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Swift passage seen on bill related to Unification Church solicitations

Published December 7, 2022 By admin with Comments 1

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cults, Japan, Sun Myung Moon, Unification Church

TOKYO – The Liberal Democratic Party has presented to opposition parties a draft amendment to a bill prohibiting improper solicitations of large donations as a way to have the bill passed during the Diet session ending Saturday. The bill was…[Continue Reading...]

Son of infamous cult leader Warren Jeffs said new FLDS leader ‘took a page out of my dad’s playbook’

Published December 7, 2022 By admin with Comments 1

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cults, FLDS, Polygamists, sexual abuse

Wendell Jeffson, the 22-year-old son of the infamous cult leader Warren Jeffs, told Insider that the up-and-coming FLDS leader being accused of keeping 20 wives — most of them under 15 — "took a page out of my dad's playbook."…[Continue Reading...]

Inside goddess worshipping UK cult where witch led women to reject modern world

Published December 7, 2022 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cults, UK, witches

An all-female order shunned modern life, including electricity and spoke in pseudo-medieval English as they carried out their work. The Madrian Order originated in Oxford in the 1970s before relocating to Yorkshire. Centred around a person best known as 'Marianne…[Continue Reading...]

What Cargo Cult Rituals Reveal About Human Nature

Published December 7, 2022 By admin with Comments 1

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cargo cults, cults, rituals

Ceremonial cross of John Frum cargo cult, Tanna island, New Hebrides (now Vanuatu), 1967. Photo: Tim Ross/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0 The emergence of cargo cults also reveals something else: the universal human need for ritual. Research shows that humans have…[Continue Reading...]

Germany arrests 25 suspected far-right extremists for plotting to overthrow government

Published December 7, 2022 By admin with Comments 1

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged criminal arrests, extremists, Germany

German officials arrested 22 suspected members and three suspected supporters of a far-right terrorist organization across the country on Wednesday on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the government. In a statement, the German federal prosecutor’s office said an estimated 50…[Continue Reading...]

Supreme Court Gay Rights Case Sparks Question About Scientology

Published December 7, 2022 By admin with Comments 1

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Scientologists, Scientology

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch posed a question on Monday about Scientology while hearing oral arguments in a crucial gay rights case. The Court heard oral arguments Monday in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, a case about whether Colorado's…[Continue Reading...]

Say what you want: Kirstie Alley never backed down from defending Scientology

Published December 7, 2022 By admin with Comments 1

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Kirstie Alley, Scientologists, Scientology

When a celebrity dies, his or her religion is rarely a big part of the story. But Kirstie Alley’s identity off-screen was largely tied to being an outspoken envoy and defender of Scientology, the controversial and heavily criticized faith founded…[Continue Reading...]

‘It’s all fear based’: Arizona woman opens up about FLDS community

Published December 7, 2022 By admin with Comments 1

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged FLDS, Polygamists, victims

PHOENIX — Going through old photos, Flora Jessop remembers what it was like growing up in a polygamist cult. "I have 28 brothers and sisters," Jessop said. "My dad was married to my mom and her little sister." From 1969…[Continue Reading...]

How Kirstie Alley Lost Herself in Scientology

Published December 6, 2022 By admin with Comments 1

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Kirstie Alley, Scientologists, Scientology

In 2018, Cheers and Look Who’s Talking actress Kirstie Alley showed up in a Church of Scientology publication called Freewinds. The magazine is named after Scientology’s private cruise ship, which sails the Caribbean and caters to wealthy church members who…[Continue Reading...]

With their polygamous prophet in jail, his followers wrote these questions to ask Samuel Bateman

Published December 6, 2022 By admin with Comments 1

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged polygamist, Samuel Bateman

Colorado City, Ariz. • With Samuel Bateman behind bars, his closest followers wrote down their questions they hoped he would answer on-camera when he was free again. Bateman is the religious leader of a new offshoot of the polygamous Fundamentalist…[Continue Reading...]