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I know this sounds crazy but what if the cult that Harold and Tina joined was like the People’s Temple per day? I know that PT took advantage of impoverished people and those in need, so perhaps that was the case here?
The Jesus People!! I didn't even know they were still around in 1981.
They were a 70's thing that I thought fizzled when the Vietnam War ended. It was mostly teenagers and young adults. (Hippies who were high on Jesus instead of drugs) I think there was also some communal living involved, but most just lived at elsewhere. I went to some of their events, because they were pretty much everywhere back then.
Jesus People USA - Wikipedia
Here is a documentary.
I'm listening to some weird, disturbing stuff about kids being taken from their parents.
This documentary is on the producer's You Tube channel.
Film sheds light on Jesus People's dark stories
CHICAGO — When filmmaker Jaime Prater decided to make a documentary exploring the lives of the children he grew up with at the Jesus People USA religious community, he says he never imagined his research would "open the floodgates."
Stories poured out of ........More than a dozen adults who lived as children at Jesus People relate their stories in Prater's film,
No Place to Call Home, which has been released on Vimeo on Demand.
Jesus People is one of the last remnants of the Jesus Movement of the 1970s, which attracted earnest young urban missionaries seeking an alternative to the drug culture and free love communes of the time. Today, Jesus People says it offers adults and families a chance to turn around their lives in an evangelical, Bible-based communal setting.
You can watch the documentary on the producer's YouTube Channel
The documentary is: No Place To Call Home
The channel is: Jaime Prater