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Re: Terrific YouTube Video

numbers88@... — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:24:57 GMT

I watched it. Excellent!

Religious Colleges

rootiet_tootie — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:04:38 GMT

Did you ever notice how most religious colleges, and churches keep you under the radar and are trying to conform you to their ways!!? I went to a college that

Brainwashing

Rory Bowman — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:09:15 GMT

Central to the concept of anti-cult activism is the concept of "brainwashing," a term which first gained popularity in the early 1950's as a sinister, Oriental

Terrific YouTube Video

Rory Bowman — Wed, 09 May 2007 04:50:25 GMT

Saw a terrific YouTube video on religious practices at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnNSe5XYp6E It explicitly addresses kooky cults, but many of the

Janja Lalich

Rory Bowman — Tue, 08 May 2007 05:16:11 GMT

Janja Lalich is a rather interesting character in the broader anti-cult movement. I first encountered her as the opportunistic young co-author with Margaret

Jargon as Religious Control

Rory Bowman — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 19:06:19 GMT

One of the primary pleasures of religion is the belief that one is a part of something larger than oneself: the "saved," the "chosen," the "enlightened," or

Steven Hassan's "BITE Model" of Cult Control

Rory Bowman — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:48:02 GMT

One of the more interesting and objective measures of a controlling group that I know is Steven Hassan's relativley simple "BITE model" as found at

The Business of Cults

Rory Bowman — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:52:28 GMT

Since at least the medieval period (when venal clergy were a running joke) there have always been criticisms of religious groups on financial grounds: the

In Defense of Margaret Singer

Rory Bowman — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 19:43:46 GMT

Margaret Singer was a social scientist at a time when it was harder to a female academic of any

A Hopeful Tone

Rory Bowman — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:45:07 GMT

As the founder of this group I am hoping that it will serve as a place for discussion of what one