Brain Washing Is Bad

of God and the unworthiness of humans is successful in scaring the unrepentant to turn back to God

While individual cultic groups may vary in discipline (political, religious, social/philosophical), they often operate with a similar premise: the world is bad, we are good, become a part of us (Salande & Perkins, 2011). Viewing the world in this way is not, in and of itself, destructive; and many mainstream religious and political movements embrace similar philosophies (2011). However, cult leaders often reinforce these ideas in frightening ways. By making their members use hallucinogens, sleep deprivation, group sex, strict prayer rituals, and deprogramming. Deprogrammers usually used “facts” about their religious group to shake up the person’s faith, this confrontation would often transpire in intense, emotionally charged situations (Donald & Robbins, 1982). The point of this was to rid the cult member of their ego, and past beliefs. The goal was for the member to have a blank slate, they could then me made to believe whatever the cult leader wanted them to.

The false belief is not accounted for by the persons cultural or religious background or his/her intelligence. The client experiencing this will hold on firmly to the belief regardless of the evidence to the contrary, the client is absolutely convinced that the delusion is real. Delusion are symptoms of either medical, neurological or mental disorder.

First used in the 1950s during the Korean War, brainwashing was used to describe the methods on how Chinese Communists influenced the actions of their prisoners. This can best be explained by

Paulo Coelho once said, “If you want to control someone, all you have to do is make them feel afraid.” To explain, fear is a very compelling tool; it is often used to rake up large swathes of people, imposing dismay so powerfully that anyone affected wish to distance himself or herself from whatever it is that they have been told is unacceptable.This is how people in a place of power are able to get others to avoid objects, people, and actions seen as negative; it’s the most powerful form of persuasion. In the piece that will be discussed throughout this analysis, the mechanics of persuasion are used heavily throughout his sermon, which is about how anyone who has not accepted the Christian God into his or her life can be damned to an eternity in Hell, a place of eternal punishment. In Sinners in the hands of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards, an important point in proving that his sermon was extremely persuasive was the feeling of fear he manipulated.

Ever since we were little, our parents, guardians, or even ourselves grew up to know the difference in between was would be considered peversive and what isn’t. Many people find it difficult to understand how people can be so devoted to a religion or something that can’t be scientifically proven, but the real question is how can a normal resident be allured by cults. A religious cult may be well known to us as a religious imposter who claims to lead the way to salvation and a lifespan of well being filled with blessings and free of the damnation a disease may bring, only because he or maybe even she may claim that he was sent from the heavens to the filthy earth. People who are believers in a omipitent kind believe this to be a ludicrous idea ,

The Misfit states that “if I had been there [and seen Jesus raise from the dead] I would of known and I wouldn’t be like I am now” (O’Connor 1316). This means that if the Misfit knew the truth about Jesus Christ he would not be a killer and maybe he’d have some faith. This truth agrees with Martha Stephens’s when she says that “everything the Misfit has done, everything he so monstrously does here, proceeds from his inability to accept Christ, to truly believe” (Stephens 1320). This does not encompass the fact that although the Misfit just does not trust the work of Jesus Christ, the Misfit can never change because of lack of knowledge about what Jesus has done. In order for the Misfit to change he has to know that the works of Jesus Christ are true, the Misfit can never just “believe”. To the Misfit believing would mean knowing, and knowing would mean to witness all of what Jesus Christ has done.

"World-renowned research psychiatrist E. Fuller Torrey believed the techniques used by Western psychiatrists were scientifically similar to techniques used by witch doctors (AMERICAN PSYCHOSIS, 2013)". With this kind of negative light throughout history it can be challenging to convince some that God's love and values can be used by today's psychologists.

Cults have existed throughout history since the beginning of time. A cult is defined in Webster’s dictionary as a “system of religious worship with a devoted attachment to a person, principle, etc.” Over the past thirty years numerous religious cults have caused “ tens of thousands to abandon their families, friends, education’s, and careers to follow the teaching of a leader they will never meet”(Beck 78).

False belief can best be explained by putting it into a wider context of the ‘Theory of Mind’. Theory of Mind was first proposed in a study observing the behaviour of chimpanzees by Premack and Woodruff (1978). Soon after, Theory of Mind became a well-known concept in the field of psychology. Simon Baron-Cohen (e.g. 1989, 2001) used it to conceptualize autism. He defines ToM, often abbreviated ToM and often referred to as ‘mindreading’ (Whiten, 1991), or ‘mentalizing’ (Frith, Morton, & Leslie, 1991), as being able to understand that other people have beliefs, intentions, emotions, and desires which drive their actions and which are different to the ones we have. When describing ASD children, he then refers to them as

Many people have heard of the revolutionary new religious practice called Scientology. However, the majority of people who have heard of it, have little knowledge of the principles and practices behind the religion. In fact, there is a dark side behind Scientology, and much speculation that the religion is a brainwashing cult. Many people are opposed to the religion because of its secretiveness, its extreme methods of teaching and its alleged use of mind control.

There are many controversies on whether teachers should or should not give their point of view in an argument. Some believe that expressing their views would lead to brainwashing. While others believe that it would lead to an interesting conversation. The author of the quote implies that students should build strong opinions on their own rather than teachers brainwashing them. Moreover, it is the student’s responsibilities to “instill strong opinions” and teachers shouldn’t interfere with student’s choice. But, question why they choose what they choose. For this argument, I believe Fish would agree with the author of the quote. However, one thing that sets Fish apart is that he argues on teachers

The GPA- S scale comprises of three items: Compliance, Exploitation and Mind Control, as a matter of abuse in cults. People who had considered Manipulation as a cause of joining cultic groups received the most psychologically abuse ( all three of the GPA-S scale items). The former cult members ( Sample 1) have reported that persuasive behaviour and deceitfulness are a very important tool used in cults. Intimate Relationships was considered to be the least psychologically abusive (only one item from the GPA-S

In 1986, a nursing aide named Nadean Cool went to a therapist to seek help for her ability to cope with a traumatic event (Loftus, 1997). During Ms. Cool’s therapy sessions, the psychiatrist treating her used hypnosis in order to bring suppressed memories to the surface of her mind. These memories brought to the surface included those of abuse that supposedly happened to Ms Cool when she was younger (Loftus, 1997). By the end of Ms Cool’s treatments with the therapist she was thoroughly convinced that she had been in a satanic cult where she had eaten babies, fornicated with various animals, and had upwards of 120 differing personalities (Loftus, 1997). The story of Nadean Cool is not an isolated incident as numerous reports have been generated on the planting of false memories. Incidents like Ms. Cool’s have led to the research in how false memory is created.

Christianity is mostly closely associated with Jesus Christ, its founder and premier exorcists. Out of all of Jesus’ healing one-fourth of them dealt with Exorcism and there are at least 26 references to exorcisms preformed by Jesus in the New Testament. Through out the Gospel many accounts of Jesus performing exorcists are documented in the Gospel by his apostles (Bancroft.) The first accounts of Jesus performing types of exorcisms comes from Mathew 4: 24. Matthew writes that Jesus cured all the people who were possessed, lunatics, and paralytic. This also integrates the idea that exorcism is not just about free an individual from demonic possession, but also free them of mental and physical diseases as well. In the Gospel according to Mark, Jesus casts out multiple demons named Legion out of man from Gerasenes, who would cry all night and bruise himself with stones, into a herd of pigs who than ran off a cliff to their own demise (Mark 5: 1-20). Satan does not act alone when he posses an individual, he is working with several evil spirits such as lust, hate, destruction, , anger, anxiety, desperation, suicide, revenge death and torment. Conversely Exorcism is not always seen as a negative experience. In Acts 16: 16, It is told of a women possessed by an oracular spirit, literally a python spirit of whom was the guardian of Delphic oracles. In