Killer Cults Quotes

“It felt like a commune. We got up at the same time, ate together and there were people from all walks of life—smart, loving, spiritual people. I worked and gave the church money, but the group marriage ceremony at Madison Square Garden was for me the beginning of the end. My arranged marriage was supposed to expunge karma from my lineage and make this a purified relationship with one’s spouse. After a while, I realized I didn’t want to be married to the woman they’d arranged for me and then met another woman and broke my vows. I began to think that the Reverend Sun Myung Moon was a megalomaniac, especially when we had to sit through these four-hour speeches in which he railed on and on about morals. . . . —James Townsend, on the Unification Church”
― Stephen Singular, Killer Cults: Stories of Charisma, Deceit, and Death (Profiles in Crime Book 3)