Again, just like Scientology
Quote:Former members accuse Kingston, Ont., church of ‘brainwashing’ through threats of ‘curses’
Third Day is a well-known denominational church in Kingston. The city’s current mayor, Bryan Paterson, was a member for almost two decades.
Former members claim the organization encouraged submission to the church’s ideology and to founding pastor Francis Armstrong, who they say preached ultra-conservative views, including demonizing the LGBTQ2 community and taking over Canada in God’s name.
The former members say they were manipulated into being afraid of the outside world, and became dependent on the church.
These people say their experience with the church was traumatic, causing mental health issues, broken marriages, loss of time and money, and most of all loss of agency over their own lives. They have come forward, hoping for change at the church, and to prevent others from falling prey to the traps of what experts call a “high-demand group.”
https://globalnews.ca/news/7499084/kings...ip-centre/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
