Christian Cannabalism and Josh Duggar's Sins: Michael Pearl Vs. Zsuzsanna Anderson

I post this more for posterity sake, a refernce so to speak into the cult mind-think of the "[e]xtreme Christian cultural enforcers."  For those that follow along with my ramblings, it has three of my usual targets
Steven L. Anderson (Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona) via his wife Zsuzsanna Anderson (also Quiverfull), Michael (and Debi) Pearl - To Train Up a Child, and of course the Duggars.

Calulu, I think sums up how cut-throat the "ultra extreme" shtick is becoming and highlights that the best counter to the movement as a whole comes from those within.

This is the real Christian cannibalism – Extreme Christian cultural enforcers and self-appointed leaders fighting like rabid dogs over a sliver of rotten meat for a tiny slice of control over others, no matter who they have to blame or shame. The real pharisees.  Not the average every day folks pointing out how hypocritical the Duggars have behaved.

Christian Cannabalism and Josh Duggar's Sins: Michael Pearl Vs. Zsuzsanna Anderson

See also:

The Language of Cults, Duggars and Quiverfull: How to Communicate With People Outside the Subculture

A good look into the cultic mindset prevelent in the sub-culture.

In 2008 in a workshop examining the Patriarchy Movement, I referred to it as quite “non-monolithic,” characterized by clustering of activities, traits, and interests — though none of those variables were universal or definitive. In epidemiology and the study of the cause and transmission of disease, the term of ‘clustering’ explains this phenomenon of common features experienced or by clusters of people experiencing them that may or may not have a known causative connection. For that reason, I use the term to describe the connections among Patriarchy and Quiverfull lifestyles which are also now associated with Christians who homeschool their children.

People from across many different denominations bear many of these same common variables, and in some respect, I think that it may reflect the zeitgeist of the generation that is also common to the culture. (Look at Martha Stewart’s popularity which has fostered an interest in domesticity — something mirrored in this religious subculture.) Whatever the cause, there are what might be found as markers or possible and presumptive characteristics that often occur in tandem with one another.