Category: Cults
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Loyal former Jesus Army members could get bigger payouts than victims of sexual abuse within the cult
Please subscribe and get a FREE copy of Atheist Limericks & Cartoons! Click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with a donation. FORMER members of the UK’s wealthiest and most abusive fundamentalist Christian organisations, the Jesus Army, or Jesus Fellowship Church, which disbanded in 2014 with millions in assets, may now…
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Misery cult back in the news following the exposure of an adoption scandal
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. FIVE years ago Laura Conti, above, a former member of a secretive Christian cult started in the late 1800s by Scotsman William Irvine, inset, spoke out against the evangelical movement, saying that members believed that a life of misery was…
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Fourteen members of a crazy Christian cult found guilty of causing a child’s death
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. RATHER than seek medical help for diabetic Elizabeth Struhs, inset above, members of an Australian Christian cult, led by Brendan Stevens, turned to prayer and song, maintaining a vigil around the 8-year-old’s bed even after she’d stopped breathing. And they…
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Kenyan doomsday cult leader Paul Mackenzie faces 191 murder charges
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. FOLLOWING the closure last year of Good News International Ministries by authorites in the wake of more than 400 deaths from starvation by followers, church leader Paul Nthenge Mackenzie, above, a former taxi driver-turned-televangelist, now faces trial for the murder…
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Head of a Nigerian megachurch, TB Joshua, exposed as a rapist and torturer in a shocking BBC exposé
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. IN a new three-part series that can be seen on YouTube, the BBC reveals that Temitope Balogun Joshua, head of the Synagogue, Church of all Nations (SCOAN) until his his sudden death in 2021 aged 57, raped and abusing followers…
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Kenyan shutters church responsible for the death by starvation of 427
GOOD News International Ministries, led by a Kenyan pastor Paul Nthenge Mackenzie, inset above, has been forced to close, along with four other “extremists” churches, including the Helicopter Church of Christ in Nairobi. Religion News Service reports that Kenya’s Registrar of Societies deregisted the death cult, founded in 2003 with an “End Times” message. Earlier…
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Starving for Jesus: Kenyan cult leader’s prison hunger strike ends with his death
JOSEPH Buyuka, accused of being one of the leaders of a death cult led by pastor Paul Mackenzie (inset above), has died in custody while awaiting trial. He had been arrested in connection with the deaths of 337 members of Mackenzie’s Good News International Church, and had been on a 10-day hunger strike. Buyuka, according…
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‘Don’t link death cult with religion,’ says Kenya’s evangelical President
LATEST reports from Kenya, where police are combing a forest occupied by a Christian cult led by pastor Paul Mackenzie Nthenge, above, indicate that 73 bodies have now been recovered, with more expected. The death toll, which has continued to rise as exhumations of shallow graves are carried out, could rise further. The Kenyan Red…
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Cult leader, accused of exhorting his followers to starve to death for Jesus, embarks on a hunger strike
KENYAN pastor Paul Mackenzie, above, of the Good News International Church—accused of encouraging followers to fast until they die—is himself refusing food and water. Mackenzie surrendered himself to police after a number of shallow graves were found on land believed to be owned by the church. According to this report, 8 more bodies were found…
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