Rick Ross has been working on destructive cults and movements for some time now. I check his site on a regular basis. Rick has put together a very pointed list of warning signs that you might be dealing with an unsafe group and/or leader. Compare it to the list of signs of a safe group and/or leader. I’m not sure that the unsafe/safe dichotomy is the best way to describe the difference, but other than that, I think this is…
What is Mitt Romney’s position on torture? See: Romney, Torture and Teens In right-wing Republican circles, abusive authoritarianism without due process is endemic – and profitable. By Maia Szalavitz When Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said he’d support doubling the size of the prison at Guantanamo Bay, he was trying to show voters that he’d be tough on terror. Two of his top fundraisers, however, have long supported using coercive tactics that have been likened to torture for troubled teenagers….
On the topic of how Jehovah’s Witnesses divide families, from the “Ask a Former JW” mailbag: Basically, the whole of my mothers side of my family are JW’s. She was disfellowshipped when she was around 18-19 but wasn’t told then that she was not supposed to talk to people who were still members of the religion. Since then she was married to my father who was not a JW, had me and my brother and sister, then was divorced from…