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So many contributors to AFR fit this bill. I think the shortage of priests also contributes to converts being ordained before they’ve even hit 5 years and definitely before they’ve changed their fundamentalist outlook

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I see this too. I am in the Anglican tradition and at first was shocked when I joined online groups and found clerics talking about Wilson and Baucham. I think some get pulled in the reformed to liturgical pipeline, others via culture war alliances and a strong contingent via classical homeschooling.

I think the latter two are where ppl maybe begin to consume content and then they are down the Canon Press streaming pipeline or whatever and all the echo chambers insider/outsider dynamics really kick in.

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Tia, I’m not familiar with the shorthand for the church groups you use. Could you include a primer? Thank you. As an aside Doug Wilson’s group is slowly taking over parts of Moscow, Idaho , just 30 miles from me. It is a small university town. I know current and past members. It has been a slow indoctrination starting with their Logos school in the ‘80s then St. Andrew’s College located prominently the 6 or 7 blocks of Main Street. They are buying up the town and businesses. It’s been the plan all along.

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I think it’s the same as with any denomination—there are some orthodox churches where fundamentalism thrives, and and others where it doesn’t. I definitely steer clear of certain priests and their teachings, for that very reason. I was raised in orthodox fundamentalism and I have spent 25 years deconstructing from it.

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