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Date Posted: 13:17:12 05/15/04 Sat
Author: Chris
Subject: Re: Indoctrination
In reply to: ExUBFerCincinnati 's message, "Re: Indoctrination" on 09:52:50 05/15/04 Sat

Robert, we all know it. There is a LOT to say. It is not easy to get over these things. Cult experts say you need as much time as you have spent in a cult to recover from the cult.

Lawrence Pile gave a good definition of the particular kind of cult that UBF is, the so called "totalist aberrant Christian organizations" (TACOs). In the article "The other side of discipleship" you will find seven hallmarks of such groups, and the last one is the "traumatic departure." The way UBF is organized, leaving UBF is necessarily a more or less traumatic experience, even more if you have been a "shepherd." UBF makes you believe that coworking in UBF is God's ultimate goal and meaning for your life, so being expelled from UBF or leaving UBF automatically means losing meanings and goal and being abandoned by God for anybody who really believes what UBF instilled into him.

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