Dr. Steven Hassan Praises His Forcible Deprogrammers
Dr. Hassan broke and went back to his family’s religious tradition – Judaism. Why is his praise of his captors not a case of Stockholm Syndrome?
Critical Thinking on Cults & AntiCults
Dr. Hassan broke and went back to his family’s religious tradition – Judaism. Why is his praise of his captors not a case of Stockholm Syndrome?
If there is such a thing, an intellectually honest anticultist should understand the arguments from social science which won in court during the deprogramming hysteria in the 70’s & 80’s.
Leah Remini knows Scientology doesn’t teach pedophilia. She knows Ortega used that quote out of context for AntiCult emotional manipulation. Leah knows it is lie.
Did they just pay for for travel and lodgings while at a conference? Or did they slip them wads of cash to write what they wanted?
It was on the night of 9-10 November, 1938, and named Kristallnacht from the shards of broken glass that littered the streets after the windows of Jewish-owned stores, buildings, and synagogues were smashed.
Both Scientologists and Anti-Scientologists, like Tony Ortega, are so biased they are equally incapable of telling the truth about Scientology.
It’s strange for an Ex to accept these stereotypes about who they used to be. Yet Exes seem to do it – almost unthinkingly & obediently. When will they begin questioning these stereotypes?
When I got out of Scientology and began exposing them on the Internet 19 years ago, it was because I had discovered how cruel that the leadership in the Church of Scientology had been to … Read more
Without being found guilty of criminal acts in a court of law, trying to take away Scientology’s legal freedoms is simply religious persecution.
A lot of the members of the anti-cult movement want their targeted minority religion to be destroyed for their own religious and ideological reasons.
Mainstream society can’t claim to have all the answers for everybody. If we claim to be a free society, why do we de-legitimize & dehumanize those who join our subcultures?