Nah...

I know a couple kids that were abandoned by their parents when their cult left the country, because the cult would have faced scrutiny taking all the kids.

Those kids grew up, and started a cult.

It's a "benevolent" cult, and from what I know pretty easy going and actually work thru things...

But all the guys who started it, grew up in a cult. It's what they know, it's normal to them.

They legitimately don't understand why some people freak out about it. And they call it some weird cult-speak term instead of "cult" like that King of the Hill joke. But it's 100% a cult.

Are they hurting anything?

No

But they'd have been a lot better off going to therapy and recommending it to people that need it than starting a cult.

The "system" they knew was cults, and that's not a good system to actually help people.