I hesitate to say this, but I have originally believed the Lubavitche Rebbe to have been innocent in this debacle but now I’m starting to get a different picture. I have shown someone the video that i posted on the other Lubavitche thread about Cunin saying that the Rebbe runs the world. The person I showed the video to was absolutely shocked but said somethung very profound. Being a Chosid he knew how Chassidim are and he said that the Rebbe must’ve wriiten and said things that brought his Chassiddim to believe what they believe in. That comment stayed with me and since my last post saying that I’m changing what i wrote that the “rebbe is an idol that you worship”, to “the Lubavitche believing that the Rebbe has divine powers” I’ve been doing more and more research into the Lubavitche Rebbe’s writings and I have to say I’m shocked.
From the writings of “Ah rebbe iz Atzmus uMahus vos hot zich areingeshtelt in a guf” to signing his name as moshiach, to accepting a tambourine a woman made for him “because he’s the moshiach”, to encouraging the saying of “yechi” in his last year of life, etc. The whole meshiachisten ideology and his Chassidim believing in him having divine powers did not happen in a vaccuum.