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As a Same-sex attracted Child in a Christian Cult, I Was Taught to Hate Myself. Then I Joined the Church of Social Justice—and Nothing Changed
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I grew up in the suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland, in a fundamentalist Christian community called The Lamb of God. What began in the mid-1970s as a small organization of born-again hippies who played tune, prayed together, and proselytized to whoever would listen about Jesus’s unconditional adore and mercy, descended into authoritarianism in the 1980s after its founder linked up with the broader charismatic renewal movement that had been sweeping the nation. The Lamb of God’s doctrine became explicit—Christianity good; Islam, feminism, secular humanism, and Marxism bad; and the rules strict—complete submission of all members to the management, and of all wives to their husbands.
My father was one of the five male leaders, or “coordinators.” My mother, though she had at one time been considered for the corresponding female role of “handmaid,” was never officially appointed to the position. This meant that she was excluded from the leadership’s official meetings, segregated by se
The People’s Cult
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On November 18, 1978, Harold Cordell had to make a choice that few could ever fathom: leave behind his family and save his life or join them in committing suicide. He was a member of the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, also known as “Jonestown,” and at that moment, it was all unraveling. Defectors were gathering their possessions to leave.
Cordell turned to his fourteen-year-old son James, known to the local community as “Jim Stalin.” “Come on, Jimmy, let’s get out of here,” Harold said. “We gotta go.” But his son refused. James would die a several hours later after ingesting cyanide, along with more than nine hundred others.
Peoples Temple was founded in Indianapolis in 1954 as a church committed to racial integration and social justice. The group moved to California’s Redwood Valley in 1965 and increasingly embraced a socialist worldview. By the 1970s, the organization had grown to thousands of members, concentrated in California’s urban centers, and was headquartered in San Francisco. Pro-
“Pizzagate” and the Nocturnal Ritual Fantasy: Imaginary Cults, Phoney News, and Real Violence
This is Part XIX of The Public Medievalist’s continuing series onRace, Racism and the Middle Ages, by Michael Barbezat.
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A persistent delusion exists Western culture: that shadowy, conspiratorial groups amass together in secret—preferably at night—to plot the overthrow of society. As part of their plotting, the conspirators supposedly ritually violence, murder, and consume angelic children.
Ideas about this conspiracy have appeared repeatedly throughout our history. Historian Norman Cohn called this recurrent conspiracy theory “the nocturnal ritual fantasy.” Cohn argues that imperial Romans made these claims against early Christians; later medieval Christian authorities, in turn, made similar allegations against Christian heretics, Jews, and so-called “witches”. Belief in the nocturnal ritual delusion helped to justify deadly violence against these marginalized groups, and, in fact, played an important role in establishing their very marginality.
In all cases, the claims were false. They were
In the Sandy Hook deposition videos, Alex Jones looks like a broken male. His normal red-faced screaming self is very subdued as he’s being sued for bringing misery to the parents of murdered children at Sandy Get together. He claimed the massacre was a hoax. This lie, he created, is a lot bigger than, say, declaring Obama is a secret Muslim or Glenn Beck is a CIA operative. Jones perpetuated, to his army of loyal followers, that the Sandy Hook school shootingwas a staged “false flag“ operation, the grieving parents were paid actors, and the children who were killed simply did not exist.
You know, typical Alex Jones shit of sowing chaos in the world.
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Jones began his career in Austin, Texas, back in the ’90s, as a local cable access cult figure at ACATV (Austin Society Access Television). He built a rabid national audience by spewing out conspiracy theories and manically declaring all major calamities as inside jobs. Donald Trump appeared on his display a few years help and praised Jones’ barking-at-the-moon style by saying, “Your reputation is amazing.” Jones, in turn, helped usher the conspiracy-theorist
In an era where misinformation spreads faster than the authenticity, and political extremism often feels more like a occupied belief system than a policy stance, many of us have found ourselves in painfully surreal situations having challenging conversations with loved ones who are devoted to President Donald Trump.
Interactions with folks who plunge into the cult-y category aren’t just absurd or frustrating. Often, they’re just heartbreaking. How execute you keep a relationship alive when someone you protect about seems captured by a worldview that’s not only disconnected from truths, but openly hostile?
This guide was born from that doubt. We spoke with experts in cult recovery and high-control groups, including those familiar with the tactics, language and emotional binds of movements like MAGA to bring you practical tools for navigating these encounters.
These aren’t scripts to win an argument or “deprogram” someone in one conversation. Instead, they are strategies to help you produce it through these (often exhausting) interactions and respond as best you can to those you love.
Ask a wonderful question.
First and main, you have to remember who it is that you’re speaking to, explained&nb