CULT-PROOFING YOU KIDS
by Dr. Paul R. Martin
#5
As discussed by Occult Whistleblower, Pierre S. Freeman
CHAPTER 2 FRINGE CHURCHES

I am now going to look at some of the actual fringe churches indicted by Dr. Martin and give a quick comparison to AMORC and its practices. . My descriptions of these churches are solely based on what Dr. Martin has written.

Faith Assembly: Shunned doctors and rejected health insurance. Over eighty children died because their parents refused to give them medical help.

AMORC had its own medical self-help system which I don’t believe has ever been demonstrated scientifically but they didn’t actually forbid you to go to a doctor. I once had stomach pains that I didn’t act on for a long while because I was trying to self-heal and wasted time before getting adequate medical attention.

Maranatha Christian Fellowship/Camus Ministries: Total control over all elements of their members’ lives including reading, dating, visiting relatives, etc.

AMORC did not regulate these areas but entirely consumed my time with inner-directed tasks that kept me in a somnambulistic state for years.

“The Walk” or Church of the Living Word:

This appears to be a very messianic cult with sexually indulgent ministers infusing traumatic stress in some members and one suicide.

AMORC is kind of messianic in a quiet way- as it thinks itself as the true harbinger of human civilization throughout the centuries- but has had virtually zero scandals of this nature.

Community Chapel and Bible Training Center:

This church was also involved in sexual improprieties.

Not an AMORC problem.

Greater Grace World Outreach (formerly called “The Bible Speaks:”

Surviving a major financial scandal, although his church went bankrupt, Carl Stevens managed to keep broadcasting and writing.

Not an AMORC problem, either.

The Alamo Christian Foundation:

This pastor was sentenced to prison for 175 years for sex crimes after years of cultic activity and bizarre behavior, including inflicting virtual slavery on his followers.

AMORC took me and made me into a mind slave. They didn’t care what I was doing as long as I paid my membership dues. And I never heard about anyone in power indulging in sexual crimes.

The Potter’s House/Victory Chapel/The Door:

A very heavily indoctrinated membership who expected themselves to participate in miracles and healing- with extreme disappointment if they failed.

I can identify with that. I was always striving for miracles, even a decent job. Over and over again.

University Bible Fellowship:

This cult highlights confessions called “sogams,” claim to be solely purveying the living truth of Christ and uses mind control.

I get the mind control part.

Multiplying Ministries/The Boston Church of Christ Movement:

Features a discipleship discipline, which includes extreme confessions, breaking down the dignity of their members, resulting in trauma and even suicide.

Not related to AMORC’S methods.

Great Commission Association of Churches (formerly known as Great Commission International and originally called “The Blitz Movement”):

A very authoritarian cult which proclaimed itself the sole custodian of a God-given Vision of evangelism. Dr. Martin was once a member.  Many of its members had to recuperate after leaving with long years of therapy.

Sword of the Spirit:

A Catholic charismatic group that practiced mind control.

Although vaguely described in this book, of course I identify with the traumas of mind control .

Parkview Community Church of Arcadia, California

Run by a psychologist whose license was revoked because sexual improprieties with his patients. At the time of this book’s writing, he was still at the church.

Again, no comparison to AMORC.

AMORC, in many ways, is a very quiet institution publicly, although it has had its moments. But, if you read my books, you understand why that doesn’t diminish their threat to individual members in any way.