Returning to the analysis of the latest Facebook debate related to our discussion of Mitt Romney’s cult heritage, it’s important to look at the other fundamental issue COG members seem to struggle with, besides the definition of cultism.

When debating a COG member these days, it’s easy to set watches to when they’ll start launching into Barack Obama and the satanic, godless, atheist, Muslim, Nazi, Commie, socialist conspiracy ruling the United States that’s trying to keep them down.

Here’s just a few golden quotes from a COG member who decided that Mitt Romney was not a cultist and the … More

The COG has been looking toward several different “threats” to the United States and Britain (what they call “Israel”) over the decades. The great threat to the COG and America has at varying times been the Axis Powers, the European Union, the Roman Catholic Church, and Muslim terrorists. Each of these, at one time in church history, has been interpreted as a part of biblical end-time prophecy, in name of creating a sense of urgency within COG membership, and thus more monetary donations.

Yet, as pointed out in the following interview, there are scary religious fundamentalists (we won’t really call … More

While it’s not specifically about the COG, it is extremely illustrative of their mindset and cultural elements.


As we have already discussed in previous posts, the “Quiverfull Movement” and extremist rightwingers all dovetail with members of the COG.

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Aug 152011

Vyckie of No Longer Quivering gives her account of being married to an abusive husband in WCG. Be certain to check out the rest of her blog, which describes her painful break from a movement that’s very popular within the COG.

Q: What is “Quiverfull?”

“Quiverfull” is a convenient, though I believe, somewhat unfortunate term which we’re using at No Longer Quivering to describe a family lifestyle which is growing in popularity among evangelical Christians ~ particularly those who home educate their children.

Quiverfull ~ is the idea that truly godly families will “trust the Lord” with their

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