The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin
TV Show • 2021 • Documentary
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Explore how the late Gwen Shamblin Lara, who founded the controversial Remnant Fellowship Church and created the Christian weight loss program The Weigh Down Workshop, rose to fame as a diet guru and church leader.
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Discussion of friends and loved ones lost to suicide as well as attempted suicide.
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Attempted and completed suicide attempts are mentioned.
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Episode 3: Physical abuse is described in detail. The cult approves of and advocates for brutal and chronic corporal punishment. Multiple children are murdered as a result. Main focus of the episode is the cult’s abuse of children. It’s pretty brutal.
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Infant death with no unnatural causes implied or stated.
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This is a central part of the cult being examined in the documentary series, so it gets frequently referenced. The general idea is (enforced) eating disorders wrapped up in Christian religious practices (i.e., implies that “eating right”/being thin = being closer to god, that food distracts someone from faith, heavy emphasis placed on weight loss, so on and so forth).
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