
- how they discipline children
- financial coercion
- alienation from family
- public shaming of members
- silencing questioning of leaders
- shunning those who leave
- Parents want help raising their kids.
- People love giving generously to something they believe in.
- Once you find a true family your biological one doesn't matter as much.
- You feel you deserved to be ashamed if you sin and disappoint the community.
- Anointed leaders should not be questioned.
- If someone leaves, they deserve to be forgotten. That's what they want!