Mary Cosby has continued to deny that she is running a cult and demanding tithes from her cult members to support her extravagant (and rather bizarre) lifestyle. She’s defended herself on WWHL and other Entertainment sites quite vigorous. Because, you know, she is a woman of God. I would suggest she dust off her Bible then. She can skip the Old Testament, since it was replaced by the New Testament. That way she can start with Matthew and The Sermon On The Mount. Then, she can read this a few times until she gets it. Matthew 19:24, “And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.” This is why I don’t go to megachurches with pastors that drive Lamborghinis.
Former Members of Mary Cosby’s Own Congregation
Even Mary Cosby’s own congregation say they left because it was an abusive cult. Here is a brief excerpt from a lengthy and eye-opening post on The Daily Beast that you really need to click on to read the whole thing.
The Daily Beast spoke with seven former Faith Temple church members, six who agree with claims that Cosby has been operating her church like a “cult”—alleging she refers to herself as God, encourages members to work at her family’s various businesses for free or minimum wage, berates congregation members from the podium, and instills the fear that if anyone ever leaves Faith Temple for another church, they will be condemned to hell.
Cosby’s own uncle Ernest Walton believes Cosby is running a “cult,” saying his mother would be disappointed. “I think it’s an abomination,” he says. “Everything’s coming out into the light now and everything’s coming down.”
A second former male member, who requested to have his name withheld and was at the church for 25 years before leaving in around 2018, says Williams was spot on with what he told Barlow. “It’s cultish what they’ve done,” he says. “It’s the mental manipulation to try to get people to believe that she has power to either take them to heaven or condemn them to hell.”
“It’s not a joke,” says Abby, a former member raised in the church who left age 22 in the late 1990s, and requested to have her full name withheld because a close relative is still an active member. “She’s got these people terrified. That woman is the most evil thing that ever walked this Earth. You have no idea, all those smiles and shit—that is not real.”
Whitney Rose Is Now In Mary Cosby’s Crosshairs
Whitney Rose Has been Mary Cosby’s biggest support on the show. She took her dad to Mary’s church and was very reluctant to speak on the subject of Mary’s cult. However, this season is about to take the spotlight off of Jen Shah getting ready for prison and focus at least somewhat on Mary’s cult. Didn’t she say on WWHL that if she were running a cult she wouldn’t be on a housewives show? Yeah, tell that to Teresa Giudice, Erika Girardi, Tom Girardi, Jen Shah and… I feel like I am forgetting other Felons By Bravo. Her day is coming. Anyway, Whitney Rose is like a little Bambi that seems like an easy target for Mary’s wrath.
So when Whitney recently said that Mary is no longer speaking to her because she had questions about her cult, Mary lost her mind on Twitter and swung at he with a Twitter baseball bat.
A few examples are below. I missed it all in real time and thanks to the person who alerted me in pretty much real time. Again, my email inbox is a HOT MESS. I am the messiest person in the world. But I do have the NEED to clear out my emails ever day, because work, but I’ve been horrible at it lately.
The Tweets A Hit Dog Will Howl
Much like Erika Jayne, Mary has taken the attack route.
Again, I would like to point out that Whitney Rose has been her closest ally on the show. Now she is calling her a racist? Shame on her.
“Whitney Rose is being so hungry with her lying self .. She knows she is not that girl who puts a fire out,” she wrote. “Yes she’s racist I said it racist! Like her cousin.. she’s talking like she knows me .. she has no backbone she’s not real so fake! I can’t!”
“You are such a liar Whitney Rose ! You know you don’t talk to me! Whitney Rose with your bobble head! Humble yourself!
AND HUMBLE HERSELF? THIS BITCH IS THE ONE GOING AROUND SAYING SHE IS GOD ACCORDING TO HER OWN CULT MEMBERS!
Again, I missed all of this on Twitter because of some shows I watch that I can’t avoid spoilers on if I don’t go until I watch. So these are probably out of order but you get the gist.
So are you ready to have an alleged cult leader and an alleged Ponzi scammer one RHOSLC? It’s only season two! WTF ELSE CAN HAPPEN? 🙂
While Mary’s actual line of attack is rather ridiculous, she could have instead used the real dirt to get back at Whitney. She and Justin have been in the MLM world for some time, and the entire MLM “industry” is sleazy AF. So we have a ruthless ponzi schemer, a known pyramid schemer, and a notorious cult leader all on the same “Real Housewives” show.
I am watching a documentary about this on Netflix, LuLaRoes. It is crazy. Whitney does this too?
Still not the same as someone taking your faith and using it to extort your soul. No organized religion. It always goes off the rails.
JESUS. CHRIST. SUPERSTAR.
I needed this comment!!! 🤣
Do you think you’re what they say you are?
One you left off was Apollo. I am just now watching season one of salt lake. I never thought I’d start watching a new HW franchise, because I’m down to only 2 now, but I couldn’t resist with this one. I guess I’m back up to 3.
I feel like racist is a really loaded word. I didn’t like that Mary said that. Tamara you forgot that its an alleged Ponzi scammer, an alleged cult leader, and an alleged MLM leader.
I didn’t forget shit. THIS TIME. lol I don’t know about the Ponzi situation but Mary is totally a cult leader.
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Some of her comments sounded very homophobic.
Well Mary sure likes to play with fire. Going on TV with a whole cemetery hanging in her closet, putting her poor language skills up for scrutiny while threatening people to send them to hell, implying one of her coworkers takes advantage of other women in bathrooms.. I don’t know what she is thinking but she sure is on a roll.
Also racism. I naively hoped that the mixed cast of SLC would show us that housewives can make good TV and have conflict without immediately raising that barrier, but two episodes in and I’m already proven wrong. NY tanked because of their failure in raising race as a topic, BH excels in part because of the success Garcelle has had in raising the topic, and now we might be in for a third iteration of housewives do race with Mary and Jen raising the topic. Mary who avoids stores if black people are standing in front of it, and Jen who is in a permanent fight with everyone trying to convince them of her version of reality and often uses race to bolster her efforts. I hope Bravo keeps this in check and puts the focus where it should be.
I was done with the poor language skills. Lol and she’s the leader of a church? People actually follow her and her senseless vision??
Whats the saying, you see your own issues in others instead of yourself? Mary is definitely a problem, but hush on the mlm card we still will need a season 5 and 6 story line.
My favorite pastor, who has departed this earth, always told us that our job here is to help the poor, and to avoid anything that would make us vain and separate us from the sufferings of this world. He drove a 20 year old car, had been in wars, was a Ph.D, and was one of the most humble men I’ve ever met. He stressed that we should love one another as Christ loved the church. I miss him so much. He used to day if he wasn’t making someone check themselves, then he wasn’t doing his job. We were to love EVERYONE and let God handle the rest. Every church I go to now has a leadership that is run by those that give the most. I haven’t found a church since that I felt wasn’t based in politics or money. Sigh.
What would possess Mary to come on the show given the nature of her church and all the folks coming out of the woodwork making these claims? I smell hospital!
I don’t know what kind of Pastor behaves like this, it’s incredibly sad and embarrassing. Not to mention, her handle of the English language and grammar is almost none existent – it’s like she never passed grade one!! And the childish threats? So ridiculous!!
its funny too because i think Mary means “thirsty” instead of “hungry” …. shes not great at the clap back lol