In dealing with Pentecostals, one will notice that even among those who are intelligent, that they have a particular style of thinking that resists open and rational discourse. One will notice that in debates with Pentecostals that it is extremely difficult to get them to focus upon the issue. One will notice several errors in thinking and logic among them when speaking with them, even if they are intelligent.
The central characteristic of Pentecostal thinking is The Hustle. They do not use ideas AS IDEAS, but as a way to manipulate people. This is a very important point in discussions with Pentecostals. Notice that they will pick up and use slogans without much logical connection to the subject at hand. The also will use Suggestibility and Rhetoric as substitutes for logic and reason. Thus the frustration that one encounters when speaking and discussing things with Pentecostals is that they are not discussing things with you to arrive at the Truth of an issue, but they are trying to manipulate you to believe what they believe and to do what they want you to do. One can understand this by recalling a discussion you may have had with someone you have a disagreement with on a particular issue. Often, rational people will agree to disagree. They can understand the logic of the other person, respect their position as a valid argument, but disagree with the argument possibly because they are starting from differing premises or ground rules. This is the proper way to disagree with people.
However, when a Pentecostal cannot get you to agree with his memorized slogans or his procedure to manipulate you into doing and thinking in his way, he will dispense with you as a corrupt, or even as an evil person. Furthermore, if his mind is working even at a deficient level of efficiency, and part of his mind can see that you have a valid point, he will immediately recognize your “logic” as a threat and he is likely to attack you personally, and accuse you of ulterior motives for holding such “logic.” However, he cannot see that his response is not a rational response to a respectable argument, but a change in the context – he changes the subject from the topic at hand to you personally, and proceeds with this attack. This, I assert is the basis of FRAUD. This is why Pentecostal methods of preaching, recruiting, and thinking are fraudulent. It is based upon a faulty system whereby the person is not bound by the ground rules of a logical system. They are not engaging in a debate or discussion with you; they are trying to manipulate you. They might try to deceive you into thinking that they are open to discussion or a respectable debate, but they are not; they are being deceitful, crafty, irrational, and devious. Again, go back and read what I described above. If they talk to you and then proceed to attack you personally instead of focusing upon the subject at hand, they are playing a manipulation game and not entering into a serious discussion. When they accuse you of bitterness without listening to your arguments, they are hustling you; the same goes for any other number of epithets they use to dismiss you and attack you personally, like backslider, reprobate, rebellious, etc.
Another form of the hustle to manipulate you is when they try to bait you. They will attempt to find a hot-button issue to push on you to get you frustrated and angry. In their minds, when you respond to them with anger to their provocations they become smug in their attitude that you are “angry and bitter.” Well, do you notice the blatant manipulating deceit in this technique? They try to get you angry so they can dismiss you! They bait you in order to dismiss you as angry and bitter! How is that for intellectual fraud? An illustration is when they might say that because you wear makeup, you are trying to incite lust in men so that they will want to go to bed with you the same evening. On the face, such a statement is ludicrous and insane; however, they are trying to bait you into getting angry, so that they can dismiss you. Again, this is not honest debate; this is intellectual fraud. (Furthermore, on a side issue, I think that this could be connected to the criminal mind, but that is for further analysis later.)
One can also ponder the effects of such a corrupt form of discourse on the morals of Pentecostals. How can this affect their ability to tell the truth? How can this affect their honesty? Can you really trust what they say? Are they trying to manipulate you? Are they trying to manipulate people on the job in the same manner? Also, I think that this can explain the connection to certain periodic frauds among Pentecostals like multi-level marketing schemes, and other business scams we hear about so prevalent among Pentecostals. Multi-level marketing schemes are usually based upon the hustle also: manipulating ones feelings with visions of millions of dollars without any serious logical explanation as to where all this money will come from, and how can one make such huge amounts of money will little effort – logic please?
Always be aware of Pentecostals trying the intellectual hustle on you. They are very well trained in fraud and baiting you. Do not fall for the fraud or the bait.
derkrash-at-earthlink-dot-netJP Istre
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