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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.
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]
The Children of God was abolished in February 1978, and Berg renamed his group "The Family of Love" [5] In what Berg called the "Re-organization Nationalization Revolution" (or RNR). [18] Berg reorganized the movement, dismissing "more than 300 leading members after hearing unspecified 'reports of serious misconduct and abuse of their positions."
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He called news of another God’s Misfits group “whacked-out” and said that people had messaged him, calling his group a “cult”. “I ain’t got nothing to do with all of that,” he said.
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