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INSIDE A CONNECTICUT SEX CULT OVERSEEN BY A MAN WHO CLAIMED TO BE JESUS Brother Julius Schacknow claimed to be God, and forced his female members to have sex with him
June 24, 2019
Chris Harris
People
Brother Julius Schacknow, as his followers knew him, was a serial sexual abuser with delusions of grandeur who was hellbent on ending the world.
His religious sect, which he called The Work, operated with impunity for years under his strict control.
An elfin-looking man with a scraggly beard and a penchant for robes, Schacknow declared himself an oracle of God, sent to save mankind by eradicating all evil from the Earth. Soon, Schacknow was telling his followers he was Jesus Christ reincarnate, and that God had commanded him to judge the