Word: cult
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According to sources both at the IOP and in the anti-cult movement, the inclusion of Cynthia Kisser, director of the former Cult Awareness Network (CAN), invoked protest from the Church of Scientology...
...profit support organization for the friends and family of cult members. After CAN filed for bankruptcy in 1996, its assets, including its name and phone numbers, were sold. The Church of Scientology purchased this number, (773) 267-7777, and the name...
...Scientology is quite likely the most ruthless, the most classically terroristic, the most litigious and the most lucrative cult the country has ever seen," Kisser said in the Time article. "No cult extracts more money from its members...
...other panelists will be Eugene Gallagher, author of Why Waco and Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Connecticut; Joseph Kelly, Thought Reform and Exit Consultant and former cult member; and Peter Klebnilov, who covered the Heaven's Gate mass suicide for Newsweek magazine, and author of a book on doomsday cults, "The Cult Next Door...
Fame is a fickle dame. Nick Matzorkis, who helped discover the bodies of the Heaven's Gate cult members and finagled that into a TV development deal with ABC, now has to cope with her nastier side. Matzorkis was jailed last week for an alleged probation violation for auto theft in Cleveland. Ohio authorities recognized him on TV. His publicist told the Los Angeles Times that the TV deal would not be affected...