Posted by:
summer
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Date: December 20, 2011 04:19AM
See this website, particularly the part about mind control. There are many points that will seem familiar to anyone who has spent a significant amount of time with the church.
http://www.howcultswork.com/For example:
Deception: "Milk before meat" plus all the information that the church hides from its members (see the MormonThink website)
http://mormonthink.com/Exclusivism: "I know that the church is true," plus informal shunning of apostates and nonmembers
Fear and Intimidation: Tithing as "fire insurance," intrusive bishop interviews, disfellowshipment and excommunication, gossip
Love Bombing and Relationship Control: Constant meetings about inactives and efforts to bring them back, including pestering of those inactives; fellowshipping new members, instant church friends, excluding "unworthy" parents from their own child's wedding
Information Control: The church warns against looking at so-called anti-Mormon materials.
Reporting structure: Information that members give in confidence to church leaders is often leaked.
Time Control: The three hour block, callings and meetings that take up loads of time, VT/HT, etc. Constant demands for your time to the point that members often have little to talk about apart from church matters.
Also, pressure selling (the insistent demand by the missionaries to get baptised ASAP, the commitment pattern that they are taught.)
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/20/2011 04:23AM by summer.