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So the People of Praise cult thing belongs to Coney Barrett's SON! (Original Post) Grasswire2 Sep 2020 OP
I thought it was her father? DonaldsRump Sep 2020 #1
oh, maybe Grasswire2 Sep 2020 #2
I was reading up about this lunatic Amy DonaldsRump Sep 2020 #3
Michael Coney, 74, is the pastor........... secondwind Sep 2020 #4
An Escaped "Handmaiden" The River Sep 2020 #5
Fundamentalism I_UndergroundPanther Sep 2020 #6
wow gopiscrap Sep 2020 #7

DonaldsRump

(7,715 posts)
3. I was reading up about this lunatic Amy
Sun Sep 27, 2020, 05:55 PM
Sep 2020

...and apparently her father and mother have been in this cult for decades.

The River

(2,615 posts)
5. An Escaped "Handmaiden"
Sun Sep 27, 2020, 06:40 PM
Sep 2020

has self published an account of her treatment by the Predators of Praise cult.
Just reading the intro and table of contents is horrific.

https://22d32dd5-94e1-4d2b-a42c-662dd5054b6f.filesusr.com/ugd/f28b6b_b1463bf699e84bb28470970e0878424c.pdf

Two hundred years ago a system of legal slavery allowed for the ownership of human beings as if they were livestock. Children were ripped away from their mothers with as little consideration as separating a calf from a cow. In this country today, extreme forms of paternalistic religion promote an institutional form of slavery where a woman must be totally obedient to a husband who has absolute control of her life. The wife’s lot is to obey and bear children. If she rebels and chooses to save herself by escaping from this life, the father—supported by the church community and often by the court system, can forcibly strip a child away from the mother
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