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If I'm understanding this--and mind, this is based in large part on what of your writing has been published so far combined with my own personal experience and research on how cell-church/"discipling and shepherding" groups work--it would appear there are indeed multiple levels:
a) Initial recruitment (via National Prayer Breakfasts, etc.) b) "Friends" (recruitees into cell-church groups, equivalent to "flock" or "sheep" in neopente dominionist cell-churches) b) "Members" (equivalent to "shepherds"--group leaders--in neopente dominionist cell-churches)
Or am I on crack here?
Dominionist hell: it's not just for Sunday anymore
by dogemperor on Fri Apr 04, 2008 at 01:38:35 PM PDT
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Author of THE FAMILY: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power (HarperCollins, Spring 08)
by Ishmael on Fri Apr 04, 2008 at 01:57:06 PM PDT
This is not happy confirmation by any means, but it does fit the pattern of other "pyramid-like" groups (most of which, sadly, do tend to be abusive).
And as weird as this sounds, I actually worry for Hillary at this point, especially if "The Family" uses other coercive practices and may well have recruited her (and my real worry is that they may be using abusive tactics for indoctrinating her in her "cell group").
by dogemperor on Fri Apr 04, 2008 at 02:05:16 PM PDT
She is a sheep among wolves who think Jesus is like a Fuhrer?
by jazzyjay on Fri Apr 04, 2008 at 04:23:09 PM PDT
wide narrow
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