5 of Six of Thought-Reform at Church! By Margret Singer 5. Manipulate a System of rewards, punishments, and experiences in order to promote learning of the Colleges or Churchs ideology or belief system and their approved behaviors! Once immersed in an environment in which you are totally dependent on the rewards given by those who control the setting, you can be confronted with massive demands to learn varying amounts of new information and behaviors. You are rewarded for proper performance with social and sometimes material reinforcements; ... if non-compliant, you are threatened with shunning, banning, and punishments which includes loss of esteem from others, loss of privileges, loss of status, and inner anxiety and guilt. (Thomas A. Wheeler speaking) Example being: you become a deacon in your church and you are now pressured to go along with pastors agenda and you dont agree. But you have noticed that when other deacons that disagreed are labeled as demons for having a mind of his own, but if you go along you are praised and even doted on!
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