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Religious group that owns Plymouth bakery says it doesn't support slavery and child beating
By adamg on Mon, 07/11/2016 - 7:04am
Boston Magazine gets to the bottom of posts on a Facebook page that had existed just to promote the bakery until last week - a former group member is involved.
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It's a cult.
Much like the 7th day adventists and Branch Davidians before them.
A Tennessee conman riles up the poor hillbillies to fear and distrust the outside world.
Why does this sound familiar?
Sounds like a religion to me.
One of the things the guy seems to think is unique and peculiar to his religion, is not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extra_Ecclesiam_nulla_salus
The difference?
At the head of a cult there is one person who knows that the whole thing is made up, in a religion that person is dead.
Didn't they own a bakery in
Didn't they own a bakery in Dorchester called Common Ground? Closed several years ago, so maybe this is where they went. They have (had?) a grand house on Melville Ave. My friends who live in the neighborhood say that their kids were "corrupted" by living in Dorchester, have since been sent to rural locations.
Used to
Been closed for awhile now.
Common Ground Hyannis
They still have one in Hyannis: http://hyanniscommonground.com/
And I'm pretty sure they are
And I'm pretty sure they are unaffiliated with the place I used to do trivia in Allston, right?
Twelve Tribes
These folks have been fixtures on the Grateful Dead scene since the late 80s (at least).
Yet Another Reason
To abhor The Grateful Dead and their fans.
These guys have been or were in Ashmont Hill since the late 1980's walking around in small packs looking like the Avett Brothers circa 2011 meet the Amish. Their Plymouth expansion took off in the mid-90's.
Business got scarce in Common Ground in Lower Mills after they starting leaving out bible verses saying how much they hate homosexuals about 10 years ago.
Hate to get all Hitchens, but every religion is a cult.
I live a few blocks away from
I live a few blocks away from their Melville Ave. house in Dorchester, and as someone who is curious about everything in my neighborhood, I went twice for their Friday night dinner –something like 3 and 10 years ago –once with a friend and once with my wife. They open their house -or at least used to- for dinner to anyone on Friday nights. We just announced ourselves a couple of days in advance. I don’t agree with their stance on homosexuality or some other odd beliefs, but I don’t believe in creating a fuss when someone welcome me into their house, so we kept off any topic that may prove too controversial.
The food was great, and the conversation quite interesting and “normal”. At the end of the dinner, some of the adults picked up musical instruments and broke into songs –folksy type about love and god. We were a little outside of our comfort zone there, but it was quite pleasing overall. I have no idea about whether child abuse is more prevalent in this group than in the rest of the population, but as far as we could see, the kids looked well adjusted, disciplined, and some of them showed real musical talent. The atmosphere did feel a little cultish, but no more so than when I visit some of my friends whose entire life seem to revolve around their children, sports or working 80+ hours in corporate America to amass a fortune.
People have been miss using religion for eons.
These people may strike you as strange or extreme but they're baking and selling foods and not lobbing heads off or killing 'non believers"