Cults, Culture & Coercion with Dr. Steve Hassan

Cults, Culture & Coercion with Dr. Steve Hassan

Errant Belief #3: “Why Should I Do Anything? He Says He’s Happy!”

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Dr. Steven Hassan
Feb 22, 2018
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Members of the Heaven’s Gate cult took turns making videotaped farewell statements that explained why they had decided to leave their “vehicles” behind and commit suicide. They all said they were happy and claimed that they were exercising their own free will. They had been told that Earth was going to be destroyed in flame and they were just “evacuating” to a spacecraft. Take a moment and take a look at the video which has been posted on Youtube.

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