{"id":8481,"date":"2023-07-13T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/2023\/07\/13\/interview-why-do-people-join-dangerous-cults\/"},"modified":"2023-07-13T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T18:00:00","slug":"interview-why-do-people-join-dangerous-cults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/2023\/07\/13\/interview-why-do-people-join-dangerous-cults\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERVIEW: Why Do People Join Dangerous Cults?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/1142402\/13218675-interview-why-do-people-join-dangerous-cults?iframe=true\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 100%;height: 200px\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>Shakahola. Kanungu. <\/b>The Bible warns that \u201cThere is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death\u201d (Prov. 14:12). What makes some cultic groups so appealing? Rodgers Atwebembeire explains that\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 People are easily tempted by \u201cnew\u201d teachings<br \/>\u2022 People are often tempted by exclusivity and elitism<br \/>\u2022 People are easily tempted by emotion and supernatural promises<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>And once you are captured, opportunistic cult leaders will seek to control you through a combination of alienation, isolation, and fear.<\/p>\n<p>Rodgers will show you how to recognize these and other danger signs from Scripture.<\/p>\n<p><em>Originally aired on <\/em><a href='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OE_4TyQCKpI'><em>COU Family TV<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shakahola. Kanungu. The Bible warns that \u201cThere is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death\u201d (Prov. 14:12). What makes some cultic groups so appealing? Rodgers Atwebembeire explains that\u2026 \u2022 People are easily tempted by \u201cnew\u201d teachings\u2022 People are often tempted by exclusivity and elitism\u2022 People are easily&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/2023\/07\/13\/interview-why-do-people-join-dangerous-cults\/\" class=\"excerpt-read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}