Monte Mader

I was like, oh.

oh, this was never about loving your neighbor and helping the poor and taking care of the sick.

This was all about power for you people.

And that was the moment for me that I realized this had all, all of it had been a farce to just take power.

And, you know, I tell people all the time because a lot of people on my page

are still Christ followers.

And I'm like, listen, you can follow those teachings and understand that the organization is using these very good things to one is a guise for their own immorality, but also just to grab power.

But that was the moment for me that all of the lies and all of the contradictions came into really sharp relief.

And I realized that this was just a movement for power.

Takes one to know one, Donnie.

So what happened with me, in that moment, again, for me, I was like, ew, no, no, thank you.

But I had a couple months of really sitting with it and it's really sobering to be like, man, everything I grew up believing is a fucking lie.

All of this was used to manipulate me.

All of this was used to help me parrot their talking points, be part of their talking points, give birth to their talking points.

And it wasn't until the summer of 2016.

And again, I my I'm a data person and I love information.

So I just when I saw Christian support him, I dove even deeper.

I'm like, I want to know everything.

I want to research all these issues.

I want to research what he's saying.