Tag: The anti-cult movement
How Anti Cult Movement Ideology Harms Ex-Members
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?
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The Moral Equivalence of Scientology vs. Anti-Scientology Fair Game
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.
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Documentary “Deprogrammed” Now Streaming on Netflix
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.
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If Anti-Scientologists Love Science So Much, Why Don’t They Use It?
One of the most hysterical and unscientific beliefs of the Anti-Cult movement is that...
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Stephen Hassan Misrepresents the Science on “Brainwashing”
In a recent article about ideological influences on wikipedia, Hassan writes: “The Unification...
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Scientific Studies That DeBunk The Brainwashing Myth
The following is a compilation of scientific studies which have thoroughly debunked the idea of...
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Is The Anti Cult Movement True?
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.
Read MoreA Critique of Brainwashing Claims About New Religious Movements by James T. Richardson
A review of the major problems with the brainwashing theory of recruitment and maintaining membership in a minority religion. By James T Richardson – 2006
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What Are AntiScientologists & the AntiCult Movement Trying to Achieve?
A valued contributor to this blog, Richard, said something that made me realize a whole bunch of...
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How to Avoid Feeling Like a Hypocrite as an Anti-Scientologist
There are some very common ways that you can become a hypocrite as an anti-Scientologist. After...
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What Do Religious & Spiritual Beliefs Have to Do With the Anti-Cult Movement?
If you came upon an article on the Internet about psychiatry which made some of the same...
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Who is Alanzo?
Alanzo is an Ex-Scientologist who sees the same tribalism he escaped in Scientology rising up in Anti-Scientology.
Of all the lessons he learned by escaping Scientology, he learned one lesson harder than any other: Never let your tribe do your thinking for you.
Alanzo tries to use critical thinking on the war between Cults & AntiCults.
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Policing of social media & who you can & can't be friends with is completely normalized in #AntiCults too.
Chris can't see it because his loyalty blinds him to these behaviors common to #Cults & AntiCults.
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Here's @sheltondesigner calling every member of a minority religion "mad".
Is this an attempt to dehumanize all adherents of a religion as dangerous & irrational?
Yes it is. Yet another one.
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Vulnerable: #Cult Stereotypes rule mainstream society.
And everyone loves it.
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