http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:08:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23791/elizabeth-clare-prophet-church-universal-and-triumphant http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23791/elizabeth-clare-prophet-church-universal-and-triumphant#comments Sat, 17 Oct 2009 05:06:23 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23791 Elizabeth Clare Prophet, the spiritual leader of the Church Universal and Triumphant, which gained notoriety in the late 1980s for its followers’ elaborate preparations for nuclear Armageddon, has died.

The church was still prepared for Armageddon in recent years and kept a bomb shelter stocked for 750 people deep in a forest near Yellowstone National Park.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23791/elizabeth-clare-prophet-church-universal-and-triumphant/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22869/church-universal-and-triumphant http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22869/church-universal-and-triumphant#comments Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:46:19 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=22869 The Lyons Press has just released "Prophet's Daughter: My Life with Elizabeth Clare Prophet Inside the Church Universal and Triumphant," which details Erin Prophet's tumultuous life.

In the book's preface, Prophet writes that one reason she penned the account is to expose the flawed thinking that led to her mother's "apocalyptic prophecies" and the shelters built in their wake.

"Our actions were informed by the same sense of spiritual superiority that has led others to pace street corners with sandwich boards reading, THE END IS NEAR," she wrote. "And the reasoning behind it is more similar to that of the other groups than I have been comfortable admitting."]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22869/church-universal-and-triumphant/feed 0