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IMO, if it doesn’t, it sure should. Now I see where the ‘’Taliban’’ comparisons are coming from.

I knew about dominionism, charismatics (too well), & had heard of Joel’s Army, but foolishly thought the movements had faded- not metastasized.

There are some kind of books regarding child rearing that are pretty disturbing. (I don’t think I bookmarked these. Maybe an Amazon search would turn them up)

Anyway, one of the recommendations is to ‘’flick’’ a baby’s face if they suck their thumb. When I saw the video of Cruz’s daughter resisting being given to him, that was the first thing I thought of because she was flicking her fingers in his face.

I didn’t see anything about sexual abuse, but physical (’’baby beating’’), yes. I just read an article about it, so very limited info.

Was Koresh a dominionist? I thought he was some kind of polygamist. I’ll have to google Solar Temple. Sounds pagan.

Koresh was a serial abuser ..... used his lecturing abilities to get a "hold" over his believers and helped himself to his male followers' wives, jumped on anything that struck his fancy, and helped himself to the older girls, too, even preteens.

He exercised a powerful intellectual and moral control over all his followers and upgraded the weapons he'd used to seize the Mount Carmel compound in 1988 from the previously incumbent faction of Seventh Day Adventists (another group) after a several hours' running gun battle.

Koresh and his "Mighty Men" cadre upgraded his original weapons cache, which featured numbers of Mini-14's, buying and converting numbers of civilian AKS's to full-auto AK-47's illegally, which was the source of the eventual warrants which the ATF tried to serve in 1993 as part of their "ZBO" ("Zee Beeg One", the budget-cycle "convincer" for the incoming 'Rat administration).

He also had a couple of (legal) Barrett rifles, one of which did a lot of the damage during the ATF assault, killing at least one agent and injuring others; the ATF knew about the Barretts and doubtless had plans for them in their ZBO "scary nasty guns" video for the gawping media post-raid. Except that the Davidians actually used them.

If the ATF, spinning forward Old Man Bush's Yankee distaste for crackers with guns, hadn't executed a massive assault on the Davidian compound, if instead the matter had been handled by one (1) Texas Ranger and the sheriff of McClennan County, there'd have been no huge gun battle, no seige, and no dozens of dead; and babies born into the holocaust of Mt. Carmel would be alive today and looking forward to their 23rd birthdays.