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Quotes related to his views on women can be found in this article on "[[The Misogyny of William Branham]]." | Quotes related to his views on women can be found in this article on "[[The Misogyny of William Branham]]." | ||
==Sexual abuse is covered up== | |||
People in the message believe that they are the spiritual "creme de la creme". Denominations are of the devil. People who attend non-message churches are spiritually inferior to them. | |||
As a result, when sexual or spousal abuse takes place in a message church, they do everything in their power to cover it up so that their church will not be viewed in a bad light. We have interacted with numerous people who experience abuse, either sexually or spousal abuse, and were told to keep quiet. In fact, our initial reason for leaving the message church that we attend for several decades was because the pastor covered up the sexual abuse of a minor. He publicly humiliated a police officer in the church who had filed a police report about the incident. That was the last service we attended at that church. | |||
==Message legalism== | ==Message legalism== | ||
People who follow William Branham refer to themselves as being in "[[The Message]]." But what does being in the message entail? | People who follow William Branham refer to themselves as being in "[[The Message]]." But what does being "in the message" entail? | ||