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I can't believe this nutjob reached the highest ranks of the military. Was he always this irrational or did something change in his brain chemistry when he entered tRump's orbit?
Outside every US base is a wacko religious organization trying to get soldiers into “their army”.
My buddy tried to get me in one when we were stationed overseas. The International Church of Christ was the cult. Definitely a cult btw. Late night early mornings doing bible study which was really just getting people super tired and indoctrinating them.
I never went and when he got another buddy to go, my other buddy told him that yep it’s a cult.
We did a bunch of research and confirmed it and then went down the rabbit hole of cults and deprogramming and found out about a guy named Ted Patrick. That dude was definitely unorthodox and illegal but to deprogram cults back then took guts because cults are dangerous as fuck (Jonestown era). They even had a Congressional hearing about it led by Bob Dole.
The cults went underground and started attacking churches and calling themselves “Calvary”. And also turned into megachurches that use the same wacko tactics cults used forever.
But yea, church and military cults are definitely a thing.
The military is a microcosm of society too so you can’t avoid it.
Think of the extreme numbers of nut jobs like him that are still there for sure.