USAMomma
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Who would run a cult?
How are these cult groups started?
Those with "Charisma" AKA sociopathic types: those with the ability to pursue people into being a part of something based upon false and misleading information and outright lies...Groups such as the one David Koresh ran. People like he who made his followers believe he was God.
I read a bit of this story this morning and it got me to thinking back to some of my college studies into Criminal Law classes.
18 years after Waco, Davidians believe Koresh was God
The report reads, in parts....
"Waco, Texas (CNN) -- Sheila Martin's children burned alive. God, she says, wanted it that way."
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A bit more,
"Branch Davidians believe that when people die, they are simply "unconscious," waiting to be resurrected so they can travel to a kingdom cut off to nonbelievers.
Lisa, 13; Sheila,15; Anita,18; Wayne Jr., 20; and Wayne Sr. -- they are just unconscious. They are just waiting.
David Koresh told his followers years before the men in uniforms arrived that a great apocalyptic battle with Babylon was coming and there would be destruction and fire and deaths.
So, Martin says, David was right. "David is the messiah, and he's coming back," she explains, inspecting a bush that's beginning to produce sweet peppers.
"Now we just wait for the kingdom."
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""What am I going to do, argue with everyone?" Doyle says. "When people ask why we still believe in David and what he preached, after everything, I think they are asking because they really do want to understand. What gets lost --- what got lost years ago and resulted in the deaths of many people -- is that none of us were looking to convert the masses. If you joined us, then fine, but if you didn't, then go on with your life.
"You don't have to believe as I do."
Doyle sits in his cluttered living room, detective paperbacks, tomes on theology and Laurel & Hardy videos crammed on bookshelves. The only item that has room to breathe is a photograph of his 18-year-old daughter, Shari.
She was one of Koresh's "wives."
In the photo, Shari is flaxen haired, flushed and smiling, hugging the family dog.
That Koresh bedded his daughter makes Doyle shift in his seat, and when he speaks of it, his jaw tightens.
Doyle says his daughter started having sex with Koresh when she was 14. Koresh fathered at least 13 children with sect followers and engaged in sexual acts with underage Davidian girls, according to the Justice Department, numerous affidavits of Davidians and interviews CNN conducted with survivors. "
You can read the entire report here:
18 years after Waco, Davidians believe Koresh was God - CNN.com
So, why would anyone allow such an individual to gain power over them; such power that they would allow their underage daughter to be raped by him?
Yeah, hard to understand...
How are these cult groups started?
Those with "Charisma" AKA sociopathic types: those with the ability to pursue people into being a part of something based upon false and misleading information and outright lies...Groups such as the one David Koresh ran. People like he who made his followers believe he was God.
I read a bit of this story this morning and it got me to thinking back to some of my college studies into Criminal Law classes.
18 years after Waco, Davidians believe Koresh was God
The report reads, in parts....
"Waco, Texas (CNN) -- Sheila Martin's children burned alive. God, she says, wanted it that way."
~~~~~~
A bit more,
"Branch Davidians believe that when people die, they are simply "unconscious," waiting to be resurrected so they can travel to a kingdom cut off to nonbelievers.
Lisa, 13; Sheila,15; Anita,18; Wayne Jr., 20; and Wayne Sr. -- they are just unconscious. They are just waiting.
David Koresh told his followers years before the men in uniforms arrived that a great apocalyptic battle with Babylon was coming and there would be destruction and fire and deaths.
So, Martin says, David was right. "David is the messiah, and he's coming back," she explains, inspecting a bush that's beginning to produce sweet peppers.
"Now we just wait for the kingdom."
~~~~~~~~~~
""What am I going to do, argue with everyone?" Doyle says. "When people ask why we still believe in David and what he preached, after everything, I think they are asking because they really do want to understand. What gets lost --- what got lost years ago and resulted in the deaths of many people -- is that none of us were looking to convert the masses. If you joined us, then fine, but if you didn't, then go on with your life.
"You don't have to believe as I do."
Doyle sits in his cluttered living room, detective paperbacks, tomes on theology and Laurel & Hardy videos crammed on bookshelves. The only item that has room to breathe is a photograph of his 18-year-old daughter, Shari.
She was one of Koresh's "wives."
In the photo, Shari is flaxen haired, flushed and smiling, hugging the family dog.
That Koresh bedded his daughter makes Doyle shift in his seat, and when he speaks of it, his jaw tightens.
Doyle says his daughter started having sex with Koresh when she was 14. Koresh fathered at least 13 children with sect followers and engaged in sexual acts with underage Davidian girls, according to the Justice Department, numerous affidavits of Davidians and interviews CNN conducted with survivors. "
You can read the entire report here:
18 years after Waco, Davidians believe Koresh was God - CNN.com
So, why would anyone allow such an individual to gain power over them; such power that they would allow their underage daughter to be raped by him?
Yeah, hard to understand...
