Recently in the news, there have been reports of parents, losing their teenagers to a local cult called the Church of Wells. It’s leaders, Sean Morris, Jacob Gardner and Ryan Ringnald, are young former street preachers. Most of the group’s members are young adults and children seduced to give up their families
for a new life serving Jesus.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2D_aJ4muMM
http://www.inquisitr.com/1204720/church-of-wells-preaching-starts-melee-at-community-parade/
Among the groups many controversies, Church of Wells’ elders allowed a member's days old infant to go without needed medical attention and die. For almost a day, the baby’s body was carried around while members prayed for the infant to be resurrected before emergency services were called.
No one wants to point out that these people all grew up religious, the product of a church, temple or synagogue. A religious upbringing opens up our children and the infirm to exploitation. People get to an age where they need to go deeper, perhaps seduced by a magnetic personality or even a comely face, and told God has a special purpose for them (because everyone wants to be special).
Religions are a lot like cults (often it’s hard to tell them apart). Members are warned to be wary or shun outside influence and taught the importance of blind faith, making them perfect marks for the charlatans of the world. Your local church becomes a farm league of unquestioning boobs, if not for the cult leader,
the televangelist, politician or some other bilker of weak minds. It’s not that big of step from social isolation to total isolation.
Though they appear on TV as victims, lost children of weeping parents, families of these cult members have themselves to blame. But you know how we modern parents feel no culpability for the shortcomings of our
children.
for a new life serving Jesus.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2D_aJ4muMM
http://www.inquisitr.com/1204720/church-of-wells-preaching-starts-melee-at-community-parade/
Among the groups many controversies, Church of Wells’ elders allowed a member's days old infant to go without needed medical attention and die. For almost a day, the baby’s body was carried around while members prayed for the infant to be resurrected before emergency services were called.
No one wants to point out that these people all grew up religious, the product of a church, temple or synagogue. A religious upbringing opens up our children and the infirm to exploitation. People get to an age where they need to go deeper, perhaps seduced by a magnetic personality or even a comely face, and told God has a special purpose for them (because everyone wants to be special).
Religions are a lot like cults (often it’s hard to tell them apart). Members are warned to be wary or shun outside influence and taught the importance of blind faith, making them perfect marks for the charlatans of the world. Your local church becomes a farm league of unquestioning boobs, if not for the cult leader,
the televangelist, politician or some other bilker of weak minds. It’s not that big of step from social isolation to total isolation.
Though they appear on TV as victims, lost children of weeping parents, families of these cult members have themselves to blame. But you know how we modern parents feel no culpability for the shortcomings of our
children.