Why I Left an Evangelical Cult | Dawn Smith | TEDxNatick

The only difference I see in the three main religions and so called cults is popularity. Nothing cults do, say or believe in, is any stranger than the dominant king god fantasy.

Yeah I'm with her on the cult aspect but I don't believe in climate change because I've actually done the research and it's a complete lie there's no such thing as global warming

She’s mislabeling the assembly as evangelical. The assembly is a cult, but to connect them to evangelicals is in itself manipulative and dishonest. Especially when you consider evangelicals would be in total agreement in her assessment of the assembly as a cult.

Organized stalking and covert harassment is a human rights crime.

Wow! Hardest day of freedom better than best day in a cult!

I love her!

I’m glad she left that hate group cult! I hope she has the best life to ever live

It's interested how some people from the ultra-liberal hippy freedom movement turned into ultra-conservative controlling narcissists. What a mind twister.

This is not Christianity!! Christ does not oppress but sets free from oppression, I have personally found freedom in Jesus and if you have Jesus but no freedom then it's not the gospel of Christ

Religions and cults are all the same thing. Jesus is not the son of a fictional god. He was a cult leader

Evangelicals yell when they preach they must get a sore throat and lose the holy spirit it teaches children to yell they get paid for it sometimes they nearly fit

Cults? Much of what she says sounds like denominational churches and the Catholic Church. God rescued me from RC, where I was taught the Pope took the place of Christ and was infalable.

This is similar the cult I was in for a few years. It's called dwell in columbus

Not wise to blame God for human actions, including those inside the church.

I think I bumped into this group when I went to Fullerton College. They provided bible study that always started with the same verse out of the beginning of Acts.

It's about time children were protected from religion with laws the same as they are protected from alcohol and cigarettes.

According to this woman a cult is anything biblical that you don't agree with.

I hope this men’s religion didn’t turn you off to the Lord.

I'm not a believer , I enjoyed this presentation however she must realize that she has given up one dogma , For the dogma of the leftism

R-rated movies--the horror!

You had me weeping too, when you described seeing the little girl you saw in conservative dress standing next to the man shouting gospel at passersby. I have a daughter too. I would never have dreamed of putting her through that kind of torture.

Jesus is not abusive, but people abuse Jesus

Oh my gosh, she is absolutely a part of the system all you people on here talking about how brave she is. She's absolutely part of the system and she's on Ted. Talk for the very purpose to downplay Christ and what life is all about. She's trying to portray the do what you want thing in life and to sit here promote climate change which is total BS. Yeah she's part of a cult for real.

Sorry but that is not evangelical nor is it Christian

Damn woman put me in tears.

"An Evangelical Cult" -> also known as Evangelical Conservatives.

I was at a church similar to this and man it took me a long time to wake up and get out of there and it wasn’t until later when I was working through the abuse .having to be there all the time and horrible abuse .

Islam is biggest cult dangerous cult

All extremes are abusive. Honoring each other and each persons right to think for himself or herself is essential in life... IF their thoughts do not include endangering or injuring others.

Where is there any mention of the cruel absurdist insult of Limbo, for example.

She is A liberal, which makes her the kettle calling the pot A cult. Liberals bitterly resent Christianity

This is very legalistic. When " adding" anything to faith plus nothing can mess you up. Not giving license to sin ( there is a sin unto death first john). Just a fact.

Did this group have anything to do with 'The Jesus Freaks"? They came to our high school {Abbotsford senior} when I was 17.

It is amazing to me that someone could come to the moment realizing something is wrong, after being immersed for so long! I wish it wouldn’t need to be done again by the following generation. Thanks for your story!

Thank you so much for sharing ❤

Great . But things have gone a bit wrong on the other side now . I mean the frminsit B. S. and bla bla bla and masculinity is toxic and bl bla bla . It's going to the other extreme . But the speech had a point and was perfectly structured . Anyway human society can't find it's balance for so many various reasons and simplifing al this to a gender problem and etc it's a moronic stance. I am not talking about the points of view that where expressed here.

And then quitly set up my own 😂

See: the irony is that "climate change" is a total scam too!

DAWN SMITH IS AN ATHEISTS, she makes fun of the Bible, everything she calls an occult is commandments in the Bible, and she loves to get people to laugh at God, it's not climate change it's called GOD IN CHARGE, SHAME SHAME ON ALL OF YOU

And the evangelical IS a cult member. Period. Anyone who completely rejects established and peer reviewed science but whole heartedly without any research accepts the "science" of the ICR and other fundamentalist scientists that aren't peer reviewed at all on their outrageous "findings" is a cult member. Anyone who goes into a church and stands witness with people shaking with the "spirit of the Lord" while others speak tongues is a cult member. Anyone who associates only with church members and won't date outside of their own fundamentalism while trying to recruit others into their cloth is a cult member. This should sound familiar to the fundamentalist. Because this is exactly how they operate. Cheers---DCF

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I LOVE YOU, LOVE YOU, LOVE YOU TO DEATH, LITERALLY, O LORD MY GOD, JESUS CHRIST✝️FOREVER AND EVER, HALLELUJAH!!!!!!! AMEN.
I LOVE YOU BECAUSE YOU FIRST LOVED ME. 1 JOHN 4:19.
THANK YOU, JESUS, FOR LOVING ME,
THANK YOU, JESUS, FOR SAVING ME,
HAIL JESUS!!!!!!! CELEBRATE AND GLORIFY JESUS EVERY DAY AND FOREVER MORE, HALLELUJAH!!!!!!! AMEN.

JESUS REIGNS FOREVER MORE, HALLELUJAH!!!!!!! AMEN.

REPENT, FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND.

I LOVE YOU, LOVE YOU, LOVE YOU TO DEATH, LITERALLY, O MY HOLY FATHER IN HEAVEN WITH ALL MY HEART, AND WITH ALL MY SOUL, AND WITH ALL MY MIND, AND WITH ALL MY STRENGTH. AND I LOVE MY NEIGHBOR AS MYSELF.
I LOVE YOU BECAUSE YOU FIRST LOVED ME. 1 JOHN 4:19.
THANK YOU, JESUS, FOR LOVING ME,
THANK YOU, JESUS, FOR SAVING ME,
HAIL JESUS!!!!!!! CELEBRATE AND GLORIFY JESUS EVERY DAY AND FOREVER MORE, HALLELUJAH!!!!!!! AMEN.

So strong, so brave

Try wearing long "coulottes" in gym😉

Leaving evangelical church and leaving Jesus is not same. maybe you were in wrong church and you haven't relationship with Jesus

Thank You!!!

All I want is 1000 subscribers. LOL That's so funny.

To evangelicals, everything is a sin. Everything except what they do. Plus they use the Lord's names every sentence, word, conversation, thought, idea. It's a broken record.

Powerful .. Insightful. Thanks for sharing.

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"you will know a tree by its fruit" and all these rules came from Apostle Paul right down to the haircuts