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Old 04-12-2009, 03:43 PM
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Re: Homestead Heritage in waco tx
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Originally Posted by RandyWayne View Post
These places scare me to death. For one they scare me in their own right but also because of the black eye they give Christianity in general.
Scares me too. History has shown the cloistered groups tend toward cultism and I mean of the psychological kind, not to mention scary heresies. We need only look at Jim Jones, Koresh, the polygamists and so on. This stuff started way back with the montanists
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