Dave spells it out very explicitly here, too: "if you reject me, then you are rejecting God". "When you really love someone, and you see them making a serious mistake, there's never any satisfaction in saying, "I told you so," or in knowing that one day they're going to know that you were right and they were wrong. All that you really want is for them t
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Dave spells out what he believes to be his role in the world quite explicitly in this article entitled "Divine Authority". He is saying "if you reject me, then you are rejecting God". Please keep in mind that this was written in 1998, not long after The Split and about eight years after meeting Jim Roberts on Vine Street, in Oregon. He is writing about Jim Roberts, without
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14:04. What kind of healthy church or missionary organization would warn one of its members about "deprogrammers" before sending her home to visit her parents? They warned this young woman (15:47) about Rick Ross before she even left Australia. That's not something a safe group or leader would do, and to a lot of people this would be a big red flag that the group and/or leader I
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Dave McKay never stopped; he never even slowed down. He just got sneakier and even more devious. Why does he distort his voice in recordings, I wonder? And how was this young woman "imprisoned"? She's on a remote ranch, a hundred kilometers from nowhere. If anybody truly wanted to keep her against their will, then it would have been easy to do so. So this "Texas Ranch Prison&q
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Dave McKay never stopped; he never even slowed down. He just got sneakier and even more devious. Why does he distort his voice in recordings, I wonder? And how was this young woman "imprisoned"? She's on a remote ranch, a hundred kilometers from nowhere. If anybody truly wanted to keep her against their will, then it would have been easy to do so. So this "Texas Ranch Pr
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