My experience with cults is that they’re not effective, they simply focus on the minority who are open to their line. They even try to sound crazy, to discoura

My experience with cults is that they’re not effective, they simply focus on the minority who are open to their line. They even try to sound crazy, to discourage well-adapted people. Like a Nigerian scammer who deliberately uses bad grammar so the only responders are people with dementia. My experience with cults comes from being part of a large, mainstream church that had cooky and predatory groups operating at the margins of the congregation. They would target new members who had severe issues: drug abuse, mental illness, having been trafficked. I’m not sure if the Mormons have anything similar. I read about extreme fundamentalist Mormon groups, but they don’t seem to be recruiting mentally ill/drug addicted mainstream Mormons.