"Faith comes by hearing"

[thesummerqueen]

People who join cults (as opposed to being raised up in them when they never had a chance) are often looking for something. Seeing that someone is a brainwashing prick doesn't change that need. They'll probably continue to seek woo in some form or other.

Good point.

What would be society's best solution?

I'd vote for a combination of education and secular social groups.

I'm all for this, and I think it will be religion's downfall in the end. We'll always be fighting against woo, unfortunately.

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Also, there's the whole "If you don't do this right down to the letter you will BURN FOR ETERNITY". The worst most schools do is show pictures of stereotypical unemployed bums and say "this could be you!" Well they did that at my school once or twice any way. My teachers were not exactly masters of subtlety, but compared to the average preacher...

Basically churches are the worst kind of backward, stupidly strict kind of school, but turned up to 11.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nhgfjrKi0o