Inside a Church Split: Favoritism, Loyalty, and Blame  🔗 **Source:** [Inside a Church Split: Favoritism, Loyalty, and Blame](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kzJwm7zKXc) ## Highlights - But we were raised to be less than dogs. We were treated less than dogs. And if you're a a female in this thing, the central figure, William Branham, even said the female is less than a dog or a hog. - Note: atom/literature/h1 — misogynistic doctrinal framing used to justify fear-based control; the video's cold open. - they were realizing that if certain people with specific last names did something, there was no consequence to what they would do. While on the other hand, people would be ridiculed for doing the exact same thing. - Note: atom/literature/h1, fallacy/special-pleading — the favoritism double standard that seeded the schism. - the visiting ministers that were coming in were saying that they had not been told anything and that had happened and it was pure discernment and word from the Lord of what they were speaking to us and we all knew that that was not true. - Note: atom/literature/h2, darvo/deny, fallacy/appeal-to-unfalsifiable-authority — spiritualized denial of a checkable fact. - started like bashing the people that had left for causing his sickness because it caused him stress was just traumatizing and very hard to hear. And I had already left that church at that point, so it was very awkward sitting there being someone who had left hearing the blame placed upon me for his illness. - Note: atom/literature/h1, darvo/reverse — the clearest reverse victim/offender moment: departed members blamed for the pastor's stress-induced illness. - it wasn't just you need to be in the message. It was you need to be in this church... where if somebody left the church, then they were seen as a traitor - Note: atom/literature/h2, darvo/attack, fallacy/false-dichotomy — loyalty escalated to the local church, departure framed as betrayal.