Yep...It’s a tactic and one they are taught to use when backed into a corner...with the truth.
I’ve been increasingly amazed of the tactics used so very similar to those in false religions and occults. That is a troubling thing for me to see....it is a tactic the enemy of men’s souls often uses.
http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofchris01jone#page/416/mode/2up
It’s an old tactic
Some good reading in this chapter about how it came about
best quote from the page
“For as the knowledge of God’s true character is only to be fully leared from the revelation which is made of it by meas of the gospel of Christ , in proportion as the hearts of men become fortified against that which alone dispels the clouds of ignorance and error from the human mind, their propensity to every kind of superstition and idolatry naturally succeeds.”