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...Mark B. Slaughter '80, who was financial manager of the group until he resigned in the fall, said. "I feel we're singing less sophisticated music, less pleasureable music. I feel my time was wasted in the Glee Club. I just wanted to break away...
...interesting thing about TIME's article "Cult Wars on Capitol Hill" [Feb. 19] was not the hearing on cults by Senator Dole, but the fact that Cynthia Slaughter reconverted to the Moonies. If a person is deprogrammed from a cult, is there anything that the Christian community can offer? Apparently Slaughter didn't think...
...Cynthia Slaughter...
Another listener was Cynthia Slaughter, 27, a star witness at a similar hearing on cults held by Dole in 1976, who asked if she could testify again but was turned down. Slaughter, baptized into the Disciples of Christ as a youth, became a Moonie in 1975 and was deprogrammed by Patrick, then joined him and others in deprogramming work and giving dozens of anti-Moon speeches across the nation. She also wrote a first-person 1976 article in TIME. Now Slaughter, who would seem to be a highly suggestible sort, has reconverted...
...Slaughter contends that the anticult network in which she was so active is itself a kind of "cult" and that Patrick's technique is psychologically "destructive." She said that it "scarred me," stirred up resentment and violent dreams, and that an anticult psychiatrist told her she came close to a psychotic break during her deprogramming. She freely admits that Moonies use high-pressure indoctrination methods, but she compares them to Zen-like spiritual disciplines. She also denies Patrick's theory that converts are "brainwashed...