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quigclan (quigclan)
New member
Username: quigclan
Post Number: 1
Registered: 6-2005
Posted From: 24.178.32.172
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 08, 2005 - 1:05 pm: | 
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I was a member of the "The Truth" also known as "Friends of God" cult. They're website is www.biblestudysite.org. The quarterly newsletter is called Wholewheat International. The group was started by Ron Brown over thiry years ago. It is a small group of less than 500 members based out of St. Paul, MN, and San Diego, CA. Scott Brouard is the leader in MN and Henry Seigel is the leader in San Diego.
If you have been a member in this cult, I would like to hear your story.
The group advocates harsh abusive punishements for children.
Children are denied vaccinations and basic preventive medical care.
Marriages performed by the group leaders are not legal.
Women were to be kept in "their place". Husbands were taken aside and taught how to keep his wife in submission. The "weaker vessal". It didn't matter what the husband was doing, he was always right.
The leaders kept people obedience by fear of the aliens taking up nonbelievers to torture them.
A lot of time was spent teaching of various government conspiracies and medical cover-ups.
the leaders could do whatever they wanted, but those not in the inner circle had to be perfect.
We had to live to please god daily by doing good works for others. There was no grace--only striving for perfection. A bad decision right before death would result in going to the lake of fire, despite a life of service to God.
We were to have no contact with the people who'd left the cult because of a "contact demon". It was the leaders ploy to keep us from finding out the real story as to why people had left.
Scott's wife left him about nine years ago. She sued him and Ron Brown in court (I do not know the exact title of her suit) basically for abuse from her husband directly due to the cult influence. She won a settlement!!!!!!!!!!
I have lost contact with all those who left because of the rules of not keeping in touch with them. I would so like to hear from any of you that have been in this group!} |
monet (monet)
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Username: monet
Post Number: 1
Registered: 6-2005
Posted From: 67.173.202.225
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - 7:53 pm: |
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okay I started attending truth meetings in november of 2004. since i've been there everything has been pretty much not like you've describe, therefore i don't know if it is the same 'cult.' we have the workers which are the elders who usually conduct gospel meetings and we have the friends. i still have not yet professed and no one has seemed to look down on me for that. on sundays i don't participate in the drinking of the juice and the eating of the bread and no one seems to judge me. every question that i've asked is answered. so in a way it seems that we are talking about the same thing but we aren't. so far im interested in the meetings and appreciate the way that they are conducted. i'm used to a different religious atmosphere so this is way better to me. i do want to know more about the religion so i will ask. no restricition or rules were enforced upon me but i could tell that there are certain things that we sould abide by like the way we dress and stuff like that. but on the opposite side of that when i go to some of the friends house i listen to mainstream music and dance. we also could wear earrings and our hair down even though the elder members keep theirs in a bun. so i don't know i maybe i am in the same thing it's just different here in dallas. |
quigclan (quigclan)
New member
Username: quigclan
Post Number: 2
Registered: 6-2005
Posted From: 24.178.32.172
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 1:09 pm: |
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Monet,
It does not sound like the same group. We had no one in the cult wearing buns. There was no drinking of the juice or eating of the bread on Sundays. There is no organized group in Dallas. The only music that was listened to was songs written by Ron Brown himself or his family. Just proceed carefully in the group that you are in because cults generally for the most part are over loving and welcoming to the new people for awhile. Once they indoctrinate you over time is when the demands start being made on you. That's where the abuse and the brainwashing occurs. |
rodeoabgirl (rodeoabgirl)
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Username: rodeoabgirl
Post Number: 1
Registered: 8-2005
Posted From: 142.59.188.154
| | Posted on Thursday, August 25, 2005 - 6:26 pm: |
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Hello to all. As a ex-"professing" member of the "truth" i am glad to see that i am not the only one with a problem here. I have faced the slander from family and close friends as well as the "being cut off situation". Living in alberta i have seen first hand what this so called "fellowship" can do to people and relationships with in familys. For those thathave not walked in these waters as Jesus said "ye who have not sinned cast the first stone" and i see the workers here casting alot of stones now a days.
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1baptism (1baptism)
Junior Member
Username: 1baptism
Post Number: 50
Registered: 1-2005
Posted From: 199.156.164.245
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 30, 2005 - 6:49 pm: |
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This thread does not belong under "Two-By-Twos", so I transferred it all to it's own thread in the main listings.
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