{"id":5577,"date":"2015-10-29T10:50:27","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T15:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/?p=5577"},"modified":"2015-10-29T10:53:44","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T15:53:44","slug":"cult-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2015\/10\/29\/cult-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"The Context of Cult Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5578\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5578\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/10\/16\/us\/new-york-church-assault-case\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5578\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-29-at-10.48.07-AM.png\" alt=\"CNN covers the Word of Life death in upstate NY. Click for report.\" width=\"600\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-29-at-10.48.07-AM.png 760w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-29-at-10.48.07-AM-300x167.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5578\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CNN covers the Word of Life death in upstate NY. Click for report.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/10\/16\/us\/new-york-church-assault-case\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently in New York<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, two siblings were severely beaten&#8212;one to death&#8212;by their parents and other members of the congregation of the Word of Life for wanting to leave the \u201cfaith.\u201d This cult is based in a former\u00a0school building in which\u00a0members of the church live and congregate in isolation from the greater community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sociologist <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moreheadstate.edu\/content_template.aspx?id=3907&amp;terms=bernadette\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bernadette Barton<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> told <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/broadly.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/a-sociologist-explains-the-cult-behavior-in-this-ny-murder-church\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Broadly<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Vice<\/span><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When a group is isolated, they&#8217;re not beholden to a larger organization. If they&#8217;re part of a hierarchy, they&#8217;ll answer to other folks, so there are more likely to be other eyes on abuse and interventions into it. The more isolated a group is, the more likely violence can emerge.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Barton describes a \u201csin\/fall\u201d paradigm, where members of the cult are faced with psychological, emotional, and physical threats if they deviate from church ideology. She elaborates: <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It excludes people, creates a climate of fear, scares participants, makes people monitor their own and other&#8217;s behaviors and thoughts, enables physical and sexual abuse, while absolving all individuals of wrong-doing since all of this is done (presumably) by divine order.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently in New York, two siblings were severely beaten&#8212;one to death&#8212;by their parents and other members of the congregation of the Word of Life for wanting to leave the \u201cfaith.\u201d This cult is based in a former\u00a0school building in which\u00a0members of the church live and congregate in isolation from the greater community. 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