The Family

The Family, also known as the Fellowship or the Foundation, is secretive and also the most powerful religious group in the United States. It has ties to a lot of organizations in the United States government and every year they even hold a breakfast(known as the National Prayer Breakfast) at the White House, so that people can pray with the President. Many Congressmen past and present are a part of the Family, even past Presidents have been a member of this group. The Family works a lot behind the scenes. One thing that the Family has done was in 1978 the secretly "helped the Carter Administration organize a worldwide call to prayer with Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat" (Harpers).

I think that it is really scary that a religious group has this much power. I think that a group like that should not exist and I really do not understand why the White House would let the Family hold yearly prayer breakfasts in the White House. I think that a group like this has to much influence over politics, it scares me that this group actually helps the government to achieve certain things. As I have been learning more and more about religious groups, I become more skeptical about them and I find myself not trusting them. I just think this group has to much control over the government.