Critical Thinking on Cults & AntiCults
AntiCults exist for every Cult.
An out-group of people who were former members of any religion, or minority religion, have always existed to protest their former religious or spiritual belief.
They have simply come to realize a loss of faith.
That loss of faith is colossally disorienting. All people use their ideology or belief system to make sense of the world. So when your sense-making system collapses on you, you feel a certain sense of fuckness for a short, or a long, while.
AntiCults exist where people take up the AntiCult Ideology, mostly promulgated by Lifton and Hassan.
Influenced by anticultism, they deny their own choices made to get involved in their own previous religious pursuit and turn all those personal decisions into things they were ‘brainwashed’ to believe against their will and consent.
AntiCults must be critically examined, and questioned, as closely as Cults.
This Ex-Scientologist is courageously putting herself out there and warning the public about the abuses she has personally witnessed in Scientology, and while she is in the middle of doing that, Tony Ortega tries to discredit her on his blog.
If it weren’t for Gerry Armstrong, we would have never learned of L Ron Hubbard’s true biography. They destroyed his life and now they want him erased from history.
Does Stephen Hassan personally profit from his exit counseling & deprogramming business using the hysteria he creates around minority religions?
Angry Gay Pope, Karen de la Carriere’s long time video editor, admits Karen is a practicing Scientologist. Why hasn’t Chris Shelton or Tony Ortega ever reported this?
Jeffrey and Karen Attempt to influence the Los Angeles County Sherrif’s Dept, the LA County Fire Dept, and the Los Angeles Police Department – just like Scientology does.
Tony Ortega’s stereotype of you is a ghost that disappears as soon as you focus on it. For some Exes who have accepted this stereotype of themselves, it has become a thought-stopping cliche.
Why do you think anti-cultists reject science so much? And when they call a social scientist a “shill” or a “quack”, where is their quantitative data that disputes their work? Nowhere.
Does Karen De La Carriere pay money to Tony Ortega and Chris Shelton to post what she wants?
There is a whole lot to gain by continually reminding myself of what a fact is, vs what a belief is. Especially with regard to political and religious areas of my life.
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.
Tribal Ninnies adopt a tribal narrative & let it do all their thinking. AntiCultism is filled with Tribal Ninnies, such as the RinderNinnie & the ReminiNinnie.
#AskMikeRinder launches to find out, once and for all, what criminal activity, if any, the Office of Special Affairs engaged in while Mike Rinder ran it for David Miscavige for 22 years.
Ex Sea Org Officer Karen Pressley Justifies Her Banning of a Scientology Critic with Very Strong, and Very Tribal, Sea Org Reasoning
Maybe there was a time, that if Tony Ortega had gotten out of this war he is engaged in with Scientology, he might have survived. But that time is gone.
You do not want to live in a society where the government, or even you, has the power to take away someone else’s religion. This is why the line between legal and illegal behavior is WAY more important than the line between moral and immoral behavior.
This Scientology Fair Game podcast details an un-aired episode of Scientology and the Aftermath which employed the same hoax they played on David Miscavige’s divorced wife, Shelly Miscavige.
Mike Rinder seems to think so. In an over the top article Jeffrey Augustine makes many speculative claims that he would have no way of knowing about John Travolta.
Until these acts have been detailed and thoroughly condemned by Mike Rider and Marty Rathbun, and legal amends made to Gerry Armstrong for what they did to him, they can’t claim to be “whistleblowers”.
The recovery paradigm of Ex-Scientology sets up a whole bunch of things you think you need to “recover” from because you were in a cult.