I knock the Stepcult because I think it degrades those who fall into it's clutches. As a humanist, I find it's self-limiting premise to be offensive. As a human being, I find it aesthetically offensive. It does more harm than good, and, as a cult, it is more insidious than Scientology. It has other religions giving up space for it's recruiting drives ("meetings"), something even Scientology has yet to do, and it has infiltrated the justice system to the point where folks face jail time if they refuse indoctrination, again, something Scientology has yet to do. It's methods are ineffective, based on fallacious assumptions, and it is detrimental to other legitimate means of recovery from addiction simply by the fact of it's own cancerous growth. It has overshadowed other methods, even had it's practitioners sweep knowledge of other, legitimate techniques under the rug, so that it can continue the deception that it has been perpetrating since it's inception.
