Posted on 10/14/2014 11:12:12 AM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Ohio televangelist ‘forced members to have vasectomies and abortions, told women to treat pregnancies as tumors and allowed children to be sexually abused’
Televangelist Ernest Angley has been accused of running an Ohio church where men are forced to get vasectomies and women abortions, and where children were sexually abused.
Self-proclaimed prophet Angley has been described by some of 21 former members as a closeted-homosexual Jim Jones who's turned a blind eye to sexual abuse.
But the 93-year-old has defended the allegations, saying he is simply an instrument of God.
He told the Akron Beacon Journal: 'I'm not a homosexual. God wouldn't use a homosexual like he uses me. He calls me his prophet, and indeed I am,'
Angley it is said to have played an active role in encouraging male followers to undergo vasectomies, and also monitored the results.
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Fine, but if you can’t back up your claims with even a hint of substance, then you’re just making yourself look foolish. If that’s your goal, be my guest.
“Fine, but if you can’t back up your claims with even a hint of substance, then you’re just making yourself look foolish.”
I am not averse to looking foolish in the eyes of fools.
Ernest Angley turns 95 today!
Ernest Angley turns 96 today!
When I hit the ball with my driver just past the hosel and the ball squirts low and left with a bit of fade, I refer to the shot as an “Ernest Angley”. HEEL!
I'm as against "Sola Scriptura" as you are--probably more so--but any church that has a living "prophet" by definition does not believe in sola scriptura.
Ernest Angley turns 99 today!
I remember watching a documentary on them years ago. It got to the “no procreations” part and my first thought was “well, then, how are there more Shakers?” Turns out you have to join..or something. Eh..but they make good furniture!
Actually, they took in orphans, back in the day, and at a certain age, probably 18, the orphan could leave without a problem.
Probably come back, too, within a reasonable amount of time.
At some point, the communities made the decision not to take in or accept any more members.
A quick lookup says that there may be two of them left.
At the opposite end, in the mid-1800s, there was a sex commune in Oneida, NY. Eventually, the members realized that they’d have to make a living some how, so they turned to making silverware.
Any way, the commune booted out one of its more aggressive members, who, in a fit of pique, after a string of various failures, directed his anger, and gun, at then-POTUS, James Garfield...
Interesting! Certainly have heard of Oneida silverware! Thanks.
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