posted on Mar, 11 2010 @ 08:31 PM
This is my first time submitting a post so I hope I'm doing it right. This belongs in the religious section. I could not find any recent news articles
but their current web site is linked here.
I normally don't get too involved in religion, but at the request of my wife I looked into the "church" organization The Door. What I found is a
bit disturbing. The Potter House is also involved with this organization. I looked and looked but could not find any mention of any of these
organizations here.
The main part of all this that struck me as wrong was their contradictory message of not provoking your children, yet first hand accounts of the
pastor of their Prescott Az. branch dressing as the devil while making a 5 year old girl put her hands in a bucket of blood!
They seem like a very authoritarian, brainwashing cult to me. More than a few people my wife and I met have nothing good to say about this
"church".
What is your take, ATS, on this? Why do we as a society tolerate this kind of behavior in the name of "religion"?
They seem to focus on indoctrinating children at a young age to THEIR teachings.Children who go to this church end up telling their own parents
that they're going to hell because they don't believe what they do. THIS is part of what is tearing the family unit in America apart IMO.
I really don't think this is what our founding fathers had in mind when they wanted freedom of religion. It seems to me that our "religious
freedoms" is what is tearing this country apart.
So, what does this look like to you? a church or a cult?
www.religionnewsblog.com
(visit the link for the full news article)