The Painful Truth-Herbert W. Armstrong's Worldwide Church of God
Understanding the psychology of religious seduction and spiritual abuse.
Location: Armstrong churches of God years after the first split. A retired minister returns to reminisce about his days in power. Until he finds himself at the mercy of those he tortured, and on trial by those who were abused or died at his hands. Confronted by the ghosts of the past, justice may finally be served . . . in the Twilight Zone.
The parallels are striking are they not? Human behavior at its worse.
The Jonestown Death Tape
An audio recording made on November 18, 1978, at the Peoples Temple compound in Jonestown, Guyana immediately preceding and during the mass suicide and murder of over 900 members of the cult.
Religious or political figures, they are all the same. Psychopaths capable of mass murder.
Margaret Singer’s Conditions of Mind Control:
6. Put forth a closed system of logic and an authoritarian structure that permits no feedback and refuses to be modified except by leadership approval or executive order. The group has a top-down, pyramid structure. The leaders must have verbal ways of never losing.