Critique of
NCCG - Fast Facts
for People With Concerns about NCCG
or an NCCG-Involved Person (May 15, 2006)
[This article, which is the first one in a
list of 8, points more to the direction of the members’ families than the
members themselves. There
is a lot to say on this one. This is not an attempt so much to defend NCCG or
its practices, but rather to understand if this person’s arguments and efforts
and clarion calls actually have a basis on reality. Because it is, using common
sense, cruel to aim at people’s most vulnerable parts, namely their religious
beliefs and their children and loved ones, and claim that they are in mortal
danger of destroying their lives if you don’t have solid evidence to support
the truth behind this fear. Also, it is cruel to attack a certain single person
and the work he has obviously devoted his life to, and claim that all he ever
wanted was to manipulate and control emotionally vulnerable people. You might
be right, but you can’t light-heartedly set up a website that does both these things
without having a really good reason why you do it, because you might also be
wrong.
Finally, it would be perfectly ok if the writer was
clear to begin with that what we are about to read is his (assuming he is male,
as he has not at any point made a statement of who he is) opinions and not
claim to be writing about “facts”. As you will see for yourself, there are no
facts in this page mentioned by this author. Also, suggesting authority to give
advice requires some sort of credentials on the matter. Had the author ONLY
given his opinion, that would be appreciated. The
author however, analyses, draws conclusions and finally gives advice on a
subject that there is no clue whether he has any sort of authority on or not.
This matter, therefore, has two aspects: the truth
about facts and the truth about the author’s own motivation. The facts the
author presents can or cannot be true, and his motivation may or may not be
genuine concern. This gives us 4 possible scenarios that explain why this
website has been created to begin with:
1. The truth is that NCCG is a dangerous destructive
cult and the facts about it are exactly as presented and/or implied in this
website. The author of
this website is honestly concerned about the members of NCCG and their families
and wishes to open their eyes and save them from the imminent danger.
2. The truth about NCCG is as described above in #1
but the author of this website, for a reason unknown to us, cares more to
destroy the work of the NCCG leader and practically cover it and him with mud
than to help the people whose lives and mental stability seem to be in danger.
3. The truth is that NCCG is not a dangerous and
destructive cult, but is what it says it is, a religious group that prepares
itself for the “end times” and wishes to help people find freedom in God,
especially for those who have been abused. However, the author of this website has mistaken it
for a cult and is honestly but mistakenly concerned about the members of NCCG
and their families.
4. The truth about NCCG is as described above in #3
but the author of this website, regardless what mission NCCG has taken up, for
a reason unknown to us, wants to destroy the work of the NCCG leader and
practically cover it and him with mud.
This website claims that the 1st scenario
is what explains his motivation. However, from an objective look at NCCG’s
activities and the way this website is written and attempts to get its message
through, it seems quite strongly that the 4th scenario is what
corresponds to reality. This work is to prove this. In all then, there are but
two points to prove.
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Is NCCG a
dangerous destructive cult? Should we worry about ourselves if we are involved
in it, or about people we know they are involved in it?
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Is the author
of this website honestly concerned? Who is he? Does he know what he is talking
about? Should we take his words to heart and act upon them?
What follows is the author’s writings in black and my
counter-arguments in green. I also thought of marking where the author himself
is expressing speculation and opinion, but in that case I would probably need
to mark 90% of the text.
As this author is, so am I a member of both NCCG Cyber
Community and the Deliverance From Demons group. As he has done, so have I been
investigating and taking part in both groups’ activities (chatting and posting
on message boards) since the summer of 2005.]
This information is based upon factual research, the observation of NCCG
members and former members, and direct interaction with NCCG members of various
levels of involvement including NCCG leadership. Each point expressed on this
page has been observed more than once. The information below will be updated
and/or corrected if new or more clarifying information is obtained.
NCCG is a small polygamic
group or "cult" with a compound (communal residence) near
[“Compound”
does not mean “communal residence”. The author should open a dictionary. Here
is what found on the American Heritage Dictionary about the word “compound”: com·pound n. 1. A building or buildings,
especially a residence or group of residences, set off and enclosed by a barrier.
2. An enclosed area used for confining prisoners of war. This is what compound means, other
than the biological and chemical meanings. Just to make this clear, the house
where C.C. Warren lives, is absolutely NOT set off and
enclosed by a barrier. He prefers to call a “collective” when he refers to it
in public documents because this is what it is, and the report of a Swedish
journalist who investigated the group some years ago verifies that title.
The word
compound is also often used to describe a somewhat perverse co-habitance of
many families, as it happened back in the 60’s and 70’s with the hippies and as
it happens today with some actual cults. The word “compound” therefore is
loaded. Communal residence is not. Using the word communal residence is
objectivity, but using the word compound is not.
This is one
point about the wording in this paragraph. Obviously the author lacks
information on the subject and believes that there is “no such thing as
Satanists”. The other is the word “Satanists” between apostrophes. Why the word
the author does that, I don’t understand. In my country, there are Satanist
rites every year at their “festival” times and “off season” too, and everyone
knows about them and what these people do, and not even the police cares, so they are just left to do their thing. They are
quiet and use really good cover, especially when they sacrifice people. I have
never been into this to report from inside, but come on… devil worship isn’t a
secret. You cannot say “Satanists” within apostrophes like you would say
“Booggie-man”. If people worship trees or stones, someone is bound to worship
the devil too. Also, there are people who are NOT into devil worship enjoy
exceedingly to torture their victims to insanity (as is the case in Asian and
NCCG was first created in
[Please note
the time span – 22 years (20 actually, as NCCG was created in 1986, not 1984 -
check the history). This is a lot of time, it didn’t happen yesterday. If it has been a dangerous cult, that didn’t happen in the last
year when this author and myself were investigating. NCCG has a history.
Maybe it’s older than the author himself, I couldn’t know. At any rate, due to
this fact only, that someone spent 20 years to build something, respect and sobriety
is due when criticising his work. This isn’t just for kicks – this is a big
deal to some people.]
NCCG moved from
This web site author has
observed Christopher C. Warren to apparently be a skilled, creative manipulator
of facts and situations. This is to effect undue
influence and, ultimately, control over NCCG members. Additionally, he appears
to use mystical manipulation, and both he and another noted "deliverance
minister" appear to use other methods of undue influence.
[With this
paragraph, it seems, objectivity stops and agenda starts to show. So far we’ve
known NCCG as a group of people who have their own ideas, maybe somewhat
far-fetched, and yet not so as there are quite a number of groups out there who definitely claim divine revelation, definitely
change names and split up.
In this last
paragraph, however, we’re TOLD that it has been OBSERVED… etc. Wait a minute
there. It has been “observed”, that
sounds awfully scientific. It is like saying “it has been observed that
patients with Raynaud’s syndrome display a change of colour of their fingers
when they place them under cold water”. This OBSERVATION is done by an EXPERT.
This expression is very common in science. BUT, who is writing this now? Who
observed that C.C. Warren is a “skilled creative manipulator of facts and
situations”. The answer is “this web site author”. And
WHO is this “web site author”? The answer is, he
doesn’t tell us. We do not know. Is he an analyst? Is he a mechanic? Is he a
student? Does he have a Ph. D.? What are his credentials? What is his name? We
do not know. He does not tell us. This lack of information is enough for a
person with sound judgement to disregard the whole sentence. But I have more to
say, as this phrase, “it has been observed”, comes up a lot in this website and
it is good to make a couple of things clear to start with.
What does the
author mean by “observing” something? The common sense answer is, he watched it happen. This is what observation actually
is. Now what the author is telling us is that he watched the following take
place BEFORE HIS VERY EYES: “A man is a a skilled, creative manipulator of
facts and situations”. So I come and ask in all honesty, did the author see,
watch with his own eyes, C.C. Warren “creatively manipulate facts and
situations”? In medical textbooks you will find pictures of fingers getting
yellow after exposure to cold water when they refer to Raynaud’s syndrome. And
they do this to demonstrate, even if they have placed their name and scientific
qualifications on the cover and you know you can trust them. Now this author
has reported neither. Obviously his observation accounts for nothing, but let’s
be lenient. May we at least be given an example? Because if
we are NOT given an example, then it’s the author of this website that
manipulates facts. If C.C. Warren has been seen to do such a thing, can
we please be told what he did? You know, people aren’t dumb. You don’t need to
chew their food for them and then spit it in their mouth. If you give people
FACTS, they will understand and form an opinion. I should have liked to see
FACTS here and not the claims of observation.
The rest of
the paragraph gets likewise discredited. On the basis of the first
“observation”, the claim of “undue influence” is suggested and in the next
sentence “mystical manipulation”. There are no facts, and nothing that tells us
what the author calls “undue influence” and “mystical manipulation”.
Despite the
uselessness of that paragraph, something good and useful comes out of it: the
author’s alleged opinion. We might not know if C.C. Warren is INDEED a skilled
manipulator, but we sure know that the author wants us to believe this,
otherwise why make a point of it for another 12 (at least) articles? WHY does
the author want us to believe such a thing? Maybe, you will say, he “observed”
that and he is convinced and shares his “concern”. Yes, sure, but we just made
clear that his “observation” accounts for nothing because we know nothing else
about him but THIS SINGLE opinion which is to be found everywhere else in this
website. A person’s integrity MAY give value to his opinion, but a person’s opinion
alone says NOTHING about his integrity. This is a principle of common sense.
Finally, to my
knowledge, and my own observation, NCCG doesn’t practice C.C. Warren-worship,
as they’re somewhat fanatic about God and what He says about “not worshipping
idols”.]
Christopher Warren has been noted to affirm several very dangerous perspectives
to deeply-involved and core NCCG members regarding "satanists":
[In the first sentence, the author says the perspectives
are “very dangerous”. Let me display some facts and some common sense. What is
no secret about NCCG is that they are on a mission to find victims of satanic ritual
abuse (SRA is the acronym) and help them recover. The group’s leadership makes
a big point out of it.
Now, consider again, if you were that really evil
person, the Satanist, and had gone to great lengths to keep your activities
concealed – activities, which, should the public know about (that for instance
children as sacrificed under their noses), would shake things quite a bit –
whether you would be upset or not. After years of neatly hiding your skeletons
in the closet, there comes along someone with a really big website on religion
practically shouting “there are people among you who are forced to sacrifice
their own children!!!!!”. I guess you wouldn’t like
this if you were a Satanist. You WOULD try to get your people to see who this
person is. Before it even occurred, you WOULD have your people infiltrated in
the police and the government to cover up. You wouldn’t have a huge active
group per country, but you would definitely use as many people as you
concealment tactics would allow. And if you were a Satanist as described above,
you WOULD want to kill C.C. Warren for blowing your cover and putting your life
and reputation at stake.
The possibility that what the author here makes sound
far-fetched and insane is actually the case is quite high. Is to know this
“very dangerous”? No I do not think so. I think C.C. Warren is doing the
prospective members a favour. He actually tells them: “There are people who are
after us to kill us. Does this appeal to you?”. If
C.C. Warren is that skilful manipulator, would he scare people off like that?
Especially if, according to this author, there ARE no Satanists? Is C.C. Warren
a “skilful and creative manipulator” (in most of these articles he is
represented as some kind of evil genius) and at the same time an idiot?
I believe this more or less covers the “Satanists”
issue. I probably won’t be making any more comments on this.]
NCCG appears to be making an active effort to maintain a low profile
within the local community (Arvika Kommun). It does not appear to recruit
locally or otherwise make its presence known other than as a quirky family or a
home schooling operation. It does not advertise its polygamic nature to anyone
except NCCG members or known sympathizers of polygamy.
[NCCG’s existence is by no means concealed to the
local community by the leadership’s own testimony. They say that when they
first moved there, they gave around leaflets to the whole village they live in
inviting people who are interested to come and see what and who they are. This
is quite easy to prove, so why lie about it. And NCCG definitely doesn’t
advertise polygamy to anyone. The people who have expressed sympathy towards
polygamy in the NCCG Cyber Community have immediately been advised NOT to try
it.]
The young children currently living at the compound were not noted to have
legal fathers listed in the public record. However, it is known among core NCCG
members that the father is Christopher C. Warren. This web site author suspects
that this omission from the public records may have been done deliberately, to
help prevent NCCG's polygamic nature from being generally known.
[HUH?! This one is a bit beyond the line. I thought the
research was on NCCG? I thought the author was specifically after C.C. Warren
(he has NEVER expressed an opinion about any other member of the church – isn’t
that something to think about for a minute?). Now imagine if someone was trying
to evaluate your work and this person wrote on his evaluation comments about
your children. Or, to make it even more graphic, imagine someone you don’t know
or have ever heard of doing research on who YOUR
father is. Is it really the one your mother was married to? Wait, WAS she
married when she had you? Did she have a boyfriend? Who was he? Who has she
told you your father is? Who has she told the public your father is? Let’s ask
her close friends and former boyfriends. Rather, let’s tap their phone
conversations and hack their e-mails. And then we will publish it online, and
the truth will out and I guess everyone will be interested. Obviously, this
paragraph is downright abusive to the young children, who, by the way, are
quite besides the point this particular website is supposedly trying to make,
honest or not.]
NCCG does not tell strangers who want to know about their religious beliefs
that they are polygamic. They will only explain the polygamy to people who have
started to trust them.
[Oh yes, that surely explains a lot and it’s got to be
“inside info”. They DO practice polygamy, according to the author, but we have
no proof so far because they only tell the people they trust. Yet, the
bottomline is, do we even know? How does HE know? Is he polygamous too? Are
there are “signs”? (this author is a great fan of
signs indicating something, by the way, as you will find out later).]
There appear to be five basic kinds of members in NCCG: [More wishful-observation. Now we get to see categories too, like you
will find categories of leaf formations in textbooks. How he knows, he does not
specify; evidence, he does not give.]
The largest category of functional members appears to be that of the the
internet located fringe members. The number of people who appear targeted
for recruitment into core membership (living at the compound) is very small.
[And… this whole website and a year long research is meant to protect these 10 to 15 people who according to the
author are in danger? Really… is it? Because he said earlier that the internet
located fringe “members” are not in much danger because the “cult leader”
doesn’t bother to “groom” them.]
This web site author's impression, based on observation of the characteristics
demonstrated by a variety of NCCG members, is that individuals with areas of
psychological vulnerability, family instability, or a history of mental illness
are much more likely to be recruited as core members. This is because these
kinds of people appear to be more interested in approaching "deliverance
ministers" for deliverance chat sessions, and their responses during
"deliverance" are more likely to lead to a dependent and controlling
relationship with NCCG leadership.
[Ok, the author effectively debunks his own loaded
statements here. The first thing he says is: “this web site author’s impression...”. The title of this page is “Fast Facts”. FACTS. NOT THE AUTHOR’S IMPRESSION. We have not been given evidence
of one single fact so far. But we have the fact of this anonymous author’s
impression. Well, I suggest, if you have a loved one you are concerned about,
you go out on the street and ask for the first person you meet to tell you his
or her “impression”. Would you do that?
Besides all that, and now for the sake of
understanding how the brain of this author works (and obviously not how NCCG works
because we’d need facts for that), let me first of all make clear what this
paragraph is implying. The way it sounds is that NCCG has set up a network of
websites to attract people who have “areas of psychological vulnerability,
family instability, or a history of mental illness”. NCCG does this because
they want to recruit as many core members as possible and people who are
unstable are much easier “victims” to NCCG’s evil plans of controlling
relationship with its leadership, i.e. C.C. Warren. This is a heavy accusation,
don’t you think? I would be satisfied before if I only knew this author’s name
and university degrees, but now I can only trust him or even take him into
consideration if I see his degrees with my own eyes, if he PROVES that he is an
expert at this. I am not going to base my opinion of another man on this guys “impressions”.
Now, to another point. Earlier it was stated by the author of
this article that people who are “dangerously” involved in NCCG deliverance
sessions demonstrate psychotic behaviour which has not yet been apparent to
their family. Here is something to consider: in psychotherapy, if the psychosis
which is not apparent to family or even the person in question manifests in a
session, this is in most cases good news because it becomes apparent to both
the patient and the care-giver and can be dealt with. This then is a good
development.
So if the author is telling us that people who ARE
what secular psychology would diagnose as “psychotic”, and no one knows about
it, and these “psychotic” people are attracted by this group, and join, and
their “psychosis” manifests and is dealt with positively as has been witnessed…
all in all, that NCCG is an evil group that destroys lives? Does it make sense?
If what the author says about psychosis is true, it looks like they do quite
the opposite to me, no matter if they attribute the “psychosis” to demons and
the healing thereof to divine intervention.
Moreover, a wise person judges from the outcome. Are
these people helped or not? Can you tell us if they are? Judging from what I’ve
experienced and seen, I have definitely seen people improve and definitely
without ending up worshipping the group leader, or thanking him, but God
instead. Why hasn’t this author reported that people have testified being
HELPED by their involvement in NCCG? Why do we hear his own
opinion but not the opinions of others who have been involved FOR REAL and not
just for investigation’s sake?]
Individuals without these issues not only appear less interested in receiving
"deliverance", but would have more psychological stability during the
process if it were attempted. Overall, they have a better chance of remaining
fringe members who enjoy reading the theological material on the nccg.org web
site, etc.
[And why exactly does this one evil person, C.C.
Warren (since no other evil leadership or member is ever mentioned in the whole
of this website) bother to help and see these people through deliverance if he
knows (as the manipulative genius that he is) that they won’t come under his
absolute control later, move to his “compound” and marry him, as the author
suggests later?]
NCCG is, as a whole, an avid user of internet chat. Any personal chat medium
(such as MSN) can potentially be used, in addition to groups.msn.com chatrooms.
In addition to the www.nccg.org web site, a tiered system of web sites on the
groups.msn.com web site system is used. Some are used for recruitment and
"deliverance" and some are more private. The first three relatively
public "MSN Group sites" are used for recruitment, and they are:
1. groups.msn.com/nccgcybercommunity
2. groups.msn.com/deliverancefromdemonsreception
3. groups.msn.com/deliverancefromdemons
These web sites contain a combination of message
boards and NCCG related religious material. These three web sites are
structured such that an individual can be steadily indoctrinated by the #1 and
#2 group. When the individual is finally asking for membership in group #3, it
will be possible that a level in their indoctrination has been reached where
there is vulnerability to the persuasive techniques used in "deliverance
sessions" as explained later. Additionally, there are chat rooms which may
be utilized by members at various times of the week.
[This is not so. First of all, the “Deliverance from
Demons Reception” (DFDR) has currently merged with the NCCG Cyber Community and
any observer who belongs to both NCCG Cyber Community or
DFDR can testify this. People become members of “Deliverance from Demons” (DFD)
after being introduced to all that the church has to offer, namely, NCCG Cyber
Community. Also, the latter is not actually private. It takes but to ask to be
admitted in the group as an investigator, and you are admitted. There are facts
to prove this, and you can also see for yourself if you are really interested
to find out (of course, I am not to be held accountable if this pattern changes
in the future, I only testify what I have observed). No “indoctrination” is
taking place in NCCG Cyber Community. People there are encouraged to read
whatever material they find useful, and nothing more. Finally, the only thing
it takes for one to become a member of DFD is their “honest wish to be
delivered from demonic oppression”. You will find MANY churches (and
non-churches) believing that demons can affect or oppress and soul and NCCG has
the right to believe this too. You will also find many churches who find
deliverance sessions helpful to solve the above problem, and I do not see why
NCCG may not believe this also.
It is possible for an individual to be deeply and dangerously involved
with NCCG but show relatively few outward signs to family members or friends.
The individual can be having psychotic episodes and making major, life-changing
decisions while deliberately hiding the situation from family and friends.
[More loaded words and statements. Perhaps as the
author was writing this, at this point he became “inspired”. Now imagine a
stranger came and told you this: “Your son/daughter is to MY observation a
deeply and dangerously involved member of a destructive cult called NCCG, but
this is happening right under your nose! You haven’t even got wind of it, but I
know what’s happening to your kid, and I’ll tell you how to fix it. Oh and by
the way, your kid is psychotic. Now I have no evidence to prove any of the
above, but I’m sure that my loaded pop-psychology jargon will convince you.”]
One of the precepts developed within NCCG members who are being groomed
for core membership is that of psychologically abandoning their biological
family and non-group friends. One of the first steps toward core membership
will involve the member disowning their parents and seeing themselves as
adopted children of a husband and wife pair within NCCG. The principal husband
and wife pair noted as adoptive "parents" have been Christopher
Warren and one of his wives.
[Definitely not a precept. I have seen so very few people (4, to be
exact, and if you ask them they won’t hide it) being what they call
“spiritually adopted”, that if this was a precept, the group wouldn’t number
more than 5 members. In my own observation, the statement that the author makes
above is bloated, to say the least.]
NCCG recruits may not always explain NCCG's religious beliefs to family members
or friends. [Really? Did you ask them and said no?] Efforts by a
newly-recruited fringe member to convert his or her family and friends, if such
an effort occurs, may be brief. [MAY be brief? Evidence?] At this time, NCCG does not tend to focus
on getting its internet-located members to recruit their biological family, or
perform personal "witnessing". Such efforts, if they occur, are more
likely to focus on a married spouse (not boyfriend/girlfriend) as opposed with
the recruit's parents (even if the recruit still lives with or is in close
contact with parents).
Outward signs which may be seen in a deeply-involved recruit are: [Now, if you want to spot ‘em, you gotta watch those
signs…]
Recruitment for NCCG is often done over the internet (with the added
possibility of phone calls or possibly voice-over-internet calls). Core members
may be recruitable from any area of the world that offers a regular internet
connection. The viewing of NCCG web sites (such as www.nccg.org,
groups.msn.com/nccgcybercommunity, and others) is a standard starting point for
involvement. This progresses into internet chat with
high ranked NCCG members referred to as "deliverance ministers". If
an individual proves to be susceptible to the recruitment techniques used
within the internet chats, the intensity and dangerousness of the chat content
may increase. Existing psychological problems in the individual appear to
exacerbate the situation.
[What is this telling us? That the
NCCG main website is a standard starting point of getting involved. This
I can verify also. This website, which is now taken down for updating purposes,
contains about 3,000 articles discussing the Bible, religious principles,
science from a religious aspect, deliverance and the occult. However, the fact
that it functions as such is not to tell us that it’s placed there as a “bait”
but rather, something else. And I said this, because for the striking majority
of those who view the NCCG web sites, “progressing into internet chat with high
ranked NCCG members” is NOT what happens next, even if they report people
greatly helped by the material they read. If progressing to deliverance session
and “deep involvement” was the pattern, the NCCG would have around 2.000.000
members by now. Yet, the ones that this author is so “concerned” about are no
more than 10 to 15 people. All this is not making much sense, now is it? The
author really SHOULD revise what he has written about this subject, and
definitely attempt to be more accurate as to what he reports as “patterns”. To
my knowledge, a “pattern” is a process that is observed repeatedly by a sample
large enough to suggest safe assumptions. At university, in research
methodology class I was taught that you need at least 30 people to do statistic
research on something and call it relatively safe (and even then, there are
many factors to consider, and that’s why people study for a number of years,
otherwise everyone would call themselves a “scientist”). 10-15 is not enough,
obviously.
Anyhow, deliverance is NOT NCCG’s first priority
anyway. The main website offers very few articles concerning deliverance (not
more than 50 or 60) compared to the rest of the material. A person directly
interested in deliverance might not place NCCG as their number 1 of possible
churches to turn to.
The same degree of dangerousness within the internet chat does not
necessarily develop throughout chats with all potential recruits. Possible
reasons for this would be underlying mental stability preventing the
dangerousness from progressing, or statistically, the person's gender (the most
notable occurrences of dangerousness within internet chat has been noted to
involve women). It is also possible that NCCG may recruit some people for core
membership without intense "deliverance sessions" as described above,
but these details are difficult to verify due to the small number of people
involved.
[There are two facts which absolutely correspond to
common sense that debunk the idea that the NCCG main website is merely a “bait”
to recruit people into “dangerous involvement”. The first fact is that a great
number of people have reported being helped and “having their eyes opened” by
reading the material on the main website, but the striking majority of these
people never joined deliverance sessions. The second fact is that C.C. Warren
would have to be and extremely skilled, prolific and insightful schizophrenic
to have built up all this work in order to draw people to himself to manipulate
and control them. I say this because in each and every one of the 3000 or so
articles, there is the message of love and obedience for God as a #1 priority.
A person can lie for some time, but he cannot ALWAYS lie. No one would ever
write 3000 articles on something they never believed, and all they ever wanted
was to manipulate people. There are for sure better and easier ways to do that.
On the contrary, an observer of this work would say that regardless the
existence of God, the reliability of the biblical truth, the existence of
Satanic Ritual Abuse etc, C.C. Warren seems to be absolutely committed to what
he writes about and what he believes. And if he is so very committed to God’s
word, then would he at the same time be dangerous and manipulative genius?]
"Deliverance ministry" is a system by which a "deliverance
minister" interacts with the recruit, and they believe (essentially) that
they are causing demons to exit the person's psyche. The
"Deliverance" itself is expected to occur at the end of the session,
and the "Deliverance minister" looks like the hero to the recruit
(coupled with the spirit of "Yahweh").
[If you ask a minister what “deliverance ministry” is,
they will tell you it’s encounter with a deity (Jesus)
in order to “overcome demonic suppression”. Interaction between the minister
and the “recruit” is obviously how the author defines deliverance ministry, and
the author does not believe (essentially) that demons can enter and interfere
with a person’s psyche. However, many Christians believe that (at least
millions of Catholics believe in exorcism and that’s far more radical than
saying a few prayers like it happens in deliverance ministry). Deliverance
ministry is not something weird or odd for the people who take the Bible
seriously. Also, if you take the Bible seriously, you definitely don’t claim
that it was the minister who delivered you, but actually, Jesus. Like I said
before, I have never seen someone who was effectively helped by deliverance
ministry to consider the minister as some kind of hero, but in all cases, the
person begins to worship Jesus Christ.]
Two internet chat and/or phone-based incidents with NCCG "deliverance
ministers" were documented which appeared to coincide with a psychotic
episode in the recruit. Both of these psychotic episodes
contained indications that NCCG involvement had induced them. This web
site author believes it is likely that there have been other such incidents.
[Just 2?! Before he said “these details are difficult to verify
due to the small number of people involved” and I was getting encouraged for
some objectivity! Before he also said they were actively recruiting people with
emotional vulnerabilities and all the talk about being psychotic is based on 2
single events???]
Among NCCG members who are psychologically susceptible to being manipulated
this way, NCCG makes heavy use of the following dangerous mental distortions: [Again, words out of context and without proof. “Dangerous
mental distortions” is not an opinion, it’s a diagnosis.]
A number of members appear to be recruited into the relatively small core
membership with the intention to eventually get them to move to the NCCG
compound. A few appear to be expected to remain in their home countries and do
a "ministry" there.
[Not one
person has moved to the NCCG “compound” yet except its original residents. This
indicates lack of observed material. How was the “intention to get them to move” observed?]
A trend has been noted for
NCCG to recruit women in an effort to have them move to the compound to become
additional wives for NCCG's leader. Some women are also recruited who are
anticipated as potential wives for other single men who may be living at the
compound. Persons 17 years old and younger have not at this time been noted to
be a focus of these efforts. Above that age bracket, the ages of the women vary
widely, with a higher proportion of them being in the typical cult recruitment
age bracket (18 - 25) than other ages. There are indications that the
"marriages" within this group will result in planned pregnancies.
[Ok, fair
enough. Now some details. Has ANY young woman yet moved to the NCCG’s leader’s
house? The answer is actually “no”. Where is the trend then? If NCCG has been
trying to “recruit women… to become additional wives” they have failed
tragically! Then, what other single men? The MAY be living at the compound… ok.
ARE any single men living there or not? We need facts. All these bloated words,
the suggested manipulation, the supposed “tragic stories” of the women who were
“enticed” into becoming “additional wives” have actually never happened and
this to me is quite interesting. Why would someone build a website claiming
such a thing when such a thing never happened?]
Single or divorced men also appear to be a focus for recruitment into core
membership, but they are fewer in number than the women.
[These last paragraphs, I think shout louder than any
other. Before we were repeatedly told that involvement is in itself an
extremely dangerous thing and that C.C. Warren wants to control and manipulate
people. The arguments that supported these things proved quite unstable, if not
useless. But here we are also told that C.C. Warren, a 52 year old man who has
devoted his life to Christianity, is in fact after marrying young women, 18 to
25 years old and adding them to his supposed “collection of wives”. From what
the author says and from my own observation, we see two different aspects that
downright contradict one another. Either C.C. Warren is a horrible monster who
devours people, or he has devoted his live to the God he believes and lives by
exactly what his God says. If C.C. Warren is a horrible monster, he would never
devote his life to a God that proclaims love and free agency, nor would he
build and huge website based on this agenda. If C.C. Warren honestly believes
in everything God says in the bible, then he can by no means be a horrible
monster because
NCCG has been noted to be willing to provide various kinds of physical aid and
support in helping recruits overcome immigration obstacles in order to move to
the compound. This type of activity appears to be relatively new in NCCG's
history, and it's success as a policy is at this time
uncertain.
One of NCCG's income sources is donations from internet located members of varying
levels of involvement.
If you are reading this web site due to concern about the well-being of an
NCCG-involved person, this web site author suggests that you proceed this way: [People take advice about their loved ones from experts.
That’s what people do. Why does the author of this website suggesting that we
should take HIS advice? Who is he? We don’t even know if he (or she) is male or
female. I suggest you pay attention to his “statistics” that follow:]
[Scientific-like
and psychologist-like language does not make one’s statements valid nor does it
give the person any sort of authority. So far, we have witnessed the author
using the language that an expert on psychology/cults/religion/ministry/family
counselling would employ. If you however, look at the page of this website
called "debunk" which is found among the links for the people who are involved
in NCCG already, you will see that the language shifts to that of a 20-25 year
old angry man who is trying to plainly defame/insult someone. An angry 20-25
year old man COULD really easily use (imitate) the language of an expert, but a
scientist/expert, would not burst into cursing and yelling as an angry young
man if a scientific report was his objective. Educated people who practice the
scientific knowledge they have acquired through extensive study are usually
much more objective and controlled than this. Whether you will consider this
person’s analysis and advice reliable concerning your belief system, your moral
values, and your loved ones’ belief systems and values, is completely up to you.]