The Love Family, or the Church of Jesus Christ at Armageddon, was a U.S. communal religious movement led by Paul Erdman, who named himself Love Israel. The Love Family began in 1968 as one small communal household on Seattle's Queen Anne Hill, and within the first ten years expanded to a network of communal homes and businesses.

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  • The Love Family, or the Church of Jesus Christ at Armageddon, was a U.S. communal religious movement led by Paul Erdman, who named himself Love Israel. The Love Family began in 1968 as one small communal household on Seattle's Queen Anne Hill, and within the first ten years expanded to a network of communal homes and businesses. As more people arrived and settled in the surrounding neighborhood, Erdman, as the leader, continued to inherit land and homes (from those who joined, primarily)in other, more rural areas of Washington, Alaska and Hawaii. Most of the property is no longer under the control of Erdman, having been sold or returned to the original owners via litigation. In 1984* the community ended, the original group's mostly leaving. Presently, a small remnant of the Love Family lives in Brackett's Landing, a suburban residential community northeast of Seattle in Bothell, Washington. There is still interaction between the community and the smaller remaining group. The complex family relationships in the younger generations (dozens of half brothers and sisters, etc. ) have survived the transition and have become the glue that continues to bond the original larger community and the group that continues their belief in Erdman. It seems that differing sources of information on the Love Family's duration exist; whereas some sources claim that after 1984, only a small fraction of the community remained in existence in a small location in suburban Bothell, Washington, according to the cited Seattle Times article and the article cited by Serious Israel, the Love Family continued after a fractious conflict in 1984, living on their 300 acre property in Arlington, Washington. It was on this commune that the Love Family continued to flourish from 1984 until 2004, when, according to the Seattle Times, families finally left for other, smaller, properties. The Arlington commune supported both a local organic restaurant and an annual festival open to the public called the Garlic Festival, which drew healthy crowds to the property.
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  • The Love Family, or the Church of Jesus Christ at Armageddon, was a U.S. communal religious movement led by Paul Erdman, who named himself Love Israel. The Love Family began in 1968 as one small communal household on Seattle's Queen Anne Hill, and within the first ten years expanded to a network of communal homes and businesses.
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  • Love Family
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