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Archive for July, 2011

Cain is always more interested in appearances than in truth. He is more concerned with how he looks than how he or anyone else feels. He must be right and will not give up until he convinces others to see things his way. The minister’s wife repeatedly referred to their children as “her” children rather [...]

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While society recognizes physical and emotional abuse as evil, few consider spiritual abuse and the harm it can cause individuals. Cainistic ministers and their obligatory followers are not disturbed about the impact of their rejection on church attendees. In fact the leader in my church kept his supporters emotionally attached through his approval and disapproval. [...]

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Cain Is A Thief

The cainistic church I attended was large. Subsequently, a widespread criticism was the lack of closeness among members; it was difficult to get to know people if all you did was show up for an hour a week on Sunday. One day a lay person developed a small group program with the hope of creating [...]

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There was a huge focus on tithing in the cainistic church. The implication—almost a perilous warning—was that somehow the worshiper would miss out on God’s blessing without tithing. The church criticized other churches that used guilt tactics to control their people, but this church was no different when it came to tithing, just more covert [...]

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Cain loves favors and special treatment from others but cannot reciprocate. Cain expects people to fawn over him, providing all the attention and admiration he wants, but the relationship is one dimensional. When I was thinking of obtaining my Masters Degree in Spiritual Psychology at the University of Santa Monica, I asked the cainistic minister [...]

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A Cain in church “is likely to taunt and torment his followers, heckle and chastise them, humiliate and berate them, abuse them spiritually, or even sexually,” explains a self-proclaimed Cain and author Sam Vakin in his book “Malignant Self Love.” He goes on to write that parishioners are nothing more than “obedient and unquestioning slaves [...]

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