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		<title>Cult Accusations Against Gwen Shamblin Lacked Malice, Court Affirms</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 09:59:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25902"><img src="http://rnbpull.99streets.netdna-cdn.com/graphicspics/cults-dangerous-devotion.jpg" alt="Cult" width="90" height="90" border="0" style="float:left;padding-right:5px;" title="cults"></a> Weight-loss guru Gwen Shamblin failed to prove that she was defamed by a critic who accused her on the Internet of running a cult, a Tennessee appeals court ruled. <br /><br />Theologically, Shamblin's Remnant Fellowship is a <a href="http://www.apologeticsindex.org/c45.html">cult of Christianity</a> due in part to its rejection of the <a href="http://www.apologeticsindex.org/t10.html">doctrine of the Trinity</a> - one of the <a href="http://www.apologeticsindex.org/158-essential-doctrines-of-the-christian-faith">essential doctrines of the Christian faith</a>.
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		<title>Remnant Fellowship Couple Loses Murder Appeal</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 18:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25467"><img src="http://rnbpull.99streets.netdna-cdn.com/graphicspics/Joseph-Sonya-Smith.jpg" alt="Joseph and Sonya Smith" width="90" height="90" border="0" style="float:left;padding-right:5px;" title="Joseph and Sonya Smith"></a> Leaders of a controversial church have lost a bid to prove two of their members innocent of murder. <br /><br />The ruling from the Georgia Supreme Court comes three years after Joseph and Sonya Smith were sentenced to life in prison for the beating death of their 8-year-old son. The child's death put the focus on how the Remnant Fellowship taught its members to discipline their children.]]></description>
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		<title>Cults are not the way to lose weight</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 22:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Weigh Down and Remnant seem to do more harm to those who join than good. Goals are set, and if they are not met, Newsome said members are told they will go to hell. Guilt and shame are used to keep the members in line, and eternal damnation is said to be the punishment for overeating.]]></description>
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		<title>Church leading appeal of parents sentenced in child&#8217;s death</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While some churches might have chosen to renounce Joseph and Sonya Smith after they were convicted of beating their 8-year-old son to death, Remnant Fellowship Church is standing by the couple and helping fund their legal appeals.]]></description>
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		<title>Couple Sentenced to Life Plus 30 Years for Beating Murder of 8-Year-Old Son</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 05:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Remnant Fellowship Church&#8217;s critics say verdict is a lesson</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2007 23:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former members of a Brentwood-based church said they hoped Friday's conviction of Georgia couple in the death of their 8-year-old son would prompt the church and its followers to re-examine their child discipline teachings.]]></description>
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		<title>Parents guilty in child murder case that prompted Brentwood church raid</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2007 20:32:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A suburban Atlanta couple was found guilty Friday of one count each of felony murder and involuntary manslaughter in the death of their 8-year-old son, in a case that prompted authorities to raid the Tennessee-based church where the parents are members.]]></description>
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		<title>Parents guilty in child murder</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A jury today convicted Cobb parents Joseph and Sonya Smith on one count each of felony murder and involuntary manslaughter in the death of their 8-year-old son Josef.]]></description>
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		<title>12 Jurors, 2 Parents, 1 Dead Child</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What that jury of ten women and two men decides could send the parents to prison, possibly for as long as the rest of their lives, or release them to the embrace of family and friends and fellow church members who have shared their grief over the loss of their son.]]></description>
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		<title>Jury Sees Videos In Trial of Joseph and Sonya Smith</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2007 05:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the crimes the state of Georgia has charged the Smith's with is using glue sticks to punish Josef. It's a form of punishment they learned at Remnant Fellowship Church.]]></description>
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