Stephen Hassan Misrepresents the Science on “Brainwashing”
Does Stephen Hassan personally profit from his exit counseling & deprogramming business using the hysteria he creates around minority religions?
Critical Thinking on Cults & AntiCults
Does Stephen Hassan personally profit from his exit counseling & deprogramming business using the hysteria he creates around minority religions?
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.
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.
I want a federal investigation of Scientology for the right reasons.
This documentary contains a very good discussion of the limits of power that people have over those who make religious and spiritual choices that others don’t like.
Views: 0In the United States at the end of the 1970s, brainwashing emerged as a popular theoretical construct around which to understand what appeared to be a sudden rise of new and unfamiliar religious movements … Read more
This is the level of thought that is acceptable by those who believe in the AntiCult Movement’s ideology about minority religions. This is not critical thinking – it’s the sociological equivalent of an AntiVaxer rant.
Is Chris Shelton The Critical Thinker at Large the Stuart Smalley of Celebrity Anti-Scientology?
An ideologue is so certain of the ideology he has adopted, and the rightness of how he sees the world, that he can sneer at people, knowing how superior he is. It is a lazy way to go through life, intellectually, but if you surround yourself with people who also never question their assumptions, either, it’s easier to live that way. One of the best examples is Tony Ortega.
The more power that you assign to subversive techniques such as “mind control” the easier it is for Ex-members to explain their membership and participation in minority religious groups after they’ve re-entered the mainstream.
Sociologists who study the issues surrounding minority religions have identified 3 types of stories that form a socially-constructed narrative of a leave-taker’s experience inside their former group.