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- ==Violent sexual abuse, brainwashing and neglect: What it's like to grow up in a religious sect==6 KB (1,048 words) - 22:26, 2 September 2007
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- ...James Penn too, I thank God He had the courage to see through the years of brainwashing (you know Bergs famous, "if you're going to backslide for God's sake don't263 KB (47,372 words) - 22:17, 4 March 2007
- ...a case of such brutal tactics and such cruel and inhuman mind control and brainwashing. He told me it was his professional opinion that it was an absolute miracle37 KB (6,601 words) - 03:54, 1 September 2008
- ...a leave of absence. What followed were two months of incredible ordeal of brainwashing, exorcism and hard labor. He was put under house arrest. His personal affec25 KB (4,781 words) - 19:33, 12 June 2005
- ...ee the Family's descent into its present state of delusion and Victor Camp brainwashing as a gradual slide into darkness. In the beginning of the Family, despite D ...where the Family began to use the term "Victor Program" to describe their brainwashing "Victim Program". This is the one Merry Berg, MO's own granddaughter, helpe26 KB (4,565 words) - 20:08, 12 June 2005
- ...ing Victor programmes, that they are chilling examples of doctrination and brainwashing. ... What we have tried to do was give them inspiration and direction, not ...t it seemed at one time might be inflicted upon me to resolve questions of brainwashing and mind control. These terms seemed more likely to carry emotive weight th641 KB (114,493 words) - 09:23, 8 September 2010
- Scandal dogged the group after claims of brainwashing and child sexual abuse surfaced in the 1970s. Authorities from France to Ar5 KB (834 words) - 08:40, 25 July 2005
- .... "We studied the Bible every day and were subjected to a lot of abuse and brainwashing."8 KB (1,425 words) - 02:32, 20 November 2011
- * “Social Control of New Religions: From ‘Brainwashing’ Claims to Child Sex Abuse Accusations” by Dr. James T. Richardson. f) ‘Brainwashing’ Claims and Minority Religions Outside the United States: Cultural Diffus187 KB (33,656 words) - 00:57, 6 June 2005
- ...nd give me spiritual strength. But the other girls are going to say you're brainwashing me, and the situation would be difficult for me here. I would really like t118 KB (21,298 words) - 15:39, 24 January 2008
- ...rg]], was banned in France in [[1978]] after stories began to circulate of brainwashing and sexual abuse of children. On June 10, more than 50 sect members were ar3 KB (422 words) - 10:55, 25 July 2005
- ...ssions he "contributed" nor to take them out when he left. In view of the brainwashing techniques (described elsewhere) there is a real question as to whether mem ...statements of parents and ex-members of similar incidents. In view of the brainwashing techniques (described elsewhere) there is a real question as to the exercis84 KB (14,145 words) - 00:50, 19 December 2007
- In "''[http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/~skent/Linkedfiles/cog_brainwashing.htm Brainwashing and Re-Indoctrination Programs in the Children of God/The Family]''", [[Ste2 KB (369 words) - 09:42, 17 May 2009
- ...ind out where she is now. He charged that the Children of God use "Chinese brainwashing tactics and ... Mass hypnosis." ...and is carried off in a bus or van to a place where they undergo extensive brainwashing sessions," the release states.4 KB (726 words) - 09:56, 25 July 2005
- ...es that the Lord has had for us through our years in the Family. [All that brainwashing.] 21. (Mama:) Singing Sam[Sam Halbert aka Amminadab] has not been with us i52 KB (9,483 words) - 19:32, 12 June 2005
- ...any have experienced the horrors of victor camps, the cult's detention and brainwashing centers. They grew up thinking that all of the cult's beliefs and practices91 KB (16,240 words) - 11:22, 2 August 2010
- ...oung people who were born or raised in the group. Their indoctrination and brainwashing in most cases is total and complete. It is important to point out that a lo48 KB (8,749 words) - 19:49, 18 May 2010
- ...e-indoctrination Programs in the Children of God/The Family" [hereinafter "Brainwashing"], Deana Hall and Stephen A. Kent [Jan. 5, 1998]). A short time before I le ...ining center where their Shepherds were able to zero in on their needs." ("Brainwashing," Kent). This of course is the same type of propaganda that Judge Ward was166 KB (29,530 words) - 00:35, 31 July 2012
- ...IS PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGNS TO GET THE PEOPLE MlND-CONDITIONED. You talk about brainwashing, he does as good a job of dirtying up their brains with all of his hogwash60 KB (10,853 words) - 08:21, 6 December 2007
- brainwashing, etc. So in the midst of trying to </p> brainwashing. Uh, let’s see, maybe you were </p>125 KB (24,744 words) - 00:32, 8 June 2005
- brainwashing session.”</p>83 KB (15,504 words) - 15:10, 5 June 2005
- ...rting Roman Catholic priests to work against cults and sects that practice brainwashing, sexual enticement and alienation from family members and society.14 KB (2,378 words) - 21:51, 9 December 2005
- ...er, saying we had to go visit our families because he was being accused of brainwashing us. He wanted us to prove to them we were not brainwashed.110 KB (21,383 words) - 06:50, 9 June 2005
- ...al's office [[Lefkowitz Report|investigated]] the sect and concluded that "brainwashing techniques are deliberately employed." Members take Biblical names, organiz2 KB (406 words) - 04:09, 25 July 2005
- ...limpse of Neil, the doctor prayed. He had heard of the cult before, of its brainwashing techniques, and he knew of two girls who had essentially "disappeared" with11 KB (2,119 words) - 22:14, 9 December 2005
- ...nti-religion and anti-schools." The committee also accuses COG leaders of "brainwashing" their followers, and there have been allegations of hypnosis and the use4 KB (785 words) - 04:54, 25 July 2005
- ...exual abuse ot young'members, rape, kidnaping, tax evasion, draft dodging, brainwashing and virtual enslavement of converts. ...enied as false the accounts of incest, rape and sexual promiscuity. As for brainwashing, it said. "No one is forced into submission to our beliefs."4 KB (567 words) - 18:27, 23 November 2005
- ...ent. The crew of that US ship was specially selected and trained to resist brainwashing. But within 48 hours of the ship's capture in the South China Sea by the Ko The Schumachers believe the cults practice a form of brainwashing to entice and keep their members, and it is a force so strong that perhaps8 KB (1,367 words) - 21:53, 9 December 2005
- ...s. But they've run into considerable opposition, including accusations of "brainwashing" in the United States and have been expelled from [[Lebanon]] and [[Madagas4 KB (671 words) - 02:21, 21 July 2005
- ...report outlined what it called "shocking testimony of sexual abuse, rape, brainwashing, solitary confinement of recalcitrant proselytes and demands that children9 KB (1,540 words) - 21:56, 9 December 2005
- * Kent SA (2000). "[[Brainwashing and Re-Indoctrination Programs in the Children of God/The Family]]". ''Cult2 KB (327 words) - 03:31, 1 September 2008
- ...e of kidnaping, drugging or genuine hypnotism so far, a broader charge of "brainwashing" may be closer to the truth, at least in the sense of relentless exposure t8 KB (1,233 words) - 08:55, 25 July 2005
- ...their indoctrination of converts, who still go through months of spiritual brainwashing. Those who escape often have to leave a lot behind. When [[David Hoyt]], an4 KB (718 words) - 08:57, 25 July 2005
- 109. SO THAT'S A BIG JOB! I mean I belive in brainwashing! If you have a dirty mind you've got to have it washed! But then you've got75 KB (14,170 words) - 01:42, 24 June 2005
- ...had become a fraud-tinged cult whose young converts had been subjected to brainwashing, [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sexual abuse]] and involuntary confinement. ...sed the organization of various coercive acts, including the use of drugs, brainwashing, and hypnosis and censorship of mail and phone calls to encourage the alien4 KB (574 words) - 05:01, 31 March 2006
- ...rs and similar hard-sell tactics, which the sect's critics claim add up to brainwashing? Gibeah refuses to be drawn into the subject.22 KB (3,904 words) - 07:02, 25 July 2005
- ...ecdotal Atrocities in the Social Construction of Evil," pp. 139-160 in The Brainwashing / [[Deprogramming]] Controversy. Edited by D. Bromley and J. T. Richardson,43 KB (6,890 words) - 00:48, 23 July 2008
- ...eir kids, a group of parents began to publicly label the Children of God a brainwashing cult and tried to kidnap their loved ones from the communal homes. Frighten52 KB (9,008 words) - 19:32, 23 March 2009
- The term "brainwashing" is often used to refer to this deceptive psychological and social manipula12 KB (2,136 words) - 11:00, 25 July 2005
- "It is apparent," the report says, "that all of the intensive brainwashing of Children of God has left its mark upon the psyches and personalities of4 KB (712 words) - 10:02, 25 July 2005
- ...n Melton]] and that he could have addressed. His peculiar discussion about brainwashing-not a topic that we raised-obfuscates very important points that we made in ...ent, forced confessions, and intense ideological study makes it a classic "brainwashing" program. Moreover, its operation raises serious issues about human rights34 KB (5,138 words) - 22:01, 9 December 2005
- ...ing Victor programmes, that they are chilling examples of doctrination and brainwashing. ... What we have tried to do was give them inspiration and direction, not22 KB (3,852 words) - 15:42, 29 September 2013
- .... The group has been criticized by parents of members who say it relies on brainwashing and hypnotism to woo young members.2 KB (230 words) - 03:51, 21 July 2005
- ...1970s]] and has been criticized by parents of members who say it relies on brainwashing and hypnotism to woo its young members.1,020 bytes (155 words) - 06:39, 25 July 2005
- ...]] but the sect was banned in [[1978]] after stories began to circulate of brainwashing and [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sexual abuse]] of children.2 KB (302 words) - 07:37, 25 July 2005
- ...dragged sleeping from their beds, the alleged victims of sexual abuse and brainwashing. An open day anniversary celebration of the sect's unexpected victory in th11 KB (1,738 words) - 08:25, 30 July 2005
- "It is not brainwashing, for there is no enemy," he says. "Your physical reality is controlled and ...he New York Attorney-General's Charity Frauds Bureau charged the sect with brainwashing, forced membership, and practices leading to personality distortion. Berg l21 KB (3,580 words) - 01:12, 31 May 2007
- ...the COG. and the controversial [[Ted Patrick]], charging that the COG used brainwashing methods, proceeded to kidnap (he prefers "rescue") and "[[deprogramming|d '''Hopkins.''' What about the charge of brainwashing?36 KB (6,433 words) - 01:10, 8 February 2006
- ...0 with The Family were a living nightmare of exorcisms, abhorrent sex, and brainwashing. [[Rick Dupuy]] left The Family a year-and-a-half ago, charging child abuse ...nt, I was subjected to two months of one of the most incredible ordeals of brainwashing, of exorcisms, of hard labor. My personal effects were burned. I was laid o30 KB (5,528 words) - 06:47, 29 May 2019
- ...me movement has taken root there have been accusations of sexual abuse and brainwashing. What has been notoriously difficult is to make any criminal charges stick.2 KB (275 words) - 02:18, 11 September 2005
- There were tales of brainwashing and "disgraceful" training camps where children had their spirits broken.7 KB (1,250 words) - 02:36, 11 September 2005
- '''RIVERA:''' It's brainwashing. people are the result of the brainwashing. I can't47 KB (8,486 words) - 04:52, 10 December 2005
- ...ch's use of a showering of intense affection was more effective than the [[brainwashing]] techniques used by the North Koreans on prisoners of war. In a [[1996]] b5 KB (726 words) - 01:28, 15 October 2005
- ...y general's report says the "[[Children of God]]" religious sect practices brainwashing, physical coercion and sexual abuse on its members. The brainwashing, according to the report, is achived by denying new converts "sleep and bul2 KB (347 words) - 20:53, 23 December 2005
- ...ve been helping people to heal from the trauma, from the torture, from the brainwashing, from the mind control. And the good news is, there is hope. The bad news i38 KB (6,853 words) - 03:33, 1 September 2008
- ...d and 140 children questioned in raids across France, following reports of brainwashing and sexual abuse. But no charges were preferred and all the children were r2 KB (375 words) - 23:46, 26 December 2005
- ...relations providing love was at the root. But the accusations of abuse and brainwashing were "deplorable". "We allow free love, but we do not allow sexual contact4 KB (688 words) - 23:47, 26 December 2005
- ...s [[cult]] at the centre of child [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sex abuse]] and brainwashing allegations is active in central [[Scotland]], a cult investigator has clai4 KB (567 words) - 11:34, 10 November 2005
- ...subtle that you don’t notice it happening. David Berg himself called it brainwashing — he said that people have dirty minds that need to be cleaned.”10 KB (1,787 words) - 05:26, 12 November 2005
- ...e clinics, Berg and his cadre of [[:Category:Leaders|leaders]] began his [[brainwashing]] techniques.46 KB (7,723 words) - 03:33, 1 September 2008
- ...llar lawsuit, the Children of God are alive and well, raking in the money, brainwashing new "babes" every day and having a hell of a time''' ...od (COG) are the hardliners, the Jesus People the media cast as a bunch of brainwashing, hypnotizing, pied-pipering, glassy-eyed zombies who in the last four year,36 KB (6,357 words) - 22:15, 9 December 2005
- ...s a lot of sex going on but I didn't realize it. Anyway, I was a bit busy brainwashing myself. Because that's what you do, you brainwash yourself. I was memoriz10 KB (1,971 words) - 07:19, 30 November 2005
- ...I would look up some of the literature on the subject of mind control and brainwashing, because what I was witnessing sounded pretty much like what I'd read about ...wed to sleep that Sunday night. The programming, the indoctrination, the brainwashing never let up. There was very little variation in what the Elders told us,91 KB (16,790 words) - 16:46, 9 December 2005
- ...one. I was confident of being able to "deprogram" the child counteract the brainwashing he'd undergone—so that once he had come out of it he would have no desire ...Please forgive me. But it was almost a year before the last traces of the brainwashing disappeared.''8 KB (1,309 words) - 10:42, 2 June 2009
- ...religious idealism is re-interpreted throughout her book as mind control, brainwashing, manipulation and exploitation. What she once understood to be the giving o12 KB (1,990 words) - 19:43, 27 January 2006
- ...ack in the '70s, a mixture of parade and patriotism, along with charges of brainwashing by angry families of Moon's troops.43 KB (7,441 words) - 02:22, 20 November 2011
- ...ive Party:''' I think one can say there are signs of perhaps hypnosis and brainwashing techniques being used in order to bring them into the fold and to keep them7 KB (1,124 words) - 06:45, 14 June 2008
- ...lirty Fishing|Hookers for Jesus]]". The cult was accused of kidnapping and brainwashing young people, denying them contact with their families while they were indo5 KB (866 words) - 22:04, 22 May 2006
- ...uiting, allegedly involving [[:Category:Child Abduction|kidnapping]] and [[brainwashing]], bizarre [[:Category:Beliefs|beliefs]], and unusual [[:Category:Sexuality2 KB (385 words) - 22:09, 22 May 2006
- ...ons by several police forces around the world]] has shown that extensive [[brainwashing]] techniques. such as isolation, severing family ties, solitary confinement2 KB (290 words) - 11:17, 8 June 2006
- "I never realized I was [[Brainwashing|brainwashed]] until after I left, until after I was out. While I was in, e10 KB (1,823 words) - 11:18, 8 June 2006
- <br><br> ''Brainwashing is our business -- not only brainwashing, but heartwashing, too!'' <br> Brainwashing should be everybody's job!44 KB (7,983 words) - 02:46, 27 July 2006
- The Family’s statement titled “Mind Control” and “Brainwashing”: Dispelling the Myths” (1993, 2000) states that: ...ision-making processes, contrary to the images portrayed by proponents of "brainwashing," who attempt to portray these processes as forced and not voluntary. Relig17 KB (2,763 words) - 20:56, 12 June 2009
- ...hat kind of nut are <u>you</u>? I <u>teach</u> for a living--they call it "brainwashing."--What's <u>your</u> racket?--Whose dirty mind are <u>you</u> trying to ch9 KB (1,797 words) - 03:26, 27 July 2006
- ...wonderful to have God's Word for it, for our encouragement! I hope you are brainwashing yourselves with it constantly and absorbing it into the very fiber of your39 KB (7,065 words) - 07:47, 27 July 2006
- <br> So part of what interests them is in the familiar "brainwashing" area, & it would be good for you to have a very large audience <u>opportun5 KB (1,007 words) - 07:53, 27 July 2006
- ...Yes, he is starved & imprisoned, kept with somebody constantly, constantly brainwashing him. Deprived of food &--rest, & then finally even given his liberty & free <br><br> 37. ''<u>THE PROPAGANDA & CLEVER BRAINWASHING OF THAT PICTURE WAS EVEN MORE CLEVER & MORE DIABOLICAL</u>''! Because they30 KB (5,530 words) - 07:55, 27 July 2006
- ...We've had several of them say it's worse than drugs, & call it hypnotism, brainwashing, changing into zombies, blah blah blah blah!46 KB (8,420 words) - 08:06, 27 July 2006
- ...0. ''<u>IT SHOWS YOU THAT THEY PUT THE STATE & ITS EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM--ITS BRAINWASHING SYSTEM</u>'' to educate them to be good citizens of the State--as more impo73 KB (13,691 words) - 08:07, 27 July 2006
- ...before the law & make sure that they are legal, registered, behaving, not brainwashing anybody, blah blah blah! And you know what that means! Right? They said wit72 KB (12,768 words) - 08:49, 27 July 2006
- ...ts & officialdom & psychologists, etc., have been claiming, that we in our brainwashing & our mental conditioning & all the rest, are more dangerous than drugs, mo77 KB (14,015 words) - 08:51, 27 July 2006
- ...eir hearts clean with the Blood of Jesus! Praise God? We believe in really brainwashing & heartwashing too! TYL! Well, I'll just throw a few little extra thoughts47 KB (8,492 words) - 18:22, 27 July 2006
- ...he mind, an intricate system of psychological transformation of the mind--"brainwashing"!70 KB (13,330 words) - 18:37, 27 July 2006
- ...liders--he called them defectors--were doing more damage than the original brainwashing that the cults were supposed to be doing! How about that? That was a pretty83 KB (15,451 words) - 18:47, 27 July 2006
- ...s with the Church people is all the stuff they've got to unlearn & all the brainwashing! But the children can start right off from scratch with Komix because there37 KB (6,477 words) - 20:07, 27 July 2006
- ...DO THEY NEED THE MOST?--MENTAL HEALING, SPIRITUAL HEALING OF THEIR MINDS, BRAINWASHING, RE-EDUCATION</u>''! My Lord, if there's any <u>Tree of Life</u> in the Wor36 KB (6,788 words) - 20:08, 27 July 2006
- ...your spirit, & your mind!--Your dirty filthy mind! Yes, God has to do some brainwashing to purify people's minds from all this propaganda they've been hearing all89 KB (16,328 words) - 20:22, 27 July 2006
- ...ROPAGANDA CAMPAIGNS TO GET THE PEOPLE MIND-CONDITIONED.</u> You talk about brainwashing, he does as good a job of dirtying up their brains with all of his hogwash58 KB (10,395 words) - 22:15, 27 July 2006
- ...o kidnap their Christian son & imprison & browbeat him! They talk about us brainwashing, they <u>browbeat</u>! It's horrible! How can they be Christians? ...It's so ridiculous to say you're not brainwashing people, of course we're brainwashing people, they've got dirty brains & they've got to be washed.21 KB (3,794 words) - 22:21, 27 July 2006
- ...or kids, like summer camps, took them away & they had political lectures & brainwashing lectures & even simple military training, little close-order drills & even57 KB (10,113 words) - 22:35, 27 July 2006
- ...to try to undermine their faith instead by re-education of their children, brainwashing by literature, their devilish, demonic doctrines of unbelief such as evolut ... <u>23. SO THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM HAS DONE JUST ABOUT AS THOROUGH A JOB OF BRAINWASHING & RE-EDUCATION & WIPING OUT THE FAITH OF ITS YOUTH AS HAVE THE RUSSIANS!</u62 KB (11,020 words) - 22:37, 27 July 2006
- ...eceive some of those people after a Thousand Years of Millennial training, brainwashing, re-education & rehabilitation, some are still going to revolt!36 KB (6,596 words) - 22:38, 27 July 2006
- <br> 29. BESIDES FULFILLING ITS PRIMARY PURPOSE OF BRAINWASHING & MENTAL CONDITIONING, what has today's modern educational system really ta27 KB (4,600 words) - 22:35, 27 July 2006
- ...robbing them of their children, robbing their children of their old faith, brainwashing their minds & transforming their personalities! Well, we've done no such th ...up for long weeks of incarceration & subjected to the <u>worst</u> kind of brainwashing--psychological & mental <u>torture</u> in which the victim is yelled at, mo32 KB (5,759 words) - 22:36, 27 July 2006
- ...u>destroy</u> them, because they're totally incorrigible! They've got this brainwashing Mark of the Beast implanted in their heads & they will always belong to the57 KB (10,150 words) - 22:46, 27 July 2006
- ...ICALS WITH THE VERY SAME ACCUSATIONS THAT THEY USED TO USE AGAINST US:</u> Brainwashing, zombies, dictatorial control, all the stuff they tried out on us & apparen34 KB (5,834 words) - 00:42, 28 July 2006
- ...>bigger</u> things! They're going to put a big push on trying to get us on brainwashing & mind-control charges; on psychological & emotional damage to our children62 KB (10,965 words) - 00:07, 28 July 2006
- ...cause you know how clever the Devil is at duping people & deceiving them & brainwashing them, which is what he's done to the System. It just makes you furious, tho26 KB (4,633 words) - 00:21, 28 July 2006
- ...rs had to change the name to "exit counselling." Talk about mind control & brainwashing, those <u>deprogrammers</u> are the ones who are guilty, not <u>us</u>!--Bu16 KB (2,887 words) - 00:31, 28 July 2006
- ...d to be rescued and rehabilitated.' An army psychologist gave a lecture on brainwashing and army rehabilitation programs, where they can handle 600 `victims' a yea77 KB (13,997 words) - 01:06, 28 July 2006
- ...ir System-addict indoctrination and their System reflexes and their System brainwashing which has made them damnable creatures of the System!17 KB (3,181 words) - 01:08, 28 July 2006