#bickertonite

[omgitsfullofstars]

I desperately want to find a community out there of other former members of my cult, but every time I search all I can find is people correcting others who think that Alice Cooper was raised as a Brighamite Mormon.

[divinum-pacis]

Although the official LDS church doesn't recognize other sects of the religion, there are other groups that claim to be the true Mormon church. These congregations formed early in Mormon history. After the Succession Crisis, which followed the murder of Joseph Smith in 1844, a number of competing hierarchies were organized that fall into the two main branches of the movement, sometimes called the "Prairie Saints" and the "Rocky Mountain Saints."

[omgitsfullofstars]

You... were raised in a cult??

Oh ha ha yeah. I've already addressed this, but basically it's an off-shoot of Mormonism (don't call them Mormon though, they really hate that). THIS is the website, if you're curious, but it's honestly pretty scary. I'd recommend the WIKI instead.

[omgitsfullofstars]

It's so weird to think about the fact that my cult is Zionist. but, like, in an ~American~ way.