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\nOn a cool fall night in 1999\, twenty -six-year-old Sarah Green crept out of her house\, retrieved a backpack fr om its hiding place\, and ran for her life. She was escaping not just the Aggressive Christianity Missions Training Corps\, a paramilitary religious cult operating out of the New Mexico desert\, but also the punishments an d cruelty of the cult&rsquo\;s leader&mdash\;her mother\, Deborah.
\nIn The Oracle&rsquo\;s Daughter\, Harrison Hill traces the fasci nating beginnings and violent end of ACMTC\, from its early days as an out growth of the 1960s counterculture to its descent into conspiracy-fueled a buse. This is the story of three women&mdash\;Deborah\, the group&rsquo\;s founder and self-proclaimed oracle\; Maura\, one of its first members\; a nd Sarah\, Deborah&rsquo\;s daughter&mdash\;bound together by a punitive\, baroque set of radical beliefs and practices\, including exorcism\, kidna pping\, and the horrific mistreatment of those who fell out of the leaders &rsquo\; favor. With a dramatic\, deeply researched narrative tracing the strange twists and turns of the country&rsquo\;s religious development\, < em>The Oracle&rsquo\;s Daughter illuminates the porous boundary betwe en the fringe and the mainstream&mdash\;and shows how much more vulnerable we are to extremism than we might like to think.
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