tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28426681.post114829174075094837..comments2016-12-17T08:14:53.598+13:00Gavinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03060097218905523899noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28426681.post-1151583528924728482006-06-30T00:18:00.000+12:002006-06-30T00:18:00.000+12:00Hi Gavin,<BR/><BR/>I found it a relief to see that you too always tended to identify with the "heretics" of the mama hen church. I always did that and when reading the tirades against them by the Hen, always thought, "and your point is? sounds correct to me" ha.Dennishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14736268174691189965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28426681.post-1149301934083829762006-06-03T14:32:00.000+12:002006-06-03T14:32:00.000+12:00((If it really is true that cult leaders are psychopaths, we could dispense with the guilt of our own failure and heal from being conned.))<BR/><BR/>So in other words, us ex-members are NOT the problem! Are you listening Greg?Felix Taylor, Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00327093213807879954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28426681.post-1148391276291215562006-05-24T01:34:00.000+12:002006-05-24T01:34:00.000+12:00Constantine as a Roman Emperor was interesting. He managed to save the empire for a few more centuries. He believed that his mission was given and supported of God. Evidence suggests otherwise. For the religious among us, Satan the Devil would be a better explanation.<BR/><BR/>But then again, perhaps demons are real: We just call them something else. The modern term is <I>psychopath</I>.<BR/><BR/><I>Snakes in Suits</I> by Dr. Robert Hare and Dr. Paul Babiak give an insight in how psychopaths operate in modern businesses. The descriptions are eerily like cult leaders. In fact, the behavior of psychopaths very well explains the behavior of cultmeisters in the modern Church Corporate.<BR/><BR/>Constantine appears to be one of those who had no empathy and no conscience--the defining characteristics of a psychopath. He may not have been as bad as some emperors, such as Caligula, but his personalty hardly reflected the fruit of the Spirit.<BR/><BR/><I>The Corporation</I>, a documentary about corporations themselves being psychopaths with no empathy and no conscience shows the depth of depravity modern institutions to which psychopathic organizations can sink: No fear, no morals, no remorse. Think <I>Jurrasic Park</I> filled with Raptors.<BR/><BR/>It is not difficult for some of us to perceive cultic religion organizations as psychopaths and neither is it difficult to engage the PCR to rate the leadership. As radical as it is, it is a framework which supplies a reasonable framework to both evaluate the cult and to explain the experience.<BR/><BR/>If it really is true that cult leaders are psychopaths, we could dispense with the guilt of our own failure and heal from being conned.Douglas Beckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01344539216802653999noreply@blogger.com