Vaughn Morton No Longer a UPC Presbyter

[Monkeyman]

Originally Posted by BoredOutOfMyMind

Did I miss something here?

Conversation on another Ucon church in Arizona in another thread. This is what was posted as the norm in THAT church. The comparisons to Waco (in cultish behavior-NOT SEXUAL) reminded me that I get the same "vibe" when I hear of Ucons preaching this way. Again, not to confront, I just get a bad vibe, as I'm sure they do when I use a distorted guitar.

[Monkeyman]

Originally Posted by CC1

The reason I thought of it was that I lived just 90 miles away during all of that and it had tremendous media coverage.

I have said that David Koresh should be recognized and honoredas the greatest salesman of the 20th century.

If you were a man here is what you had to agree to if you wanted to be a Branch Davidian and live at the Koresh Compound.;

1. Live in Waco Texas in buildings with no air conditioning (96-105 degrees all summer long). Only one area in the compound had A/C. Yup, you guessed it, David Koresh'es private living / sleeping quarters.

2. All Branch Davidians were required to get up at 4 or 5 am and do rigeorous
exercise routines in the yard (except for David Koresh who slept till around
noon in his air conditioned bedroom)

3. You could not have sex with your wife BUT David Koresh could whenever he wished.

4. David Koresh could take your daugther, as young as 13, for sexual relations.

How he sold all that I have no idea. It just shows that there are groups of people so desperate for structure they will obey anything.

Understood. As I watched it from afar, I of course knew the details but not as close to the situation.