Part One: The Throat-Slitting Evangelical Minister of Jamaica

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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. Sources; “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 - 9MarksSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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