Are you watching Trust Me: The False Prophet ?
I have mixed feelings about the woman kind of intruding on these people, but at the same time having a thirteen-year old wife is sick. It's sick how these abusive men just keep filling the gap to fulfill their perverted needs in the name of religion.
Yes. This whole thing was a rollercoaster for me, start to finish. I was angry at everyone. I started to question humanity, civilization, and it reignited my militant atheism streak that has been dormant since I was a teen and wondered if religion really was the source of the world's problems, blah blah blah, but then I remembered that religion just one of many vehicles that manipulative people and sociopaths will use to control others, gain power, hurt those they don't like.
Cults exist because people have a want, a need, and must belong somewhere, to something, and have an identity. That is human nature. People need a fire to fight, a reason to live, someone to love, someone to love them, they want to be liked and approved of and feel good. Cults don't even need the internet to recruit (in fact some of these cults don't want to be on the internet) sometimes people are just born into it, wander into it organically, make a friend who influences you, etc.
Humans are afraid. They are afraid of being alone, they are afraid of death. People do weird shit when they're scared.
I thought Christine Marie, despite being annoyed with her attention-whoring personality at first, genuinely had good intentions, and in the end, she won me over. I think the ends did justify the means in her case. I think the ethics criticisms are valid, and everyone hates cops and nobody wants another Waco, everyone shouts "free will" this and "they're happy" that, "privacy laws" and "she lied" that, but, fuck it, that all goes out the window for me when children are being raped and someone is stuffing 20 brainwashed women in a trailer with broken doors in the Arizona desert with a piss bucket on the highway, because he doesn't view them as people. They're just fleshlights.
He had a lot of money, like, a lot of money, and didn't even buy a travel trailer or conversion van or a fucking bus so they could flee the area safely.
For some situations, I think it's unethical to NOT bend the rules... Sensationalism aside.