Video "How to tell if you’re brainwashed?” | Steven Hassan | TEDxBoston

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Do you know someone who has changed radically in their values and beliefs? Do you think it may have been brainwashing? Steven Hassan offers a 4-step reality testing formula developed over 45 years of research starting after leaving a cult that deceptively recruited him. The bottom line is that brainwashing is not just something that happens in cults—we are all susceptible. A talk to make you think.

 
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How a person views another as brainwashed implies that a person making the determination is not brainwashed also. A person once told me that Protestants were just bad Catholics. Perhaps Jews think Christians are brainwashed. Christians think Islamics are brainwashed.
Someone once asked , what is normal ? Another replied, normal is what everyone else is and your not. Just like beauty, brainwashing is in the eye of the beholder. Festus thought Paul was brainwashed. Acts 26:24
2 Corinthians 5:13 , 1 Corinthians 14:23 . There are certain people who are obviously troubled in mind and fairly easy to identify. Calling people brainwashed is calling them deceived, Revelation 12:9 , so scripture says the whole world is deceived or brainwashed, it must be true, right.
 

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Even true Christianity was considered a cult or sect by both Jews and Romans.
Acts 24:14 , Acts 24:5 , Acts 28:21-22 Your statement above is true but the irony of it is they call themselves Christians.
 
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