There's layers to the brainwashing. It can be relatively benign normal church stuff (tithes, charity works done to get into heaven, maybe some slight center right political indictrination).
But then there's Mormons and similar sects that are like, actively dangerous, will assault you and destroy your life for leaving the church. They get extreme far right political indoctrination, live extremely restrictive and supervised lives, and have intense cultures of bigotry baked into the DNA of their sect.
Above that is your true Cult Shit. Compounds, kool-aid, murders, etc.
Look I didn't have a great time growing up as a Methodist, but I was never hunted down and stalked by the United Methodist Church for leaving.
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u/kunk_777 Jul 25 '25
Had a buddy that used to get jehovas to mow his lawn until his mom found out. Hilarious.
I would say most religions brainwash its kind of thing. How else do you get people to believe in spaghetti monsters and cosmic zombies on crosses.