McKayla Maroney defends the controversial church: "I'm not in a worship."
The gymnast is involved in an organization called the Master Angels Church.
McKayla Maroney Has crossed many things in 25 years. The world learned to know it at the London 2012 Olympic Games, where it won a gold medal of the team ingymnastic andbecame the same For his "unsecured" side after winning the individual vault money. But, while these seemingly happy moments occurred, she and many other gymnasts were mistreated by a team doctorLarry Nassar, who served now a sentence of life in prison. Maroney has been opened on abuse and other challenges that it is facing. Yet there have been rumors about one aspect of his life that she has not yet talking so far: the idea that Maroney is in a worship.
InA new interview withElapse, Maroney commented on the complaint and its participation in the Master Angels Church (CMA). She said she is "not in a cult", but noted that the organization helped him. Read on to find out more.
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Maroney's participation with the CMA has been reported earlier this year.
In March 2021, the daily beast reported onMaroney's participation with CMA. She wore a CMA necklace on a photo posted on her Instagram account and would have been appeared on the podcastLet's go-meta In February 2020 in which she talked about her involvement with the CMA. She would also have signed a statement renting the head of the CMAMaster John Douglas, known as Master Jean.
The CMA was formed in 2017 and charges for its courses.
Athis website, The CMA is described as a "unitary, non-denominational and non-denominational community church, open to all truth applicants, cosmic awareness and realization of the soul." The daily beast reported that participants can pay lessons, which can cost up to $ 10,000 and that the necklaces like the maroon can cost up to $ 2,000.Testimonials on the CMA website Include people who say they were healed from HIV anxiety to Lyme disease. The daily beast indicated that, according to an expert worship, the CMA shows signs of warning of an emerging worship. AStatement by the CMA Board of Directors On his website starts, "we are anti-worship."
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Maroney says the CMA offered its relief.
In theElapse Interview, Maroney talked about his participation in the CMA and said she attended some events. She said that Master Jean helped him feel "immediately" relieving the difficulties she had experienced. In addition to surviving Nassar's violence, Maroney also had trouble eating disorders and lost his father due to unopened opioid detoxification in 2019, which she spoke withElapse. "If you want to go to a healer, go to a healer. If you like psychie, all you do that. At the end of the day, it's my choice," said Maroney at the magazine.
She pushed back against the pretension she is in a worship.
Speaking of the report of the daily beast in particular, Maroney saidElapse, "All my friends were like", waiting, it's so crazy. Are you in a worship? I have always believed in God and more than myself. But I am not religious; I'm not in a worship. None of this is true. The article just attacked me on a necklace that I had worn. I do meditation and pray, but there is nothing odd that I do. "
Maroney saidElapse That she did not go to a workshop with CMA since the beginning of the pandemic but continues to wear the collar, that she considers a form of protection. "There are dark people and darker energies that see you and do not wish you well," she explained. "I like having the impression of being protected in a certain way."
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