Word: meagher
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Returning to his dorm room that afternoon, Meagher fielded questions from his roommates. He still could not recall the exact name of the church, only that “Church of Christ” was part of it. “Dude,” one roommate replied, “that’s a cult...
...Meagher was now on the alert and started checking out cautionary websites to which his roommate directed him. He continued to meet with Zilman and Hrnicek, who gave him assorted religious books to read, but he was more skeptical. “Now I was being a proverbial thorn,” he says. When he asked his friends what would be required of him if he joined the church, “They danced around [the answer] quite...
...Meagher saw the two less frequently when lacrosse practices began in the winter, though they continued to call him on a regular basis. His roommates would answer the phone and tease him, “It’s the cult people. Do you want to talk to them?” Meagher says Zilman and Hrnicek disliked even the fact that he talked to his roommates about the church, telling him, “Outsiders just won’t understand. If people begin to question you, you have to separate yourself from them...
...Meagher finally ended his relationship with the church when he returned home in May. But without his involvement in sports and solid friendships with Harvard peers, he says it would have been very easy to get caught up in the church. He says that he was made to think he had a lot to learn from the BCC and that Zilman and Hrnicek were persistent to the point where they “never seemed to take no for an answer.” Meagher recollects how excited Zilman felt after converting his parents. “That?...
Looking back, Meagher now finds his experience with the BCC educational and a little amusing. “I learned a lot about my own personal beliefs,” he says...