WhaTheFlok Episode 6 | Cults Bite | Guest Dr. Steve Hassan

Hosted By Hoyt Richards & Chele Roland

Our guest on this episode is Dr. Steve Hassan Phd, who is not only highly educated, but also a pioneer of sounding the alarm to the epidemic rates of indoctrination around our world! He’s a sought after cult expert and has made endless media appearances on programs like CNN, making him a trusted source of information and advice on anything and everything to do with cultic activity and authoritarian control. Including undue influence, coercive control and all other types of indoctrination. Steve is also personal friends with Hoyt and Chele, and has been vital in helping both of them over the years, with their own trauma recovery process. 

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Chele Roland, Hoyt Richards and Katheryne KTEE Thomas

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[jassrab]

Joined this year "Bible Studies" for both ICOC and Shincheonji both Cults and different strategies but still deceptive. Despite the experience, God has used it for good for me. And pushed me to really know the Bible first before joining these "Studies"

[pagmatic]

Steve, Buddy, and Jerry Jones were marked at the WMS in 1989. Kip pronounced Steve's last name, incorrectly.

[mackenzie]

I was introduced to the ICOC in 2011. I had google, but I didn't google ICOC because during my studies I was told by the girls leading the studies that there were claims out on the internet about the church being a cult. I was briefly told about the letter in 2003, and was told that a lot of people had left the church at that time and all those people on the internet claiming the ICOC was a cult were people who left the church and who had hurt feelings/ didn't like the changes that occured after the letter.
Before this I had never heard of the ICOC and I didn't know any of the history. But 1. I had become friends with the girls leading the studies and I felt like they wouldn't lie to me. 2. I thought what they were saying must be true. What cult warns you that people think they are a cult. 3. By the time I was told this info I had been to sunday service, wednesday service, friday night devo, bible talk, etc. Along with the personal bibles studies and eating lunch with the group on canpus. And at that time, it didn't look like a cult. I thought it was a church group, people brought together because they shared similar beliefs. 4. I figured if I looked the group up, id just see angry people who left as I was told.

After I was baptized, I tried looking some stuff up on google, but I honestly didn't find very much. In that campus minestry we'd even make jokes about being a cult. Like "oh were such a cult because x, y, z" because it was so unbelievable to us.