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Timesuck with Dan Cummins

104 - The Children of God Sex Cult

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

True Crime, Society & Culture, Religion, Conspiracies, History, Biographies, Education, Adult Humor, Comedy, Dark Humor, Conspiracy, Cults

4.721.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2018

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

The Children of God cult aka The Family aka The Family International is still around today which is very disturbing considering their twisted origins and disgusting, sexually exploitive doctrinal past. Founded by David "Huge Perv" Berg in 1968 in Huntington Beach, California, they now operate to an unknown degree internationally, basing their existence in a highly sexualized interpretation of Biblical teachings, interpreting God's love as being expressed best through sex. Berg initially took a second wife saying it was God's will, as cult leaders so often do. He then began showing his followers "God's love" first through secret orgies with high-ranking members, then through the demand to share cult member's wives, who were suddenly forbidden to deny male members "God's love". David then commanded female members to spread God's love and do missionary work, which centered around "Flirty Fishing", i.e., having sex with random dudes to encourage them to join the cult. From there, women members, were pushed into "Hooking for Jesus" - outright prostitution. And from there, members were encouraged to show their children "God's love" as outright pedophilia was sanctioned and encouraged, even when it was incestuous. All based on creative Biblical interpretation of course! This people are insane. And you learn all about them in today's fascinating and mind-boggling edition of Timesuck! Timesuck is brought to you today by Away! For $20 off a suitcase, visit awaytravel.com/timesuck and use promo code TIMESUCK during checkout Timesuck is also brought to you by The Great Courses Plus! To access your free trial with unlimited access to their vase library of incredible courses, visit TheGreatCoursesPlus.com/TIMESUCKSign up today! It's free! Merch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Want to try out Discord!?! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever current page hasn't been put in FB Jail :) For all merch related questions: https://badmagicmerch.com/pages/contact Please rate and subscribe on iTunes and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG, @timesuckpodcast on Twitter, and www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast Wanna be a Space Lizard? We're over 3000 strong! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcast Sign up through Patreon and for $5 a month you get to listen to the Secret Suck, which will drop Thursdays at Noon, PST. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch. You get to vote on two Monday topics each month via the app. And you get the download link for my new comedy album, Feel the Heat. Check the Patreon posts to find out how to download the new album and take advantage of other benefits. And, thank you for supporting the show by doing your Amazon shopping after clicking on my Amazon link at www.timesuckpodcast.com

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According to thefamilyinternational.org, the website for the latest incarnation of the children of God Cult,

0:06.0

the family international is an online Christian community of individuals committed to sharing the message of God's love with people around the globe.

0:13.0

Founded in California during the late 1960s, the family international has expanded into an international network with members currently in over 80 countries.

0:23.0

TFI is a network of globally-minded, locally-focused individuals.

0:27.0

We are committed to bettering our world through empowering people to develop a personal relationship with God who can in turn affect change in their part of the world.

0:35.0

Members of TFI have been active in mission and charitable work in 95 countries for over four decades.

0:42.0

Well, according to my research, the research of my team and according to the information presented in a variety of documentaries, investigative journalism articles,

0:50.0

and the testimony of numerous former members, the children of God historically has been mostly committed to misogyny, coerced prostitution, and kid-fucking.

1:00.0

Seriously, family international aka the children of God does seem to have been committed to sharing the message of God's love.

1:06.0

It's just that their interpretation has been, well, wildly, radically different from most other Christian churches.

1:13.0

Petophile, overall sex-fiend, founder, and former leader David Berg taught both male and female members to think about having sex with Jesus when they masturbated.

1:22.0

But he was also against male homosexual sex. How does that work? Well, David taught male members that when a man masturbates and is having fantasy sex with Jesus like a good Christian, he pretends to be a woman.

1:33.0

Makes sense? Sound like some solid, traditional Christian dogma? If so, you might want to sign up. I'm sure they'll be happy to have you.

1:42.0

David also taught women followers that turning down male church members sexual advances, whether they were wanted or not, was sinful.

1:50.0

So also pro-rape. David ended marriages. He saw fit, assigned new marriages, and encouraged female members to literally prostitute themselves to both entice new male members and also raise money for his church.

2:04.0

He broke up families, scattered the splintered remains to various corners of the globe. His own daughters would even claim that he made sexual advances towards them.

2:12.0

David openly advocated incest, writing in one newsletter, I read, said, who better to teach you about love than your parents? Love in this case, meaning sex.

2:25.0

Feel sick to your stomach, maybe just vomit in your mouth a little bit, congrats you're one of the good ones.

2:29.0

According to Family International aka the Children of God's website, as a community of faith, the family international is committed to promoting the well-being of children and their need for quality care, education and supervision.

2:42.0

We promote the importance of children's development in a healthy, happy, loving, safe, caring environment where there needs, physical, spiritual, intellectual, educational, and emotional are amply met.

2:55.0

Yeah, amply met indeed. Former member states that children were routinely molested by church members, found her David Berg teaching that children should be allowed to express their sexuality as it was a testament to God's love.

3:06.0

Children were also at various periods in the church's history, forbidden from basic education.

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