How Shafer Becomes the Supreme Leader

"It's like somebody distilled the Catholic church into a hard liquor," he says. Shafer forced his followers to repeat a definition of the word family that he said he'd found in the Bible. Public confessions in mass were held at lunch and dinner. Members of the community would be expected to write names of sinners, themselves and people they'd seen sin on a blackboard near the entrance to the cafeteria.