To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
Points well taken. No attribution was given for the article. It’s easy to misunderstand things like tongues etc., and the presumption is nearly always that “different” equals “bad.” I hope you will forgive me for being a bit sensitive about these things, but my experience has always been that because I participate in them, I am crazy or worse. I hope you understand.
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05/16/2009 11:11:58 AM PDT by
redhead
(Alaska: Step out of the bus and into the food chain)
To: redhead
Chanting at Mass involves singing the lyrics of hymns or responses in the liturgy. The kind of hypnotic mantra chanting in cults is more repetitive and may be designed to control and manipulate people, programming the subconscious. The mantras Obama used during the campaign are similar. A person who joins a cult is usually already in a disturbed state. Unfortunately, it is possible for traditional religious groups, which may claim to be Christian, to introduce and use cult techniques. It depends on how authoritarian, how much control, and what kind of people serve as the leaders. Tithing can be abusive. So can shaming and scolding or long-winded harangues. Televangelist cults which focus too much on money or where the leader is in it for profit. It depends on the people.
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