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New cult group professes
anti-Semitic Christianity
by Arthur Wilner
NEW VORKUTA)—The Task
Eorce on Missionary Activity of
the Jewish Community Relations
Council of New York is warning
the Jewish community to beware
of a new major campaign currently
being launched by the cult group.
I he Way International
The campaign, entitled, "Take A
Stand Caravan- 1980," was
initiated in January by the group’s
founder. Victor Paul Wierille
I heir stated purpose, according to
the Task Force, is to “Win new
people for (their) Power For
Abundant l iving (PFAL) classes
and sign up World Over World
(WOW) ambassadors."
According to Dr Seymour
Lachman, chairman of the Task
Force, the group is reported to be
virulently anti-Semitic. Some of
the recommended reading
suggested bv the sect includes "The
Myth of the Six Million,” and
“The Hoax of the Twentieth
Century,” both which attempt to
prove that the Holocaust never
took place. "This is particularly
frightening." Lachman stated, "in
light of the fact that among the
claimed 50,000 members, many are
Jews.”
Potential members are required
to take the PFAL classes which,
according to a former Way
member, “mollify the mind, and
prevent (students) from
differentiating right from wrong.”
According to the Task Force, these
classes run at a cost of S200-S300
per course, and students who fail
are encouraged to repeat these
courses over and over again
The Task Force added that
members arc required to give over
their material possessions to The
Way, while supporting themselves
and paying for the mandatory
high-priced classes through part-
time work Those individuals who
suddenly find themselves
incapable of contributing to the
cult are dropped and are often left
with lasting psychological
problems.
Wierille, a former minister of the
U mted Church of Christ, is quoted
by the Task Force as claiming that
his is the “accurate version of
Christianity,” while the other
churches are misinformed.
According to the group’s lawyer,
Stephen Cea, the sect is involved
primarily in Biblical research and
that members teach, but do not
recruit or program people.
However, according to John
Desmond, a former Way follower,
corps members, particularly those
in the advanced classes, are taught
that religious and political leaders
not involved with The Way arc
demon-possessed. . ,, ,
The group, which has its
headquarters in New Knoxville,
Ohio, is not, known to have any
congregations or churches.
H owever, according to an article in
the New York Times on Jan. 21,
the group docs have a college in
F.mporia. Kansas The artic/e
noted that the college reportedly
enrolled its student body and
faculty in marksmanship and
weapons safety classes at
Emporia’s National Guard. More
than 500 people took the 10-hour
course, using 22 caliber rifles. The
group claimed these to be “merely
hunters’ safety classes.”
The Times also reported that
The Way maintains an armed
police force at its headquarters,
authorized by a judge under a 104-
year-old state law providing for
security at church gatherings. The
group justifies this force as a way
to “merely prevent vandalism of its
property,” the Times reported.
The JCRCs Task Force noted
that though the sect was foundpa
in 1942 by Wierille, it has^ust
recently been brought to the
attention of the Jewish public. A
spokeswoman for the Task Force
attributed this to the fact that the
group is now touring college
campuses, spreading their anti-
Semitic views to the general public.
A case in point was an incident at
the University of California in
Berkeley, where two students were
thrown out of one of The Way’s
“Weekend iA the World” meetings
because they wanted to set up a
table to show the Jewish view of
the Holocaust.
The Task Fonxis urging all
organization*., jjbuth
rabbis.' and Jewish commodity
councils to' alert their respective
members to the dangers —
psychological, religious, physical
and Financial posed by this
cultist group
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