Yahweh Ben Yahweh, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Community of Christ, Wealthiest Pastors, Forced Marriage, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Conspiracy Theories, Indian Guru's
LMN: Escaping Evil: My Life in a Cult | Part 1
A man blindly follows god-like cult leader Yahweh Ben Yahweh even when Yahweh unleashes a bloody campaign of murders and beheadings.
"The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has acquired ownership of the historic Kirtland Temple in Ohio as well as several other significant buildings and artifacts in a deal that cost nearly $193 million.
The Utah-based Church announced Tuesday that it received several buildings and artifacts from the Community of Christ, formerly known as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ("RLDS").
The purchase included the Kirtland Temple, which was the first temple built by Latter-day Saints. It was left behind in the 1830s during the saints' migration west to Utah. According to the press release, the Community of Christ has legally owned the title since 1901."
"Pastors are usually associated with humility and a simple life dedicated to serving others. While some pastors choose a modest lifestyle, others amass serious riches—some as high as $780 million! They tend to inherit fortunes, pen bestsellers, captivate audiences with speeches, or navigate intricate church investments. These top-earning pastors have experienced some fascinating journeys into wealth."
"Survivors of forced marriage fear cases will remain underground, despite a new minimum-age law designed to crack down on children being married.
It comes after the minimum legal marriage age in England and Wales was increased from 16 to 18, in 2023.
A government spokesperson said child marriage "destroys lives".
One woman who was held at gunpoint and forced into marriage to her cousin at 16, said the options she had were "death or marriage."
The government's forced marriage unit (FMU) provided support and advice to 302 cases in 2022, with almost one third affecting victims who were aged 17 or under.
After London, statistics show the West Midlands has the country's highest percentage of cases, with 17%.
The FMU, set up by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Home Office, said it gave advice to 337 cases in 2021, compared to 759 in 2020, although it stresses the data was not directly comparable.
However, campaigners say the true number of cases in the UK has been "under-reported" as some people were reluctant to approach authorities.
Karma Nirvana reported its national honour-based abuse helpline was contacted 9,616 times in 2022-23."
" ... Fozia Rashid, 39, said some people sometimes get "tricked into going abroad" but "we can't forget that not everybody comes back".
"Forced marriage, it knows no religion, it knows no colour, it doesn't care about your background," she said."
" ... [W]hile some conspiracy theories might never be disproven, others remain stubbornly persistent, despite being repeatedly shown to be false. A case in point is the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. First serialised in a St Petersburg newspaper in 1903, it purported to be the minutes of a meeting of Jewish leaders, revealing their plans to rule the world by duplicitous means.
In fact, the text was partially an adaptation of an 1864 French satirical novel, that originally had nothing to do with Jews. The Protocols were debunked by The Times in the 1920s, and in 1935 a Swiss judge ruled that they were a fake after the distributors in Switzerland had been sued by the Jewish community in the country. And yet the conspiracy theories have persisted.
"Even when they have proven to be an outright forgery, a fiction, the Protocols continue to circulate widely today," says Professor Pamela S Nadell of the American University in Washington, DC. "There is no evidence that the Jews do the things that they say in the Protocols but somehow that doesn't gain any traction."
This is a conspiracy theory that has had serious real-world consequences. "Hitler's writings were definitely drawn from The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," says Nadell. "He's blaming the Jews. He's talking about international Jewish world finance. This is a conspiracy theory that helped to fuel the Holocaust." And in more recent times the Protocols have retained their invidious power, as Nadell explained to me."
Financial Express: Beyond Jay Shetty: Osho to Asaram – Revisiting India's controversial self-styled 'gurus' and their murky past
"While the controversy around the life-coach has made headlines, India is no stranger to self-styled gurus and their not-so-ordinary lifestyles. Some of them have been jailed, facing charges of heinous crimes, while others have been M.I.A after disturbing issues surfaced."
" ... Maharishi Mahesh Yogi: The man who became an icon for being the so-called spiritual guide to The Beatles, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was at the centre of intense media frenzy back in 1960s. The band was so much in awe of the guru that they stayed at his Rishikesh-based Ashram. But later, the 'Fab Four' and the guru parted ways. Some media accounts said that Maharishi Mahesh had allegedly made sexual advances towards Mia Farrow. According to the New York Post report, Woody Allen's ex-partner had claimed that the godman had groped her in his cave. And final conclusion came when John Lennon famouly said – 'There's no guru.'"
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