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Rick Ross

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The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

And I wouldn't have been in it if my parents hadn't joined. And I think one of the things we often forget is that there are children that are being raised within groups that have been called destructive cults, and they have no option.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

They turn to their family, their parents, for protection and a sense of safety, but their parents are manipulated and controlled by the leaders of these groups, and they're not there to protect their own child. Wow.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

They turn to their family, their parents, for protection and a sense of safety, but their parents are manipulated and controlled by the leaders of these groups, and they're not there to protect their own child. Wow.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

They turn to their family, their parents, for protection and a sense of safety, but their parents are manipulated and controlled by the leaders of these groups, and they're not there to protect their own child. Wow.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

In the case of Children of God, it was just a bizarre twisting of scriptures. So this was a way of showing love. This was some kind of divine love that they were sharing. You know, and Berg, Moses David Berg, would also tell the women in the group that they should recruit men by offering themselves sexually. And this was called flirty fishing. And then later, they would actually charge for sex

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

In the case of Children of God, it was just a bizarre twisting of scriptures. So this was a way of showing love. This was some kind of divine love that they were sharing. You know, and Berg, Moses David Berg, would also tell the women in the group that they should recruit men by offering themselves sexually. And this was called flirty fishing. And then later, they would actually charge for sex

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

In the case of Children of God, it was just a bizarre twisting of scriptures. So this was a way of showing love. This was some kind of divine love that they were sharing. You know, and Berg, Moses David Berg, would also tell the women in the group that they should recruit men by offering themselves sexually. And this was called flirty fishing. And then later, they would actually charge for sex

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

with men that they would try to recruit, and they were called hookers for Christ. And I mean, this sounds bizarre, but this is how bizarre some of these groups are. Probably one of the most insidious groups was the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints, the FLDS. And that is the polygamist organization that was led by Warren Jeffs, who's now in prison in Texas.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

with men that they would try to recruit, and they were called hookers for Christ. And I mean, this sounds bizarre, but this is how bizarre some of these groups are. Probably one of the most insidious groups was the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints, the FLDS. And that is the polygamist organization that was led by Warren Jeffs, who's now in prison in Texas.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

with men that they would try to recruit, and they were called hookers for Christ. And I mean, this sounds bizarre, but this is how bizarre some of these groups are. Probably one of the most insidious groups was the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints, the FLDS. And that is the polygamist organization that was led by Warren Jeffs, who's now in prison in Texas.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

And there were thousands of people that followed Jeffs. And these were people that were raised within polygamy for generations. Some of these groups go back 100 years. and they lived in relatively isolated communities where the group controlled the police, they controlled the school, they controlled everything. One community was Colorado City, Arizona, another was Hilldale, Utah.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

And there were thousands of people that followed Jeffs. And these were people that were raised within polygamy for generations. Some of these groups go back 100 years. and they lived in relatively isolated communities where the group controlled the police, they controlled the school, they controlled everything. One community was Colorado City, Arizona, another was Hilldale, Utah.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

And there were thousands of people that followed Jeffs. And these were people that were raised within polygamy for generations. Some of these groups go back 100 years. and they lived in relatively isolated communities where the group controlled the police, they controlled the school, they controlled everything. One community was Colorado City, Arizona, another was Hilldale, Utah.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

Now these groups have been kind of dealt with through the law, and Jeffs is in prison. But for the children, they don't know any other life. For their families, they don't know any other life. And there were girls that were literally raped by Jeffs and others in the group. and they were minor children. So only in recent years has law enforcement began to really deal with these communities.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

Now these groups have been kind of dealt with through the law, and Jeffs is in prison. But for the children, they don't know any other life. For their families, they don't know any other life. And there were girls that were literally raped by Jeffs and others in the group. and they were minor children. So only in recent years has law enforcement began to really deal with these communities.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

Now these groups have been kind of dealt with through the law, and Jeffs is in prison. But for the children, they don't know any other life. For their families, they don't know any other life. And there were girls that were literally raped by Jeffs and others in the group. and they were minor children. So only in recent years has law enforcement began to really deal with these communities.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

One would be the FLDS, another would be the Kingston clan in Utah that also was guilty of this type of abuse. So, you know, there are about 50,000 people living in polygamist communities in North America. So that would be another group where things would go on inside the group that outsiders would not know, and that the group would control, and people suffered, in particular children.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

One would be the FLDS, another would be the Kingston clan in Utah that also was guilty of this type of abuse. So, you know, there are about 50,000 people living in polygamist communities in North America. So that would be another group where things would go on inside the group that outsiders would not know, and that the group would control, and people suffered, in particular children.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

One would be the FLDS, another would be the Kingston clan in Utah that also was guilty of this type of abuse. So, you know, there are about 50,000 people living in polygamist communities in North America. So that would be another group where things would go on inside the group that outsiders would not know, and that the group would control, and people suffered, in particular children.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

Well, I would say we've touched upon the polygamist groups, and then there are, in my opinion, Scientology would be a group that I would be concerned about, even though there are many celebrities involved in it. It's a shrinking organization, but they still control a great many people, and they have an enormous amount of money and property that they control.