The Family: Netflix exposé raises questions on influential apparent cult
Analyzing whether or not ‘the Fellowship’ depicted in Netflix’s The Family is a powerful and dangerous cult which influences Government.
Episode one of the five-part documentary miniseries The Family, “Submersion,” works essentially as a particularly creepy entrance to what outwardly points to a vast American quasi-cult, sometimes referred to as “The Fellowship”, or in this case the eponymous “The Family.” The First Amendment evokes separation of Church and State – well that is not just broken here, it’s dismantled.
One man, a youthful aspiring investigative journalist, enlists; joining the mundanely boring routines of a household of brothers. This entails 20-year-old-or-so men living together and doing menial chores in the name of Jesus. Apparently, it benefits some “greater cause” – not the Lord exactly but some rich, powerful men. Ordinary people are not as important as elites, is part of the fellowship’s credo.
A revelation that followers whom are considered as chosen representatives of God can commit no wrong in their eyes, is condemning of the shadowy organization. One middle management elder type of The Family depicted in the docuseries, basically says “if one of the chosen members raped three little girls, he wouldn’t judge them.” Subsequently the wrong-doer, as a representative would be free to continue an elected position, per their ideology.
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As the viewers, we are then introduced to the Godfather – I’m going with an organized crime analogy – of the group the mysterious Doug Coe, a man who as the leader of this organization, meets with Popes, Prime Ministers, Muslim leaders and other continents’ bosses. The impressionable young men of the brotherhood lap it up.
The Family may exert control by procuring new members’ private, intimate information and secrets done, presumably, for compliance through potential blackmail.
Who was Doug Coe?
The fame reluctant head of this possibly nefarious, inconspicuous structure was effectively Mr. Coe. His main work: propaganda and rhetoric, under the guise of Jesus’ teachings, in order to further his devious seeming cause. Though ironically he was not in favor of organized religion – but called for a solemn devotion to Jesus Christ.
Using Hitler, Osama Bin Laden and the Mafia’s covenant of ‘honor’ as inspiration, The Family’s unity is a “Brotherhood in Christ: Jesus plus nothing.” One is only here to serve Christ, in the words of Coe and co.. Or using a perceived deity to control others; economies; international business – the world, is a more realistic assessment.
Shunning publicity due to the aspiration of light being solemnly shone only on Jesus is a thinly veiled excuse for avoiding this house of cards tumbling down globally.