Israelites, Pharisees & Sadducees In The 21st Century Church

concepts of undue influence, can be even MORE effective than pain, torture, drugs, and
use of physical force and legal threats...
".. The relationship between the person and the coercive persuasion tactics are dynamic
in that while the force of the pressures, rewards, and punishments brought to bear on the
person are considerable, they do not lead to a stable, meaningfully SELF-CHOSEN
reorganization of beliefs or attitudes. Rather, they lead to a sort of coerced compliance
and a situationally required elaborate rationalization, for the new conduct.
"... Truly peaceful religious persuasion practices would never attempt to force, compel
and dominate the free wills or minds of its members through coercive behavioral
techniques or covert hypnotism. They would have no difficulty coexisting peacefully with
U.S. laws meant to protect the public from such practices.
"But appearing to be 'peaceful persuasion' is precisely what makes coercive persuasion
less likely to attract attention or to mobilize opposition. It is also part of what makes it
such a devastating control technology. Victims of coercive persuasion have no signs of
physical abuse, convincing rationalizations for the radical or abrupt changes in their
behavior, a convincing "sincerity, and they have been changed so gradually that they
don't oppose it because they usually aren't even aware of it." ('How Does Mind Control
work', from FACTNet.org - see all links below)
Already is it becoming apparent that compulsion, pressure, threats, and domination are
the methodologies of mind control, and we see these very tactics employed in many
churches today!
Do Churches Use Coercion?
Apart from the central, most obvious, pointer to abusive church systems - controlling
leadership - we can see some further indicators of the use of mind control as we
examine a textbook on the subject and compare its findings with common practise in
revival churches.
When I did so, I was disturbed to discover that every one of the tactics employed by
mind-control experts outside the churches (i.e., in politics, cults or military intelligence)
was also apparent in the churches! Could this be a coincidence or is it proof that a
subtle brainwashing is taking place in order to implant the new, unbiblical, doctrines of
the Global Church?
Below is part of a document called "Coercive Mind Control Tactics: A Short
Overview". I think you will agree that we can see almost all of the tactics listed at work
in the churches.
"Coercive psychological systems are behavioral change programs which use
psychological force in a coercive way to cause the learning and adoption of an ideology
or designated set of beliefs, ideas, attitudes, or behaviors. ...In such a program the
subject is forced to adapt in a series of tiny "invisible" steps. Each tiny step is designed
to be sufficiently small so the subjects will not notice the changes in themselves or
identify the coercive nature of the processes being used.
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