I’ll never stop investigating the Two-by-Twos
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I started investigating the Two-by-Two church in the early 2000s.
I still remember chatting with my cousin on MSN Messenger. We lived on two different sides of the country but we were equally committed to understanding the sect that tore our family apart. We were like two little Nancy Drews, digging and digging to unbury the truth. We knew it was hiding somewhere.
It wouldn’t be until later, when we were older, wiser, and more honest with ourselves that we’d both realize that the truth was buried deep inside of us. We had already borne witness to the destructive forces of an insular religion, it was imprinted on our very DNA, the telemores in our brain shortening at an accelerated speed.
The children, grandchildren, and even great-grandchildren of the Two-by-Two sect became the evidence of generational trauma, harm passed down from mother to daughter, grandfather to grandson. The cycle continues – even when the Two-by-Two name disappears from the story.
When I was still a child I started to comb through message boards about the Two-by-Two church. There was something deeply wrong with me, I knew that much. But I was starting to see that the same thing was wrong with the people around me. A weird, sexually-driven deviance, or obsession. Nobody said it aloud, but it lurked in the corners and whispered to me late at night.
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