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Children of God is now known as The Family International. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_International https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_International

by kijin 13y ago

Children of God is now known as The Family International. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_International https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_International Curiously, the Wikipedia page makes no mention of the 1993 apocalypse prophecy that failed to materialize.

mercurial 13y ago
The part about "loving Jesus" was particularly disturbing. Though one thing that differentiates at least the current incarnation of the cult from other similar organization is that, according to wikipedia, "Members of TFI are encouraged to maintain friendly relations with relatives who have left. However, they have also been discouraged from associating with relatives who are considered enemies of TFI and who have frequently appeared on television programs around the world to denounce and speak out against the group." This sounds at odds with the testimony in the article.
midas007 13y ago
Interesting. The Moonies ships an army of Korean boys and girls to the US to solicit money from college students, old people and generally anyone that will look at their flipover clipboards with pictures of impoverished people. [0] It also owns a great deal of wealth and businesses [1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonies [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unification_Church_affiliated_organizations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unification_Church_aff...
- GFischer 13y ago
  They had a lot of power in my country, and own an impressive mansion as their headquarters (they open it to the public on a national holiday, it's beautiful). It seems to be on the decline here, they used to own a major newspaper, a Radisson hotel (in the emblematic independance plaza), and several other companies: http://www.elobservador.com.uy/noticia/231655/el-declive-del-grupo-moon-en-uruguay/ http://www.elobservador.com.uy/noticia/231655/el-declive-del...
mrxd 13y ago
From my readings, I don't think it was a central doctrine. Here's the relevant writing from Berg: http://pubs.xfamily.org/text.php?t=156 http://pubs.xfamily.org/text.php?t=156 He seems uncertain about it and couches it more as a possibility. The prediction is actually a timeline of world events involving the Antichrist that begins in the 1970s, so they would have known decades in advance that it wasn't coming true. Certainly by 1986, when Flor Edwards says she was thinking "I would be twelve when the world ended [in 1993]", they would have noticed that the Antichrist hadn't created a one-world government as predicted.

by kijin 13y ago

mercurial 13y ago

The part about "loving Jesus" was particularly disturbing. Though one thing that differentiates at least the current incarnation of the cult from other similar organization is that, according to wikipedia, "Members of TFI are encouraged to maintain friendly relations with relatives who have left. However, they have also been discouraged from associating with relatives who are considered enemies of TFI and who have frequently appeared on television programs around the world to denounce and speak out against the group." This sounds at odds with the testimony in the article.

midas007 13y ago

Interesting. The Moonies ships an army of Korean boys and girls to the US to solicit money from college students, old people and generally anyone that will look at their flipover clipboards with pictures of impoverished people. [0] It also owns a great deal of wealth and businesses [1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonies [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unification_Church_affiliated_organizations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unification_Church_aff...

GFischer 13y ago
They had a lot of power in my country, and own an impressive mansion as their headquarters (they open it to the public on a national holiday, it's beautiful). It seems to be on the decline here, they used to own a major newspaper, a Radisson hotel (in the emblematic independance plaza), and several other companies: http://www.elobservador.com.uy/noticia/231655/el-declive-del-grupo-moon-en-uruguay/ http://www.elobservador.com.uy/noticia/231655/el-declive-del...

mrxd 13y ago

From my readings, I don't think it was a central doctrine. Here's the relevant writing from Berg: http://pubs.xfamily.org/text.php?t=156 http://pubs.xfamily.org/text.php?t=156 He seems uncertain about it and couches it more as a possibility. The prediction is actually a timeline of world events involving the Antichrist that begins in the 1970s, so they would have known decades in advance that it wasn't coming true. Certainly by 1986, when Flor Edwards says she was thinking "I would be twelve when the world ended [in 1993]", they would have noticed that the Antichrist hadn't created a one-world government as predicted.