We Are The Family
This
story seems pretty far fetched. How could a secret organisation have been working for the past 70 years to recruit world leaders, important politicians, and influential businessmen country by country in an attempt to rule the world. A writer spends three weeks living with them and uncovers a startling group of people hiding in plain sight.
I'm not sure which is more unbelievable, the twisted form of jungle ball they play that they say brings them closer to Christ or their crypto-fascist agenda. There are two interviews (
1,
2) with the author online that are worth reading after checking out the article. The author was also
interviewed on WNYC. There is also an
LA Times article from last year which seems a great deal less sinister. (via
GNN)
God was just what Bengt desired Him to be, even as Bengt was, in the face of God, "nothing." Not for aesthetics alone, I realized, did Bengt and the Family reject the label "Christian." Their faith and their practice seemed closer to a perverted sort of Buddhism, their God outside "the truth," their Christ everywhere and nowhere at once, His commands phrased as questions, His will as simple to divine as one's own desires. And what the Family desired, from Abraham Vereide to Doug Coe to Bengt, was power, worldly power, with which Christ's kingdom can be built, cell by cell.