Hell Followed with Us

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Andrew Joseph White: Hell Followed with Us (2023, Peachtree Publishing Company Inc.)

English language

Published Aug. 24, 2023 by Peachtree Publishing Company Inc..

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978-1-68263-563-6
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Body Horror Book, Not a Cult Book

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I was excited about this book because I expected it to be primarily about cults, but it was much more of a body horror/monster book.

The thing I look for in a work about cults in some understanding off why people joined the cult. Cults appeal to psychological vulnerabilities, and everyone has them. For, e.g., The People's Temple or Heaven's Gate, I primarily see the grave evil they did while still understanding what they offered and how they convinced people they were improving the world and themselves. The Angels are all stick and no carrot. I don't see what their members get out of it. I don't exactly need their systematic theology, but I need to know more about how they arrived at such an extreme belief and what's in it for the common person in the pews. A simple change here would be to make the Angels the only …