Critical Thinking on Cults & AntiCults
Steven Hassan is a self-promoting “cult expert” who evangelizes the anticult movement ideology to ex members of minority religions. Back in the 1970’s, he was recruited into the Moonies from a staunch Jewish family. They hired a deprogrammer to kidnap and “deprogram” him back into their Jewish belief system.
Steven decided to become an ‘expert’ on cults after that and has made his living scaring people about minority religions since.
Have you become a follower of Dr. Stevie? You have alternatives for making sense of the world after Scientology. More than just AntiCultism. You should check those out before you harm yourself.
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?
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?
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?
Gerry Armstrong & Mike Rinder have a long history. Gerry thinks it’s time for Mike Rinder to come clean about all the OSA Fair Game Operations he ran against him and all the other critics of Scientology when Mike Rinder ran the dirty tricks arm of the Church of Scientology.
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?
Social scientists like Eileen Barker traveled to Moonie recruitment seminars where brainwashing & mind control was claimed to be in use. They found that more than 90% of the people in those “brainwashing” seminars did not sign up to be a Moonie, and all were gone from the Moonies within 2 years.
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
“Brainwashing” Theories in European Parliamentary and Administrative Reports on “Cults” and “Sects” JAMES T. RICHARDSON MASSIMO INTROVIGNE This study examines the recent rash of official reports done by governmental agencies in Western Europe to guide policy development in those societies. Particular attention is given to reports in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, and Italy, and … Read more
The following is a compilation of scientific studies which have thoroughly debunked the idea of brainwashing.
When I was young and dumb, I worked with OSA in Illinois. Randy Kretchmar, Carol Brookes and Mary Ann Ahmad were the Office of Special Affairs at the Chicago Org at that time. The Cult Awareness Network had not been infiltrated, taken over and destroyed by OSA yet. They were still the Church of Scientology’s … Read more