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082 - Cult Hacking with Stephen Mather
I was a Teenage Fundamentalist. An Exvangelical podcast.
The Role of Authority in Cults
In a cult, we give that authority to the leader and therefore, yet when we leave, we may well, I guess, defer to leadership. It's like I get to sort of peek behind the curtain later on and realize they were never above me ever. And yet in my mind for a number of years, simply because of the office they held, totally they were above me. Yeah. This is a, this is a fascinating area that we've talked about on our podcast quite a bit. But it all relates to power and authority. We've had a two part recently around the question of authority. You can think about that word in terms of who has the power to tell you
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