Tag: AntiCult movement
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?
Read MoreHysterical & Abusive AntiCultist Suspended From Twitter
by Alanzo | Feb 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreDocumentary “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.
Read MoreIf 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...
Read MoreStephen 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...
Read MoreScientific 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...
Read MoreIs 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.
Read MoreA 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
Read MoreWhat Are AntiScientologists & the AntiCult Movement Trying to Achieve?
by Alanzo | Nov 15, 2017 | Critical Thinking, Life After Anti-Scientology, Post Ex-Scientology | 64
A valued contributor to this blog, Richard, said something that made me realize a whole bunch of...
Read MoreHow to Avoid Feeling Like a Hypocrite as an Anti-Scientologist
by Alanzo | Nov 7, 2017 | Critical Thinking, Life After Anti-Scientology, Life After Scientology, Post Ex-Scientology | 4
There are some very common ways that you can become a hypocrite as an anti-Scientologist. After...
Read MoreWhat Do Religious & Spiritual Beliefs Have to Do With the Anti-Cult Movement?
by Alanzo | Nov 5, 2017 | Critical Thinking, Life After Anti-Scientology, Post Ex-Scientology | 1
If you came upon an article on the Internet about psychiatry which made some of the same...
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Fabulous!
Regarding "Cult Brainwashing" accusations used to stereotype & dehumanize members of minority religions, I spot 10 out of 12 characteristics of BAD SCIENCE.
Can you spot the bad science in claims of "Cult Brainwashing"?
#Cults
#AntiCults
#ScientologyFairGame https://t.co/AionwanAc5

A Rough Guide to Spotting Bad Science
H/t @TheSGEM @CaulfieldTim
#ScienceUpFirst https://t.co/oslRFKrLxe
I love @RepRaskin and consider him a hero, but until any normal person has read this bill, no one knows what's in it, no matter the PR name they place on it.
We need widely available, public, NO-PARTISAN READINGS of US legislation impacting all our lives and all of our futures. https://t.co/CefGVR2rWu
Note: 400,000 Americans died in World War II. https://t.co/Oc4wHZSKbD

Tonight, I joined my colleagues for a moment of silence to mourn, remember & honor the 500,000 American lives lost to this pandemic. https://t.co/o6CQlXcMPd
Anticult tribalist goes after anyone connected to accused rapist Danny Masterson, getting you to assume he's guilty before his trial begins & hoping you'll hate his family, too.
He uses your most base and degraded instincts to influence you in the worst possible way.
Such a POS https://t.co/mcjoAGac66
"Barker argued that, far from experiencing brainwashing, the large majority of people who attended recruitment seminars opted not to join the Unification Church."
#cults
#anticults
#pseudoscience
#superstition
#persecutionofminorities https://t.co/FnvafjzzMX
It's been clear for a while now that @TroMcManus is celebrity Anti #Scientology's No1 Fangirl. She's been unable to remain objective in the matters she reports on for the @TB_Times. She's more of a tribalist, than a journalist, now.
This exchange proves it. It's a bad situation. https://t.co/yfkg792OZw
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