The second is a link that shows how cults manipulate their followers and how they shut the door to the truth of the Word of God, and how that door needs to be unhinged when one is dealing with them. Intervention is something done out of love for that individual and is not always an easy thing.
^ That attitude itself is trash talking, manipulative, and door-slamming to any truth. It's filled with blindness and hatred, not love of the person or Christ.
Here: I'll run through a practical example to show you a case of how this only hurts. This is an example from people I know closely.
"Mila" marries into a family. She is of a different denomination/faith than her new mother-in-law, "Ella". Ella has heard all of her life of how Mia's faith is a horrible brainwashing cult! Ella's never asked Mia about what she believes (perish the thought!), nor attended her church with her (double perish the thought!), and refuses to engage her about the subject at all (triple perish the thought!). Mia herself is very well studied, reads scriptures daily, has attended church with Ella many times, and is happy to talk about anything.
But Ella knows Mia is in a brainwashed cult and will be damned and will also damn her Mia son Jay and grandchildren! So Mia takes action: whenever Ella leaves the room, Ella tells Jay about all of the evil things "Mia" supposedly believes. Ella hides gifts in anti-cult books she wants Jay to read. She writes birthday cards are full of pushing this agenda etc.
Jay, being a disciple of Christ and interested in facts, asks Mia about these claims. Mia happily chats about things, and resolves fact from fiction. Jay also checks in books, at church himself, etc. And Ella's claims just aren't remotely accurate.
Jay and Mia talk to Ella about this and how her behavior is deeply upsetting to them. Mia defends her actions as "confronting the evil brainwashing cult and intervention must be had!" Ella doesn't have any real foundation of why Ella believes as she does, and can't actually talk about it. She only can parrot about how she's always been told XYZ about how cultists are brainwashed! And when that doesn't hold up... she runs away. Ella has nothing. So she flees.
But that doesn't matter- Ella knows Mia is in a brainwashed cult!
Whom is the real searcher for truth here? Whom is the manipulator?
I mourn how "anti-cult" stuff has robbed Ella of real faith development, driven her to these cowardly hate-filled actions. I mourn how it's denied her chance of ever having a relationship with her daughter in law as a real person (cause she's just brainwashed, you know). I mourn how it destroyed Ella's relationship with her son (who tires of her manipulative antics). It is a tragedy.
And I SO deeply wish that Ella had been exposed to (/embraced) real apologetics: real faith development, pro truth standing with Christ and love. Not the "anti-cult" junk.