Word: hanegraaff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your story "The Faithful Among Us," you included a statement by Hank Hanegraaff to the effect that cult leaders Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles, known as Do and Ti, instituted measures such as lack of sleep, repetitive chanting and duties that contributed to subtle thought control. This statement was followed by a quote from me, a member of the cult until 1994: "Do and Ti had repeated things for so long...There was frustration. We had even waited for a craft to pick us up on several dates, and it didn't happen. Ti and Do both...
...everyone practiced disciplines that had them preparing for sudden visitations by spacecraft, Ti and Do impressed the idea of a great enterprise upon them. "People lead mediocre lives, and so these leaders exploited expectations of joining an elite," says Hank Hanegraaff, president of the Christian Research Institute. The physical deprivations--lack of sleep, excessive work, repetitive chanting and duties--all contributed to subtle thought control...
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