TOTAS: Is it Culty? The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints With Jacob Hansen

It is very common for ex-Mormons to refer to the BITE model of high demand religions when they call the church a "Cult"

What happens when you sit down with a believing member of the church and actually go through the components of the "Is It Culty?" assessment?

Jacob Hansen from the "Thoughtful Faith" podcast is here to show us!

Chapters:

00:00 - Intro
04:37 - Jacob Hansen
10:26 - Is It Culty Pre-test
20:00 - Demographics
21:06 - Relational Control
22:32 - Time Control
26:13 - Demand for Purity
34:19 - Material Control
36:40 - Imposed Dependency
46:08 - Destabilization
01:02:35 - Belief Follows Behavior
01:17:54 - Public Commitment
01:19:45 - Proselytizing
01:23:45 - Financial Pressure
01:54:46 - Indirect Directives
02:00:45 - Intermission - Mormon Doctrine?
02:06:22 - Elitism
02:11:53 - Dissociative States
02:19:20 - Guilt and Shame
02:41:33 - Love Bombing
02:56:25 - Social Pressure
02:58:58 - Induced Phobias
03:10:33 - Blame Reversal
03:21:37 - Euphoria Induction
03:26:19 - No Honorable Exit
03:43:00 - Double Bind
03:49:37 - Milieu Control
03:58:47 - Confession
04:10:04 - Unaccountable Leadership
04:29:27 - Deception
04:33:30 - Sacred Science
04:35:26 - Spying and Reporting
04:37:02 - Mystical Manipulation
04:46:06 - Propaganda Saturation
04:45:37 - Black and White Thinking
04:46:32 - Totalism
04:48:02 - Transformed Identity
04:49:17 - Doctrine Over Self
04:54:52 - Totalist Reframing
04:59:03 - Emotion Over Intellect
05:00:23 - Loaded Language
05:02:36 - Thought Terminating Cliches
05:04:40 - Identification & Example
05:06:40 - Us Vs Them
05:08:55 - Dispensation of Existence
05:12:49 - Final Score
05:15:20 - Closing Comments