Critical Thinking on Cults & AntiCults
The anti-cult movement is made of people with varied ideological affiliations who attack & vilify minority religious & spiritual pursuits. They can hide their ideological affiliations and never be questioned for them as part of the “anti-cult movement”.
The anticult movement belief system is often made available to Exes of minority religions so they can “re-think” their involvement. Although brainwashing has been thoroughly debunked by science, the anti-cult movement seeks to promote this insidious belief, much to the detriment of Ex-Scientologists and others.
It uses pejorative terms such as “cult”, and stereotypes such as “brainwashed cult member” to dehumanize and marginalize members of minority religions.
To be sure, abuses have occured in minority religions. But have they occured to the extent that abuse has occured in the majority ones? Do members of ‘cults’ commit suicide more often than members of majority religions?
These are some of the questions we explore here at AlanzosBlog.
Adopting the beliefs of the anti-cult movement dramatically changes the views and attitudes of those who experience a loss of faith. Those changes have a profound effect on how Exes make sense of their own past. So we must ask: How helpful is the ideology of the anti cult movement in making sense of your life?
William Gude of the Scientology_Audit YouTube channel wants to END someone else’s religion. I’m sorry, that’s what Nazis do. And I will be opposing that.
Anti-Scientologists who were never in Scientology have a long row to hoe if they hope to be accurate in their criticisms of Scientology. I provide the lessons you need here at AlanzosBlog.
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?
After 16 years in a cult, 15 years in an Anticult, and 9 years out of both, I know what it means to recover from a cult.
Most all of the witnesses against Keith Raniere in his criminal trial went through government deprogramming before they testified. Studies have shown this re-deculturization greatly effects the Ex-cultist’s attitudes toward their experience.
The suspect told investigators he had shot Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzu Abe in relation to a grudge he held against the Unification Church.
Don’t Fall For the AntiCult Movement’s Hysterical Religious Persecution. Stay Focused on the Specific Crimes of Specific Criminals.
Hysterical Anti-NXIVM Subbreddit Bans Me Before I Ever Post. The Admin claims I support terrorist slave trafficking organizations. Who Says AntiCultists Aren’t Hysterical?
Deprogrammer Rick Alan Ross has been trying to warn the public about fellow deprogrammer Steven Hassan, Ph.D for over a decade. When will we listen to him?
When I first got out of Scientology 21 years ago, I’d have made the same doco India did. That would have been a huge mistake.
“Ex” is not “Anti”. Anti is a stance against. Ex is simply a former member, having many different stances about their former religious pursuit.
Doug Kramer of the Dazed But Not Confuzed YouTube Channel responded to my article about how the Anticult Ideology Harms Ex-Cult Members. I was honored.
Human mainstream cultures protect themselves against minorities they feel threatened by.
Anti-Cultists Steve K. D. Eichel and Stephen Hassan had a conversation with me about cults and brainwashing on my Facebook Page. Here’s how it went.
Does Stephen Hassan personally profit from his exit counseling & deprogramming business using the hysteria he creates around minority religions?
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.
Jon Atack and Steven Hassan have been the Jimmy Swaggart and Billy Graham of the Anti-Cult Movement for well neigh 40 years now, and I hear they’re just about ready to get some science to back up what they’ve been preaching to vulnerable Exes – real soon now! So it’s no wonder Jon and Steve … Read more
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.
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.
