Members, who at their peak numbered 15,000 people worldwide, didn’t work or attend school. Children were put together and lived apart from their parents since the COG did not support the nuclear family.
The Children of God gained notoriety in the late 1970s for what one of Berg’s own daughters later referred to as “religious prostitution”. Berg is believed to have invented the term “flirty fishing,” which refers to the practice of women supposedly having intercourse with men in order to recruit them into the cult.
After addressing the issue of STDs during the late 1980s, the group formally stopped this practice. Despite Berg’s passing in 1994, the organization, now known as “The Family International,” is still quite active.
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I found this article to be very well written, with fascinating revelations!
It is a little disappointing, however, that there is no mention of the Jonestown massacre. Any information about James Jones’ cult is excluded.
The author forgot about a dozen other cults. Moon cult for one, then Jim Jones . Lest we forget David Koresh and the Waco massacre. wonder who hires these writers
very interesting!
Yes,Yeshua said do not be decieved
More terrifying than all of these is the cult of those who ignored science, had no common sense and encouraged folk not to wear masks during COVID – now how many deaths did that cause?