Disciples of the New Dawn

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The '''Disciples of the New Dawn''' is a [[Facebook]] group that appeared in 2014. The group purports to belong to a [[Religious right|conservative Christian]] organization founded in 1956. However, sources have argued that they're actually made up of Internet [[troll]]s seeking to provoke strong reactions. In other words, these folks are more [[Landover Baptist Church|Landover]] than [[Westboro Baptist Church|Westboro]].<ref name=dot>EJ Dickson, [https://www.dailydot.com/irl/disciples-new-dawn-caesarean-section/ This Facebook group is trolling moms who have had C-sections]. ''The Daily Dot'', 31 March 2015.</ref><ref name=snopes>[http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/facebookdisciples.asp Disciples of the New Dumb: Are the Disciples of the New Dawn a Legitimate Facebook Group?]. ''[[Snopes]]'', 31 March 2105.</ref><ref name=enki>[https://www.enkivillage.org/disciples-of-the-new-dawn.html Who Are The Disciples of the New Dawn?] enkivillage.org, c. 2015. The author of this post was apparently successfully trolled, stating "...they are a very real group with a following that agrees with them."</ref><ref name=pandora1>Aloysius Fox, [https://archive.ph/PZOF6 Disciples of the New Dawn . . . Satire, or Sincere?] Archived from thepandorasociety.com, 19 January 2015.</ref> The group frequently shares inflammatory posts on Facebook, which have gone viral and prompted numerous petitions to ban the page.

The group's most controversial claim is that women who have had C-sections are not really mothers.<ref name=dot /> They also seem awfully fond of fat-shaming and using the word "degenerate," both of which are things you'd be more likely to expect from [[alt-right]] [[4chan]]ners than from the likes of [[Pat Robertson]].

Another oddity is that the supposed founder is "Father Patrick Oliver Embry", whose initials spell [[Poe's Law|POE]].<ref name=snopes /><ref name=enki /> Moreover, while the "organization" portrays itself as [[Christian fundamentalism|fundamentalist]], its founder uses the title "Father" like a [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholic]] priest would.

As expected, the group's asshattery attracted some internet denizens to create petitions to "remove" them.<ref>[https://www.change.org/p/facebook-remove-disciples-of-the-new-dawn-page Remove Disciples of the New Dawn page]. change.org, 30 July 2014.</ref><ref>[https://www.thepetitionsite.com/673/065/095/shut-down-disciples-of-the-new-dawn/ Shut Down Disciples of the New Dawn]. thepetitionsite.com, c. 2014.</ref>

==External links==
*[https://archive.ph/hWd1w DawnDisciplesv5.0] archive snapshot of one of their [[Facebook]] pages from October 2014
*[https://archive.ph/1pD06 DotND], archive snapshot of another of their Facebook pages from November 2014
*[https://archive.ph/puWSa A post] on [[Twitter]] from November 2014

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