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Originally Posted by Cloud
My ex-husband has turned into a complete right-wing, fundamentalist Christian--goes to one of those mega churches. That's all he does--does his AA thing, reads religious books, goes to church and watches Rush Limbaugh. Pressures the rest of the family to be churchy and acts offended when we aren't. We never have been, and he knows that.
I worry that he's been brainwashed or something.
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Yeah, quite likely.
Baptist mega-churches are nowadays set up with awesome sound and lighting systems, climate control, etc, and with a bit of peer pressure and group think, can produce some limited forms of mind control.
AA is also known to work more or less as a cult, not always in a bad way.
Read "Cults: Faith, Healing and Coercion" by Marc Galanter for further information.
But, self-destroying alcoholic, or irritating born-again religious ... I guess the latter is the lesser of two evils.