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  • The cult's scripture, A Timely Message from Heaven: The End of the Present Times, which records the leaders 'visions, was studied carefully.

    Cult scene: New Zealand and Africa - Boing Boing 2009

  • But when the cult's leader runs away with Jim's wife, Jim finds solace by redoub ling his faith in the cult's teachings, managing to interpret the betrayal as a fulfillment of the leader's prophecy.

    Strained Separations Sam Sacks 2011

  • Adding urgency to astrologically synchronized events is the cult's chance abduction, for sacrificial purposes, of a rich celebutante who happens to be not only a winner of the television program "Survivor" but also the daughter of the vice president of the United States.

    Supernatural Suspense and Mundane Wonders Tom Nolan 2011

  • Following the trail of the many suspects, especially that of the cult's intense youth-group leader, Anna comes to find the force against which the children's minds have been broken.

    Hard Truth by Nevada Barr: Book summary 2010

  • The chapters describing the cult's American origins are relatively familiar, but it's in Guyana that the full strangeness of Jim Jones emerges.

    The Horror, The Horror John Gimlette 2011

  • These people in effect share the agenda of the MEK and answer only to the cult's leadership, while freeing themselves of the burden of responding to criticism of the group.

    Shawn Amoei: Silencing the Moderate Middle Shawn Amoei 2011

  • Here's another fine line for y'all to ignore: Is it always OK for cults to indoctrination the member's children in the cult's beliefs?

    A California Ruling 2009

  • The cult's Jim Jones-like leader, Jonah King Billy Burke, intends to sacrifice the child under the upcoming full moon.

    'Drive Angry 3D': Nicolas Cage and rage running on empty 2011

  • Given that Nader destroyed the centrist cult's chances a few years back, one would think that they wouldn't want to drive all the liberals out of the party.

    Gates: A “Done Deal” - Swampland - TIME.com 2008

  • A cult's human sacrifice plans have a flaw, as a 'men cannot enter' strategy will do sweet fa if a warrior named Shanna comes calling, willing to make her own sacrifice.

    Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Barbarians II - Martin H. Greenberg and Robert Adams and Pamela Crippen Adams Blue Tyson 2008

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