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Singer’s theories were also used by anti-religious deprogrammers to justify kidnapping members of various faiths (Christian as well as new religious movements) and beating them into renouncing their faiths. No religious minorities were exempted from her expansive opinion that the brainwashing theory applied to the voluntary participation of persons in new religious movements. Singer’s theories were “not based on systematic research on new religions, but rather simply transferred this pseudoscientific brainwashing theory to an ideological attack on new religions.”Īs noted by Dr. Dick Anthony in the December 1999 issue of Social Justice Research, Singer’s theories were “not based on systematic research on new religions, but rather simply transferred this pseudoscientific brainwashing theory to an ideological attack on new religions.” In other words, she simply adopted the CIA brainwashing theory and applied it to new religions. In the 1980s, psychologist Margaret Singer, a self-proclaimed “authority” on new religious movements, used Lifton’s work in order to hire herself out as an expert witness in civil damages cases against minority religions-for a substantial fee. While some social scientists have argued that the brainwashing paradigm was developed originally by the CIA as a propaganda device to explain why a few POWs appeared to convert to communism while imprisoned, the term “brainwashing” became firmly embedded in American culture.

Lifton, who reportedly studied American Korean War soldiers captured by the North Koreans and subjected to torture to attempt to change their political affiliation and to denounce capitalism and America. The term was popularized in the 1950s by psychiatrist Robert J. While many lives have been destroyed in the process, total success has never been documented.

#LA RELIGION ES UN LAVADO DE CEREBRO FREE#

Since the 1940s, the United States government has spent millions of dollars attempting to manufacture deployable agents whose personality and free will have been destroyed-to create the so-called “Manchurian Candidate” popularized in fiction. “Brainwashing” is the concept that an individual’s entire personality can be wiped out and replaced through the use of physical torture and drugs. The use of the term is much more sinister than simply disagreeing with someone’s life choices. You must be brainwashed.” The concept was utterly rejected by social scientists years ago, but it underlies much of the propaganda against religious minorities and is worth examination. No correct-thinking individual could possibly disagree with me. This is the completely biased inference that someone who joins a religious group disfavored by whoever is speaking could only have done so as a result of “religious brainwashing.” The shorthand equation is, “I am right.

Debunking the Myth of Religious “Brainwashing”Ī significant area of misinformation perpetuated by anti-religious social scientists and others is the subject of so-called “religious brainwashing.”

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