Religious abuse and cult like tendencies far too common in mainstream church

The following article is awful BUT not that surprising as if you make it less extreme, I can recognise certain big name ‘Christian’ leaders in the place of cult leader Jiri Adam. There is the same character traits and spiritual abuse, albeit much less extreme and far more seductive in much of the wider church and its leaders.

Authoritarian, sexually abusive and promiscuous and often perverted, spiritually abusive, overly-controlling, silencing – touch not my anointed, domineering as elite anointed gods to the people and lording it over the flock as untouchables, and money grabbing and yet more money grabbing. This following description from the article: ‘They slaved from dawn to dusk building Adam and his wife a luxury home and another house where he had his cult chapel.’   could easily apply to many congregants of the ‘mainstream’ pulpit pimps like Creflo Dollar, Kenneth Copeland, Joyce Meyer, E Bernard Jordan, Rev Ike, Paula White, Peter Popoff, Benny Hinn, Juanita Bynum, Thomas Weeks etc – the list goes on and on, through various grades of depravity and selfishness, albeit add in the multiple waterfront mansions, the fleet of gold plated airplanes used for personal holidays, and the luxury commodes and the line of luxury cars. 

The sexual misconduct charge could also be applied to many ministers – I could reel off several big names who have fallen this year, in mainstream churches, who have not just commited adultery with one woman (bad enough), but with multiple women, sometimes against their will or at the very least co-erced via pastoral persuasion, and some who have also beaten these women to disciple them, usually when they were nude. It is not just the Roman Catholic church who has child sexual abuse scandals. Just last week a pastor in, I think Texas, was caught out soliciting sex from a 13 year old girl. An evangelical church not that far from me has an assistant pastor who has abused his daughter for years but nobody will listen. Let’s not forget what ‘prophets’ Bob Jones did with women and Paul Cain did with men ‘in the name of the Lord’. Many more ministers are yet to be exposed including a certain big name prophet. IHOP, whom both Cain and Jones are or were associated with, is getting more and more cultic, young people being told to cut off all contact with their families for at least a year.

The sad thing is, that because the case below is an obvious cult, it will be condemned by the church. Some Christians reading this article may daydream themselves as neighbours to the cult, thinking they would somehow supernaturally know about the horrors and would never put up with it and  would boldly rebuke it and/or report the abuse to the police and rescue these poor people - yet similar (albeit usually less extreme) things go on on their own church doorstep in full sight  and they continually turn a blind eye, even justify it. Church: stop tolerating these things and rid yourself of those who abuse you, and stop allowing yourself to be abused, and stop abusing others! Pastors have forgotten how to be shepherds, and instead are tyrants. And the church does nothing.

“A sect leader kept five women as slaves for 20 years and left them looking like concentration camp victims. One was worked to death and sickened detectives say the starved survivors are like Auschwitz inmates. Police are understood to be questioning the women about any sexual abuse by the cult leader, who called himself “God”.

And while the brutalised victims slaved for him, Jiri Adam, 74, forced them to sign over all their homes, property and cash to him. As they grew older, Adam even plundered their pensions. The self-styled commandant is now facing 12 years in jail on slavery charges.

The secret camp was only discovered when one of the women escaped and tried to get medical treatment. Shocked medics in the Czech city of Brno called in the cops. Police spokesman Oldrich Kriz said of the women: “I would compare their state to that of concentration camp victims in World War II.”

Religious fanatic Adam was a member of the sinister Grail Movement and described himself as his victims’ God. When one neighbour tried to persuade the women to rest, furious Adam raged at him: “We don’t need God here. I’m God.”

Adam recruited the women to his mind-bending cult before making them his personal slaves. They lived in a ramshackle shed on Adam’s land with no lighting, heat or water. They slaved from dawn to dusk building Adam and his wife a luxury home and another house where he had his cult chapel. Any spare time was spent doing back-breaking work on Adam’s vineyard. He gave them only bread and water to live on with just a spoonful of honey for supper. Disobedience was snuffed out by withdrawing food altogether. Doctors say the women may never recover from the muscle wasting caused by starvation.

The secretive Grail Movement are recognised as an official religion in the Czech Republic despite a sinister reputation. Last year, they were involved in a child abuse scandal when a follower was arrested for keeping her eight-year-old son chained in a dungeon.”

Daily Record, May 29, 2008

The Grail Movement follows the teachings of Oskar Ernst Bernhardt, a German also known as Abd-ru-shin, who from 1923-38 wrote the Grail Message, which depicts man as a being whose spirit can return to its source in heaven by performing good deeds on Earth. It claims to have at least 10,000 followers worldwide, including several hundred in Britain.