Calvary Gospel Church in Madison, Wisconsin Revealed as Apocalyptic Cult Assaulting Children

Pentecostal Calvary Gospel Church in Madison, Wisconsin
is the subject of allegations of widespread sexual assault
occurring over 30 years, (Ferral, The Capital Times).

Madison, Wisconsin — We all have encountered youth obscured in high school, who later become police, court services investigators, for example, or a member of the Republican Party and a fundamentalist church.

But nowhere have we seen the partners-in-violence work of authoritarian institutions become so codified as the white fundamentalist churches and the Republican Party.

Not many saw it coming four years ago, but the triumph of the white supremacist Trump taking over the Republican Party seems natural in retrospect.

The same dynamics are to be found in Wisconsin.

Spiteful, petty and pathetic, the Republican Party has become a repository for the bullied and dull, now seeking revenge.

But no institution is as woefully destructive as the white Christian fundamentalist.

Protected by the Republican Party's stopping the Wisconsin Child Victims Act bill, a 1,000-member Pentecostal church on Madison's east side has been revealed to be an apocalyptic child sexual abuse cult this morning.

Writes Katelyn Ferral in The Capital Times:

A Pentecostal church, [Calvary Gospel Church], on Madison’s east side has concealed allegations of sexual assault among its congregants for over 30 years, and continues to perpetuate a culture of fear and control that fosters abuse, former members say. ...

Children were told the end of the world was always near — that Jesus would soon return and choose who to send to heaven and hell. They were taught that they would go to hell and send others there, too, for dishonoring the church and its leaders — which some believe are divinely appointed by God — by reporting abuse outside the church.

The fascist, the abuser, the cult member, the Republican — all find refuge in authoritarian institutions requiring obedience in exchange for minor authority and the chance to seek revenge. The innocent suffer the most.