7. Glenn Close
With her parents joining the extreme conservative group MRA, The Moral Re-Armament cult, when she was seven years old, Glenn Close recently revealed what it was like growing up in such an intense environment. Branded as an international moral movement, designed to increase one’s spiritual perspective and encourage all members to continue at church, the group was quickly beginning to radicalize its followers.
Founded by American minister, Frank Buchman, the political movement was advertised as a form of morale during the second world war. Although the union held some Christian roots, the philosophy of the group was based on the ‘Four Absolutes’, of which included absolute honesty, purity, unselfishness, and love.
Managing to escape the group when she went to college, Close recently discussed her time within the MRA, stating “you basically weren’t allowed to do anything, or you were made to feel guilty about any unnatural desire”. Now renamed the Initiatives of Change, the group continues to recruit new followers, even after the death of Buchman, who passed in 1961.
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