Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Just Another Part Of The American Landscape

"Cults are notorious for convincing people to do the unthinkable. In March, a member of the now-defunct One Mind Ministries pleaded guilty to starving her son to death. Allegedly, she and other cult members stopped feeding the 1-year-old because he wouldn't say "amen" at mealtime.

Back in 1993, David Koresh's Branch Davidian sect ended in a conflagration after a 51-day standoff with the FBI. In 1978, over 900 members of the People's Temple died at Jonestown, Guyana, in a mass murder-suicide; and in 1997, scores of Heaven's Gate followers killed themselves in California."


-- Krystle M. Davis, mentioning many of the stories we've covered in her review intro for Jayanti Tamm's ''Cartwheels in a Sari'' (see the tags below) - and only mentioning once that cults are "mainstream" now (but not a word about stopping the zombie invasion) - like, maybe, even in Forbes Magazine.

2 comments:

  1. I just belatedly discovered Jayanti Tamm today. I am going to try and schedule and interview with her. Whatever happened to you on our last scheduled program?

    Constance E. Cumbey

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