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Monday, June 7, 2010

The Roberts Group

The Roberts Group was founded in 1971 by Jimmie T. Roberts, a former Pentecostal minister. The group has never taken an official name but is known by several: The Brethren, The Brothers and Sisters, The Church, and The Garbage Eaters (members get all their meals by collecting food from garbage dumpsters). Roberts is referred to as "the Elder" or "Brother Evangelist," and makes all decisions for the group. Roberts makes no claim to deity and lives the same simple life as his followers.

Members of The Brethren see the world as hopelessly corrupt and believe that they are the end-times remnant of Jesus' church; all others are deceitful and wicked. They live a vagrant, migratory lifestyle, sometimes taking odd jobs for spending money. The men all wear beards and the women wear long dresses and do not cut their hair. Women are restricted to the traditional female roles of cooking and child rearing.

In their theology, the group is millenial, apocalyptic, and strictly puritan. Married members remain married but no new marriages are allowed since these are the end-times.

http://www.apologeticsindex.org/169-roberts-group-garbage -eaters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brethren_(Jim_Roberts_group)

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