Ep. 198 Children of God Pt. 1 - Church Name or Football Team?

Cult Podcast

Paige Wesley & Armando Torres

True Crime, History, Comedy

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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This week we start our multi-part series on the Children of God. Tune in as we talk about David Berg's early days and the Children of God's Hippie Origins. Content Warning for Discussions of Child Abuse and Sexual Abuse. Also, we have a Patreon! [Insert Air Horn Noises Here] If you'd like to donate and join our cult, please visit www.patreon.com/cultpodcast or visit our website and click on the Patreon tab.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, this is Armando Torres, and you're listening to the show before the show.
0:04.0	And I'm Paige Wesley.
0:05.3	And with us, we have...
0:06.7	Katie French.
0:08.0	Yay!
0:10.9	It's, um, well, it's here.
0:14.0	We're doing it.
0:15.6	We're doing the series.
0:17.1	And, uh, boy, does it start exactly how you'd expect?
0:20.9	Oh, yeah.
0:21.7	Yeah.
0:22.4	Just want to throw a quick trigger warning on this one.
0:25.0	Um, Paige, you might be better suited to this.
0:28.8	Hey, there's a trigger warning about two minutes from now in the actual episode.
0:32.5	But just so you know that we really mean it, uh, there is a lot of discussion of sexual
0:38.2	abuse, particularly child sexual abuse in this episode and the following three episodes
0:45.6	because it's children of God.
0:46.8	And if you don't know the story of children of God, then,
0:49.8	oof, uh, you're in for it.
0:52.1	It is pretty brutal.
0:53.9	So if that's something that's going to impact you negatively,
0:57.6	you have been warned and feel free to skip this one if you need to.
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