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<div style="padding: 1em; margin: 10px; border: 2px dotted green;"> ==Sixties cult exerted a powerful influence== [[:Category:Press|Press]] &raquo; [[:Category:Press:Nottingham Evening Post|Nottingham Evening Post]] &raquo; [[2007]]-08-16 The [[Children Of God]] was founded in the late [[1960s]] by [[David Berg]] in Huntington Beach, California. The son of [[Virginia Brandt Berg|a Christian evangelist]], he believed he was the successor of the biblical King David and the prophet Moses. He crowned himself and his wife King and Queen and exerted a powerful influence over his followers. Living in hiding around the world and constantly on the run from unwanted attention from the authorities and the media, he communicated with his disciples by letter. He introduced a [[Law Of Love]], which gave adults licence to practise adultery, [[:Category:Incest|incest]] and [[:Category:Pedophilia|paedophilia]], provided it was done in the name of God's love. The outside world was referred to as the [[System]] and was said to be controlled by Satan. Berg told followers the world would end in [[1993]] when Jesus would return to Earth to save their souls. But Berg died from natural causes in [[1994]], calling the world's failure to end a 'blip' in his prophecies. The cult, now called the [[Family International]], still exists and is run by Berg's second wife, [[Karen Zerby]]. It denies that its members engage in adult-child sex or [[:Category:Abuse|abuse]] of any kind but it remains [[:Category:Secrecy|secretive]] and isolated. At the height of its popularity in the [[1980s]], the cult had more than 10,000 members. Now it is thought to have just a few thousand. Several judicial investigations in the [[1990s]] found the Family International is now a safe environment for children but highlighted concerns about past abuse. </div> [[Category:Press:Nottingham Evening Post]]

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