Brother Micah
Evangelism-- Americas favorite past time-ish
Southern recruiting in general has always fascinated me. Think about the Greek system, or Mallet Assembly, or any other group on campus. All will admit their groups are related to a religion in the fact that they evangelize their future members. The process is so customary to us that we don't even realize it. In fact, I think we seek it out. Religion can be broken down into a million zillion ways, but essentially it is a group of people worshiping a central icon. You meet with these people once a whatever and discuss things important to it's center.
Brother Micah is an older man that visits college campus's in order to evangelize/harass students.He yells at girls to watch what they wear and at men for not looking like men, and for a list of other reasons. He is crazy. But we are too. Everyday Sarah Somebody wears her letters, she is really saying "This is what I am, and what you are not. Don't I look hot in Nike tempos?" Which is pretty strange and I think it's a little scary. We are so easily affiliated with things.
I am not saying it's not cool to be in clubs--or even that all clubs are this way, but it's the people in them that turn them into cults. When you allow a group to define you, and recruit new members in a way that is similar to a religion, they become one.
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