Cults Of The Religious Kind - Don't Be Fooled

Here are ten signs that you have been indoctrinated or Brainwashed. One does not have to exhibit all ten, just a few will suffice.

1.) CHARISMATIC LEADERSHIP- the unquestioned obedience and submission to the claimed authority, divine appointment, and knowledge of a central leader or group of leaders who demand such obedience to prove the individual's faith, motives, integrity and trustworthiness.

2.) TOTALITARIAN WORLD VIEW - a "we-versus-they" view of the outside world designed to enhance the group's identity, goals, and welfare at the expense of the individual. Group members are the heroic "good guys", and outsiders are the villainous "bad guys."

3.) ELITISM - benefits of belonging are unobtainable to outsiders but available to the loyal only through association with the group - from personal empowerment and spiritual highs to fulfillment and ultimate salvation. The group views itself as the only one with "the truth" and lives accordingly.

4.) DECEPTION - the group's free usage of dishonesty, falsehoods and questionable claims in both it's indoctrination of new members and it's rejection of "outsiders" who seem critical of the group. Any media and literature used may be characterized by deceptive and misleading claims.

5.) ALIENATION - the group's active encouragement of it's members to remain separate from those family, friends and parts of society opposed to group ideals. The outside world is viewed as sinful, ignorant, Satanic and must be fully withdrawn from - thus reinforcing the group's control.

6.) FATIGUE- the deprivation of members of sleep, needed rest times and free time with the insistence that long hours of work and meetings are a means of demonstrating true faith, real dedication to a cause, or determination to succeed. The effects of mental fatigue impair the individual's ability to critically think or even rationally function, leaving them open to manipulation.

7.) FEAR - the usage of continuously overemphasized phobias (irrational fears) to control members (some of these being programmed fears of hell, fear of the government, fear of certain objects, fear of business loss, fear of the "world order", fear of displeasing God and others, fear of the devil, fear of other races, fear of displeasing the group's leaders and mentors and fear of losing close ties to the group)

8.) EXPLOITATION - a broad trait ranging from pressure to give all of one's wealth and time to the group to the usage of guilt, secrecy and emotional manipulation to maintain control: the threat of expulsion is a particularly powerful leverage of control, as is verbal, sexual and even physical violence.

9.) CHANGE IN DIET - under nourishment as well as unhealthy nutrition used to keep members mentally dulled and thereby less able to engage in independent thinking - the greatest enemy of destructive cult groups. Mind-altering toxins, drugs and chemicals are used in some foods sometimes in deliberate fashion.

10.) LACK OF PRIVACY - individuals are not allowed moments of private solitude or contemplation which may lead to independent thought: frequently, group members live and function in society together, and monitor each other closely (particularly in family situations) to ensure conformity to the group's proscribed lifestyle.

These ten traits are all designed to accomplish one central cult goal: indoctrination into the group's belief system with a simultaneous shutdown of independent thought . The nature and precise details of that belief system will differ sharply from group to cause to philosophy to study group, but the human dynamics involved are always the same. When you find a group of warm, friendly people who have all the answers, whose group claims to speak for God or possess "true enlightenment" exclusively and encourages you to stop thinking for yourself, you have found a destructive cult - no matter what the label, exterior reputation or collection of testimonies would say otherwise.

For more information here is that website address:http://www.spiritwatch.org/mincon10.htm

** I have just found yet another control mechanism that is being use:

"articles don't mean it is true. I know"

One more important piece of information:  If they keep asking for money to do certain things for you.  Not only this but asking for more increases because you need to pay more *seed* money because your circumstance or concern is more expensive to fix.

Charles Manson: He says that he is Jesus Christ even while sitting in jail. He said that Jesus told him to kill anyone who didn't do as he believed. He got his followers to kill a mother. Not only that but she was 8 months pregnant and they cut out her baby and killed it too. He still has connections while he is in Jail. He will never be let out for the horrendous crimes that he got his followers to do. If he were he would be killed right after leaving the gates of the Jail.

David Koresh: They get their followers there by telling them they will have everything they could ever want or need and that he will look out for them. Only the women are controlled and not allowed to leave. They are all kept in one room and he indoctrinates them so they spat off scripture when asked any question. It is automatic with them--they don't even think of what they are spouting off. I seen this on the Television the other night where a reporter was there to do some research on the group that was lead by David Koresh in Waco, Texas. He asked it the world was going to end. The lady rattled off some scriptures that she believed where true and the world was going to end in May--I don't know what year, but it was the year they did the interview. Well the world did not come to an end like she believed in the scriptures. The reporters did get some interviews from a few that had left. There was a guy that told about how one lady was having a baby and all they did was spout scriptures and the baby kept coming and going in death. He took the baby to the hospital and it survived. Sadly enough though the lady's sister had told the reporters that the sister that they interviewed never left and she died there.

Read the full story in People Magazine:http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20109959,00.html

Mind control and brainwashing is dangerous.Before you give up the control of your own mind you better do your research.

--------A MIND IS A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE------

By now you are really thinking that I am lying if you are one of the hard core believers of your faith. Let me show you how the Catholic Church does this in an article that I pulled from a source that it to be shut down in a few months.

According to Canon Law (the official laws governing the Roman Catholic Church), Catholics are required to submit their minds and wills to any declaration concerning faith or morals that is made by the Pope, or by a Catholic Church council. They are also required to avoid anything that disagrees with such declarations. Furthermore, they can be coerced if they don't comply. (You can read these laws online. If you want to buy the book, the Notes give information.) [Note 3]

The Catholic Church teaches that only the Magisterium of the Church (the Pope and the bishops in communion with him) has the right to interpret Scripture. People like us are not allowed to interpret Scripture for ourselves. We are supposed to check it out with Church authorities

Furthermore it goes to say:

Catholicism teaches that Catholics are supposed to "receive with docility" any directives given to them by Catholic Church authorities.

This sounds like young children, who accept without question whatever their parents tell them. In contrast, the Bible commends the people of Berea, because they "searched the Scriptures daily" in order to "see whether these things were so." (Acts 17:10-11) God wants His people to check things out for themselves, using Scripture as their yardstick.

In 1854, Pope Pius IX declared the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of Mary. The Pope said that if people "dare" to even think anything contrary to this dogma, then that disagreement will shipwreck their faith, cut them off from the Catholic Church, and make them become "condemned." He said that people who outwardly express disagreement could be punished for it

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It is in their laws that they must brainwash it's congregation. These are also spreas to other denominations and the like. It is a Cult. Anything that keeps you from seeing the truth is a lie and an attempt to get your mind and your very soul. Jesus said to Seek and you shall find and he also said to Test all that come to you in the Bible and otherwise. I think he knew what was going to happen to his people after he left this earth and was putting in a disclaimer for the Bible itself and those who would use it for their own agendas. This is why you need to read the entire Bible for yourself and not in a church or from any clergy.

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Addresses of websites that have the "Code of Canon Law "are below. Some of them take a while to load after you click on the links. If you can't get through to the web page, then go to the home page and try to find it from there. [To find the home page, delete everything that comes after "com," "org," or "net."]

http://www.intratext.com/X/ENG0017.htm

http://www.ourladyswarriors.org/canon/

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/_INDEX.HTM

****Here is a testimonial from a former Nun telling her the experiences that she had with the church. It is very interesting to read and to read all the tings that she found about the church and it's doings and mis-leadings.

http://www.catholicconcerns.com/Source.html