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Thank you for sharing! I have a friend who grew up in Amarillo and she's told me about the big church split there over instruments. It's crazy how these cult-like religious groups are able to exist in plain view with so much control over the followers. That's the kind of stuff that makes people think all religion is crazy. They create an us-them situation and either don't know or don't care that they're on the wrong side of that.
This. Every word. I couldn't agree more.
I'm suddenly now coming to grips with the sheer cinematic realism of the film Footloose.
Oh yeah, Amarillo is a big city for the NI-coC. Abilene, too.
The us-or-them situation is exactly what they're aiming for: isolated people are easier to control. But yeah, I'm not sure if it's an intentional strategy or just what happened to work out for their purposes.