Understanding the psychology of religious seduction and spiritual abuse.
If you attend the Church of God a Worldwide Association Winter Family Weekend , or The Living Church of God’s Charlotte Family weekend, or even the United Church of God Winter Family Weekend, we have a treat for you.
“Where there is a dead body, there the vultures will gather.”
-Luke 17:37
A great many people have little enthusiasm for being free and autonomous. Such a prospect terrifies them! Most want to “have a place,” to be a piece of the “in” swarm, to be in the place where the “activity” is. They need to hitch their wagon to a “cause,” to a religious or political master – a idea that will in any event, loan a feeling of direction to their generally hopeless reality. Thus, many are ready to end up as “genuine adherents” to a political or religious cult!
I’d like to make a few comments in response those who would mock former members of the Worldwide Church of God. Get over it, they say. “Nobody held a gun to your head.”