Topic on AlanzosBlog: AntiCult movement

Hysterical & Abusive AntiCultist Suspended From Twitter

by Alanzo | Aug 21, 2020 | Critical Thinking, Critical Thinking on Anti-Scientology, Life After Anti-Scientology, Life After Scientology | 0

Chris Shelton, the hysterical and abusive anticultist who runs a youtube channel devoted blind anti cultism, was finally suspended from Twitter yesterday.

How the Anti Cult Movement Harms Ex-Members

by Alanzo | Jun 24, 2020 | Analyzing Scientology, Critical Thinking, Life After Anti-Scientology, Life After Scientology, Post Ex-Scientology | 13

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?

The Moral Equivalence of Scientology vs. Anti-Scientology Fair Game

by Alanzo | Feb 23, 2019 | Analyzing Scientology, Critical Thinking, Life After Anti-Scientology, Post Ex-Scientology | 6

Is Fair Game better when it’s applied to Scientology? Can there be an immoral equivalence when what Scientology does is then done back at them? Either you are against hypocrisy, cruelty and abuse, or you are not – no matter who does it.

Documentary “Deprogrammed” Now Streaming on Netflix

by Alanzo | Jan 28, 2019 | Analyzing Scientology, Life After Anti-Scientology | 0

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.

If Anti-Scientologists Love Science So Much, Why Don’t They Use It?

by Alanzo | Jan 20, 2019 | Critical Thinking, Life After Anti-Scientology, Post Ex-Scientology | 7

One of the most hysterical and unscientific beliefs of the Anti-Cult movement is that...

Stephen Hassan Misrepresents the Science on “Brainwashing”

by Alanzo | Jan 16, 2019 | Analyzing Scientology, Critical Thinking, Life After Anti-Scientology, Post Ex-Scientology | 0

In a recent article about ideological influences on wikipedia, Hassan writes: “The Unification...

Scientific Studies That DeBunk The Brainwashing Myth

by Alanzo | Sep 6, 2018 | Critical Thinking, Life After Anti-Scientology, Post Ex-Scientology | 7

The following is a compilation of scientific studies which have thoroughly debunked the idea of...

Is The Anti Cult Movement True?

by Alanzo | Aug 23, 2018 | Critical Thinking, Life After Anti-Scientology, Life After Scientology, Post Ex-Scientology | 43

If there’s one reason that I’m doing these videos, it’s because these ideas from the anti cult movement are destructive to an Ex-Scientologist, or an Ex-member of any minority religion that they call “cult”. And they’re just beliefs – they’re not facts.

A Critique of Brainwashing Claims About New Religious Movements by James T. Richardson

by Alanzo | Jan 2, 2018 | Critical Thinking, Post Ex-Scientology | 0

A review of the major problems with the brainwashing theory of recruitment and maintaining membership in a minority religion. By James T Richardson – 2006