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As ron luff and his wife become more immeshed in the cult, they begin to lose sight of reality. luff is captivated by the teachings of the groups leader, jeffrey lundgren. and like all the groups members is a devoted follower. >> you havent considered yourself a cult. >> in fact, i dont think the idea came into mind, the whole notion of a cult which i knew nothing about anyway. >> how many could would be in the group at the time. when did the requests of dictates become even more unorthodox, mor...

>> i dont think theyll come back any time soon. >> not the thing i would want to be talking about if i was running for president. >> im an imelda marcos follower, i love to talk about shoes, but this is the silly season. >> yes. >> any time theres something that gets people like us talking, thats not about, you know, whats their tax policy, whats their policy on, you know, increasing the defense budget, all the things that voters at a person point -- >> maybe they talked about their tax policy a...

Of islamic extremism. how do we begin to turn this ship around? >> we begin with a president who is a leader, not a follower. the leading in the from behind extra injure has obviously failed by leaving vast vacuums that have been filled in some cases by dangerous forces. either islamic terrorism, russia, china, china trying to expand in the south china sea and america doing nothing by the. president obama laying down red lines 12 times to assad now being willing to accept assad throughout the re...

Experience. i mean, i have never -- look, i have never seen anything like it in my life. i was talking to rick santorum a while ago and we had ha long campaign in 2012. if i were running i would not have a clue how to function in given whats going on. >> wes5 can agree its never dull. mr. speaker, thank you, sir. >> great to be with you. >> president obama has just released two get mow detainees. fox news chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is here. catherine, who was released? >...

Its a very open kind of movement and included women who a lot of the time might have felt themselves somewhat marginalized. being with jesus gave them a sense of identity and self-worth in a way that they often didnt find in ordinary society. >> mary magdalene seems atypical for a jewish woman of her time. most jewish women in the galilee would have been in some kind of domestic setting, either as a daughter or a mother or a wife, but to be out in the wilderness with a itinerant preacher with a ...

>> shes at college? >> yeah. shes trying to study to be a music teacher. >> ive seen people like him before. i know his situation. he got caught up in something that he never should have got up in. went running with the wrong crowd. he was a follower. steve is a good kid. hes -- hes good as gold. >> i aint got nothing. >> gaffney has even pushed aside his white supremacist views to learn spanish from vogt. >> once in a while well get white people who are ex-aryan brotherhood. the majority is lat...

>> jesus was a pretty good judge of character. anyone who jesus had chosen as a disciple must have had something going for him. >> judas was the treasurer of jesus 12 disciples. he was the one jesus trusted with the money. >> jesus saw in judas the kind of man that he wanted to be his follower. we have to assume that theyre friends and that they have this close relationship. >> hes special. he has a key place. and yet somethings going to happen in judas thats going to lead him to fall away from ...

That jesus and mary were very close. >> the idea that the gospels would not mention a wife if there was one doesnt make any sense. most likely, mary was a close friend of jesus and a follower, but not his wife. >> what the gospel of phillip clearly says is that there is some kind of a favored relationship between mary magdalene and jesus. that jesus does care for her more than the other disciples. and thats all it really tells us. >> but some scholars believe the nag hammadi texts do reflect a g...

And the resurrection is the moment where james comes to believe that jesus really is something special. perhaps that was the moment where he came to acknowledge jesus was not just his brother but also his lord. >> james life is transformed. now, from doubting brother, he will become jesus most devoted follower and helps shape a new world religion.

>> the idea that the gospels would not mention a wife if there was one doesnt make any sense. most likely, mary was a close friend of jesus and a follower, but not his wife. >> what the gospel of phillip clearly says is that there is some kind of a favored relationship between mary magdalene and jesus. that jesus does care for her more than the other disciples. and thats all it really tells us. >> but some scholars believe the nag hammadi texts do reflect a genuine tension between mary and peter...