Right Before the premiere of Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, I was sent this rather lengthy post from someone on Reddit who claims to be a member, or perhaps former member of Mary Cosby’s pentecostal church, Faith Temple. Disclaimer: There is no way to verify this anonymous source, but it sounds real to me. This is the source of all the posts about Mary Martha and her cult. Due to the length of the comment, I never really got around to posting this in its entirety. But since there is nothing to recap tonight, I thought y’all might feel like wading through this tonight. So here goes… I thought about purple penning this… but really…what is there to say other than OMG!
Most of my entire family was born into Faith Temple. What this article and I am sure that Bravo will forget to mention is that Mary had a husband before she married the bishop (1 year after her grandma died) His name is Dana Harris. When Mary’s grandma “Mama” died in 1997, Bishop would be preaching and telling all the women in the church that they better leave him alone and not try getting with him. That God already sent Mary Martha to comfort him in his time of mourning. Mary Martha was spending so much time at his house right after that rumors started spreading quick. He would be preaching this from the pulpit, telling the church to quit gossiping and that she was “strictly comforting him.” He would go on and say, “Her husband doesn’t mind! Why do any of you?”
Mary Cosby’s First Husband Was Thrown Out Of The Church By PeePaw
He then shortly thereafter called Dana out in front of the entire church telling the congregation that he was allowing Mary Martha to divorce Dana cause Dana was forcing Mary Martha to perform unclean sex acts on him.(AKA oral sex.) Then he immediately kicked Dana out of the church. Shortly thereafter the Bishop called a family meeting with all of Mamas children including Mary Martha’s mom Rozzie Cazares. He told all of the family that he needed them to pray on something that God was telling him and he wanted them all to pray to God and ask him for an answer Yes or No, without telling them what it was.
Of course they all said, Yes, Bishop, God said yes. All of them except for Mary Martha’s mom Rozzie. She said no. Then with the approval of most of his late wifes children, he told them all that God was telling him and Mary Martha to get married. Hence, that is how Mary Martha married her step Grand Daddie 1 year after her grandma died and became the first lady AND co pastor of Faith Temple Pentecostal Churches.
Mary’s Mom Left The Church After Mary Married Peepaw
Her Mom Rozzie, who was the choir director at the time, (a job that Mary Martha would take over after she left) was not having the marriage of her daughter to her own step dad so her and her husband Mark Cazares tried to take over the church and kick the Bishop out. That failed so they left the church and took over half of the congregation with her and started a new church called “Mamas Faith Temple. It is also in Salt Lake City. (Now she teaches that she is God, too… More on that next.)
What Bravo will almost surely forget to mention as well is that Mary Martha and the Bishop actively brainwash their congregation into believing that they are God on earth. That God came down and has taken over their bodies and that they are literally the saviors of the earth (alongside Jesus.) They call it the Revelation. Before Mama died it only pertained to her but after she died, Mary and Bishop have taught that it is on them now. They have the church members running around yelling back and forth to each other “Mary ISSSSSS God” and rolling around, speaking in tongues, going crazy over that nut job. Before Mary took over the church, the revelation was “Mama ISSSSS God”, but now it’s “Mary ISSSSSS God. And the ONLY way to be saved in that cult is to get that revelation and profess it at every chance you get. In secret and to each other, of course cause nobody wants the secret getting out to say,,, the creators of The Real Housewives, franchise.
Mary And Peepaw Think They Are God
Let that sink in…..
THEY PREACH THAT SHE IS GOD. THEY ARE CULT LEADERS AND SHE IS THE HEAD HONCHO OF THE WHOLE DAMN OPERATION.
Mary and Bishop justify it by saying that you’re not worshiping her, you’re worshiping the God inside of her. That they have let God take up his abode in them to the extent where they don’t exist anymore and it’s all God. People literally bow down and flail at her feet in church and worship them. If by chance you don’t and are the odd man out you are immediately targeted and called out by her in front of everyone and the entire church will turn their back on you. You are told that you are an unbeliever and aren’t “saved”. You become an outcast.
There is an internet broadcast of the churches sermons that you can find on Tunein under “The voice of gods ministries.” It plays at 10am mountain time and now 10pm as well. Up until Bravo really started getting going with Mary’s cast membership they would play clips of Mary claiming she has the “keys to the kingdom” and preaching to the effect that she was God incarnate. They would also edit clips of the old Pastor Mama preaching and Mary preaching intermittently so that Mama would be preaching half a sentence and they would cut to Mary finishing it. Half the time you would get confused if you were listening to Mama or her for short bursts. This is a classic manipulation technique to back up their claim that the Revelation has been passed on to Mary and she is now the word of God.
Mary and Peepaw Control All Aspects of The Members Lives
I’ve noticed that over the last few months they have put a halt to that and are strictly playing Mamas sermons and twice a day at that. Likely because they don’t want the world knowing the secret teachings of the church. Also because church members aren’t being barraged, beat up, belittled and brainwashed in person every Sunday anymore with COVID, so they are picking at straws trying to hold onto the last “stick with it till the end” members and their paychecks. Gotta keep that money coming in! Mary and Bishop demand that all of the church (CULT) members have their cell phones on them 24/7 to be at their beck and call and if they do not answer when they call, they are silenced and ridiculed and humiliated in church.
Members are not allowed to date or marry without the explicit approval of Mary and the Bishop. Then they decide who they can date or marry! They are forbidden from talking to their family members that have left the church. They are not allowed to have internet access, go to the movies, etc. Basically any and all activities they do besides work have to do with church. Also, all members are required to confess any “sins” that they believe they commit to Mary and Bishop and suffer the consequences of their judgment. They control every aspect of their flocks lives. Mind control to the extreme!
The Congregation Paid For Tons Of Surgeries For Mary, Allegedly
Let me also say this… Mary looks NOTHING like she did just a few short years ago. Her and bishop disappeared from the church for almost 3 years. All the time while they were gone, Bishop was calling into the church during church meetings, saying she was in New York in the hospital on her death bed with the same kind of huge boils that afflicted her grandmother and that they needed hundreds of thousands of dollars to perform the life saving surgeries she had so she wouldn’t die.
Finally, after those 3 years of further draining their congregation on their money, Mary showed up at the church with half the nose she had before, twice the cheeks, brand new eye lids, half the skin, a completely different rack of teeth, looking 100 shades lighter and had blonde hair. All the while she forbids her female followers from having blonde hair cause she says that it’s a sin to try and look white. She claims that she had no work done and that she’s been illuminated by God. Yes, Mary and the Bishop have 2 churches and a number of other businesses but it has nothing to do with personal success and everything to do with the funneling of tithe money plus lies, deception, brain washing and psychological terror.
The Congregation Is Broke
Most of their members are on food stamps because Mary and bishop demand nearly half of their income and they say that it is called “A Love Offering”. She travels the world in Versace and Chanel while making fun of her members in front of the congregation for wearing clothing from Ross… What a mind fuck when you are too poor to buy anything because your pastor has you on some whack belief that she is God on earth, forces you to give her most of the money that you make and then makes fun of you for coming to church dressed in the best thing that you can afford and says you have a jealous demon against her in your heart. <— Actually happened, btw!
Some will say that Faith Temple has always been a cult, some will say it became one after Mary Martha’s grandma, Mama died and Bishop and Mary took over. I guess that is up for debate. There is one thing that is for sure now though and that is that Faith Temple as it stands today is absolutely, 100% a cult and Mary Martha Cosby is the ring leader that terrorizes it’s members with the threat of eternal damnation if they so much as look at her in a way she sees unpleasant. Her and the bishop are single handedly responsible for ruining countless lives and tearing families apart with their ministry of evil and I personally hope that the world sees her for what she is when this airs.
Was Marry With Peepaw Before Granny Died?
That she is exposed for the fraud that she is and that everyone gets privy to the fact that she is a deceitful, homophobic, bigot, criminal that brainwashes her congregation into believing that she is God on earth. Ask any past member. They’ll all back this up with mirroring experiences. The reason why so many people have not spoken out yet is because they are God fearing, genuinely good people who’s lives could literally be turned upside down by her and him if they do. People are afraid of losing their church friends and loved ones. I was for the longest time too and will probably do so for this… But not anymore.. If she is going to be as bold as she is thinking she can put on a fake facade to the whole world about who she is, I and I know thousands of other ex members are here to stand up to that B.S.
Oh and one final thing. She wasn’t forced into marrying anybody. I would be surprised if her and Bishop weren’t screwing before Mama died. I can’t prove it but I would definitely be surprised and you can be damn sure that her grandmother is gonna whoop her naughty little butt before she burns in hell for all the lives she’s ruined and wicked acts she’s committed.
Um, WOW?
Wow! So many more reasons to dislike Mary.
I’m gagging,
Does anyone think the IRS will get involved after all of this has come to light? And would Bravo be dumb enough to keep Mary around another season if she’s getting this much hate? Just sit and read all the post on Reddit. She’s really hated.
I don’t really read Reddit, but people send me things. Who are the people hating? Just fans or local people?
Question: is Bravo aware that their employees are doing illegal things ie tax fraud etc & will therefore get lots of publicity or are they all really that foolish? And why the hell am I asking this NOW?
P.S nothin’ like a preacher who says “you smell like hospital.”
I presume the SLC news media will be airing this dirty laundry sooner rather than later.
I need a shower after reading this.
Seriously
She definitely needs to hire a glam squad.
That’s unreal.
In the words of mommy of the year, Phaedra Parks, “Chile….”
Maybe I’m still a little raw over the 72 million votes Trump managed because all that about the congregation “forced” to tithe is really rubbing me the wrong way. Ignorance is definitely a choice in this day and age. Fuck all these morons.
It’s 73 million. 😳
😊
Not a reported item in any news, minus PBS – I don’t Personally know a single family member / friend of the tribe (Jewish) from my neighborhoods in Brooklyn & Long Island that VOTED FOR Biden.
Don’t shoot the messenger, but it was not just crazed Christians who supported Trump.
I still don’t like either, but it’s time the F**K To get some damn peace and move on.
I wrote a whole graduate paper on your comment and then saw something shiny and had to go somewhere else for a minute.
The short version. It has nothing to do with your religious beliefs or mine. It has to do with critical thinking skills. This is why we need to figure out a way to get as many people as possible into at the least a community college.
There are a lot of people who will fall for anything, including a POTUS who has no qualifications for the job other than being on a reality show. To most people, that would give some pause. He says it is just like the flu and after more people died in the last few days than in 9-11 they still buy it. A quarter of a million people have died HORRIFIC deaths ALONE. It’s still just the flu. doctors and nurses crying on TV.
There are many things to learn if we all survive this “hoax”. For me, if we ever get back to normal life we have to do something about education. We have a flim flam man in the highest office of this country. And the large portion of his supporters have no more than a high school education. They lack the ability to know when they are being deceived.
Trump told the people he was supposed to be leading that COVID was China’s fault, then it was a hoax, then they didn’t need to take precautions, then it would “just disappear”, then it was just like the flu, then it we were rounding the corner, then he lost the election and has a hissy fit and doesn’t have the moral fiber to be presidential. They are fixated on the reality show guy with no governmental experience they elected to be president because he is rich. Rich is a big thing for uneducated people (see most rappers) and they can’t differentiate between rappers being great in their field with their cars and face tattooes and gold records and THE LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD. The POTUS kind of needs to have some experience and at least knowledge of the constitution.
Now he is having a temper tantrum in the white house and his cult-like followers STILL DON’T SEE THE PROBLEM.
Here is a clue….
Signs and symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder and the severity of symptoms vary. People with the disorder can:
Have an exaggerated sense of self-importance
Have a sense of entitlement and require constant, excessive admiration
Expect to be recognized as superior even without achievements that warrant it
Exaggerate achievements and talents
Be preoccupied with fantasies about success, power, brilliance, beauty or the perfect mate
Believe they are superior and can only associate with equally special people
Monopolize conversations and belittle or look down on people they perceive as inferior
Expect special favors and unquestioning compliance with their expectations
Take advantage of others to get what they want
Have an inability or unwillingness to recognize the needs and feelings of others
Be envious of others and believe others envy them
Behave in an arrogant or haughty manner, coming across as conceited, boastful and pretentious
Insist on having the best of everything — for instance, the best car or office
At the same time, people with narcissistic personality disorder have trouble handling anything they perceive as criticism, and they can:
Become impatient or angry when they don’t receive special treatment
Have significant interpersonal problems and easily feel slighted
React with rage or contempt and try to belittle the other person to make themselves appear superior
Have difficulty regulating emotions and behavior
Experience major problems dealing with stress and adapting to change
Feel depressed and moody because they fall short of perfection
Have secret feelings of insecurity, shame, vulnerability and humiliation
This is Trump.
It is too late to teach critical thinking skills to Trumpsters. They are like the Jim Jones followers who drank the kool aid 42 years ago today.
But we have to do better with our kids. We have to teach them how to discern truth. This is not about politics. This is about EDUCATION. People with critical thinking skills can and do belong to either political party.
But people with critical thinking skills do not vote for a reality TV show host with no political experience for the highest office in the country. You don’t put someone in the highest office of the land who has the code to the nuclear football. (word is they have removed that already and I hope that is true) And let him run the military (he recently wanted to bomb Iran and there is still time or that). And destroy us because he is pissed he LOST THE ELECTION BY THE PEOPLE!
This is all happening because the education system in this country sucks. And also because we are one of the few free countries in the world where young people don’t engage in much political discussion like every other country does.
Do better America.
Well, lot to take in – be happy to read yours one day. Mine happen to be on the topic, pick a political theorist – their writings and apply it to modern day politics (1990). I naturally chose Machiavelli & his Prince of Discourses, knowing I lived with many puppet masters in my own family.
My adjunct professor at NYU, was from Yale & said I had to pick another – so went with Thomas Hobbs & Leviathan.
💯 agree with education, however I do believe religion influences tremendously.
I’ve witnessed 2 sides
1- myself growing up in 90% Jewish neighborhoods
2- married to a Texan for 25yrs in the Bible Belt
Both have such strong personal liberty beliefs, it’s kind of hard to convey. It, no pun – Trumps Critical Thinking.
I agree with all you’ve said – I’ve recognized myself as agnostic for 20+ years, I believe religion has no part in the affairs of state. Too many for one to be right, human decency should be gauge of character & raising children (don’t have any), but Aunt to many to always ask questions & never be afraid to do so.
I chose the write a thesis route and told my major professor I was writing on metacognition. He basically said that metacognition didn’t exist and wanted to write my entire paper for me. I should point out that I wrote his entire textbook with his name on it as an undergrad. I know I look illiterate here most of the time but I used to have a brain that functioned quite nicely. He basically disallowed me from writing my own thesis. Again, I WROTE HIS BOOK. So I just said fuck it and changed to an MA instead of an MS. I already had the more than enough credits. I decided never to get my doctorate because he was such a fucking ass and all the on campus grad students hated all their major professors.
But now I sort of feel like going back. Not necessarily to UGA (though preferable) but to GSU maybe? Says the often drunk and illiterate chick who thirty years later thinks grad school might be fun… for no reason other than there is one last degree I don’t have… And the scars have healed from the last traumatic event. But I would have to live on campus because grad school requires a lot of alcohol. As does blogging. And frankly my brain is so fried I can barely blog a reality show. I am not sure if that is a reason NOT to do it, or TO do it. lol.
I didn’t really make it clear that he said METACOGNITION isn’t a thing and he wanted to spout some bullshit UNDER MY NAME. I’d really rather go to law school just for shits and giggles. I is OLLD. and I fell in love with a show called Paper Chase when I was a kid and never quite got over it. I took the LSAT and did okay… But not well enough for a scholarship. I mean I did get a couple to offers from Interstate Highway Law Schools number 11 and 12… le sigh. I have no desire to practice law, but I would love to go to a GOOD law school for free. lol. And I’m pissed I am not smart enough for that. lol.
And now I am old and can’t recognize faces or spell and keep substituting random homonyms in posts…my brain is shit now and I can barely recap a reality show coherently on a regular basis. Getting old sucks. I promise I was reasonably intelligent at one point.
” Mine happen to be on the topic, pick a political theorist – their writings and apply it to modern day politics (1990). I naturally chose Machiavelli & his Prince of Discourses, knowing I lived with many puppet masters in my own family.
My adjunct professor at NYU, was from Yale & said I had to pick another – so went with Thomas Hobbs & Leviathan.”
LOL Naturally. ..
Why would you have a choice, your Thesis is um..Your thesis… unless you had my dickhead major professor who didn’t think metacognition was a thing. And then became the biggest thing in the entire field for a decade or so. He is why I didn’t finish it and get my doctorate and that pissed me the fuck off.
Okay, I really need to go back into drunken blogger of reality shows mode. Let’s pretend this never happened. 🙂
Well said!!! Well said!!!!!
After reading this and the cult like following all I can say is… what in the Scientology? I doubt bravo would want to keep her for another season after this Reddit piece has come out (I believe every single word). Because in the housewives universe when there’s smoke there’s fire. Plus I doubt bravo would want blood on there hands if more stuff is to come out, they would look bad with giving her this platform.
K’Man I also was thinking Scientology while reading this. But they don’t have the backing of law enforcement and councilman to make sure they are not targeted like SC
I follow a blog by an ex SC and this article is almost a mirror of what they do. But SC leaves God out of it
They prefer aliems
.LOL
Is this why they paired her with Tre for that Instagram interview? Birds of a feather … lol
The whole grandad thing creeps me out. Everything I read about this woman is negative. Every thing. This is just the icing on the cake. Did they really think That no one would speak out?
I knew it. Another Jamal and Gizelle. I just don’t think Grandpa is making all those babies, but he might be.
I read the article. What horrible people!
Jesus!!, that’s a lot to unpack!! No pun intended!
Oooooooohhhh Lawd. 👀
I’m just so happy to see some insider info on this website again!!!!
I only give it when I get it my friend. 🙂 I don’t make shit up.
Sounds like Pentecostal is taking on Scientology methods and approaches to slavery.
What some people won’t do for money. Gross.
One of the big jobs of any pastor is going to “hospital” to offer his/his parishioners prayers & support. Guess that isn’t part of her gig.
WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU JAN!????? She might ruin her designer duds. I’m pretty sure it says somewhere in Ezekiel. “Thou shall not defoul what I will wear to preach AT YOU at Faith Temple next Sunday, bitch. And stop showing up in a dress from Ross!”
God works in mysterious ways!! If the church members want to pay for her surgery, bless their hearts… thanks for sharing, funny stuff, let the slc games begin!
Yeah I think you kind of missed the point. Peepaw said she was near death. In reality she was getting cosmetic surgery. Lying to the congregation is a ticket straight to hell.
Then let her go to hell, so ridiculous… I’m sure I didn’t miss a thing
I believe EVERY word. Reminds me of a church a girl I grew up with went to. I never could understand those people… The pastor wasn’t married to her grandfather, but there was a lot of incest going on (pulpit) and they just looked the other way.
Mrs. Cosby really needs a better wig/weave and stylist. Everything expensive isn’t beautiful…and you don’t have to wear it all at the same time…
other than that, I’m still trying to get used to all the lip injections, tight foreheads and people who look like. It’s gonna take me a while to tell everybody apart.
This is such a disgusting story. He married the grandma in 1968. Mary is only 43 so she was literally a baby. The man knew her when she was a baby and her grandma and step-grandpa appear to have been GROOMING her to be his next wife. She says it was an arranged marriage. I can’t believe bravo is glamorizing this kind of abuse. Who knows what this man has done to underage relatives. I am sick to my stomach. The fact that these are church leaders makes it that much worse.
No, she wasn’t getting cosmetic surgery! She was in the hospital for a month having all of her odor glands removed and she almost died twice. F👍🏻C👍🏻You Mary! And who knew a thumbs up emoji meant F%#k you?? I sure didn’t.
I will have to think twice the next time someone sends me a thumbs up! I didn’t know it was a thing besides “okay, right on, good deal, got you!”
Did Mary not watch the crumbling of the Giudice “empire” on RHONJ or does her narcissistic idiocy prevent her from realizing reality TV has a tendency to bring unwanted attention of the Feds? With those allegations, perhaps Mary and Bishop should be saving their money for defense attorneys rather than couture and plastic surgery.
Criminals by Bravo!
Damn this is mind altering tea.
Hubris…
I watched the first episode and I was very put off. I doubt this franchise will be renewed. Most religions are corrupt and it’s heartbreaking to see people sucked in by bullshit. America seems to be home to so many crazy religions and cults. God does not exist and there is no heaven or hell. When you die that is it – it’s over. It’s just as easy to lead a good life as an atheist as it is a Christian. I shake my head in amazement that people in 2020 are still buying the same lies that have been told for centuries. Churches are in the same league as theatres – to put on a show.
God I love this blog.
Someone just sent me an article that says that Mary’s mother suspected Peepaw of killing her mother for money. She died while on vacation with Peepaw. She was exhumed and the corner agreed that she had a heart attack. But… they can’t really ever tell what caused it. Mary’s mama still thinks he did it.
A thread on Reddit that has a copy of this article also has an older photo of Mary. Wow, she did get a lot of work done. So have most of the other RHOSLC women, none of them are a good walking advertisement for their plastic surgeon(s).
I am going to have to stop with the thumbs up emoji, who knew? I thought it was a sign of encouragement or agreement, not f-u.