At the very core of hyper-authoritarian doctrines and practices is religious enslavement. Irrefutably, religious enslavement is WITCHCRAFT! Thus, it follows then that hyper-authoritarian doctrines and practices are, at bottom, WITCHCRAFT! Intrinsically, witchcraft is of the devil’s domain, not God’s. Though it be so that hyper-authoritarian doctrines and practices amount to witchcraft, the problem is, they have already been infused into and become an integral part of the doctrinal and structural system of a large segment of the Charismatic/Pentecostal ecclesial realms. Thus, the majority of Charismatic/Pentecostal believers who have been deluded into accepting the validity of them would have extreme difficulty in understanding and accepting that they are Scripturally invalid and amount to witchcraft, despite the absolute veracity of both of those assessments. Indeed, the very fact that it has been in otherwise legitimate and normative Pentecostal and Neo Pentecostal churches that these occultic doctrines and practices have been taught and instituted has itself augmented their obscurity and continuance.
In this two-part series, the true nature of sorcery or witchcraft and how it is employed by unscrupulous church leaders to dominate and psychologically enslave their followers is identified and explained.