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I read this at www.gagamela.com/explain/leary_beha.html. It says that Christian teaching is similar to brainwashing procedure, except that in the latter the procedure is slow and the victim does not realise what is hapenning.
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Whether its the army turning a civilian to a soldier that will obey his superior, or someone that will obey god, the methods is the same.
The draftee first tries to please the sergeant, to avoid further
humiliation and punishment. Gradually, he genuinely wants to
please the sergeant, i.e., to prove he is not all wrong and is "good
enough" to be a soldier.
This process is accelerated by a system of occasional rewards,
as the subject more and more often emits (as the Behaviorists
would say) the desired behaviors. Since people are more complicated than Behaviorists know, it is necessary to vary this with occasional punishments for "insincerity," or "backsliding," so
that the subject learns that after
2006-11-09
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