Doomsday Cult Survivor Reviews HBO's The Vow. Feat. Kristen
Roberta Glass True Crime Report
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🗓️ 13 December 2022
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Roberta Glass True Crime Report, putting the true back in true crime. |
| 0:26.1 | From New York City, Roberta Glass is now on the record. |
| 0:47.7 | HBO's documentary on the Nexium cult has entered its second season, and joining me to discuss is Kristen, who was raised in the Worldwide Church of God Cult, and is returning to the podcast. |
| 0:52.3 | She was also on the episode, two different episodes about Johnny Depp. Welcome, Kristen. |
| 0:55.5 | So it's good to talk with you. Thank you. So how would you describe the Worldwide Church of God cult? Well, to just kind of sum it up, if we can put it all in a |
| 1:01.6 | nutshell, it was an apocalyptic doomsday cult, fun stuff. When was this apocalypse going to happen? |
| 1:09.8 | So throughout the years, Herbert Armstrong, who was the |
| 1:13.1 | pastor general of the Worldwide Church of God, he made a few predictions about when that would happen. |
| 1:19.5 | Once those dates came and passed with no apocalypse, no great tribulation, none of that, he wound up |
| 1:26.1 | kind of stepping back from making actual date |
| 1:28.7 | predictions. So fast forward to the 80s, the church eventually dissolved in the 90s. But through that |
| 1:35.0 | time, when I was in it, we were always just kind of living on the edge of our seats that the end times |
| 1:41.1 | are now. Jesus is going to return any day now. We are in the last days. So, |
| 1:47.9 | so it was always just kind of imminent. Do you have any insight into what makes someone stay in a |
| 1:54.0 | cult once a prediction like that doesn't come true? It's really tough to explain. Part of it is that you are so invested. I mean, my parents |
| 2:04.8 | were so invested in this church. My family was so invested. It's really hard to see clearly when |
| 2:12.8 | every aspect of your life is controlled by this organization. It's hard to walk away even when you do |
| 2:19.3 | see the light. Anybody who knows anything about control groups, they always have an answer for |
| 2:24.7 | everything. So it's just sometimes easier to swallow the explanation for why this didn't happen. |
| 2:31.8 | You know, it's just easier to believe that than it is. You know, |
| 2:34.5 | what is the saying? It's easier to fool people than it is to show them that they were fooled. |
| 2:39.5 | Mark Twain. Yeah, so true. Yeah, you can present evidence to people that you're being lied to. |
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