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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 "first child conceived through 'flirty fishing', was born to Berg’s common-law wife, Karen Zerby", but was fathered by "a waiter she picked up in the Canary Islands". [3] Ex-member and critic, David Hiebert, states the practice was "used to curry political favor" in countries CoG had migrated to.
"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.
Richard P. Rodriguez [2] was born on January 25, 1975, in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, as David Moses Zerby.His mother was Karen Zerby, the spiritual leader of the religious cult Children of God (COG), and his father was a Spanish hotel waiter named Carlos whom Zerby had "Flirty Fished", a practice in which female cult members would have sex with men to draw in potential converts. [3]
Dave Berg (June 12, 1920 in Brooklyn – May 17, 2002 in Marina del Rey, California) was an American cartoonist, most noted for his five decades of work in Mad of which The Lighter Side of... was the most famous.
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.