[boatbums]

So I have been learning. Like all cults, those who are trapped within them can find it very difficult to get out. They have usually been brainwashed into believing the leader is the "real deal" - a lot of times based upon some twisting of Scripture that those who are unlearned and unstable also wrest, to their own destruction. When entire families are brought in, it can make leaving that much harder because they have often been used as emotional blackmail to keep those thinking of leaving to stay in.

I think there is also a certain amount of pride that has to be swallowed especially when someone has been a vociferous apologist for a cult when he realizes he is wrong and has been fighting for a false gospel. Like Martin Luther, who had to let go of a lifetime of vocation within his church, when the Holy Spirit opens ones eyes to the truth, there is no turning back no matter how ashamed one may be for having once defended error. All we can do is continue to speak the truth in the most loving way we can and to pray for those caught in cults to come to the knowledge of the truth.

[Elsie]

Like all cults, those who are trapped within them can find it very difficult to get out.
They have usually been brainwashed into believing the leader is the "real deal"

"Now if any of you will deny the plurality of wives, and continue to do so, I promise that you will be damned;

and I will go still further and say, take this revelation, or any other revelation that the Lord has given,

and deny it in your feelings, and I promise that you will be damned.

  - JoD 3:266 (July 14, 1855)