How many would want to follow along with such a group?
How many would want to follow along with any other such group that exercises such apparent "undue influence" which is inherently deceptive?
Is this simply an example and an instance of something inherent in humanity and/or human nature because "we" (humans/humanity) crave something in particular that this deluded NPD "minister" promised?
Is this an instance of...
I propose answers to these questions may be alluded to, if not explicitly articulated in the writings of Steven Hassan, who has researched the phenomenon for nearly 50 years?
I don't know. But I wonder about it a lot.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/contributors/steven-a-hassan-phd
Hassan's books include:
Freedom of Mind
Combating Cult Control
Releasing the Bonds
The Bite Model THE BITE MODEL OF AUTHORITARIAN CONTROL: UNDUE INFLUENCE, THOUGHT REFORM, BRAINWASHING, MIND CONTROL, TRAFFICKING AND THE LAW
Hassan also wrote a book explaining cult influence in a particular political figure in America today
The common thread in all of his writing is undue influence. He's not anti-religion. He's not inherently political. But he does have insight related to understanding what Victor Wierwille tapped into in order to capture or corral tens of thousands of us to follow his teaching.
What I suspect these Way Corps letters can provide to us now in retrospect is how Victor's emotional condition when he wrote those letters bely his underlying psychological vulnerability was perhaps one key to enable many of us to escape what we had not yet recognized as Victor's undue influence over us.