I’ve been reading up quite a bit on various religious groups lately, and let’s just say Scientologists are some of the craziest people I have ever read about. Man. There’s others too. There is a group called Word of Faith Fellowship that are actually near me in Spindale, North Carolina.

I hate to hear this group is in that town, Spindale – as it is the home of one of my two favorite radio stations on the planet, WNCW (the other is KEXP in Seattle).

And isn’t “Spindale” a great name for a town with a cool radio station?

Of course, as I read through the inner workings of these groups, there are many things that sound eerily familiar to me. In this article about his case with the wackos in North Carolina it talks about a very expensive lawyer named Dick Anthony that specializes in defending cults (like Scientologists, Moonies, Branch Davidians, and the previously-mentioned Word of Faith Church).

Of course, as I read the article I stumble across another one of Dick’s clients. He’s not cheap either. Which is too bad because he apparently lost the case for them.

No wonder the Internet is strongly discouraged by so many of these groups. Not sure how I would have found that otherwise.

It’s tough being a cult in the information age.

“Information about the group’s history, purposes, doctrines, financial disclosures, methods of dealing with problems, counseling, training, and discipline for offenses are kept as confidential as possible.” -Steve Hassan ex-Unification Church Member