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May 27
41m 11s

Part One: The Throat-Slitting Evangelica...

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Robert tells the story of Kevin Ontoniel Smith, a Jamaican-Canadian minister who created an apocalyptic Christian sect and slit his follower's throats in a COVID related panic.

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“Is Your Blood Clean?”: The Paranoid Pastor Who Turned His Church into a Violent Cult | The Walrus

Ontario college mum on cult pastor's PhD - Jamaica Observer

The power of religion to abuse, distort and control the realities of susceptible persons | Toronto Caribbean Newspaper

Preacher Kevin O. Smith, parishioners arrested for alleged human sacrifices

‘It was like prison’ | Lead Stories | Jamaica Gleaner

Naive Christians slammed for missing Kevin Smith red flags | News | Jamaica Gleaner

Kevin Smith’s money trail | Lead Stories | Jamaica Gleaner

‘He left a trail of pain and debt’ | Lead Stories | Jamaica Gleaner

‘Kevin Smith will return’ | Lead Stories | Jamaica Gleaner

Kevin O. Smith’s social media footprint | Lead Stories | Jamaica Gleaner

Kevin Smith had great prophetic powers, says Henley Morgan | Lead Stories | Jamaica Gleaner

I’m a scholar of the “prosperity gospel.” It took cancer to show me I was in its grip. | Vox

Book Review: Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel, by Kate Bowler - 9Marks

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