love to suck cock, I'm thinking of your cock now". This would bring entertainment with their burly supporters.
I think they gave up in about 2007?
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hiraethified
They're weren't unlike these twats
Brixton 1 – Twelve Tribes of Israel 0. Homophobic street preachers forced out of Windrush Square
Spreading their message of homophobic hate just a week after the horrendous attack on the LGBT community in Orlando, USA, four ‘preachers’ from The Twelve Tribes of Israel found themsel…
www.brixtonbuzz.com
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Are you sure it's not Twelve Tribes you're thinking of?
This pic is from editor upthread a couple of years ago - they've dropped up several times here
Full marks for religious camp.
I believe if you go back twenty years they were still around, but favoured white surplices with leather wrist support - as in the London Apprentice perhaps.
In any event this sect are opposed to miscegenation, as well as gays, so mixed race couples used to get abuse from them years ago.
Haven't heard about that so much recently.
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hiraethified
Indeed:
The House of David - or Earth Wind and Fire meet Ali Baba in panto as I preferred to call them. There was even a documentary about them on the telly circa 1999: "Brixton's Holy War".
I once remember them spouting a load of anti-gay bile, to an utterly indifferent blank space, which was hilariously heckled by an old drunk Irish bloke waiting for a bus commenting on their get-up: "What about you, ya big fuckin' poof?!"
You probably had to be there.....
CH1
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Be interested to see the TV documentary mentioned there. It's listed on the BFI site, but no link at all.
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