School Termed Cult (1 Viewer)

[RedeemerPapTest]

Scenario: A controlling church (commonly described as a cult) located in Parramatta has been operating a Private Christian school to anyone who wishes to attend. The church members, who comprise of the entire teaching staff, have been linked to detestable activities including brain washing, psychological and physical abuse, seperation of families, arranged marriages and more. The School pays teachers below the minimum wage (as little as $10,000 a year to full time teachers who also work after hours as bus drivers, grounds keepers and more as part of the school.)

The Redeemer Church members live a commune-like lifestyle, located in a series of residential properties in the western Sydney suburb of Parramatta. Many of those who've now left say the church's control extended to the splitting and separation of families. Former elder of Redeemer, Alan Nutt, has grave concerns over the division of families within the community: "It's very deliberate brainwashing to change people's mindset about personal relationships, family relationships. To be told constantly that your parents are no good, ultimately the young person believes that and therefore if I'm going to make it in this life, I need to be in another household, where I'm going to be 'properly' cared for."

You see, he [cult leader Noel Cannon] intrudes into every facet of life - career, family life, marriage, so they're told when they can go on holidays, where they can go on holidays, who they go on holidays with, what careers the young people take on, whether they can go to university or not go to university, who they will marry, and even...arranged marriages

I think Noel saw himself as God, and that was the big issue. Noel is not God. He's accountable to no-one.

You're always watched, you're always listened in to.

It's the emotional abuse, which in terms of public vilification at meetings, which would be seen in terms of the church as being a reproof and correction to help people, but that got out of hand and I've seen the trauma in people's lives as a result of that. And also how people are emotionally frozen and therefore they expect that, they accept that, and therefore it's not really questioned.

We were on a camp in 1990, up in Queensland, and there was a young lady, she had an eating disorder. She was struggling with eating her meals. This was a high schooler's camp. At mealtimes we would all sit there listening to Noel telling her to eat her food, and then when she wouldn't eat her food, he'd slap her in the face. She actually threw up some food and Noel made her eat her own vomit at one stage.

Redeemer ultimately is answerable only to Noel Cannon. That's where the problem lies. He recognises no authority over him whatsoever except the authority of God, and he believes that he has the mind of God.

Brainwashing perhaps - not even in the loosest term - I think it's very deliberate brainwashing to change people's mindset about personal relationships, family relationships. To be told constantly that your parents are no good, ultimately the young person believes that and therefore if I'm going to make it in this life, I need to be in another household where I'm going to be 'properly' cared for.

[The teachers are] under the independent teacher's award and they're supposed to be paid a certain amount of money. Well, you take an instance of one teacher that's left, she is now on $61,500 a year and she was getting paid $11,000 while she was in there.

Well, in their eyes, they are the only ones that have got it completely right, everyone else is wrong, the rest of the world is wrong. They are the only ones that have a direct line with God.

I'd use that word because churches that aren't a cult accept they don't have the whole truth, they don't have the right to say, if somebody leaves, they've left God, they've gone to Satan, they've betrayed a community and therefore they can have no contact with their family members. TIM COSTELLO

Above as from the Sunday Program http://sunday.ninemsn.com.au/sunday/cover_stories/transcript_1736.asp

Watch Today Tonight for more exposure on the School that has been using Government Funding TO THE SCHOOL to purchase their own mass property without reinvestment back into the school. Millions of dollars worth of property in the Telopea and Burnside region has been privately purchased using government funds to further our childrens education. Similarly, it is a gross abuse of government funding whereby in 2004 the school declared $3mil profit to be shared between the 5 directors.

Other Links:
http://www.rickross.com/reference/redeemer/redeemer2.html
http://www.rickross.com/reference/redeemer/redeemer1.html
http://www.rickross.com/reference/redeemer/redeemer3.html
http://www.austlii.edu.au//cgi-bin/disp.pl/au/cases/nsw/supreme_ct/2006/1201.html?query=redeemer%20baptist%20school
http://www.austlii.edu.au//cgi-bin/disp.pl/au/cases/nsw/supreme_ct/2006/582.html?query=redeemer%20baptist%20school

 

[RedeemerPapTest]

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[Serius]

yeah ive heard about that before, sounds very much like a cult to me and hopefully they will be shut down.

 

[MuffinMan]

it should be shut down, and the people running it arrested asap.

 

[Rafy]

I think Rafy made a thread on these people?

Yep. http://community.boredofstudies.org...ics/64186/redeemer-baptist-church-school.html