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Now we see JZ taking an awkward swing at her critics by stereotyping them as dumb conservatives. JZ Knight lamely cloaks herself with the Anti-anticult clique of sociologists whose old ideas about New Religious Movements are academically passé since the 1990s. Most of them have moved on. I lectured on a panel hosted by Professor David Bromley at an Association of Sociology of Religion in NYC in 1997. He and I had a good conversation and views have moderated since the 1990s as new research continues in this field. In the early 1980s, he would have called me a "vigilante" for being a deprogrammer. JZ is merely name dropping and has no basis for her quasi-intellectualisms regarding her critics, as if her critics can't see the difference between "Ramtha", JZ, Jon Stewart, and Stephen Colbert. Colbert is a master of irony and satire. Outside of her devoted cult (in the academic sense) circle, very few people even know who JZ actually is. Millions know Colbert and they know that he like Jon Stewart targets a straw man Republican, much like Rush Limbaugh and right wing talking heads target straw man Democrats. Colbert is a comedian and comedians often target stereotypes. JZ claims to be the messenger of a god of the Great White Brotherhood who was not being satirical when "he" said, "I am Christ for you in this age." Perhaps Ramtha was being satirical when he allegedly told Judith in 1977, "I am Ramtha the enlightened one; I have come to help you across the ditch." As far as I can tell, JZ Knight is still in a ditch, and after she dies, the ditch will disappear as history covers over her failing ditch, New Religious Movement, or whatever she wants us to call it..