Understanding the psychology of religious seduction and spiritual abuse.
It was the end of the 1970’s when I arrived at what many of us thought was “God’s College”. Remember those days? We were constantly hearing about how the church was being put “Back on the Track”. All of those supposedly evil liberal ministers were now gone and “no longer with us”, as it was taboo to openly say their names in public. The chaos was supposedly over.
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While in Herbie’s crackpot cult, he always yelled at us to, “Don’t believe me, believe the Bible,” or, “dust off your Bibles”. Plus drilling into our heads such biblical phrases as “every scripture being an inspiration of God” or “not one jot or one tittle shall be removed,” or such statements as the Bible was written by men inspired by God, etc. In essence, saying that the Bible was God’s Holy Word. Or being constantly threatened with hellfire if we returned to “Satan’s world”. This was the sword of Democles hanging over our heads. We were threatened with God’s terrible wrath, and only “God’s Apostle” could save us.
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