Lived Through This
I Was in a Cult, and Maybe You Were Too
Memoirs of a former Southern Baptist
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6 min readFeb 29, 2020
I was born on the shores of northeastern North Carolina to a schoolteacher and a commercial fisherman. We were the idyllic corn-fed, blue-collar, middle-class family. Religion was background noise in our home. Neither of my parents practiced much, but it didn’t prevent them from…