Cults Offer Things That Are Too Good To Be True

Our nation has many programs to prevent consumer fraud and protect our money, yet there are no programs to prevent someone stealing our mental health or our very souls.  Unscrupulous business people selling a defective product or service cannot hide behind the first amendment but religious cults can and constantly do.  When the abusive work of destructive religious cults [such as Barrie Victory Centre] is exposed, the cry often is, "Religious discrimination!"

Whenever anyone offers you a product or service, you should always ask yourself if this sounds too good to be true.  If it does, then it probably is too good to be true.  As Jeannie Mills, a defector from Jim Jones's People's Temple who was subsequently murdered, said:  

When you meet the friendliest people you have ever known who introduce you to the most loving group of people you have ever encountered, and you find the leader to be the most inspired, caring, compassionate and understanding person you have ever met, and then you learn that the cause of the group is something you never dared hope could be accomplished, and all of this sounds too good to be true -- it probably is too good to be true!  Don't give up your education, your hopes and ambitions to follow a rainbow.

(from Cult Proofing Your Kids by Dr. Paul R. Martin)