Homosexuality is banned, corporal punishment encouraged and members atone for bad karma in past lives. Young women, denied higher education, are often married off to older men in the group, former members say.
Some male devotees have undergone weapons training to prepare for the end of the world, which is coming soon.
But this doomsday cult isn’t hidden away in some rural bunker — it operates out of a brownstone in Murray Hill .... http://nypost.com