'I was the weirdest person that I knew because my thinking was so different than everybody else’s,' says Christine Faour, who was raised Catholic before being lured by her ex-husband into a cult known as The Advanced Training Institute.
Christine Faour and one of her sons during the time her family was part of the Advanced Training Institute. It would be years before she would realize she was part of a religious cult. - ContributedCORNER BROOK, N.L. — Looking back at her life as a follower of the, Christine Faour believes she was “ripe for the picking” to be swept into a life in what she now recognizes as a cult.
“I didn’t have much confidence in myself,” Faour told the SaltWire Network as she reflected on how she was so easily brought into the cult by her ex-husband. Every time she’d visit home, she’d hear of friends who were either getting married or having children and Faour felt like she was being left on the shelf.
His followers have included the Duggar family, led by parents Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, and has been featured on TV in shows like “14 Children and Pregnant Again” and “19 Kids and Counting.”The Duggars’ “19 Kids and Counting” show was cancelled in 2015 after it was revealed their eldest son had assaulted four of his sisters as a young teen. Josh Duggar was convicted in 2021 of downloading child pornography and is currently serving a 12-and-a-half year sentence.
They attended an advanced conference after their first child was born. That's where they were introduced to the principles of Gothard’s Advanced Training Institute . It was all about homeschooling and how to protect your children from the evils of the world.Behind her smile, Christine Faour says she was a very unhappy person during the years she spent as part of the Advanced Training Institute.
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