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teach1st

(5,935 posts)
Fri Nov 19, 2021, 10:56 AM Nov 2021

Filipino megachurch founder forced girls and young women into sex, telling them it was 'God's will

Source: Washington Post

Between 2002 and 2018, Apollo Carreon Quiboloy — the founder of a Philippines-based megachurch — and his accomplices recruited women and girls as young as 12 to work as Quiboloy’s personal assistants, or “pastorals,” prosecutors said.

Under Quiboloy and his accomplices’ orders, women and girls prepared his meals, cleaned his multiple residences in the Philippines and the United States, gave him massages and accompanied him on trips around the world, court records state.

For over 15 years, the victims were forced to devote their lives and bodies to the founder of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, the Name Above Every Name by writing “commitment letters” to Quiboloy, prosecutors state.

Quiboloy, an ally of the Philippine president who has referred to himself as “the Appointed Son of God” and is believed to be 71, allegedly forced the women and girls to regularly engage in sexual acts with him in what he called the “night duty.” Quiboloy, also known as “sir” and “pastor,” and his accomplices would tell his victims that obedience to Quiboloy was “God’s will” and that “night duty” was considered a privilege and a means to salvation, court records state.

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Filipino megachurch founder forced girls and young women into sex, telling them it was 'God's will (Original Post) teach1st Nov 2021 OP
And yet these people still have the gaul to lecture the rest of us on morality. nycbos Nov 2021 #1
figures llashram Nov 2021 #2
Sounds like a cult masquerading as a church IronLionZion Nov 2021 #3
Aren't ALL religions cults? The larger, more popular ones just get away with being thought of TeamProg Nov 2021 #4
That minimizes the abusive ones IronLionZion Nov 2021 #5
Would you say Biden is a member of a cult? Kaleva Nov 2021 #16
IMO: Any faith based on superstition is a cult. TeamProg Nov 2021 #18
"a cult masquerading as a church" as if they are two separate things? NullTuples Nov 2021 #9
Ooh, Delphinus Nov 2021 #12
Color me shocked Claire Oh Nette Nov 2021 #6
Who will save us from those who say they will save us. twodogsbarking Nov 2021 #7
The moralists are always empty suits. Dawson Leery Nov 2021 #8
To clarify, his indictment was filed in California not Republic of the Philippines NullTuples Nov 2021 #10
Seems like that's always the way. rickyhall Nov 2021 #11
Working for God can pay well with great benefits. keithbvadu2 Nov 2021 #13
rape is a crime, not a benefit Skittles Nov 2021 #14
Yes...... Some sarcasm there. keithbvadu2 Nov 2021 #15
...and that's one of the worst aspects RussBLib Nov 2021 #20
Another pedophile disguised as a devout xtian? jcmaine72 Nov 2021 #17
My school friend's father was a Baptist missionary in the Philippines, there to convert the heathens brooklynite Nov 2021 #19
Kick ck4829 Nov 2021 #21

IronLionZion

(45,460 posts)
3. Sounds like a cult masquerading as a church
Fri Nov 19, 2021, 12:18 PM
Nov 2021

anytime people are forced into stuff like sexual acts and threatened with eternal damnation, it's a cult.

TeamProg

(6,144 posts)
4. Aren't ALL religions cults? The larger, more popular ones just get away with being thought of
Fri Nov 19, 2021, 12:26 PM
Nov 2021

as a "religion".

It's ALL superstition, not a single person knows why or how long the universe has existed.

IronLionZion

(45,460 posts)
5. That minimizes the abusive ones
Fri Nov 19, 2021, 12:32 PM
Nov 2021

that's why I qualified it with forced sexual acts under threats. Do it or you go to hell sounds culty but is worse for serving the selfish needs of a pastor than for doing good things for the community.

The universe exists for you to donate money to buy me a 4th private jet or you will burn in hell for all eternity. It's God's will.

Claire Oh Nette

(2,636 posts)
6. Color me shocked
Fri Nov 19, 2021, 12:56 PM
Nov 2021

Old men using religion to control women. For sex.

Religion is a tool to regulate "the other."
Twas ever thus...

keithbvadu2

(36,829 posts)
13. Working for God can pay well with great benefits.
Fri Nov 19, 2021, 11:40 PM
Nov 2021

Working for God can pay well with great benefits.

Especially when you can wield God as a weapon.

RussBLib

(9,020 posts)
20. ...and that's one of the worst aspects
Sat Nov 20, 2021, 01:13 PM
Nov 2021

...any callous murderer can proclaim that he was "born again" and forgiven by god, and who are you to question that sacred link between god and his sheep, er, followers?

just accept Jesus Christ as your "personal" savior (is there a "public" savior, btw?) and you are HEALED!!

such a fucking racket

jcmaine72

(1,773 posts)
17. Another pedophile disguised as a devout xtian?
Sat Nov 20, 2021, 05:13 AM
Nov 2021

On second thought, maybe it's not a disguise but a ministerial prerequisite.

brooklynite

(94,602 posts)
19. My school friend's father was a Baptist missionary in the Philippines, there to convert the heathens
Sat Nov 20, 2021, 10:56 AM
Nov 2021

.....which meant Catholics.

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