Do you remember the Children of God? I recall this group from the Goa of the 'seventies. Just came across a link to them on the Internet, which I thought of sharing with you. FN (Frederick Noronha) At a cybercafe, Panjim -----------------------
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.religion/browse_thread/thread/3ee55bafea97d2fa/a8adfe30b5fc62b7?q=Goa+India&_done=%2Fgroups%3Fq%3DGoa+India%26start%3D0%26scoring%3Dd%26&_doneTitle=Back+to+Search&&d#a8adfe30b5fc62b7 The Children of God was founded almost 40 years ago in California. Berg, born in 1919, was a radical thinker who believed that he could spread the Gospel by embracing the Zeitgeist of the 1960s hippy counterculture. The result was a hybrid mix of free love and happy-clappy evangelism that some directionless young people found irresistible. Within ten years his Christian ministry had attracted thousands of followers worldwide. By the late 1970s, by then called The Family, the organisation had set up more than 150 communes and missions from Glasgow to Goa. Today there are about 12,000 members living in more than 100 countries. Always on the move, Berg, who had renamed himself Moses, ministered to his flock through an endless series of "Mo Letters" that governed every aspect of life within The Family. In particular, they espoused sex, and lots of it � giving and sharing yourself with others as a means of glorifying Christ. That message may have been radical for a church, but had the sex remained between consenting adults, The Family might have been seen as merely eccentric. But in the early days, Berg advocated paedophilia and incest. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Frederick Noronha 784 Near Convent, Sonarbhat SALIGAO GOA India Freelance Journalist TEL: +91-832-2409490 MOBILE: 9822122436 http://fn.swiki.net http://www.livejournal.com/users/goalinks fred at bytesforall.org http://www.bytesforall.org
