(April 28, 2015 at 12:04 pm)Neimenovic Wrote: Regular, mandatory attendance, trance stimulation, big fancy buildings, repetitive drills and condemning people who don't conform, guilt trips, basing an individual's self-worth on obedience to the gorup and following of the doctrine, asking for public donations (sometimes even going as far as reading the list of those who donated so that those who didn't are known and shunned)
Aside from trance stimulation, which I've never seen in a church, you've pretty much described a public school.