‘One of America’s Most Dangerous Cults’ Insists It Wants to Spread God’s Love: What Ex Members Say Really Goes on Inside

Over the years, … the Cooper family …say they realized the truth of the church they had chosen: not only the “pure manipulation” Jane [Whaley] could wield over them but also the abuse called “blasting,” a form of prayer intended to drive out evil. (Church members insist no such form of abuse is tolerated.)

According to the Coopers and other former Word of Faith Fellowship members interviewed for Broken Faith, “blasting” was usually carried out by many congregants surrounding an individual who had broken a rule in a way Jane or another senior church member deemed unsavory.

“There were a ton of rules” and “brainwashing,” John says.
“Blasting” could involve anything from screaming, beating, choking and being held down to being “thrown through a wall” — which John tells PEOPLE happened to a cousin. (“There’s never any abuse,” minister Mark Morris said in the 2017 church video.)

It wasn’t limited to adults, these former members say.

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