by Paul Cooke | Jul 1, 2022 | News
Announcing the publishing of a new page on the website under the menu heading “Children of God.” It’s a chapter taken from the forthcoming memoir on the author’s nine-year experience with that group, a group which has earned the appellation, “Cult.” The chapter is...
by Paul Cooke | Apr 26, 2022 | What is a Cult?
Defining the Cult The Oxford English Dictionary offers this definition of the cult: “a small group of people who have extreme religious beliefs and who are not part of any established religion.” They illustrate the term with this example: “Their son ran away from home...
by Paul Cooke | Apr 26, 2022 | What is a Cult?
The Cult Member But what of the other key ingredient constituting a cult—the followers? P.T. Barnum is supposedly the source of the phrase, “There’s a sucker born every minute,” and though the saying is probably not originally his, the notion that there are...
by Paul Cooke | Apr 20, 2022 | Cult Lessons
Don’t give up thinking for yourself. The caravan of cars created as the Children of God moved from one campsite to another stretched out at times for a mile–this was in the early days of 1969 to February of 1970. We followed our leader, trusting in him...
by Paul Cooke | Mar 31, 2022 | News
Being deceived can happen in lots of ways–cults constitute one of them. Do you remember fondly the good teachers that came into your life? Maybe some were really guides and mentors who made a difference. But occasionally one may come across...
