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News and Opinion

Is cult author Steven Hassan embellishing and/or exaggerating his bio?

Author Steven Hassan, who writes and speaks about groups called "cults," has a personal history of cult involvement. Hassan was in the Unification Church ("Moonies") founded by Sun Myung Moon for two years in the 1970s. And his origin story includes a dramatic "deprogramming" intervention arranged by his parents. However, it... More

Recent Additions

• Church of England priest led cult and sexually abused a staggering number of women jury told
• Dossier of information about protestors sent to council by Church of Scientology says leader
• Jesus of Siberia Cult Leader Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison
• Cook County jury rules against Seth and Warren Jeffs
• The Baileys From medical doctors to germ theory denial
• Trace the Rise and Fall of an American Cult in The Oracles Daughter See the Cover
• A psychopaths brain is strikingly different
• Are donation bins connected to a cult
• Leader of cult like Zizian group indicted on new weapons charge
• I grew up in a cult where children were locked in cupboards publicly beaten and forced to go without food so that we could all go to Venus when the world ended

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