Chicago is calling Christchurch filmmaker Cody Packer, whose documentary on a reclusive West Coast religious community has garnered widespread critical acclaim. Packer’s film Gloriavale has won Best Documentary at the 2012 Chicago CineYouth International Student Film Festival and will be shown at the Chicago International Film Festival in October. Packer, 20, and fellow Christchurch Polytechnic Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Cults’
Destiny Church leader says to leave everything and follow me 
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Tuesday, June 5th, 2012
Even though the Destiny Church has reduced finances and a declining membership, its leader, Brian Tamaki, has announced plans for its new “City of God”. He has called on Church members to leave behind houses, jobs – even family members – to join him at a “City of God” he is building in South Auckland. Read more
Destiny city will be the ‘new Jerusalem’ Comments 0
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
Controversial plans for a South Auckland Destiny Church community are set to come to light early next month. The church’s annual conference is titled the City of God and promotional material for the event feature leader Brian Tamaki in front of Auckland’s city skyline. In a video Tamaki calls the development “the new Jerusalem”. Continue Read more
Greens say tax payer money going to Church of Scientology Comments 0
Thursday, May 10th, 2012
Green’s drugs spokesman Kevin Hague has alleged in the New Zealand Parliament that the Church of Scientology is using tax-payer money to promote an anti-psychiatry agenda and messages against medication used to treat mental illness through charities disguised as social service organisations. Mr Hague said he had watched members of the church on Auckland’s Queen Read more
The claims science and religion require legitimate scrutiny. Comments 0
Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
Naive credulity is dangerous in any field of knowledge. The claims science and religion both require legitimate scrutiny. Being a person of faith does not exclude the legitimate scrutiny of the claims made in the name of religion. Failing to do so can give rise to cults, persecutions and the destruction of human dignity. Science is not without its own of deceptions and dangerous and falsities. Being Read more
