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How do some get to blind obedience?

 I listened to a sermon that brought out an interesting point that may have some application to how individuals give themselves over to charlatans. For their superiors there were three levels of obedience. Your obedience could be one of three kinds: The lowest grade is the obedience in performance. You do what you're told even though you may disagree with the whole idea, think that your superior is a fool, or think you know what he should have told you to do. You obey, but unwillingly. Ignatius who was the founder of the Jesuits, in his judgment, this grade of obedience was very imperfect. The second grade of obedience, you may still think the superior is a fool and that you know what he should have commanded, but out of obedience to Christ... And that's where the hierarchy locked in the brethren and put guilt trips on them and fear-trips on them,  that if you disobey the ministry you're disobeying Christ.  No one ever asked: What if the ministers are disobeying Christ? T...