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Apr 13, 2020

CultNEWS101 Articles: 4/11-12/2020

ICSA Webinar, Video, Cult Recovery, WMSCOG, LGBTQ, Mission Society Church of God, White Supremacist, Ku Klux Klan, The Twelve Tribes, Self-radicalization, Scientology, China, Religious Freedom   



Monday 04/13/2020, 12 PM EST (LIVE Presentation with Q & A)
"Spiritual abuse, the Dallas conference, and COVID - 19"
Kathryn Keller and Cyndi Matthews
Link to join: https://zoom.us/j/493693433
Tuesday 4/14/2020, 12 PM EST (LIVE Presentation with Q & A)
"How the current crisis may be triggering spiritual abuse survivors"
In what ways coercive control group involvement and COVID-19 are similar crises and what common clinical treatment and self-management approaches exist for survivors who are currently experiencing PTSD symptoms as a result of all that's occurring.
Dylesia Barner
Link to join: https://zoom.us/j/493693433

 Wednesday 4/15/2020, 12 PM EST (LIVE Presentation with Q & A)
"Power threat and meaning in the context of a global pandemic"
Rod and Linda Dubrow-Marshall
Link to join: https://zoom.us/j/493693433

Thursday 04/16/2020, 12 PM EST (LIVE Presentation with Q & A)
"Mid crisis considerations for LGBTQ former members of cultic and fundamentalist groups, and healing after reparative therapy"
Colleen Logan and Cyndi Matthews
Link to join: https://zoom.us/j/493693433

And

Thursday 04/16/2020, 8pm EST (LIVE Presentation With Q & A)
"Impact of COVID-19 on Former Cult Members"
Bill and Lorna Goldberg
Link to join: https://zoom.us/j/493693433  

 Friday 04/17/2020, 12 PM EST (LIVE Presentation with Q & A)                          
"Spiritual practices during uncertain times; spiritual abuse and transgender individuals"
Mark Wingfield and Cyndi Matthews
Link to join: https://zoom.us/j/493693433

And

 Friday 04/17/2020, 8 PM EST (LIVE Presentation with Q & A)
"Parenting"
Eva Mackey
Link to join: https://zoom.us/j/493693433

 Saturday 04/18/2020, 12 PM EST (LIVE Presentation with Q & A)  
"Don't Waste your Quarantine. Recovery Strategies for Former Members During the Coronavirus Crisis."?
Doug and Wendy Duncan
Link to join: https://zoom.us/j/493693433

Monday 04/20/2020
12 PM EST (LIVE Presentation with Q & A) 
"Coping With Domestic Abuse in COVID -19"
Elizabeth Burchard

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Critical Thinking: CA Therapist Describes a Destructive Cult
Chris Shelton interviews "cult recovery/family therapist Rachel Bernstein, she defines what we mean by the term "destructive cult" and what some of the characteristics of these groups are, so anyone can spot one."

Fire lord Azulon: Gay Former Member WMSCOG

Website: Examining the World Mission Society Church of God
"MISSION STATEMENT:  Our mission is to educate the public about the dangers of membership in the World Mission Society Church of God and the negative impact the group has on the community at large. Our goals for this mission are to educate the public about the World Mission Society Church of God's history, religious practices, undue influence over their members' lives, recruitment tactics, negative effects on the family unit, negative effects on the member's finances and lack of transparency within the group. We understand that it is possible, though unlikely, that someone will have a positive experience with the World Mission Society Church of God, but the consistent reports of negative experiences by former members and their families simply cannot be ignored. We also recognize that all adults have the freedom to practice the religion of their choosing, and while we disagree with the World Mission Society Church of God's faulty interpretation of the Bible, the greater concern is the non-religious behavior of the church's leadership."

SPL: Inside an American white supremacist cult.
"From the "God Hates Fags" vitriol of the Westboro Baptist Church to the white supremacist and homophobic totalitarianism of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints to the violent neo-Nazi advocates of "racial holy war" in the Creativity Movement, examples of hate metastasizing via religious dogma abound.The Twelve Tribes, a Christian fundamentalist cult born in the American South in the 1970s, is little-known to much of the country, and on first impression its communes and hippie-vibed restaurants and cafes can seem quaint and bucolic. But beneath the surface lies a tangle of doctrine that teaches its followers that slavery was "a marvelous opportunity" for black people, who are deemed by the Bible to be servants of whites, and that homosexuals deserve no less than death.While homosexuals are shunned by the Twelve Tribes (though ex-members say the group brags about unnamed members who are "formerly" gay), the group actively proselytizes to African Americans, yet one of its black leaders glorifies the early Ku Klux Klan.The Twelve Tribes tries to keep its extremist teachings on race from novice members and outsiders, but former members and experts on fringe religious movements who've helped its followers escape paint a dark picture of life in the group's monastic communities — especially for black members, who must reconcile the appalling teachings on race with their own heritage and skin color."

Clarion Project: Quarantines Exposing More Kids to Radicalization
"While extremist ideologies deploy recruiters through the internet, self-radicalization is more likely the cause of quarantine-time radicalization due to influences including:
* Conspiracy theories circulating about the cause of the pandemic which fuel paranoia and alienation at the expense of rationalism and cooperation
* Nations (especially Europe) turning toward the nationalism that many once stigmatized as the trademark of the Far Right
* Extremist ideologies using the crisis to amplify their message of an all-out war toward the catastrophic breakdown of society

Tampa Bay Times: Scientology stays open, but says its virus prevention is the best 'on Earth'
" ... Every parishioner staying in church retreats or going into a facility in Clearwater has their temperature taken before entering, spokesman Ben Shaw said in a statement to the Tampa Bay Times.

All food consumed at the downtown headquarters, known as the Flag Land Base, is sanitized with a newly installed ozone water system, which Shaw said "kills any pathogen including viruses."

As many as 350 staff members have been reassigned to full-time cleaning, a routine that includes wiping doorknobs, handles, staircase handrails "continuously throughout the day, nonstop." Staff living quarters are thoroughly wiped and decontaminated daily, as are air conditioning ducts, restrooms and other spaces, Shaw said.

On Monday, members of the Sea Org, the church's military-style workforce, were still packing buses as they moved from living quarters to church buildings.

Shaw said each bus "is completely wiped down" with decontamination7, a powerful cleaning agent, after each use.

While the global pandemic has prompted religious organizations to suspend congregating or transition to virtual services, Scientology has not halted the practices that have parishioners and staff interacting in person. Paid services are one of the primary sources of income for the organization, and the system is kept functioning by the full-time Sea Org."

"A Chinese Christian man who was recently released from prison for his faith is now struggling to find work as communist authorities pressure employers to fire him, citing his "cult" affiliation.

According to persecution watchdog China Aid, Ruan Haonan, who attends a group related to Fengle Church Heshan city, Guangdong province, was detained for a month for "Organizing and Using a Cult to Undermine Implementation of the Law" in June 2017.

Although the former chef has since been released, he has faced consistent persecution. communist authorities have repeatedly pressured his employers to fire him, leaving him constantly out of work."

"After a religious gathering in Delhi at the headquarters of the Tablighi Jamaat sect has emerged as one of the country's top coronavirus hotspots, its chief cleric Maulana Saad and six others have been charged by the police.

Thousands of Tablighi Jamaat members, including those from other countries, attended the gathering in March, disregarding all coronavirus warnings and precautions. Many then travelled to different states, widening the spread of the highly contagious virus.

Over 2,000 members have been removed from the Markaz Nizamuddin, the Tablighi headquarters, in the past three days."
"Chiropractors in Canada and elsewhere are being told to stop advertising their services as a treatment for covid-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus.

In Canada, organisations such as the College of Chiropractors of Ontario have sent dozens of warning letters to clinics and practitioners in the area, following complaints by the nonprofit advocacy group Bad Science Watch. The complaints highlighted advertisements on social media from chiropractors claiming that they could boost the immune system to ward off the coronavirus or otherwise help people recover faster from it.

"As soon as there is public fear to exploit, these practitioners are really quick to get on message and promote this type of misinformation for their own profit," Ryan Armstrong, head of Bad Science Watch, told CBC."



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Nov 24, 2019

CultNEWS101 Articles: 11/23-24/2019




Christian Identity, Ku Klux Klan, George Lincoln Rockwell's American Nazi Party, Cult Characteristics, World Mission Society Church of God, Law of Attraction, AmazonSmile,  Polygamy, Kingston Group, Mormon

"Vancouver antiracist educator Tony McAleer is astonishingly transparent about his past life as a neo-Nazi activist.

In his new memoir, The Cure for Hate: A Former White Supremacist's Journey From Violent Extremism to Radical Compassion, he describes attending the Aryan Nations World Congress of 1988, which took place at the racist group's compound in Idaho.

'There were various members of Klans (contrary to popular belief, the Ku Klux Klan is not a large solitary force but has splintered into dozens of regional and sometimes competing groups of different sizes) and old-school Nazis from the days of George Lincoln Rockwell's American Nazi Party, founded in 1959, wearing brown shirts and swastika armbands,' McAleer writes. 'Every major white supremacist faction was represented, but at this Congress, skinheads were present in large numbers for the first time. There was even a group of Christian Identity skinheads from Las Vegas accompanied by sisters and girlfriends who all had blonde hair and brown Nazi uniforms—they were euphemistically referred to as the Brown Skirts.'"
We suggest that you check all characteristics that apply to you or your group. You may find that your assessment changes over time, with further reading and research.
  • The group is focused on a living leader to whom members seem to display excessively zealous, unquestioning commitment.
  • The group is preoccupied with bringing in new members.
  • The group is preoccupied with making money.
  • Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged or even punished.
  • Mind-numbing techniques (such as meditation, chanting, speaking in tongues, denunciation sessions, debilitating work routines) are used to suppress doubts about the group and its leader(s).
  • The leadership dictates sometimes in great detail how members should think, act, and feel (for example: members must get permission from leaders to date, change jobs, get married; leaders may prescribe what types of clothes to wear, where to live, how to discipline children, and so forth).
  • The group is elitist, claiming a special, exalted status for itself, its leader(s), and members (for example: the leader is considered the Messiah or an avatar; the group and/or the leader has a special mission to save humanity).
  • The group has a polarized us-versus-them mentality, which causes conflict with the wider society.
  • The group's leader is not accountable to any authorities (as are, for example, military commanders and ministers, priests, monks, and rabbis of mainstream denominations).
  • The group teaches or implies that its supposedly exalted ends justify means that members would have considered unethical before joining the group (for example: collecting money for bogus charities).
  • The leadership induces guilt feelings in members in order to control them.
  • Members' subservience to the group causes them to cut ties with family and friends, and to give up personal goals and activities that were of interest before joining the group.
  • Members are encouraged or required to live and/or socialize only with other group members.
"Christy's name has been changed to protect her identity due to fear of retribution from church members.

Christy listened eagerly as the stranger from the post office told her about their bible study group. She'd grown up religious and wanted her son to have a similar upbringing, so she wrote down the church's address and paid them a visit. Less than two years after joining the church, she was homeless, had lost over $3,500 and was sharing custody of her son with her now ex-husband.

Christy's experience with the World Mission Society Church of God, which occurred in Nebraska, wasn't unique. Since the church was established in Korea in 1964, several ex-members have released videos urging the public against joining. Two UTD students reported recruitment attempts from church members while one witnessed what happened after her friend joined the UTD chapter of the church, the Elohim Bible Study Club. Political science senior Kathryn Higgins ran into church members in 2018 while running errands in Arlington."
"New Age guru Abraham Hicks has made many shocking and disturbing statements about rape, slavery, 9/11 victims and Holocaust deaths. She claims "less than 1% of rapes" are "true violations" and the rest are attractions. Hicks believes slavery was "the beginning of a journey that was better" and part of an "overall improvement in humanity." She says "AIDS is the physical manifestation of not liking yourself." Hicks and others like Rhonda Byrne, creator of "The Secret," have taken a partial truth and concretized it into a religious absolutist system known as the Law of Attraction and made millions in the process. The teaching is harmful and a form of spiritual bypassing."
New York Post : Inside the alleged 'cult' that has been quietly operating in NY for decades.

"In December 1978, a bizarre theater company headed by an actress from the "Slaughterhouse-Five" film was run out of San Francisco.

Members of Sharon Gans' so-called Theater of All Possibilities had come forward to claim they were pressured into arranged marriages, beaten if they didn't sell tickets and had gone broke paying for classes — while Gans and her husband lived in a tony home in the posh neighborhood of Pacific Heights.

With the police asking questions and the ex-members' claims splashed across the pages of local papers, the actress and her theater group closed up shop and seemingly disappeared from public view.

But they never really went away.

A new group sprang up in the 1980s in New York under the name Odyssey Study Group and has been operating here quietly ever since — still led by the washed-up actress, now 84, who reigns from a $8.5 million apartment at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel that was mostly paid for by devotees, according to public records."

" ... No one is sure what will come of La Mora after the ambush, suspected of being perpetrated by a drug cartel, but everyone agrees the place has changed. The people who grew up here tell of a childhood of romping in the brown desert hills that surround the valley, of fishing and swimming in the river that runs past the homes, and of helping their families raise the crops or cattle that thrive nearby.

Now, they talk about their fears.

"I do not feel safe here and I won't," David Langford, the husband to Dawna Langford and father to Trevor and Rogan, said Thursday at the closing remarks to their funeral.

Later Thursday, Joe Darger, a polygamist from Herriman, Utah, who attended Thursday's services, tweeted that Dawna Langford's family members planned to relocate, though they didn't know where yet."
Mexican officials have confirmed an "unspecified number" of arrests in connection with last week's cartel massacre that left nine Mormon women and kids dead.

"There have been arrests, but it's not up to us to give information," Security Minister Alfonso Durazo told reporters Monday.

Prosecutors in Sonora, as well as at the federal level, are leading the investigation, according to Durazo.

But a spokeswoman for the state government of Sonora told Reuters, "We don't have that information."

Three women, 8-month-old twins and four other children were killed in the Nov. 4 bloodbath in the border state of Sonora, near where they worship with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The families were members of La Mora, a decades-old settlement in Sonora founded as part of an offshoot of the mainline Mormon church."




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Sep 12, 2019

CultNEWS101 Articles: 9/12/2019




Jehovah's Witnesses, Sogyal Rinpoche, MLM's, Ku Klux Klan 
"After decades of silence, John Michael Ewing and Heather Steele spoke publicly for the first time ... describing years of sexual abuse at the hands of leaders in the religious group they grew up in, The Jehovah's Witnesses."

"A British charity founded by a disgraced Buddhist guru, who died last week after he was accused of sexual misconduct towards some of his followers, faces further controversy after it emerged that one of its trustees was found responsible for covering up abuse.

Patrick Gaffney was a trustee of the Rigpa Fellowship, which was founded by the Tibetan guru Sogyal Lakar, known as Sogyal Rinpoche, who died aged 72 in Thailand on Wednesday after going into hiding following the claims.

Weeks before Lakar's death, Gaffney – the guru's right-hand man who co-edited his bestselling The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying – was banned by a watchdog from working with charities for eight years."
" ... Multi-level marketing (MLM) is a method of selling a product through a network of distributors, who receive financial incentives for recruiting others. It is common for someone to make as much money from recruiting people just as from selling the actual product. Examples of companies that use this business model include Arbonne, Avon, LuLaRoe, Nutrimetics, and Mary Kay.

Dr Máire O Sullivan, a lecturer in advertising and marketing with a focus on gendered consumption at Edge Hill University, has previously referred to MLMs as "legal pyramid schemes".
"I think that the structure itself is flawed and as soon as recruiting becomes the focus, you are entering pyramid scheme territory," she says, adding that she believes the only way to properly regulate them is to prohibit the incentive to recruit.

Many women pay to sign up just to receive the product discounts offered to distributors, or to get the enticing start-up kit that contains everything a person needs to advertise the products to others. Unfortunately, it often isn't as easy as buying one kit and getting out with your dignity intact."
"PayPal suspended a Ku Klux Klan fundraising account last week after it was criticized for allowing the white supremacist and antisemitic group to accept donations through its service, according to BBC News.

PayPal suspended the account used by the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan on Friday, six days after it was first flagged by activists on social media, the British news outlet reported.

The San Jose-based company had pledged two years ago to "evaluate all sites" that used its service to fund the KKK and other organizations advocating racist views."



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