Beyond Seduction Quotes

“The freedom to think for ourselves, to weigh all of the evidence carefully, to make up our own minds without being pressured, is essential to genuine faith. One of the primary marks of a cult is the denial of this freedom by various tricks of persuasion so that eventually the cult member has surrendered his autonomy to the point that the “guru” or “prophet” does the thinking for him. Unfortunately, almost any church can, either wittingly or unwittingly, exert the same kind of pressure so that members conform to group thinking rather than coming to a carefully-thought-out conclusion themselves.
-- Chapter 5 --Unbelief Has Many Faces, page 84.”
― Dave Hunt, Beyond Seduction: A Return to Biblical Christianity