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David Brandt Berg (February 18, 1919 – October 1, 1994), also known as King David, Mo, Moses David, Father David, Dad, or Grandpa to followers, was the founder and leader of the cult generally known as the Children of God [1] and subsequently as The Family International.
The founder of the movement, David Brandt Berg (1919–1994), was a former Christian and Missionary Alliance pastor. [12] Berg started in 1968 as an evangelical preacher with a following of "born-again hippies" who gathered at a coffeehouse in Huntington Beach, in Orange County, California. In 1969, after having a revelation "that California ...
The Family International, identified as "Children of God" (天父的儿女; tiān fù de érnǚ), founded in the US in 1968 by David Berg, in China since 1980 and asked to leave by the ministry in 1985, [11] defined by the ministry as a cult in 1995.
"Heaven's Gate: The Cult of Cults" (Max) In 1997, 39 members of Heaven’s Gate , a celibate religious sect, died in a mass ritual suicide timed to the approach of the Hale-Bopp Comet.
However, the film received no television deal or video-on-demand distribution. According to Gabe Hoffman, who financed the film: "We got zero Hollywood offers to distribute the film. Not even one. Literally no offers for any price whatsoever." [19] In July 2015 the producers of An Open Secret accused Berg of not supporting the film. [20]
Dave Berg (cartoonist) (1920–2002), American cartoonist; Dave Berg (songwriter), American country music songwriter; David Berg (1919–1994), founder of the Children of God (now Family International) cult; David Berg (pitcher) (born 1993), retired baseball pitcher; Dave Berg (producer), American producer of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Karen Elva Zerby (born July 31, 1946) is the leader of The Family International, founded by her former husband David Berg as the “Children of God”, proven in court to have promoted and enacted sexual abuse of adults and children, including prostitution as a means of proselytizing.
In videos, TikTok dancers associated with 7M Films, like Miranda Derrick, are bubbly and smiling. Is it possible that they are actually in a cult? According to a civil lawsuit filed March 2023, yes.