They seemed cultish to me just from that first exposure. I don’t recall the particulars, but it was probably from how Moses David treated his flock. They looked pretty much like the crew attending the Calvary Chapel tent but Chuck Smith wasn’t running a cult
“They seemed cultish to me just from that first exposure. I don’t recall the particulars, but it was probably from how Moses David treated his flock. They looked pretty much like the crew attending the Calvary Chapel tent but Chuck Smith wasn’t running a cult”
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Yeah, Smith was pretty much mainstream evangelical, as are the Calvary bunch - he was just in the right place and time when the “Jesus Movement” happened, late 60s-early 70s.
This video can be considered NSFW or for kids, but only because some of the illustrations used in original “Moses David”s writings concerning the COG practice “flirty fishing” are not “appropriate”. It’s comprehensive, but short.
“What is Flirty Fishing?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBIHA5auF5c
To think that McGowan and other kids had to grow up in such depravity masked as religion. I believe River Pheonix grew up with COG parents, also. Don’t really know much else about him, I don’t keep up with recent celebs, esp. dead ones that much. I’m more of a classics aficionado - Bogie, Audrey Hepburn (Kate Hepburn, too), etc and so on.