Just wanted to put a quick post up about a study I
stumbled across the other day when educating myself about TV’s latest spotlight
cult – The Exclusive Brethren. I started reading about them a few weeks ago after
ACA’s latest attack on their so called ‘migration’ into suburban Melbourne. The
study was done by Gary Bouma – who I’m sure we are all familiar with by now. Its
only really centred around marriage and divorce statistics but shows that
despite the medias ‘demonization’ of the so called ‘cult of the Exclusive Brethren’
marriage and divorce rates within the Brethren community remain at rates far
greater than that of general society. I guess it’s just another example of how media
can wholly focus upon one aspect of a religion, whilst at the same time sidelining
another.
Read it here if you like: www.theexclusivebrethren.com/documents/MarriageandFamily.pdf
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