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Antisemites, Racists and Other Bigots are Hijacking Public Meetings

Published August 21, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged anti-Semites, extremists, hate groups

The ADL Center on Extremism is tracking an increase in antisemitic speech and trolling efforts at public forums such as city council, county board and state house committee meetings. Extremists and bigots are using the public comment portion of these…[Continue Reading...]

Revealed: neo-Nazi active club counts several of US military as members

Published August 21, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged military, neo nazis, United States

A neo-Nazi “active club” counts several current and former members of the United States military as its members, the Guardian has learned, including a lance corporal machine gunner currently in detention on insubordination charges and a former US Marine Corps…[Continue Reading...]

Who are the Pakistani Islamists vowing ‘death to blasphemers’?

Published August 21, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged blasphemy ban, extremists, Islamists, Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, Aug 21 (Reuters) - An outlawed Islamist political party with the main objective of protecting Pakistan's draconian blasphemy laws and punishing blasphemers has been linked to violence against Christians last week in which several churches were burnt. Members of…[Continue Reading...]

I left the Jehovah’s Witnesses and made up my own rules for life – as a BDSM model

Published August 21, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged former member, Jehovah's Witnesses, personal story

“Are you the people who don’t have blood transfusions?” was the first thing most people asked if any of us mentioned our religion. We weren’t supposed to say “yes”, because we weren’t meant to allow our faith to be defined…[Continue Reading...]

Pastor Timothy Omotoso made me believe rape was will of God, emotional victim tells court

Published August 21, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Clergy Abuse Tagged court testiomy, Pastor Timothy Omotoso, rape, rape victim

A young rape victim told the Gqeberha High Court on Wednesday controversial Nigerian televangelist Tim Omotoso made her believe raping her was the will of God. A tearful Cheryl Zondi, 27, who was only 14 years old at the time…[Continue Reading...]

These Christians Think God Needs You Rich and to Rule the World

Published August 21, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Kenneth Copeland, prosperity preachers, televangelists, Word of Faith movement

On August 3, 2009, Texan televangelist Kenneth Copeland gave an impassioned sermon to a crowd of more than 9,000 at the Southwest Believers Convention in Fort Worth amid one of the worst economic downturns in American history. “God needs you…[Continue Reading...]

Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim’s month-long parole ends, returns to Rohtak’s Sunaria jail

Published August 21, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged criminal sentence, Gurmeet Ram Rahim, India, rapist, Sacha Sauda, sect

Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim returned to Rohtak's Sunaria jail on Sunday after his month-long parole ended. According to a police official from Rohtak, Gurmeet Ram Rahim returned to Sunaria jail late afternoon. After being granted parole last…[Continue Reading...]

Are Y’all with the Cult?

Published August 21, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cult leaders, cults, joining a cult

I do not claim to be an expert on cults, but they have always interested me—the idea of surrendering your mind to a thought collective is terrifying and extremely fascinating. Hence the reason I wrote my debut novel, It’s Not…[Continue Reading...]

How Sun Myung Moon ‘Digested the Scientists’ and Fueled Climate-Change Denial

Published August 21, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged climate change, cult leader, Unification Church

IF THERE WERE A DENIAL Mt. Rushmore the two biggest heads would be S. Fred Singer and Frederick Seitz. Dishonesty’s Lincoln, lying’s Washington. Together, the two graybeard prophets launched a movement. Frederick Seitz’s slab would be the larger and more…[Continue Reading...]