A Return to Good Old Testament Values
Yesterday I talked about some of the Christian cults in Africa, but what may be more shocking to many Christians is that we have them in the US as well. It’s not just Mormon polygamist compounds either, it can happen to even relatively mainstream churches such as the Calvary Temple, according to this article by The Washington Post from November 16, 2008.
Formerly part of the Assemblies of God, Pastor Star Scott dropped the denomination in 1986 and struck out on his own path as Calvary’s “apostle” and presiding elder, which has given him nearly complete control over the church’s considerable assets as well as its theology and congregation whose faith is increasingly leveraged against them.
Perhaps in an attempt to more fully brainwash future generations, Calvary runs its own school (K-12) which all children in the congregation are expected to attend, and no outsiders are allowed into. In this school children are still beaten with thick wooden paddles and subjected to other physical abuses, and I can only guess at what nonsense the children are taught.