Eric asked a good question that I didn’t want to get lost in the comments of Is Young Life a Cult .
He asked
“does Young Life employ cultic tactics, or do cults and cultish organizations instead use legitimate techniques and manipulate them to accomplish what they want to do?”
The short answer, is that Young Life employs tactics common to cults in many (not all ) instances. Of course, this is just my own opinion. But it is how I see the issue.
Befriending a vulnerable demographic (teens who are minors) without consent and without being up front about motive is cultic. It’s similar to the tactics of the Boston Church of Christ and Amway.
Friendship, enmeshment, and then indoctrination.
It’s a cultic tactic no matter how you slice it. It doesn’t mean that you or other leaders are not good people or that you don’t really love…
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