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Post by maryfromtenn on Feb 6, 2010 12:46:23 GMT -5
Hi, Y'all! My name's Mary and I've been lurking for awhile. Someone brought up Susanna Wesley. So I went looking on the internet and found this: freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gentutor/susanna.html I have no doubt at all that Susanna was a good woman. However, the reality of her life (and her children's lives) shows the lie of whatever the "multi-generational", patriarchical, quiverful movement is trying to sell.
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Post by maryfromtenn on Feb 6, 2010 12:47:28 GMT -5
I should have said... "lie to whatever [they] are trying to sell by using Susanna Wesley as an example."
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Post by journey on Feb 6, 2010 13:17:55 GMT -5
That was a really good link on Susannah Wesley. Thank you so much!
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Post by km on Feb 11, 2010 17:54:17 GMT -5
What you say about your mother being locked in a closet sounds so terrifying. I know that stories about women and children being locked in "prayer closets" abound in the histories of ATI people. I was struck by what happened with Scott and Andrea Bass (TRIGGER WARNING: link about child abuse. voices.washingtonpost.com/crime-scene/around-the-nation/ariz-couple-arrested-charged-w.html) and had to wonder if they're connected to a similar subculture. I don't want to assume anything just because this is a homeschooling family, but I do have to wonder about Gothard connections given the familiarity of stories of being locked in a small space. Ugh...
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Post by km on Feb 11, 2010 18:00:14 GMT -5
About the Bass couple again... The more I read about them, the more I see possible connections to QF. The girl says she was beaten with metal rods, a practice that is advocated in a lot of QF literature. I mean, certainly, there is psychopathology without the QF connection, but it would not surprise me at all to learn that these people were ATI-ers.
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