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The New Zealand Herald: Gloriavale's banned children's books: Senior leader's email lays out rules
" ... Lord of the Rings, stories about Christmas and Easter, and nearly all books containing pictures of animals wearing clothes are on the list of reading material considered too "worldly" for Gloriavale's children.
An email leaked from the West Coast Christian community and sent to politicians has laid out the vast amount of book categories senior leadership disapproved of for members who were homeschooling their kids.
Labour MP Duncan Webb, who has spoken against Gloriavale in the past, warns while some of the banned books might seem funny, the reality of the censorship was "deeply troubling" and children were being denied stories that served as a "window to the outside world".
The leaked email, sent from senior leader Peter Righteous' email address last month, noted he was "disappointed to find books celebrating Christmas on our shelves, and others that were simply worldly".
Righteous refers in his email to "rules" put in place by founding brethren, which forbid books in the following categories:• Fairy tales and fantasies• Science fiction• Anything promoting Christmas, Easter and the like• Supernatural or occult themes• Myths and legends presented as truth• Anything promoting evolution• Books presenting wrong as right, or the idea the end justifies the means"
London News Online: Concerns raised over relationship between 'cult' church and Lewisham council
"Concerns have been raised over the relationship between Lewisham council and a church which allegedly showed teenagers a video of a dead body to scare them from leaving, according to former members.The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG) is a Christian denomination with five chapters in South London – Brixton, Peckham, Croydon, Woolwich and Catford.
The UCKG has been described as a "cult" by former members after allegations of preying on vulnerable people, brainwashing them, performing exorcisms and making them pay 10 per cent of their income to the church.
Two weeks ago the Diocese of Southwark – responsible for more than 100 Anglican churches in South London and east Surrey – apologised for including the Catford branch of the UCKG in an annual interfaith peace walk through Lewisham in September.
Rachael Reign, 30, the director of Surviving Universal UK, a support group for ex-members, said the inclusion of the UCKG on the interfaith walk caused "considerable upset and distress" among ex-members of the church."
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1991 - Wikipedia: Synanon
Synanon is a US-founded social organization created by Charles E. "Chuck" Dederich Sr. in 1958 in Santa Monica, California, United States. It is currently active in Germany.
Originally established as a drug rehabilitation program, by the early 1960s, Synanon became an alternative community centered on group truth-telling sessions that came to be known as the "Synanon Game," a form of attack therapy. The group ultimately became a cult called the Church of Synanon in the 1970s.
Synanon disbanded in 1991 due to members being convicted of criminal activities (including attempted murder) and retroactive loss of its tax-exempt status with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) due to financial misdeeds, destruction of evidence, and terrorism It has been called one of the "most dangerous and violent cults America had ever seen.
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