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BBC2 'How to get to heaven with the Hutterites'


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I'm sure those in the US are more familiar with the Hutterite communities but living in the UK, this program was truly fascinating to me. It gives a great insight into how an organised religion and a communist state are founded on very similar ideas of central control and higher power and believing that the group is more important than the individual. In the community, everyone needs to obey 'The Minister', women tend to have 6-7 children, are subjects of men, everything is shared and adults get an allowance of $4 per month!

It's interesting they say that staying in the community is 'voluntary'. They hardly leave young people a choice by completely destroying their mental faculties. There are exceptons though and some want to leave. There's a 15yo boy who dreams of becoming an architect and owning an ipad but must instead work 7 days a week doing a mindnumbing job in a chicken farm.. 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01ngxq7/How_to_Get_to_Heaven_with_the_Hutterites/ 

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