What other groups besides the Mormons and Scientologists

[LiberalFighter]

try to prevent their members from leaving?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Republicans.

They can't afford to lose any.

[Marie Marie]

3. Good one!

[Angry Dragon]

2. Moonies??

[longship]

4. I suggest you go to Rick Ross' site.

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He is the go to guy on cults.

Rick Ross

I suggest this because Ross lists cult characteristics on his site. One of the main ones is disconnection, where a cult forbids, or makes it difficult, for people to leave by disconnecting them from outsiders, people not within the cult.

Both Mormons and Scientologists do this, but especially Scientologists are particularly insidious about it. It is called fair game in L. Ron "Drunkard" Hubbard's parlance.

Ross is the source on cults with compendious info.

on edit: clarification on disconnection.

[dimbear]

5. AARP n/t

[intaglio]

6. Catholics

Once you are recorded as Catholic even excommunication doesn't get you removed from the rolls.

The Family

Aum Shinriko

Unification Church (Moonies)

[humblebum]

7. So Martin Luther is still on the rolls? nt

[unc70]

8. Not as active as he once was