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Children of God

American  

noun

  1. a highly disciplined, fundamentalist Christian sect, active especially in the early 1970s, whose mostly young converts live in communes.


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Originally called the Children of God, the name was later changed to the Family after one of many rounds of well-deserved bad publicity.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2021

Jones was born into and raised within the powerful Children of God, later known as the Family, a religious group founded by her grandfather David Berg.

From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2021

My dad was the leader of the chapter of an Italian cult called the Children of God and my mum was one of his wives.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 17, 2019

Two of our experts also recommended Living in the Children of God by David Van Zandt.

From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2018

Even so it is with the Children of God; they have various gifts and degrees of knowledge, yet all form one Spirit.

From Dialogues on the Supersensual Life by Jakob Böhme

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