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RECOVER FROM COERCIVE CONTROL
Blogs About All Things Cultish And Coercive Control
The Wolf Beneath the Cloak: Power, Purity, and the Psychological Lure of Being ‘Chosen’
When faith becomes fuel for domination, and how to reclaim it from the jaws of extremism In the fairy tale of Little Red Riding Hood, the...
Renee Spencer
Aug 23 min read
Twisted Roots: When Abrahamic Faiths Become Tools of Power
When Noble Values turn into Cultic Control PART 3 OF 4 Every tree is known by its own fruit. – Luke 6:44 Judaism, Christianity, and...
Renee Spencer
Aug 23 min read
From the Fringe to the Floor of the Australian Parliament: Religious Supremacy
Is Creeping into Australian What Does Freedom Mean Inside and Outside a Cult?Politics PART 2 OF 4 In my last blog , I explored how...
Renee Spencer
Aug 13 min read
“God Said So”: The Cult Playbook Behind Religious Extremism
From ISIS to Christian nationalists to hardline Israeli settlers, extremist movements across the three Abrahamic faiths share something disturbingly familiar: A belief that they alone are chosen by God, and that this divine status grants them the right—sometimes even the duty—to dominate others. This isn’t just religious conviction. It’s totalistic thinking, weaponised. And when you peel back the sacred vocabulary, what’s left looks an awful lot like a cult. The Core Claim: “
Renee Spencer
Aug 14 min read
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