How Paid Cult Apologists GASLIT Survivors for Decades! Former Member Exposes the TRUTH
July 31, 2025
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as posted by the channelThey called it “just a new religious movement.” But behind the PR lies a chilling truth about brainwashing, authoritarian cults, mind control, and how cult apologists funded by cult leaders and elites have helped whitewash decades of abuse.
In this intensely personal response to Cult Chat Episode 67 () Dr. Steven Hassan, leading cult expert and author of The Cult of Trump, breaks his silence on the dark history of sociologists like Barker, who dismissed survivors' testimonies and denied the existence of brainwashing in The Moonies and other destructive cults.
Key topics:
- The truth behind Eileen Barker’s cult apologism
- How the Moonies, Scientology, and Children of God manipulated sociologists to discredit former members
- The founding of the Cult Awareness Network and ICSA (American Family Foundation)
- Dr. Hassan’s BITE Model and its use in anti-trafficking
- The AI-driven censorship of cult education by Big Tech elites like Musk, Thiel, and Bezos
- What former cult members must do now to preserve history before it’s erased
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