The Family International (TFI) is a Christian New Religious Movement founded in Huntington Beach, California, USA, in 1968 by David Berg that has been criticized as an authoritarian cult. Originally named Teens for Christ, it has gone under a number of different names. It gained notoriety as The Children of God (COG). It was later […]
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Teal Swan is an American self-help author, speaker, and spiritual teacher. She is known for her work on trauma, abuse, and healing. Swan has been featured in numerous media outlets, including The New York Times, The Guardian, and Forbes. Swan was born in Idaho in 1982. She had a traumatic childhood, including abuse and neglect.
MOVEMENT FOR THE RESTORATION OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF GOD MOVEMENT FOR THE RESTORATION OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF GOD . On March 17, 2000, several hundred followers (estimates vary, but there may well have been more than three hundred, including seventy-eight children) of the Ugandan Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God (MRTCG) died
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The Raelians are a UFO religion that was founded in 1974 by Claude Vorilhon, who later took the name Raël. The Raelians believe that humans were created by a race of extraterrestrial beings known as the Elohim, and that they will one day return to Earth to take us to their planet, where we will
The Children of God (COG) is a controversial Christian new religious movement founded in 1968 by David Berg. The group has been criticized for its authoritarian leadership, its practice of child sexual abuse, and its use of deceptive recruiting tactics. Berg was born in 1919 in Appleton, Wisconsin. He was the son of a Methodist
Bikram Yoga is a system of hot yoga, a type of yoga as exercise, devised by Bikram Choudhury and based on the teachings of B. C. Ghosh, that became popular in the early 1970s. Classes consist of a fixed sequence of 26 postures, practised in a room heated to 105 °F (41 °C) with a
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Synanon was a self-help drug rehabilitation program that was founded in 1957 by Charles Dederich. The program was based on the idea that addiction was a disease that could be treated through group therapy and peer support. Synanon quickly became one of the most popular drug rehabilitation programs in the United States, and it was
For more than two decades, chart-topping R&B singer R. Kelly had faced allegations of sexual abuse. The accounts went back to the start of his career in the 1990s, with many centring on the predatory pursuit of teenage girls. In 2022, he was jailed for 30 years after being found guilty of eight counts of
The Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) is an American, unaffiliated Primitive Baptist church in Topeka, Kansas that was founded in 1955 by pastor Fred Phelps. It is widely considered a hate group, and is known for its public protests against homosexual people and for its usage of the phrases “God hates fags” and “Thank God for
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Aleister Crowley was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer. He founded the religion of Thelema, identifying himself as the prophet entrusted with guiding humanity into the Æon of Horus in the early 20th century. A prolific writer, he published widely over the course of his life. Born to a wealthy family