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embarrassing to the professionals involved. I am certainly chagrined when this happens.
However, such judgments seem inevitable to me where the suggestions of Enroth are
practiced.
In conclusion, I have stated an alternative point of view to that of Ronald Enroth in his essay
“Confessions of a Cult Watcher.” I invite dialogue on my opinions from the readers of the
Cultic Studies Journal. It is important for me to be understood as a psychologist who
takes his religion seriously, who is committed to protecting the rights of persons to be
religious in a manner of their own choosing, yet who would not hesitate to testify
against any religion, old or new, whose practices violated civil or criminal law, if the
standardized procedures of my discipline confirmed such violations.
H. Newton Malony, Ph.D.
Graduate School of Psychology,
Fuller Theological Seminary
embarrassing to the professionals involved. I am certainly chagrined when this happens.
However, such judgments seem inevitable to me where the suggestions of Enroth are
practiced.
In conclusion, I have stated an alternative point of view to that of Ronald Enroth in his essay
“Confessions of a Cult Watcher.” I invite dialogue on my opinions from the readers of the
Cultic Studies Journal. It is important for me to be understood as a psychologist who
takes his religion seriously, who is committed to protecting the rights of persons to be
religious in a manner of their own choosing, yet who would not hesitate to testify
against any religion, old or new, whose practices violated civil or criminal law, if the
standardized procedures of my discipline confirmed such violations.
H. Newton Malony, Ph.D.
Graduate School of Psychology,
Fuller Theological Seminary
