Not all cult leaders begin as influential figures. Some are born in the right place, surrounded by the right system, waiting for the precise moment. Sam Bateman didn't stand out in any way within the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-day Saints (FLDS). He had no power, he had no one's respect, but he perfectly understood how the minds of those around him worked, and when he found a crack in that system of brutality, he exploited it without any remorse.

What began as the story of an ordinary man within the FLDS would end up becoming one of the most disturbing and recent cases related to fundamentalist Mormon cults. Manipulation, brutality, power, and a nefarious system that allowed terrible acts against minors to occur.

Video about Samuel Bateman's polygamous Mormon cult: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG96XK6QKmQ

Now I'm CURSED. it's clearly a cult and full of depravity. I understand and respect the idea that people see our creators as aliens who had different technology BUT to claim you're a prophet, to humiliate, abuse, violated, assault, and rape vulnerable people is disgusting.

The fact it's gone world wide too. 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢

This is a Burner/Burner adjacent group which calls themselves a cult and says that they are using satire, "approaching the sacred through absurdity" and "exaggerating the the language of dogma" to make belief accessible again and create an intentional community. They have a section in their website talking about destigmatizing cult as a word.

They have hosted weddings to glaum and other rituals. They host theme parties. They have a whole section on their webpage about how glaum is a joke "But the punchline is that it's real". They have an aggressive pamphlet, and use a lot of spiritual and cult language, and joke/talk about recruitment. And have language in their website about how cult trauma exists, not everyone will find it funny, and that the satire is secondary to a safe community. At the same time some of the members seem to... delight in people freaking out about the cult, like "oh I can't believe they thought it was real". They'll probably be happy that they've made it to this page.

I get it in theory, but the commitment to the bit totally creeps me out.

I've talked to the founders and been privy to some of the rituals... and there is an element of seriousness to all this that makes me very uneasy. Lots of paradoxical language being used. I was told that I don't get the joke, that it is wild that they could convince me it's real, and in the same conversation also been told about plans to make this a full on registered religion. Maybe that was also a joke but the tone was serious and it's disorienting. Cult cosplay is definitely not my thing.

What's your take?

So as the title states, there are 3 very interconnected cults who are genuinely beginning to take over the town I am in. I shall not name names, because unfortunately I do not have enough evidence to truly condemn one of them, and they are also very well known and influential; and calling 2 out the 3 cults is actually a very dangerous stance to take. For now let’s call them cult a. cult b. and cult c.

If you’ve read This Present Darkness it quite literally feels like that book has come to life. For more context, I began noticing these things when my family and I learned the Church we had joined was actually a cult and according to Galatians could be considered accursed. The “pastor” also elevates himself on a pedestal up there with God without actually saying it. this church is a direct off-branch to one of the 3 cults, (cult a.) that claim to be a “ministry,” but actually contain spiritual abuse, false doctrine, greed, and cult like behaviors behind the plastered on face. However, the “church” (this church can actually also be connected to a separate blatant cult not far from here whose leader and maker can be traced way back to vampirism...) Now cult a. and b. are both “ministries,” with cult a. and cult c. both being blatant cults.

Cult b. is actually a well know ministry that provides jobs to many many people in the town their in, and surprise! I happen to work for them at one of their locations. From the outside they actually do not seem to be bad in any way, however, when you start looking into this ministry, cult a. actually makes up probably 1/2 of the staff, both of the websites or mirrored images of each other, cult a. partners with them, even does conferences there, and the jobs at cult b. are one of the few that cult a. allows their people to work at, but these people actually shouldn’t be allowed to work around certain other people and yet they are, not sure the thought process behind that one haha. This cult is also very clique, you are shunned if you are different, and everyone is told it’s like a “family.” The founder has blamed God once before for their financial struggles instead of admitting ownership to the issue, and they constantly insist it is a ministry when it honestly leans more towards a business.

Now cult c. is the blatant cult that has been in this town since the 1900’s and I’m guessing has their hand in most things. Turns out this cult actually donates to cult b. and have been seen at cult b.’s ministry. One day I actually witnessed and large number of them “infiltrate,” if you will, and one person in particular contained a unicursal hexagram tattoo which is used in the modern occult for invoking and banishing spiritual entities, demons basically. That day this happened was so spiritually heavy that I began praying without ceasing because I could feel such warfare in my spirit. I would actually not rule out the possibility that the founder of cult b. is a secret member of cult c. but that is just a guess not factual.

Now as these things have been revealed to me, cult b. (That I happen to work for remember) opened a new building with much decorative artwork meant to represent an ancient era. However, one symbol in particular happens to be a triangle with what appears to be an eye in the center… It genuinely looks like a blatant Illuminati triangle which would align very well with cult c.. Now of course it’s supposed to be from an ancient era but when I’ve done research on symbols from these eras this particular design cannot be found, which I find very peculiar. To top it off, two of the names used inside this building happen to be references to places that were known for being idolatrous and called children of Lot in scripture and condemned. Now why would a ministry choose either of these things without any consideration into the context or accuracy to what they claim to have designed it for??

My issue is, I’ve learned all of these things in such a way that it feels as though God has made them know to me in perfect timing and it can’t all be coincidence. It feels like this actually does go really deep and it’s not mere conspiracy. however I have no way to gain any further information, and there’s no other research I know to do to continue building this report. Why would God be revealing these things to me, what purpose could there be, and what is there to do if theres no evidence that I have for any illegal actions having occurred that would break these cults? I know all of this information is honestly vague and kind of confusing without knowing the names of these cults, but I find all this information to be not merely coincidental.

Hello, I am trying to find out what my Grandpas life was like to give my dad peace of mind, but I can’t seem to find anything. He died when my dad was 3 in El Salvador during the 1980’s, and my Grandma refused to tell my dad anything about his father. But my Grandma did tell my parents that he was a part of some type of cult. He wore a brown long Tunica and their symbol was (excuse how bad this explanation will be it’s the foggy memory of my mother) a circle, with a triangle in the inside and in the inside of that, there is a man in an almost sitting position. This was in San Miguel, El Salvador around 1970’s im assuming. If anyone had any ideas please drop in, but google will not give much due to how little information there is. We do not know how he died either, but he died around his early 30’s so it couldn’t have been so natural. This was during the time of the civil war, but again we don’t know. Please let us know if you know anything or have any ideas!!

The perps were Myles Admiraal and Lee Admiraal of Synergi LLC

The 17 year old boy and his father in this Globe and Mail article are Lee Admiraal and his father Myles Admiraal.
They are now directors of the large USA business Synergi LLC who sell architectural hardware, stairs and railings. Lee Admiraal and his wife Tami Admiraal have been recetly touted as the ideal Plymouth Brethren Christian Church couple in a podcast called "Lee and Tami Admiraal - peaceful pathway" The podcast was used to slander and belittle Lee's brother Lane, who left the PBCC after being physically and sexually abused by PBCC members in Montreal.
The podcast DID NOT MENTION that Lee Admiraal and Myles Admiraal were convicted of homophobic hate crimes and ordered to pay $10,000 in restitution to the gay couple they terrorised.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/couple-win-10000-in-homophobia-case/article18141708/#:~:text=The%20boy's%20father%20is%20being,2005%20and%20threatened%20their%20lives.
The text of the Globe and Mail article is below:

COUPLE WIN $10,000 IN HOMOPHOBIA CASE

Theo Wouters and Roger Thibault are arguably the most high-profile homosexual couple in Quebec and, partly as a result, they say their lives in a quiet corner of suburbia have been "sheer hell."

Ever since they went public with complaints of threats and harassment by their neighbours in the bedroom community of Pointe Claire, they say they have been victims of homophobia.

And now, in the latest chapter in their public and acrimonious battle, they have won a victory at the Quebec Human Rights Commission, which has ordered a local youth and his father to pay them $10,000 in damages for violating their rights.

The agency ruled that Mr. Wouters and Mr. Thibault, retirees who have been a couple for more than 30 years, were the victims of harassment by a local teenage boy who threw projectiles onto their lawn and threatened to smash their faces.

The incidents unfolded in 2003, one year after Mr. Wouters and Mr. Thibault boosted their public profile by becoming the first gay couple in Quebec to join in a civil union.

"This is happening because we're an open gay couple," Mr. Wouters said from his home yesterday. "We didn't accept being harassed in the first place, and it all escalated from there. The last 10 years have been sheer hell for Roger and I."

The Quebec commission said, in a ruling issued in June and made public by the couple yesterday, that Mr. Wouters and Mr. Thibault had suffered discrimination based on their sexual orientation. Bolstering their case were video cameras that had been installed outside their home and paid for by Quebec's victim-compensation agency.

Although the couple says a group of teenaged boys in a pickup truck harassed them, the commission did not pursue the case against the other youths because they live in Alberta, commission spokesman Robert Sylvestre said.

But it did uphold the case against a youth from Pointe Claire, aged 17 at the time, who openly admitted his disdain for the couple. He acknowledged to the human-rights agency that he'd thrown a lit fuse and rolls of toilet paper onto the Wouters-Thibault property, and threatened the couple with violence once while they were in their car.

The youth, whose name was not released, also stated about the couple: "I didn't like their lifestyle, found them arrogant and it bothers me that they make their story so public," the commission wrote.

The boy's father is being held accountable for paying moral damages because his son was a minor, Mr. Sylvestre said.

The Montreal civil rights group that fought the couple's case says the pair paid a price for their notoriety and their choice to live in suburbia. "We tend to see Quebec as a very tolerant society, but in practice it all depends on where you live," said Fo Niemi of the Centre for Research-Action for Race Relations. "The suburbs are very conservative and family-oriented and heterosexual, so sometimes [gays]aren't seen as very positive by the neighbours."

In 2002, the Quebec Human Rights Commission ordered two of their neighbours to pay the pair $36,000 in damages. But in a separate, criminal case, a Quebec Court judge in Montreal later that year cleared one of those neighbours of criminal harassment and assault.

And the couple's fight isn't over. Mr. Wouters and Mr. Thibault have another case pending before the human rights commission, this time because they say a neighbourhood father came to their door in 2005 and threatened their lives.

"We have no choice," said Mr. Wouters, a 65-year-old former couturier and milliner. "We have suffered greatly for the last 10 years and I simply don't want this to happen to other people."

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Lee Admiraal is the Executive Vice President of Synergi

The PBCC saw fit today to publish a podcast called "Peaceful Path - Lee and Tammi Admiraal"

In their haste to defame and slander GAL founder Lane Admiraal, they forgot to mention Lee's conviction for a series of terrifying homophobic attacks on a gay couple in their Montreal neighborhood. You can hear the Lee Admiraal story on Get-a-Life Episode 114, from timestamp 42.25, or just click here:

https://youtu.be/3uIunkS_Jfo?t=2545

Here is the transcript:

🧾 BACKGROUND: WHO WAS INVOLVED

So Lee Admiraal is a member of the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church in Montreal, Quebec. He was 16 and 17 years old when the attacks took place. And as we know, homophobia is instilled into the PBCC members from a very, very young age.

⚖️ THE CASE: FIRST SAME-SEX UNION TARGETED

So the following slides have been taken from the court transcript, so the present tense is used at times. This is the case. There's two men, Roger and Theo, were two gay men who had lived together as a couple at the residence in Pointe-Claire since 1978. On July 18, 2002, they became the first gay male couple to formalize their union under Quebec civil union law.

🚨 ESCALATION: HARASSMENT BEGINS

The incidents involving the victims and the defendant occurred between April and November 2003, when the defendant was 16 and 17 years old. On April 18, 2003, around 9 p.m., a dark blue pickup truck drove past the victim's residence. One of the passengers threw toilet paper from the truck onto their car and lawn. The couple called the police, filed a report, and gave police a videotape of the incident.

The following day on April 19, 2003, someone was heard screaming "faggots" from the street. When one of the victims looked outside, he saw the same dark blue pickup truck speeding away, tires screeching.

🔥 ATTACK: FIRE THROWN AT THEIR HOME

On November 10, 2003, around 11:30 p.m., so almost midnight, the blue pickup truck drove by again. According to the victims, a flare was thrown from the truck and huge flames and fireballs could be seen on the roof, rolling on the lawn and into the street.

Although there was no damage to their property, the victims claimed to have been very frightened by the attack, rightfully so.

🚗 CONFRONTATION: THREATS AND PURSUIT

On November 21, 2003, as the victims were driving home, they stopped at a convenience store and noticed the same blue pickup truck and a group of young people who had stopped to buy some beer.

When the victims drove away, they were followed to their driveway and insults such as "fucking faggots" were yelled at them from the truck.

Incensed, the victims decided to get back into the car, follow the truck, and finally identify the culprits. The truck turned onto a street called Broadview and drove into the parking lot of a community church.

The victims stopped their car, effectively blocking the truck's way. The defendant got out of the truck and approached the victim's car. When the victim refused to move or open the window, the defendant repeatedly banged on the window, trying to open the car door, and threatened to strike one of the victims with his fist.

The victims heard the defendant say that he would rather break his fucking face than break his fist on the window. Then they dialed 911 from the car and the defendant ran away.

🧠 IMPACT: LASTING TRAUMA

The victims claimed to continue to live in constant fear for their safety. They no longer listen to music, they have trouble sleeping, and are constantly afraid of what might happen next.

The couple has even canceled plans to travel together so as not to leave their home unattended.

More particularly, Roger testified that the events caused him to relive the profound trauma of accepting his homosexuality and that is still something he is trying to deal with with help from his psychologist.

Theo, his partner, added that his once successful artistic career has been destroyed. He is no longer able to paint because of his anxiety.

🛑 DEFENCE: RELIGIOUS JUSTIFICATION CLAIMED

The defendant explained that he had heard of the victims through the local papers and disapproved of their openly homosexual lifestyle. Although he had never met them personally, his disapproval of homosexuality stems from his religious beliefs as a member of the Brethren church, a conservative Christian church that teaches that homosexuality is a sin.

The defendant only admitted to calling them "fags" on one occasion on April 18, 2003, and he categorically denied ever using the word "fucking" as alleged by the victims.

He also denied throwing a flare at the victim's property and claimed it was merely a firecracker with a small stick. He explained that there was no fire, only sparks, and all it did was go "bang." He explained that it was late at night and that he was probably just trying to show off in front of his friends.

With respect to the threats he added on November 21, 2003, he explained that he merely wanted the victims to move their car so he could leave with his truck and that he would never have stricken either victim.

📚 EDUCATION CLAIM: “COULD NOT RECALL” RIGHTS

Regarding his education, he claimed that although his father had told him that homosexuality is legal in Canada, he could not recall whether he had been told that homosexuals have rights or that discrimination and harassment based on sexual orientation are prohibited.

I'm going to reread that again for you listeners.

Regarding his education, he claimed that although his father had told him that homosexuality is legal in Canada, he could not recall whether he had been told that homosexuals have rights or that discrimination and harassment based on sexual orientation are prohibited.

This is an outright omission of the truth. The PBCC are taught from a young age that homosexuality is sinful.

⚖️ THE VERDICT

The verdict. There is no doubt, given the facts established, that the damages caused by the defendant's actions were unlawful and intentional within the meaning of Section 49 of the Charter.

On several occasions, he deliberately humiliated, intimidated, and harassed the victims.

Given the gravity of the acts committed and the importance of dissuading others from engaging in similar behavior, yet also considering the defendant's apology and expression of remorse, the tribunal decided the amount of $2,500 to each victim was appropriate for punitive damages and $5,000 to each victim for moral damages.

Lee Admiraal and his father Myles Admiraal are prominent Plymouth Brethren Christian Church elders and also directors of the large USA business Synergi LLC who sell architectural hardware, stairs and railings. Lee Admiraal and his wife Tami Admiraal have been recently touted as the ideal Plymouth Brethren Christian Church couple in a podcast called "Lee and Tami Admiraal - peaceful pathway" The podcast was used to slander and belittle Lee's brother Lane, who left the PBCC after being physically and sexually abused by PBCC members in Montreal.

The podcast DID NOT MENTION that Lee Admiraal and Myles Admiraal were convicted of homophobic hate crimes and ordered to pay $10,000 in restitution to the gay couple they terrorized. Their crimes included shouting "Fucking faggots!" at the couple as they drove by, threats of violence, and throwing fireworks and toilet rolls at their house.

In court, Lee explained that his treatment of the gay couple was because he as a member of the brethren and so disapproved of their lifestyle.

i have been there few times and have taken some bible study with them, They almost got me into believing all these thing they told me about the scriptures in the Bible untill they said that the second comin of jesus had already happen and that the second coming & judgement days are both defferent and will occur on different order. So , i had some doubts and search about this (WMSCG) and got to know about that the second coming jesus is korean man and bride the mother is also a korean lady.

So, i am sure that it's a cult and want leave this Church without hurting their feelings because they have been kind to me and always talk nicely. Anyone who is a ex- member how did you leave and please tell me to.