Both Dependable Skeleton and Steve Ochs have hipped me in recent days to the – sadly – abandoned art of Flirty Fishing, in which Children of God/The Family cult members would act as prostitutes to win souls. The resulting “Jesus Babies” proliferated through the 90s.
Inspired by a passage from the Gospel of Matthew, in which JC Himself advised His disciples to drop their nets and become fishers of men, the Flirty Fishing movement, of course, also required holy johns to make a deposit of the non-sperm variety.
Where was I during this brief window when Christian cultists behaved altogether differently from the sullen girls at my CYO?
I will have to ask Paul Thomas.
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