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Welcome to another episode of the ExCommunicated podcast. We are two ex-Christians joined every week by a guest as we try to find freedom from the church after decades. 

In this week's episode, we're diving even deeper into the 'Children Of God' (The Family International, The Family etc.) And mainly looking at the controversial practice of 'Flirty Fishinf' or 'FFing' within the cult. 
Please don't listen to this episode is you may be sensitive to the topics discussed, such as child abuse spiritual abuse and sexual assault.  
  
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SOURCES:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flirty_Fishing
https://www.xfamily.org/index.php/Flirty_Fishing
https://www.xfamily.org/images/0/06/Ff-report-docs.pdf
https://www.xfamily.org/index.php/My_Childhood_Sex
https://www.xfamily.org/images/2/26/Ml-560.pdf
https://people.com/crime/children-of-god-sex-cult-survivor-forgives-those-who-molested-her/
Life in the Family: An Oral History of the Children of God (2000)
https://archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de/ep/0004/article/view/3608/3493
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1jQ2pessjs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63HkmoI5Png

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Welcome to another episode of the ExCommunicated podcast. We are two ex-Christians joined every week by a guest as we try to find freedom from the church after decades. 

In this week's episode, we're taking another deep dive into a cult. We take a look at the 'Children Of God' (The Family International, The Family etc.)
Please don't listen to this episode is you may be sensitive to the topics discussed, such as child abuse and suicide.  
  
Send us an email if you have any experiences that you'd like to share!

This podcast aims to work through our own struggles and stories and provide support and hope to any listeners who are going through the same thing.
We'd LOVE to hear from you with feedback, episode ideas or personal stories:
excommpod@gmail.com
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Follow us for the visual version every week: shorturl.at/jwFT8

Tune in next Sunday from 10 am as we tackle tricky topics.

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SOURCES:

Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Family_International
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flirty_Fishing 
Fundie Fridays Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlH_N33WdKU
http://www.exfamily.org/index.htm 
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9925323/Survivors-Children-God-cult-claim-sexual-abuse-encouraged.html
https://www.xfamily.org/index.php/Berg_on_Pedophilia 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Rodriguez 
https://people.com/crime/how-river-phoenixs-childhood-in-the-children-of-god-cult-may-have-led-to-his-death/ 

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David Berg, President and CTO of Strainprint, explores the current state of the medical cannabis industry in Canada and overseas and how Strainprint is bringing innovation to the industry. He also shares some of the challenges encountered when building and marketing a company in this highly regulated and stigmatized industry, and much more.

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Hosts David Kahn and Kyle Youmans are joined by Power outfielder Charlie McConnell (2:30), who discusses how he developed into such a great defensive outfielder (5:20), how he's worked through some of his slow offensive starts the last few years, his relationship with Bobby Honeyman, Ryan Ramiz and Ryne Ogren (14:55), getting drafted and how being at Northeastern and playing summer ball helped him rediscover his love of baseball (22:30). He also recounts a marathon 18-inning game (26:20) against the school he almost went to, delves into his love of community service and reveals how much he's really broken down his swing since his sophomore year of college (33:10). Lastly, he also tries to remember every time he's sleep talked with Bryan Pall.

A mother is manipulated by a psychopath into neglecting, and then committing heinous torture against her two sons. And that is only the beginning of the story. Try and imagine the most bizarre situation possible, take it a couple steps further, throw cannibalism into the mix, and then you'll have a tiny idea of what went on in the Mauerova family. 

Join us as we delve into the details of this truly twisted tale, in our coverage of the Kurim Case.

In our conclusion of our coverage of the Children of God/The Family/The Family International/whatever name they use to rebrand their horrible cult this year, we discuss the tenets of the cult as it evolved, the last years of leader David Berg's life, his wife Karen Zerby's rise to prophet after his death, and some of the extremely disturbing abuse that was commonplace within the cult.

We will also talk about Zerby's son, Ricky Rodriguez, or Davidito, as he was known within the cult, who was supposed to be the next in line for status of prophet for the cult, but who was so traumatized and disgusted by the environment in which he was raised, he left the cult and began to see himself as a vigilante for justice for the others who had experienced what he had there. This ended tragically, as it has for a ridiculous amount other second-generation members of this dangerous and destructive cult.



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David Berg founded the Children of God under the tenets of "God is love"...and ended up taking his interpretation of god's love waaaaay past the point of sanity. Preaching that sex was how you showed love, the cult encouraged married couples to copulate with others in the cult, that women share the word of god with strangers by engaging in sexual relations, and even told parents that they should engage in sexual activity with their own children, and the children of others in the organization. With his charismatic charm, and confidence in which he proselytized, his followers hung on his every word, and easily convinced others to join them. Unfortunately, this created an incredibly dangerous environment for children being raised in the cult, as well as many of the adult members. Join us today, as we delve into the horrifying activities Berg and the Children of God members committed in the name of God, under his direction.

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The Children of God cult aka The Family aka The Family International is still around today which is very disturbing considering their twisted origins and disgusting, sexually exploitive doctrinal past. Founded by David "Huge Perv" Berg in 1968 in Huntington Beach, California, they now operate to an unknown degree internationally, basing their existence in a highly sexualized interpretation of Biblical teachings, interpreting God's love as being expressed best through sex.

Berg initially took a second wife saying it was God's will, as cult leaders so often do. He then began showing his followers "God's love" first through secret orgies with high-ranking members, then through the demand to share cult member's wives, who were suddenly forbidden to deny male members "God's love". David then commanded female members to spread God's love and do missionary work, which centered around "Flirty Fishing", i.e., having sex with random dudes to encourage them to join the cult. From there, women members, were pushed into "Hooking for Jesus" - outright prostitution. And from there, members were encouraged to show their children "God's love" as outright pedophilia was sanctioned and encouraged, even when it was incestuous. All based on creative Biblical interpretation of course! This people are insane. And you learn all about them in today's fascinating and mind-boggling edition of Timesuck!

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