I was in a cult: Here's one way to reach today's extremists
by Kristen Skedgell, Chicago Tribune
Jan 29, 2021
3 minutes
I was once an extremist. Now I am not. I was a member of a fundamentalist Bible organization that was homophobic and misogynistic, denied the Holocaust and used psychological terror and manipulation to control its followers. The leader believed in eugenics. Now I am a retired grandmother living on a farm. How did this happen?
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