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Thoughts on applying a 2000 year old religion to 21st Century life

Did You Hear About the Online Rape Academy?

The one with 62 million visits in February

8 min readApr 22, 2026
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CNN reporters infiltrated a Telegram group chat called โ€œZzz,โ€ in which 1000 men advise each other on how to drug and rape women and film themselves doing it.

The same reporters uncovered a porn website called โ€œMotherless,โ€ which had 62 million visits in February 2026 alone. It features videos of โ€œsleep content,โ€ often tagged #passedout and #eyecheck. Men also chat and swap rape drug tips there.

Lest you think this problem is in the โ€œworldโ€ and doesnโ€™t affect Christians, CNN profiles a woman whose husband confessed after church one day to drugging and raping her for years. Christian men certainly are not immune to committing sexual abuse.

Iโ€™m sick.

Such horrific filth should convince everyone that Section 230 โ€” the legal code that shields internet companies in the U.S. from liability for content โ€” must be repealed. If โ€œMotherlessโ€ and similar websites could be sued, then they would police themselves.

Some take this so-called โ€œrape academyโ€ as evidence of menโ€™s fundamental dangerousness, and I canโ€™t say I blame them. 62 million visits in February. Even accounting for repeat visitors, weโ€™re talking about a staggering number of depraved men.

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Thoughts on applying a 2000 year old religion to 21st Century life

Eric Sentell

Written by Eric Sentell

I write about faith, politics, and their intersections through a progressive lens.

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Snopes debunked this. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cnn-online-rape-academy/

Hopefully this restores your faith a little.

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You canโ€™t begin to challenge dominance hierarchies if you posit God as male, as father. Or the ridiculous myth of Adam and Eve. Maleness is actually the biological addition, not femaleness. So create an entire mythology that represents leadership asโ€ฆ

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Men who engage in such abuse suffer from the fundamental curse of the human condition โ€” they want to fill the hole in their soul. So they seek power and dominance over others, with the ...

And, they always have done while the "good men" choose not to see it. There's a reason every women knows women who were raped, but no man ever seems to know a rapist.

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