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There are contradicting beliefs that run through the group, which tend to clash.
Like most religious groups, there is a belief in love, and even a song "Love over all things love," however there is a harsh rejection of alternative beliefs or ideas.
This is of course a tool of any exclusive group, which assures that the member maintains his/her idealogical prison. Breaking outside of the approved parameters of thought will result in spiritual catastrophe. Most group members i encountered were like the one you described.
They keep fragments of their past religious/spiritual beliefs and make it fit the parameters of the Christ Family.
Here is an essay that might be interesting to readers.
A small quotation.
"State the obvious
To begin with, try pointing out the blindingly obvious. Only do it i-n-c-r-e-d-i-b-l-y s-l-o-w-l-y and with an air of superior wisdom. The technique works best if your pronouncements focus on one of life’s big themes, such as love, money and death. So, for example:
We were all children once
Money can’t buy you love
Death is unavoidable
State the obvious in a sufficiently earnest way, perhaps following up with a pregnant pause, and you may find others begin to nod in agreement, perhaps murmering “Yes, how very true that is”.
Contradict yourself
A second technique is to select words with opposite or incompatible meanings and cryptically combine them in what appears to be a straightforward contradiction. Here are a few examples:
Sanity is just another kind of madness
Life is a often a form of death
The ordinary is extraordinary
Such sentences are interpretable in all sorts of ways and can easily appear profound."
The entire thing can be read here.
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Shame can derail analytical thinking.
"Keeping you in line with shame" (Language on this essay is raunchy, but it contains a lot of useful into.
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