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Male Survivor Of Abuse's avatar

This is an excellent list. I would like to suggest that opposition to many federal and state laws and regulations is another hallmark of the Church Cult. Some church cults will go so far as to provide medical services using their specific methods which are unscientific and decidedly do not work resisting both science and regulation. just as insidious, and just as destructive, is the practice in psychological counselling by church counsellors untrained in psychology. Many cuts claim there is no such thing as the psychological. The Christian fundamentalist organization in which I was raised refuses to acknowledge attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, a diagnosis I received as a relatively young child. The organization refused to permit appropriate treatment or give accommodation. Instead, I was just "bad" and needed (definitely received) more beatings. This is dangerous. I believe there is or was a case at Bob Jones University where its head counsellor is untrained and made up a counselling curriculum for churches, but that curriculum has been found unsound psychologically and harmful by a religious organization doing an investigation of the University.

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David's avatar

The LDS / Mormon church also fits this model all too well.

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