"Just start saying, ‘Yabba dabba doo,’ and the Holy Spirit will help you."



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and this is NOT rape, goddamnit.

normal stuff

..."deprogramming" became a thing. Parents would have their kids physically abducted from a Unification Church facility and they would be forcibly detained while a deprogrammer would do things not remarkably different from what was described in Chris Hedges article.

I was one of the few people that felt that deprogramming was wrong. Such a program might have been legitimate if it aided the voluntary escape of people from the clutches of the Unification Church and then guided them to therapies that they could accept or reject at anytime -- but that's not the way it was.

Deprogramming, reprogramming, mind-wiping, brainwashing, whatever. If it doesn't respect the individual's right and ability to make choices (no matter how compromised it may be), then it's just kidnapping and torture.

hungry, disabled and addicted. It comes with a price tag of having some fools religious ideas shoved down your throat.

"The women sat on the other. Lyons was told when she entered the war room that she was not permitted to talk to or have eye contact with the men either there or outside. Segregation of the sexes was rigidly enforced. Courtship and relationships could be carried out within the community only if they were approved and mediated by the pastor. Relationships outside the community were forbidden."

"She repeated to me the core of the pastor’s message: “You came here thinking you had a problem with drugs and alcohol, but this is a Holy Spirit stickup and this is Holy Spirit boot camp. You’re going to find the Holy Spirit. You’re going to find your hope and your faith. You’re going to find God. You’re going to find that which you didn’t have. You’re going to be disciples of God.”

“The constant theme is a chain of command, of authority, God being the ultimate authority,” Lyons said, “and that he [God] assigned people to you to watch over you, your spiritual father.”"

Sounds like a cult. Next they will be making these vulnerable people drink the kool aid.