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Kevin Smith, the main subject of the podcast, involved in religious manipulation, criminal activities, and conspiracy theories.

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Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Throat-Slitting Evangelical Minister of Jamaica

So at this point, members are ordered to lay on the ground and throw away any cleaning or sanitation supplies like antibacterial soap or wipes that they had on them. While this was going on, someone throws a wine bottle onto the floor and Smith orders a follower to use one of the shards to slit the throat of a congregant who happened to be seated near where the bottle had landed.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Throat-Slitting Evangelical Minister of Jamaica

Outside the church, Smith made congregants bow down on their knees before entering, giving them judgment, and writing their names in the Lamb's Book of Life, a biblical register of those chosen for salvation. The Walrus reports, As congregants entered the church, Smith wrote the names of each person in a book. Oh, no. Oh, no. I don't know. Does she believe this is literal? Does he talk?

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Throat-Slitting Evangelical Minister of Jamaica

and had forcibly discharged himself from the hospital after Smith had ordered everyone to show up at the church. We'll discuss Michael later, but this is a guy with a life-threatening kidney problem who like leaves his hospital bed where he needs to be to stay alive in order to be at this thing because he considers it more important.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Throat-Slitting Evangelical Minister of Jamaica

Smith doesn't show up until the 17th, and his first command is for everyone to throw out the canned goods that they'd brought. expecting to need food to survive the apocalypse. Then, confusingly, he ordered them to empty soda bottles and fill the soda bottles up with water. One member who showed up that day at the Ark was Michael Brown, who had been hospitalized for severe kidney issues

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Throat-Slitting Evangelical Minister of Jamaica

Smith's lieutenants manage the festivities up to this point, and he seems to have spent these hours like where people are gathering and like this is going on in a frenzy of social media posting, mostly to Facebook, where he ordered everyone to show up at the Ark without their cell phones wearing white, saying the Ark is loading now. The flood is coming. Go now. Run.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Throat-Slitting Evangelical Minister of Jamaica

Right. So early on the 16th, members of Smith's church start showing up outside the ark wearing all white. There's a sermon and service that follows that he's not conducting. He's got like lieutenants who are conducting the sermon and service, which goes on until around 1 a.m. the next morning. Right. So they're doing like a marathon session.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Throat-Slitting Evangelical Minister of Jamaica

No, very different. And for an idea of how Smith's sermons leading up to October 16th, this day of prophecy sounded, I'm gonna have Sophie play another clip.