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re: Bethany Church Abuse on NBC News
Posted on 5/18/21 at 2:34 pm to Wasp
Posted on 5/18/21 at 2:34 pm to Wasp
I believe it. I used to know people involved in that 220 stuff and saw with my own eyes alot of what is being alleged, so I don't doubt the allegations of stuff I didn't see or hear first hand.
Joel is nuttier than squirrel shite in a way that makes him dangerous for impressionable young people. To good ol baws he would just be an ineffectual, odd sort of man with health problems and delusions of grandeur but to religiously impressionable young people he was and probably still is manipulative, toxic and emotionally abusive.
Joel is nuttier than squirrel shite in a way that makes him dangerous for impressionable young people. To good ol baws he would just be an ineffectual, odd sort of man with health problems and delusions of grandeur but to religiously impressionable young people he was and probably still is manipulative, toxic and emotionally abusive.
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Posted on 5/18/21 at 2:42 pm to squid_hunt
I find it hard to believe that this dude was hazing people, running fight clubs and calling black dudes N-word to their face.
Posted on 5/18/21 at 2:42 pm to bgtiger
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Mohammed
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Corky
I'm sure these two have no problems with 14 year old suicide bombers, or 14-year-olds being groomed for anal sex for that matter
Posted on 5/18/21 at 2:44 pm to Wasp
Is this the church that would try to bring back people from the dead?
Posted on 5/18/21 at 2:55 pm to Huey Lewis
I always take these stories with a grain of salt but I had my own experience with a prominent Baton Rouge church that has turned religion off for me for the rest of my life.
Some of these "leaders" have serious defects and use churches as a mask for their own bad behaviors. I don't find it that hard to believe that some of what has been reported on is true.
ETA: Luckily, even as an impressionable young person I was able to see through the nonsense and wasn't pulled in like some people are
Some of these "leaders" have serious defects and use churches as a mask for their own bad behaviors. I don't find it that hard to believe that some of what has been reported on is true.
ETA: Luckily, even as an impressionable young person I was able to see through the nonsense and wasn't pulled in like some people are
This post was edited on 5/18/21 at 2:56 pm
Posted on 5/18/21 at 2:58 pm to Wasp
"These are just some of the alleged abuses that were described for this article by more than a half-dozen people"
lol... so 7 people?
lol... so 7 people?
Posted on 5/18/21 at 2:58 pm to FishinTygah84
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There is no way this all true.
It's literally all true. All these bible thumpers down here are basket cases. I believe every bit of this story.
Posted on 5/18/21 at 3:01 pm to Hoodie
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"They said the 40-year-old pastor is trying to preserve his public image as a hip preacher who relates to younger people and who is also the frontman for a Christian rock band called “Deluge.”
Dude seems totally qualified to run the Cowboys' front office.
ETA: Texans I mean
This post was edited on 5/18/21 at 3:02 pm
Posted on 5/18/21 at 3:06 pm to Tacktheritrix
Posted on 5/18/21 at 3:10 pm to TeddyPadillac
When someone tells me they go to church, this is exactly what my mind goes to.
Posted on 5/18/21 at 3:14 pm to Hoodie
quote:id have loved that shite..
Teenagers pitted against each other during "fight nights" staged by a youth pastor running a Christian leadership training program.
Wpuld have had a betting racket going on the side.
Posted on 5/18/21 at 3:31 pm to Wasp
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Teenagers pitted against each other during "fight nights" staged by a youth pastor running a Christian leadership training program.
Which Sonic were they staged at?
Posted on 5/18/21 at 3:34 pm to Wasp
HAH.
I was working a shitty retail job in college around 06 when a coworker convinced me to go to one of their services. He was part of this program.
TOTAL cult. Bailed halfway through the service.
I'm shocked
I was working a shitty retail job in college around 06 when a coworker convinced me to go to one of their services. He was part of this program.
TOTAL cult. Bailed halfway through the service.
I'm shocked
Posted on 5/18/21 at 3:38 pm to LSUJML
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I’m sure there’s truth to it, especially about being cult like but I just can’t believe they were abusive to the point of having kids soil themselves & nothing came out about it until now
To be fair, it took years for shite to come out about children of god/family international and the pedophilia/orgies/sex recruitment they did.
The phoenix brothers mostly blew the lid on that.
Posted on 5/18/21 at 4:08 pm to Wasp
I wonder if they have hate in their heart about Healing Place and others encroaching on their market share. It has to affect their bottom line at least somewhat.
Posted on 5/18/21 at 4:13 pm to andwesway
A religious leader is just a con man with good PR.
I don't doubt the cult like abuse but this is probably a little over the top. Sounds like the cult is admitting that they went too far, so I don't doubt there is some truth to this.
I don't doubt the cult like abuse but this is probably a little over the top. Sounds like the cult is admitting that they went too far, so I don't doubt there is some truth to this.
Posted on 5/18/21 at 4:17 pm to Hoodie
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I just stood still and waited for it to pass, like a good Catholic
You sound like you were molested.
Posted on 5/18/21 at 4:23 pm to LSUJML
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I’m sure there’s truth to it, especially about being cult like but I just can’t believe they were abusive to the point of having kids soil themselves & nothing came out about it until now
I haven't lived in Baton Rouge since 1995, but between '85 and '95, that congregation was very self-protective and kinda secretive. It always struck me as cultish. I think they took a lot of Jimmy Swaggart's folks after Swaggart's 1988 prostitution scandal.
Posted on 5/18/21 at 4:30 pm to Hoodie
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I'm sure they mean well, but it is kinda cult-ish. The reverse ATMs in the lobby were a thing to behold. They also sell t-shirts just outside the main arena, as if church was a rasslin' show. There 's lots of singing and dancing and clapping. I just stood still and waited for it to pass, like a good Catholic.
Posted on 5/18/21 at 4:34 pm to Hoodie
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reverse ATMs in the lobby
All the BR Mega Churches have this. Tacky AF.
This post was edited on 5/18/21 at 4:35 pm
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