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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... MoreRecent Additions
- LDS church agrees to settlement in principle of more than 100 sex abuse lawsuits in California
- Witness testifies to mix of love and darkness living at OneTaste sex cult
- Gwyneth Paltrows sex guru facing 20 years in jail over claims her 12m orgasmic meditation firm was an abusive sex cult that recruited vulnerable women to perform sex acts
- B C woman wins default judgment in child sex case naming fundamentalist Mormon polygamist
- Binghamton psychic guilty of defrauding lovesick victim
- Witness recounts sex abuse public humiliation at NYC cult branch
- Guilty Texas neo Nazi convicted for online threat against Nashville District Attorney Glenn Funk
- Sex drugs and undocumented migrants How the Ashram Shambala cult made all Russians in Argentina look suspicious
- Incel forums almost destroyed me as a teen This is my message for parents of teen boys
- In plain sight The mind controlling doomsday cult where members are forced to smack each other in thrashing rituals and held captive
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