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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

• Ex Mormon bishop in Livermore charged with sexually assaulting boys over decade
• Germany ends decades long surveillance of the Church of Scientology
• Ecuador rescues six foreign minors from Jewish sect
• Scientologys Extremely Online Pivot to Video
• Germany cracks down on neoNazi networks
• Neo Nazi cult leader Commander Butcher gets 15 years for online calls to violence that led to shooting
• Exclusive Brethren sect denies telling members to kill their pets
• Notorious cult leader had 20 wives and still controls followers from prison
• Fortunes lost for victims of psychic blessing scam
• Clearwater City Council approves giving street to Church of Scientology to build L Ron Hubbard Hall

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