[3] He wrote three books containing the doctrines of the religious group, including the rejection of several dogmas commonly accepted by the main churches (Jesus' divinity and resurrection, the existence of the Devil, and the accuracy of the Gospels, among other things).
Born on 14 June 1903 in Cavaillon from an unbeliever father and a Catholic mother,[4] George Ernest Roux quickly abandoned the faith after reading Plato's works,[5] and became factor in 1920.
Then he founded a symphony orchestra and composed an opera (L'Auréole) in 1939, but the beginning of the World War II forced him to resume service as inspector at the post office in Avignon, where it stayed until December 1953.
There was no hierarchical structure: the local groups were informal and autonomous, but the most important ones (in Avignon, Paris, Strasbourg, Toulon) formed associations for organizational purposes.
Roux presented himself as a persecuted prophet, said to be Christ and to carry out the law of love unfulfilled by God's representatives including Jesus.
The group defines itself as "christian", then "christic",[6] also developed environmentalism and the "idea of a symbiosis between man and nature as the foundation of health and spiritual improvement".
The religious group proposed, but did not require, a vegetarian diet excluding cannings, potatoes, sugar, salt, alcohol, tobacco and tea.
[6] The faithful actively participated in proselytism by distribution of leaflets and door-to-door, and there were sometimes stands in some fairs of major cities and parades of sandwich boards in Paris.
[7] Several members, including veteran Jean Thos in Paris, were candidates for legislative elections of 2 January 1956; in its political program, the religious movement said wanting to follow God's will and pointed social issues as homeless, armament, exploitation of workers by employers.
[19] Membership of the Universal Christian Church reached a peak of 5,000 between 1955 and 1960,[20] in about fifty local groups (Marseille, Nantes, Paris, Strasbourg, Toulon, etc.).
[24] In the 1950s, refusals of medical treatments led to the death of several children, including a 13-year boy in October 1953, a young girl in March 1954, and a three-month baby in September 1954.
[25] In 1996, Jacqueline Roux wrote to Alain Gest, a member of the commission, to question this classification, highlighting financial transparency, democratic nature and compliance with the law of her association.