Trevor Noah

And I thought, but I know God and I know Father and they can't get me out of doing God's will.

So why don't I prove to them I'm not in the cult and I'm not brainwashed?

So that's what my thought process was.

And what helped me get out was learning what Chinese communist brainwashing methods were.

So they used a book that was published in 1961.

The little red book?

No.

There was some red on the front cover, believe it or not.

It's called Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism, a Study of Brainwashing in China by psychiatrist Robert J. Lifton, former Air Force psychiatrist.

And he outlined eight criteria in Chapter 22, how to evaluate whether an environment does brainwashing.

And every single one, the Moonies did.

Do you remember any of them offhand?

Of course.

This is my work.

Yes.

But I was like, we're God, they're Satan.

Communism is Satan.

But we're doing the same brainwashing.

This is where the dissonance, when my brain started kicking into gear.

So milieu control is control of the environment and communication.