When we first saw the video circulating on social media, showing what was apparently a toddler being forced to get a tattoo, we weren’t certain what to make of it. Was it even real? Was this some sort of elaborate hoax?
We decided to investigate and try to find out who would do such a thing, and perhaps why. That is, if they were going to record a video of the tattooing, it seemed they would likely have talked about their reasons or motivation for the forced act. We should be able to find something.
Watch the video below:
Surprisingly, the investigation didn’t take very long. What we found out is that the mother holding her 3-year-old son as he gets tattooed, was having the symbol of a Puerto Rican-born religious sect inked on the toddler, while she held him as he cried hysterically.
The tattoo is the symbol of three sixes identified with the “Growing In Grace” cult. The video was apparently taken around two years ago, but it is making the rounds again on social networking outlets.
The founder of the sect – or “cult”, more accurately – is Puerto Rican Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda or “Jesus Christ, the Man” as he prefers to call himself.
The Spanish language television show “Sevcec a Fondo” picked up on the video, which they explain was shot in Havana, Cuba. One of the cult members told the show that the group tattoos their bodies as recognition of that they are “identified as God’s people and with God.”
Oddly, the tattoo in question is one that Christianity considers the number of the “Beast” or “Antichrist,” deriving from the Book of Revelation, even though scholars of religion say that this was simply a historical reference to the Hebrew gematria for “Caesar Nero”.
De Jesus Miranda started the religious cult in 1986, but the sect is now based in Miami, Florida and has spread to more than 20 different countries with its strongest presence in Latin America.
(Article by M.B. David; image via YouTube)
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