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May 8, 2006, 11:03 am PDT
You must be joking
Quote From: jaider
I challenge the idea that these girls are being brainwashed. Your use of the word brainwashing communicates your disapproval of the influence of a religious group that you think to be illegitimate. I agree that religious groups can have a heavy influence over their members but the use of the word brainwashing suggest that powerful means of manipulation are being used to control. The brethren group the oldest girl joined happens to believe in what is called believers baptism. What that means is that one does not become baptized and become a member of the church until they reach the age of accountability and can make the choice freely on their own. Often times, even though the children have been raised in this environment all of their life, they never become members. Not a very good job of brainwashing . Are the children brainwashed by their parents and religion? No. Are they influenced? Yes.
Brainwash has quite a few faces to it. Here's the guarenteed lotto numbers: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and the quarenteed payout is USDollar 10mil. Now, you have a choise: Play or not. And then in a wisper voice: If you don't play and share the winnings with me, this...that...this will happen to you. That, my dear freind is brainwash also. It's very clear that the children were told that they have a choise between mom and dad (sick choice by nature!), however if you choose mom then this and that will happen to you and this and that will be taken from you.....! And what's worse - all in the name of God! Not the real God, but the God they invented to be able to manipulate, rule and own other human beings as in an effort to hide their own shortcommings. That's brainwash!!
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