Cults and Family Abuse

 To me, the most sickening, saddest and yes, maddening kinds of cults, are those that perpetuate evil acts on the most innocent and vulnerable people in society. Children. 

Take for instance this group: The Family. 

Their agenda? They were grooming and abusing the children "as part of a bizarre experiment set to raise a 'master race' who would save the world after Armageddon. 

What? 

The groups leader was a so called glamorous woman by the name of Anne Hamilton-Byne who was a yoga teacher in Australia.

But guess who some of her followers thought she was?

If you guessed Jesus Christ, you would be correct. They considered her to be Jesus Christ in female form. (The Family cult, a new documentary shows where the children are now.)

My own fleeting thought on reading that about her, is that 'boy, Jesus Christ sure gets around in these cults.' 

I could go on and on about this cult and its very disturbing practices within. However, I am trying to stick to the ones here in our own country of the United States.

The above group reminds me of one family, though while perhaps not classified as a cult exactly, still lived in this land of ours, among our own and got away with the abuse  and torture of their own children for many years until they were found out by their own brave daughter who escaped and was able to call 911 to report them to the authorities.

As the story broke, we can be thankful that these children may have been able to finally go to learn to live a better life. How long will it take some of them? Its been about 3 years since this happened, so only God knows. But this girl might have well saved some of her siblings lives.

I am speaking of the Turpin Family, of course. And am so thankful that this family of children were rescued from these evil parents and do now have the chance of a better life that they certainly deserve.

I am also thankful that their parents will spend the rest of their lives in prison (I hope. But who knows sometimes about our justice system) and will never be able to hurt anyone again. ( Turpin case - Wikipedia)

What makes parents do abominable evil to their own? It is bad enough that groups like The Family do what they do to children that they are not related to, but these kids were the Turpin's blood. How could they have done it?

I think the answers to that are unimaginable. But in the next post, I would like to explore the questions of 'how' and 'why'? 

Thanks for coming by. Have a blessed weekend.