Defintely! I believe brainwashing starts by appealing to your emotional sides than your logical sides. For most men, logic always tramps emotions - most of the time at least! Just listen to a conversation between a man and his wife discussing even day to day things like their kids education. Try to categorize everyone's contribution in terms of logic and emotion and you'll see!

When you tell a man eating grass will bring them closer to God, he'll probably ask How? Why? and the hows and whys will not seize even if you attempt to answer the initial questions. Even if he doesn't ask you, he will ask himself.

Well, here goes the short version. Highlights only.

Growing up at the coast of Mombasa was interesting especially for mtu wa bara... the cultural / religious mix.. i remember our muslim neighbours (the kids)would sometimes threaten to read Al-Badiri to us if we dont agree to xyz or do 123.. i've never known what al badiri is about .. i digress

I grew up in a family that claimed to be PCEA, the very few times i went to Sunday school i remember coming away with feelings of guilt and a fresh resolve to be a 'good boy' which was quickly abandoned before we got home...

I remember reading Emmanuel Enis Delivered from the powers of darkness, smh! that book made me scared of everything... ati njugu you buy on the street are sometimes peoples teeth 'in the spirit'... etc

My earliest memory of a 'spiritual experience' was sometime in primary school.
My pal and i decided to try out some instructions we had read at the back of a comic book (dont remember which one) those ones that had supeheroes akina thor na spiderman

I dont remember the words used, i remember it was about how we could acquire those superpowers in the comic book. I remember the action we took after reading and not the words themselves... each of us went home... i locked myself in a room drew the curtains sat myself on the bed and began to 'focus' on trying not to think of anything. It all felt rather stupid at the beginning.. then i kind of got into it (wish i had the words to explain that)... a few more minutes into it and i was suddenly very frightened, i was alone it was quiet the curtains were shut but broad daylight outside.. i was for whatever reason very frightened.. i snapped out of it.. went outside to wait for my pal... to hear his side of how it went down...

... so my pal and i basically lied to each other.

I told him i was able to open and shut my wardrobe door, he told me he moved his sisters tricycle..lol.

What happened after that experience is the weird part.

From that day i had the weirdest scariest nightmares, every night without fail for a couple of weeks i think if not months.

The typical nightmare would go like this..

I close my eyes to sleep.. don't remember if they waited for me to sleep or just started when i close my eyes... anyway.. i close my eyes and right there like an inch away is another pair of eyes human eyes but with more color (smh! im starting to sound like emanuel eni) no face around the eyes... everything pitch dark just them eyes.. then a moment later the most awful frightening sounds... it felt like my head was in a box full of fluttering bats.. i don't know how long this situation used to last but i don't remember being as scared as i was when these things happened... i could not wake up, could not scream for help, nothing, just eyes and sounds... smh!

I tried everything.. praying.. sleeping with the Bible, saying Jesus.... nothing worked.

I threw the bible across the room one night and told God if he is not willing to help me then so be it!....

So fast forward to high school..

Women are more gullible compared to men, i dont know if its desperation, laziness, greed or a mixture of all of the above.
*puts helmet on and goes inside a bunker*

Speaking in tongues is real,,so I think you are stretching it to call it 'mambo jumbo' unless you were faking it.The discussion is about some practices and theie foundation (or lack thereof )in scripture......not that all beliefs or practices are bad or unfounded.