So the world didn’t end on June 12th as predicted by Yisrayl Hawkins of the House of Yahweh cult though something bad did befall Mr. Hawkins:
CLYDE, Texas—The founder of the House of Yahweh religious sect remained jailed Wednesday on four counts of bigamy, officials said.
Yisrayl Hawkins was being held at the Taylor County Jail, with bail set at $10 million.
[...] Hawkins, who founded the sect in 1980 after leaving the Abilene Police Department, was arrested in Callahan County on Tuesday afternoon.
It was unclear if Hawkins had an attorney. A message could not be left at the House of Yaweh’s office in Abilene on Wednesday morning.
Arrested two days before the world was supposed to end. You have to wonder if he saw this coming and made his prediction as a desperate form of wishful thinking.
I’m not too sorry about the news, but why would his bail be set at $10 million? Did Hawkins “convert” the judge’s wife or something?
Hopefully more details will be forthcoming. Texas is a state in thrall to a variety of christian cults, some less benign than others. Christian cultists own the whole damn state and the republican party in that state. I can see why they would want to crack down on the crazy cult image so the mainstream cultists can show how sane they are in comparison, but $10,000,000
bail seems a bit like judicial jackassery. If what he is charged with is all that serious, or if he is a flight risk, they can deny bail altogether, correct?
I actually have mixed feelings about all the recent news in Texas. Cults can’t be alllowed to break all the laws they disagree with, but in my opinion it’s a bit hypocritical to persecute crazy Texans. The mainstream cultists elect fools and criminals to office, fake energy crises to defraud other states and interfere in other state’s politics, and chase non-christians out of politics and public discourse. A little seclusion and bigamy doesn’t really seem all that odd to me, when compared to the norm there.