The CBC reports that “a member of the Manitoba congregation diagnosed with cancer died after choosing not to get treatment.” This would have been due to their “rules around adult medical care during times of critical illness, promoting a doctrine of divine healing.” (Hence the issues with COVID safety.) Murder: While not technically falling under the definition of intentional murder, the Church of God Restoration has led to the death of more than just the little girl.Separation of Families: Wall explained that part of the group brainwashing her included encouraging her to “cut off contact with anyone outside the church, including her parents.” That must have been heartbreaking for her friends and family to watch, helpless.The article contained another vague reference to a history of child abuse in the church, so that can go here, too. The church does technically allow parents to take severely ill children to medical professionals, but it doesn’t generally encourage use of modern medicine (or vaccines or even adhering to COVID restrictions). There have also been instances of child neglect, even resulting in the death of an 11-month-old girl from treatable meningitis. Beating: The BITE model lists both beating and torture as signs of cults, but I decided that parents in the church allegedly disciplining children with “a belt, fly swatter and electric cord” would be best described as beating.Instill dependency and obedience: The church again uses the hell threat to gain obedience from members: Wall said, “They would never tell us, ‘You have to.’ But with time, if you don’t do what they expect us to do, we knew we were going to hell… The conviction was so strong, right? Like, you don’t question them, and that’s how they get you to obey their rules.”.You can’t do anything wrong.… You have to do everything just so - how the powers that be see it.” Impose rigid rules and regulations: Right after describing that a “sin-free life” was “taught from babyhood,” ex-member Gloria Froese explained, “You cannot be talking back.I put it here under “rewards and punishments” but this threat of eternal torture can apply to a lot of BITE model identifiers. It was instilled in young children, and it probably will haunt these people long after they leave the church. Rewards and punishments used to modify behaviors, both positive and negative: Throughout the article, the ex-members could not emphasize enough how intense the fear of hell was in this group.Permission required for major decisions: The church’s founder, Danny Layne, “started to add rules in the early 1990s, including requiring permission to get married or travel, and the church’s strict dress code.”.When asked about indoctrination and brainwashing, the leader (or “lead apostle”), Ray Tinsman, just blatantly confessed to it, saying, “We’re probably guilty of that.” Major time spent with group indoctrination and rituals and/or self indoctrination including the Internet: This one’s easy.
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