The students bring up concepts such as validation, a sense of belonging and what actually defines a cult. And then someone mentions Mary Kay Inc., a $3 billion multilevel marketing company known for its cosmetics. “Well,” says one student, “in…[Continue Reading...]
Russian President Vladimir Putin has fired a top national security official who recently drew widespread condemnation for calling the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement in Ukraine a supremacist cult, Russian media reported. No official reason was given for the Friday dismissal of…[Continue Reading...]
No matter what you call them, extremist religious groups led by charismatic gurus are rarely to be trusted. Japan learned that lesson the hard way on Mar. 20, 1995, when a sarin gas attack on Tokyo’s subway system left 13…[Continue Reading...]
Convicted sex cult leader Lawrence Ray was sentenced to 60 years in prison in Manhattan Federal court Friday for terrorizing Sarah Lawrence college students and forcing them into prostitution. The 63-year-old was convicted in April of mentally and physically abusing…[Continue Reading...]
BOISE, Idaho — This article first appeared in East Idaho News. A judge denied a request to postpone the murder trial for Chad and Lori Daybell, and they will not be permitted to have face-to-face meetings or phone calls to prepare…[Continue Reading...]
Andrew Tate once called his sexually explicit webcam business a “total scam” and boasted on his website that he lured women in by getting them to fall in love with him. The 36-year-old influencer also boasted on a podcast that…[Continue Reading...]
As New York federal prosecutors seek to put convicted sex trafficker Larry Ray behind bars for life after turning his daughter’s Sarah Lawrence college friend ground into an alleged cult, his co-conspirator’s mother is demanding a harder punishment. Ray, 63,…[Continue Reading...]
Convicted sexual predator Larry Ray faces sentencing Friday for abusing a group of Sarah Lawrence college students after luring them into a sadistic sex cult and terrorizing them for nearly a decade. Ray, convicted by a Manhattan federal court jury…[Continue Reading...]
It’s no surprise that the plural wives (and their families) of church founder Joseph Smith had varying views of polygamy. Scholar Todd Compton, author of “In Sacred Loneliness: The Documents,” noted as much during his appearance on our “Mormon Land”…[Continue Reading...]
Most people at one point or another have been approached by a friend to attend a sales party for their new endeavor. Many of these parties are for Multi-Level Marketing groups, also known as MLMs. Emily Lynn Paulsen wrote about…[Continue Reading...]
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