Singularity: The elites' dystopian view of human beings



The singularity has been at the tip of many tech-savvy and global-elitist tongues as of late — and its implications are more than a little frightening.

According to Justin Haskins, president of Our Republic and senior fellow at the Heartland Institute, the definition of the singularity is a "hypothetical moment off into the future when technology advances to a point where it just is completely transformative for humanity.”

“Typically, the way it's talked about is artificial intelligence — or just machines in general — become more intelligent than human beings,” Haskins tells Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable.” He goes on to say that some people describe the singularity as the time when AI "has the ability to sort of continue to redesign itself."


While Haskins notes that some of the consequences of the singularity are positive — like the potential to cure cancer — it also creates all kinds of ethical problems.

“What happens when a lot of employees are no longer needed because HR and loan officers and all these other big gigantic parts of businesses can just be outsourced to an artificial intelligence system?” he asks.

In response, Haskins says, “There’ll be massive disruptions in the job market.”

Stuckey herself is wary of the small issues we have now that might grow into bigger problems.

“People have posted their interactions with different kinds of AI, whether it's ChatGPT or Grok,” she explains.

She continues, “I've seen people post their conversations of saying like, ‘Would you rather’ — asking the AI bot — ‘Would you rather misgender someone, like misgender Bruce Jenner, or kill a thousand people,’ and it will literally try to give some nuanced take about how misgendering is never okay.”

“And I know that we’re talking beyond just these chat bots. We’re talking about something much bigger than that, but if that’s what's happening on a small scale, we can see a peek into the morality of artificial intelligence,” she adds.

“If all of this is being created and programmed by people with particular values, that are either progressive or just pragmatists, like if they’re just like, 'Yeah, whatever we can do and whatever makes life easier, whatever makes me richer, we should just do that’ — there will be consequences of it,” she says.

Stuckey also notes that she had recently heard someone of importance discussing the loss of jobs and what people will do as a result, and the answer to that was concerning.

“It was some executive that said, ‘I’m not scared about AI killing 150 million jobs. That’s actually why we are creating these very immersive video games — so that when people lose their jobs, they can just play these video games and they can be satisfied and fulfilled that way,” Stuckey explains.

“That is a very dystopian look at the future,” she continues, adding, “And yet, that tells us the mind of a lot of the people at WEF, a lot of the people at Davos, a lot of the people in Silicon Valley. That’s really how they see human beings.”

“Whether you’re talking about the Great Reset, whether you’re talking about singularity, they don’t see us as people with innate worth; they see us as cogs in a wheel,” she adds.

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Rabid defenders of pit bulls are spiritually blind — and ignoring the tragic stats



The never-ending pit bull debate has been reignited online after an Ohio infant was tragically killed by one of her family’s three pit bulls — who spent its life as a beloved family pet.

“I will never understand why!!!” mother Mackenzie Copley wrote in a Facebook post, where she posted photos of her 7-month-old daughter cuddling with the family dogs. “I am so lost and broken. This was the same dog who was side by side with my baby every single day,” she added.

While heartbroken for the family, Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable” believes this situation could have been avoided.

“I don’t think that they should be legal,” she says. “I am tired of talking about these stories, where another baby or another toddler dies because a family allowed what they mistakenly call their nanny dog to lay down next to their child, to play with their child, and that child is mauled to death.”


“I am tired of us being a Romans 1 people, that we serve the creature rather than the creator, and so we have disordered affections and disordered priorities where we feel more of an inclination to defend a certain breed of dog than we do to defend human life,” she continues.

Stuckey believes it’s a “spiritual issue,” and those who defend the pit bulls never express sympathy for the child hurt or killed, because they’re suffering from “spiritual blindness.”

“No sympathy for that, just immediate, almost like a pit bull, rapidly defending this very, on average, aggressive breed,” she says. “Every time that you push the propaganda that these dogs are safe, that they’re OK around children, that they’re nanny dogs, someone is listening to that, and they are internalizing that lie.”

Pit bulls were originally bred for bull baiting in England, primarily between the 16th and 19th centuries. A popular blood sport at the time, bull baiting consisted of these dogs being set loose on a tethered bull, where the goal was to immobilize it by biting and holding its nose or face and not letting go — until the bull was dead.

“And you think your toddler can stand a chance against that? It can’t,” Stuckey says.

And it’s not just the history of the animal that’s concerning. It's the undeniable stat of which breed is reported to be the most likely to attack.

According to Dogsbite.com, from 2010 to October 2023, of the 478 fatal dog bites in the United States, 196 came from pit bulls — which is 60%.

“Despite making up a very small part of the dog population, I think it’s like 6% of the dog population they account for,” Stuckey says. Dogsbite.com also reports that pit bulls are 2.5 times more likely to bite in multiple anatomical locations than other breeds.

Pit bull terriers are 48% more likely to attack without provocation than other breeds, and their attacks have higher morbidity rates, higher hospital charges, and a higher risk of death than attacks by other breeds.

“Honestly, I could have a section in my book ‘Toxic Empathy’ about pit bull apologists. It’s like the same thing. It is showing more empathy for a dog than it is for the victims of their attacks. And toxic empathy, it blinds you to reality and morality,” Stuckey says, adding, “That is certainly the case when it comes to pit bulls.”

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Speaking tongues or nonsense? Rebutting bad TikTok theology



Speaking in tongues is a spiritual act and a gift that is imparted upon believers by the Holy Spirit — and videos of believers speaking in tongues are making the rounds on TikTok.

However, after seeing one video of a young woman recording herself praying in tongues, Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable” isn’t convinced that sharing this gift publicly, and online, is the biblical move.

“I think how this is being done on social media is not biblical at all and is actually very dangerous spiritually for those that are viewing it,” Stuckey explains. “This is just not powered by the Holy Spirit, because the Holy Spirit is always going to be in agreement with God’s word.”

“Father, Son, Holy Spirit. All equal persons in the Trinity. They never contradict each other, they never disagree, the entirety of the Bible is God’s infallible, inherent word,” she continues, noting that public prayer for the sake of attention on social media does contradict God’s word.


Not only does Stuckey believe it’s not biblical, but she isn’t sure she buys it as real.

“My own personal observation is that that doesn’t actually sound like a language. That sounds like gibberish said in a rhythmic manner,” Stuckey says. “While I don’t know the intentions of her heart, it does seem to me that this is a performance that is posted on Instagram in order to maybe get likes, or maybe it is for attention, maybe it’s not for those things.”

“Maybe she believes that she is actually showing other people how to pray, or encouraging other people, and yet what she is doing just doesn’t correspond with the biblical directives that we are given,” she continues.

“We should all be able to watch a video like this and agree that filming yourself and posting it for the world to see doesn’t match what Jesus says in Matthew 6:5-6,” she adds.

Matthew 6:5-6 reads: “When you pray you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.”

“It seems to me that the point, if we look at the context of what Jesus is saying, and to whom he’s speaking,” Stuckey says, “his point is that prayer should not be a performance for others. It isn’t something that we do to prove ourselves, to prove ourselves holy, or to get likes, or to get affirmation.”

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'SNL' openly mocks gay surrogacy — what is happening?



Over the past decade, the once universally loved “Saturday Night Live” has become a clear propaganda tool of the left — consistently pushing left-wing issues while poking fun at the right.

However, that may be changing after one April 12 "SNL" skit shockingly mocked gay surrogacy.

The sketch took place at a chaotic dinner party where guests shared bizarre personal updates. One gay couple at the dinner party had a newborn baby, and the other guests then begin asking questions as to where and how they acquired a baby — even asking if they stole it.


The skit took it so far as to ask the gay couple how just the other night they were going to a gay rave called “Bulge Dungeon” when there was a baby on the way.

“There are two different ways to see this,” Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable” says. “Either you can see it as using comedy to normalize two men purchasing a baby, or you can see it as a big vibe shift that we are actually starting to mock and deride something that deserves our mockery and derision.”

“Because it is a legitimate question. How could two men, who do not have the genetic material nor the wombs to create and bear children, have a child?” Stuckey asks.

While Stuckey is skeptical that the skit was pointing out the gay couple’s purchase of a baby as a bad thing, she did think one line from the skit was a home run.

“That line about ‘last night you were talking about going to Bulge Dungeon and now you have a baby and we’re just wondering how to square that circle,’ that was a good one. That was the best line, because if you see a lot of these men who are purchasing children, you do have some questions, like, ‘Do you know the first thing about raising a child?’” Stuckey says.

“And so I appreciate that whatever the motive is, that we are in the mode right now of mocking something that is absolutely depraved and destructive,” she adds.

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Egg ‘donation’ centers prey on young women — and don’t disclose the dangers



If you’re a young woman who’s in a bit of a financial pinch, becoming an egg donor might seem like an easy, painless way to make some fast cash.

But the emotional and physical cost is much more than what these egg donation centers let on — so much so that the executive director of the Center for Bioethics, Kallie Fell, thinks these young women desperately need to steer clear.

“You have to start with thinking about what kinds of women are targeted to become egg sellers,” Fell tells Allie Beth Stuckey on “Relatable.” “These women are young, typically between 20 and 30 because those are our fertile years, that’s when we’re healthiest, our eggs are healthiest, our egg quality and quantity are the best,” Fell explains, calling the advertisements targeting these women “slick.”

“‘Free tanning sessions,’ ‘pay for spring break,’” Fell mimics. “Often, too, the advertisements will list a higher amount than what they’re often given, because a woman might answer an advertisement and say, ‘Oh, I saw an advertisement for X amount.’ But then she might find out that she’s not quite what they’re looking for.”


The women are also targeted for their empathy, as they believe they don’t need their eggs at that moment and would love to help out a family in need.

“Their altruistic intentions are exploited,” Fell says, and Stuckey couldn’t agree more.

“I mean, it sounds like the song ‘Fancy’ by Reba McIntyre. I mean, she’s talking about being a young prostitute because her mom is sending her out to help pay their bills. This is not sex, but it is selling your body for money, sometimes for desperation,” Stuckey says.

“And not just your body,” Fell says, “You’re not just putting your health at risk, but you are in essence, as an egg seller, sperm seller, you are giving away your future child that is your genetic material that will make a future child. And I think that young women don’t always think that through.”

“You are willing to give up your own child to someone else, and you have no idea how that child will be raised,” Stuckey agrees.

However, it’s not just the future of the child or the “slick” advertising targeting young women that bothers Stuckey and Fell — but the fact that the advertising does not include the known health risks to the young women they’re targeting.

“In nowhere on them do they include the known risks or even the statement that we don’t know what the risks are,” Fell explains, noting that she’s been speaking with an “egg seller” who’s trying to file a class-action lawsuit in Canada for the physical harm she experienced.

“She just talks to me about how she called the clinic with pains, complaints of shortness of breath, and other side effects, and instead of talking to a doctor, she talked to a coordinator who just reassured her that it was normal. She never actually saw a physician or a provider of medical care until she was sedated on the table, ready to collect her eggs,” she continues.

“These advertisements are very flowery, they use very cunning and slick language, and once they’re exploited for their eggs, they’re put on high doses of hormones and medications that have long-lasting side effects,” she says.

In a film for the Center of Bioethics and Culture, the stories of these women who were harmed are told — and they face everything from strokes to ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome to losing their own fertility.

“And those are just kind of immediate risks. We don’t know what happens to these women long-term, their risk for cancer later, or their children,” she adds.

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She used to be pro-choice — until a Facebook comment changed her mind



As one of the most vocal conservative advocates for the pro-life cause, it may come as a shock to some that Allie Beth Stuckey used to be pro-choice — but without realizing it.

“I’ve always considered myself pro-life. I just have known reflexively and because I was raised in a Christian household that abortion is wrong, that it’s killing a human being, and that that is wrong, but I also knew that there were these rare exceptions that I thought needed to happen sometimes,” Stuckey explains on “Relatable.”

“I posted something to that effect on Facebook; I guess maybe I just adopted the general Republican position that yes, abortion is wrong, should be illegal, but there’s rape, there’s incest, there’s fetal anomalies. And I thought that was a sophisticated, nuanced, but fully pro-life position,” she continues.


When Stuckey posted this to Facebook, someone replied in the comments asking what the difference is between a baby conceived in rape and a baby not conceived in rape.

“That comment stopped me in my tracks,” she recalls. “I think that really had a big effect on how I started thinking about abortion, but I realized either in that moment or just over time that I was thinking about abortion, even as someone who called myself staunchly pro-life, as an abstract issue, as a political issue, and not from the perspective of the baby, and not really as murder.”

When she changed the lens through which she was viewing what she thought was just a “procedure,” she ultimately changed her mind.

“I wasn’t thinking about it in realistic, stark, terms, and that is that it murders a child and that the humanity of that person that’s being killed does not change based on the circumstances surrounding its conception,” she explains.

“I don’t know who that commenter was, but I’m thankful for them,” she continues, adding, “And you just never know how God is going to use your insistence upon speaking the truth in love.”

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American Girl converts to Islam



If you’re an American woman, there’s a high likelihood you grew up playing with the classic American Girl dolls — where each doll came with a story depicting a historical, pure Americana tale.

But if you’re a young girl in today’s America, that’s all changing.

The classic American Girl doll has taken a turn for the politically correct, with its latest Instagram post featuring an American Girl doll celebrating the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Fitr as a part of its “Cultural Celebrations” outfit line.

Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable” grew up playing with the dolls and devouring their stories, so she's more than a little disappointed that her daughters won’t experience the same magic that once was.


“I’m a girl mom who has three little girls who love dolls and would love American Girl. I would love to take them to the American Girl store. I grew up reading the American Girl books. They were some of my favorite books. I remember their lives; I remember their stories and all of their different personality traits,” Stuckey recalls.

“They always championed basic virtues and also just showing appropriate confidence as a girl and the value and the uniqueness of being a girl,” she continues. “But we’ve started seeing some sketchy things over the years, because as we know, as a principle, if an institution is not explicitly biblical, not just explicitly conservative, but explicitly biblical, it will end up veering into degeneracy.”

“It will end up veering to the left, questioning basic realities like gender, breaking down the moral values that we have agreed upon at least as culturally Christian Americans for a very long time,” she adds.

Stuckey’s concern is that Islam is now being seen as a formidable part of American society.

“When I look at Muslim-majority countries everywhere, most of them are completely rot with archaic violence and chaos and oppression of the most vulnerable. When we look at all of the major terrorist groups around the world,” she says, “all of these terrorist groups, save a couple, are Islamic in nature.”

“When we look at the religious affiliations of the groups most violently persecuting both Jews and Christians around the world, it’s all Islam,” she continues. “That is not to say that every person who is Muslim is violent; that is not to say every person who is Muslim is going to be a terrorist or is going to be a radical extremist, but obviously we see the common denominator there.”

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Should Austin Metcalf’s dad forgive his murderer?



Austin Metcalf was a 17-year-old who was murdered last week at a high school track meet in Frisco, Texas, allegedly by Karmelo Anthony, who allegedly stabbed Metcalf in the chest following a brief altercation.

Anthony was reportedly sitting in the wrong tent, one that was not designated for his school, and he was asked to move. Some reports claim Anthony replied “touch me and see what happens,” while others claim he said “make me.”

Metcalf then allegedly went to grab Anthony’s backpack, which Anthony was still wearing, which is when Anthony allegedly pulled a knife and stabbed him. Metcalf died in his twin brother's arms. When Anthony was apprehended by Frisco police, upon being referred to as a suspect, he said, “I’m not alleged; I did it.”


While a devastating and tragic loss, Metcalf's murder has sparked a heated debate online — one that is cultural, political, and racial.

The debate really began after Metcalf’s father gave an interview about his son’s murder.

“I want to make this very clear. This is not a race issue. This is not a black and white issue. I don’t want someone stepping up on a soapbox trying to politicize this. I don’t appreciate some of the remarks I’ve seen online that people say there was this fight. They don’t know; they weren’t there,” Metcalf’s father said.

“Some people were mad in thinking that he was defending the murder,” Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable” explains. “I don’t think that’s what he’s doing. I think that he doesn’t want this very real human tragedy to be a part of a political discussion.”

The father also said, “This is murder. I don’t know. I know they have someone in custody, and you know what? I already forgive this person. Already. God takes care of things. God’s going to take care of me. God’s going to take care of my family.”

“I do not think it is correct to say the Christian is called to unconditionally and immediately forgive, no matter what. Now, that might be scandalous to say. I don’t think that that is the biblical example or the explanation that we are given for Christian forgiveness,” Stuckey says.

“I think if we read in context, we are not just talking about blanket unconditional forgiveness immediately in every circumstance. We are talking about, within these interpersonal relationships, especially with our fellow Christians, people who are seeking our forgiveness, people who are repenting,” she continues.

While Stuckey does not believe unconditional forgiveness right away is the answer, she does believe refusing to hold on to anger is.

“Even if someone has not repented, even if Karmelo Anthony is proud of what he has done, even if he has not repented, I still think that the father is right to let go of bitterness and to say the justice system is going to work how it’s going to work, and God avenges, and he’s going to take care of me,” she explains.

“I wonder if it is possible to say, ‘I have not forgiven that person yet, but I have let it go, but I’m not allowing it to crush me any more, I am not allowing it to make me bitter or resentful because I trust in God’s goodness, I trust that he is going to take care of wickedness once and for all,’” she adds.

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‘Two white ladies’ reveal the prosperity gospel’s grip on black churches — and ignite a fire storm



The prosperity gospel is taught everywhere, but in a recent interview with Melissa Dougherty on “Relatable,” Allie Beth Stuckey pointed out that it's interestingly prevalent in many majority-black churches as well.

As no truth goes uncontested, Stuckey’s comments sparked some controversy — but she has the stats to back her claims up.

“I started getting some random messages on Instagram from people who didn’t follow me, maybe a week or so after that episode came out, saying basically, ‘Where do you get off on saying that the prosperity gospel is in the majority of black churches?’” Stuckey explains, adding, “Which is not what I said.”

After a little digging, she realized the negative reaction was ignited by a post on X by Pastor Eric Mason.


“I just watched a clip with two white women saying that the majority of black churches are prosperity churches and theologically unsound,” Mason wrote.

“If you do an etymology of the prosperity movement which @PreachDamon did in our book on urban apologetics you’d see that it began and was spread by whites for the last 100yrs. This type of stuff makes me angry. Y’all pray for me bc I get in the flesh and wanna say unwholesome things …”

“This is not 2020. That finger-wagging and manipulation doesn’t work around here, and I encourage all of you out there to take that same position,” Stuckey says, before diving into some statistics to back up her case.

According to a 2023 study by Lifeway of Protestant churchgoers, roughly 71% of black American churchgoers report their church teaches aspects of the prosperity gospel.

In a 2021 Pew Research study, roughly 60% of black American churchgoers attend a majority-black church, and an additional 25% attend a multicultural church. And in a 2015 YouGov study of 1,000 American adults who described themselves as born-again Evangelicals, 45% of black Americans believe that prayer can make one wealthier compared to 19% of all churchgoing Americans.

On the question of whether or not wealth is a sign of God’s favor, 9% of white Americans agreed, while 34% of blacks and 24% of Hispanics said definitely or probably.

“So of those surveyed, black Christians are most likely to say that wealth is a sign of God’s favor,” Stuckey comments.

And in an article from the Gospel Coalition by Joe Carter, he claims that black evangelicals held more favorable opinions of prosperity preachers who were not black.

“Many of these white prosperity preachers have congregations that are largely black, which is interesting,” she says, noting that in another survey, black Christians were more likely to have a very or somewhat favorable view of Joel Osteen at 51%, while only 22% of white Christians view him favorably.

All these stats back up Stuckey’s initial comments, which is why she’s not apologetic in the slightest for asking questions.

“The data backs up this observation, by the way, and if you care about the souls of people, if you care about the lives of people, if you care about the gospel, you should be saying yes and amen when anyone, especially someone with a platform, no matter the color of their skin or their ‘suburban face,’ ‘two white ladies,’ according to Eric Mason, that makes him want to say ‘unwholesome things’ in his ‘flesh,’” Stuckey says.

“You should be rejoicing that this is something that is being discussed,” she adds.

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From book burnings to child abuse, ex-cultist unmasks Two-by-Two’s dark secrets



On her latest episode of “Relatable,” Allie Beth Stuckey was joined by author and ex-cult member Elizabeth Coleman, who shared the story of her childhood spent in a mysterious cult with no name and no traceable presence.

Thirty years ago, Coleman left the international group, which some ex-members call the “Two-by-Twos,” and is spreading the word not only about the horrors she experienced but also how she came to truly know Christ.

The cult, Coleman explains, is predicated on the belief that it is the only way to Christ and that all other denominations are literally satanic.

“We did go to a secular school, and the reason for that is we're really strongly conditioned against other Christians and other churches,” she tells Allie. “All other churches were literally called churches of the devil and false churches, so we were actually quite scared of other Christians and other churches.”

Fueling the belief that the Two-by-Two faith is the only path to salvation is the notion that it is “the only church not started by a man — that [it] went all the way back to the original apostles.”

However, that claim quickly falls flat when you look at the cult’s origins. A Scottish-born Irish evangelist named William Irvine founded the group in the late 1800s in Ireland. He believed that he had an “epiphany” that the two-by-two (hence the cult’s name) missionary structure mentioned in some of the gospels was “Jesus’ plan for ministry for all time.”

“He started to believe that he was the chosen one risen up by God to restore his true way on the earth,” says Coleman.

Irvine was eventually excommunicated from the group. Other members went to great lengths to erase him from history, destroying all the records of his letters. As the faith spread to other parts of the world, church planters pretended that he had never existed.

Then in the 1980s, a man named Doug Parker, who was set to join the ministry, got into an argument with high-ranking members of the cult about his plans to take a family trip to Ireland. Apparently they were scared he would uncover the origins of the cult and Irvine. Parker, smelling trouble, then researched the cult in depth, discovered Irvine, and self-published a book called “The Secret Sect” that exposed the Two-by-Two faith.

The cult’s response to Parker’s exposé was to forbid members to read it. However, they were ordered to purchase copies of the book and burn them so that non-cult members couldn’t read them either.

But the truth, as it always does, got out.

Documentaries have since been produced on the Two-by-Two faith, and ex-members, like Coleman, are sharing their experiences.

Coleman tells Allie that according to cult doctrine, the ministers or “workers” — the celibate preachers who travel in pairs — believe they are the “middlemen” between the people and Jesus, who is regarded as a “perfect example” but not a deity. Thus obedience to them is paramount. Any law they make, however arbitrary it might be, must be rigidly adhered to.

“Women could not cut their hair” or “wear makeup or jewelry”; “no television, no recorded music, no sports — watching it or playing it,” were some of the rules.

Church meetings could not be missed for any reason. Coleman tells the story of a young boy who died from appendicitis because his parents chose to attend a meeting rather than address his excruciating stomach pains.

The “workers,” who were forbidden to have a home or possessions, traveled around to different Two-by-Two communities and stayed with various families of the faith.

“They had absolute authority in our lives, so they would ring and say, ‘We are coming on Wednesday; we are staying three nights,’ and you didn't argue,” says Coleman.

“Asking questions” about literally anything — rules, Scripture, the conduct of the workers, etc. — “was about the worst thing you could do.”

It wasn’t until after she had left the cult that she found out about the sexual abuse allegations against many of these workers.

Two years ago, “one of the most revered overseer workers was found dead in a motel room.” It turned out that he “had a credit card” and “had been meeting multiple sexual partners, including underage partners, for a very long time.” After that, some of the female workers came forward and admitted that they had been abused by him as well.

The scandal “opened the floodgates to a whole Me Too movement within the Two-by-Twos,” says Coleman.

“We had people coming forward in the dozens and then the hundreds and then the thousands, and last year the FBI announced a worldwide investigation into the group because workers who had abused were often then shifted across state lines and across countries to reoffend in other places, so they would take the offender, move them somewhere else, try to smooth things over in the local area,” she explains, noting that these kinds of cover-ups were made possible by the unquestionable authority of the workers.

But thanks to social media and streaming services exposing the rampant corruption in the Two-by-Two faith, “they're starting to be recognized on the world stage for the first time.”

To hear more about Coleman’s story, including the wild way she met her husband, her departure from the cult, and her coming to faith in the real Jesus Christ, watch the episode above.

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