Seed of David / faith-healing isolates
Cluster of small high-control faith-healing Christian communities (similar pattern to Followers of Christ) where members refuse medical care for serious illness. Several state-level child-death prosecutions documented.
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BITE breakdown
0 — covers small high-control faith-healing communities; child-death cases documented.
Profile facts
In context
This entry covers small high-control faith-healing communities of the Followers of Christ pattern beyond the Oregon group covered separately. Members refuse all medical care, attribute illness to spiritual failure, and bury children in private cemeteries without medical certification. Several state-level child-death prosecutions across multiple US states have established the pattern.
Key control doctrines
- Faith healing as exclusive medical response
- Severance from outside medical authority
Recovery resources
- Tears of Eden — Christian spiritual-abuse-survivor support and clinician referral.
- Recovering Grace — Originally IBLP-focused; archive includes broader fundamentalist Christian high-control material.
- Reclamation Collective — Religious-trauma-aware therapist network; relevant for post-exit identity-rebuilding.
- ICSA (International Cultic Studies Association) — General referral and cult-aware therapist directory.
- Freedom of Mind Resource Center — Steven Hassan's organisation; BITE-model resources and family-side exit guidance.
See the full curated list at /resources.
Legal cases & controversies
- Multiple US state child-death prosecutions
This profile is in progress — history, deeper BITE evidence and survivor voices are still being added. Contributions welcome via GitHub.
Timeline
- 20th c.Various faith-healing isolate communities crystallise
Sources
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Change history
Substantive edits logged per the score-updates policy.
- 2026-05-29Phase 1 Batch J: per-group recovery resources applied via programmatic palette (closest-fit by category + subCategory + score). Palette: Christian high-control.
- 2026-05-20Source-density flags derived from existing free-text sources[]: court records. Heuristic auto-flag; subsequent editorial pass will populate structuredSources[] with reliability tiers.
- 2026-05-20Score band scheme migrated from 4 bands to 5 (Minimal 0–5 / Low 6–12 / Moderate 13–20 / High 21–30 / Extreme 31–40). No CLCI value changed; the new Minimal band was carved out of the bottom of the previous Low band.
Relevant hubs
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