Don't you want devoted followers who leave their families for you, give their money to you, give their bodies to you, give up

their lives for you, consider you God, and will kill for you? Don't you want to become a cult leader?

Hello and welcome to serial killing a podcast where we also fear off the serial killer path to delve into

other topics within our beloved true crime community. Today's podcast which was voted for on Instagram will be on the cult Children of God.

So let's go back to its Genesis, if you will.

So in the beginning, there was David Brant Berg,

born on February 18th, 1919 in Oakland, California.

So let's get into some history at that time.

World War I or The Great War, it's called had just ended months before.

It is known as one of the deadliest wars in history with an estimated 9 million military personnel deaths and around 7 million

civilian deaths connected to that war. Then to that add another 50 to 100 million deaths from genocide and an

influenza pandemic and you might get an idea of the death and destruction.

Also this year the German Workers Party was formed which eventually became the National Socialist German Workers Party or the Nazis.

Romania annexed Transylvania.

Irish Militant Nationalist Party, Sin Fein, created its own parliament in Dublin

and declared Ireland independent of Great Britain, sparking the Irish War of Independence.

The Polish-Soviet war began.

In Italy, the fascist party Polish Soviet war began.

In Italy, the fascist party was formed by Benito Mussolini.

Also this year, the 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibiting alcohol

was ratified by nearly all of the United States and the United Parcel Service or UPS was formed.

We also see that Mahatma Gandhi announced a resistance against the Rowlet Act,

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