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Blackhat
Apollo, it is refreshing to see your responses to things you are newly finding out about how DaveJC has manipulated a group of people to do things which shock the moral core of most decent people, and in the name of following Jesus!
I will admit that I have become numb to these things over time, repeated confrontation to these acts can have that effect. Ho hum, yes he persuaded them to do whippings, ho hum, yes he used group dynamics to elicit kidney donations, ho hum, yes he recruited young people, ho hum, yes, he used a false identity to try to get media publicity. Ho hum, yes he used his forum to argue his points and grind down genuine people, ho hum, yes he made false accusations against numerous people, ho hum, yes he used "they hate Jesus" to diminish and demonise anyone who disagreed with him.....
Your natural disgust with what you are finding out is a breath of fresh air, and perhaps useful to any newcomers who might be on their first investigation of this now defunct Dave McKay Cult.
When you are exposed to something for a long time, even as an outsider and opponent, I find you can become normalised to the things you are seeing. Thank you for bringing a fresh moral outrage to the forum.
Thank you Blackhat,
I'm glad i can be of assistance. You can thank Dave McKay
(former member of the notorious ''Children of God'') for my presence. Had Dave made more of an effort to treat me with courtesy and respect and been less paranoid and defensive i would probably have just dismissed the JCs as some 'wacky religious group' and forgotten about them within a couple of days. As it was however, Dave's defensiveness and paranoia left me feeling inquisitive. The more i looked into the group the more shocked i became and the clincher for me was the Johnson's story. After reading about the Johnnon's there really was no way back. I imagine it would be very difficult for anyone to completely forget about the JCs after reading the Johnson's story, and the sad thing is the Johnson's are just one of many families who have been ripped apart by this dangerous cult.
I know i'm not an ex member or someone who has friends or family in the cult but i genuinely care about people and that's why i'm here. Dave McKay is a danger to society and the more people who know that the better.