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The group has gone under a number of different names since its inception, including Teens for Christ, The Children of God (COG), The Family of Love, or simply The Family. A British court case found the group was an authoritarian cult which engaged in the systematic physical and sexual abuse of children, [2] resulting in lasting trauma among ...
Amy Carlson (November 30, 1975 – c. April 16, 2021), also known by her followers as Mother God, was an American cult leader and the co-founder of the new religious movement Love Has Won. [1] Carlson and her followers believed that she was God, a 19-billion-year-old being, and a reincarnation of Jesus Christ , and that she could heal people of ...
David Brandt Berg (February 18, 1919 – October 1, 1994), also known as King David, Mo, Moses David, Father David, Dad, or Grandpa to followers, was the founder and leader of the cult generally known as the Children of God [1] and subsequently as The Family International.
Soon, Carlson would be known as “Mother God,” the leader of the cult Love Has Won. As a 19 billion year-old deity, Carlson claimed that she could cure cancer while also drinking herself into ...
Director Hannah Olson says her HBO docuseries 'Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God' isn't a film about cults, but instead is an 'American tragedy about disenchantment with the American dream.'
Flirty Fishing (FFing) is a form of evangelism by sexual intimacy practised from around 1974 to 1987 by the cult Children of God, currently known as The Family International (TFI). Female members of Children of God, or "fisherwomen," would apply their sex appeal on "fish" — men from outside the cult (often, but not always, having sex ...
The Move's teachings gradually changed. As one observer said, "Alongside that word was a revelation of 'Christ in you,' with a vision of overcoming all things, but through the last several years before I left that fellowship, 'doing what He says' had triumphed over 'Christ revealed in us.'" [7]
The lawsuits accuse McKean of urging members to keep quiet about the alleged crimes, telling them, “We cannot report these abuses, because it would hurt our church, God’s Modern-Day Movement.”