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The church of celebrity

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Celebrities and Predatory Instincts

When you are a spiritual celebrity, your fans or your community puts you on a godlike plane. They see you as having particular access to the divine in ways that many spiritual communities crave. And so if you are a celebrity leader in that context and you also have predatory instincts, you, of course, are going to use that perception to prey on vulnerable people.

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