He's very funny but it does bother me to see all those people in front of him that may be taking him seriously. Mr. Ruckman is using all of the classic examples of cult-speak to "brainwash" a willing participant. If you like his interpretation that is one thing but he builds a house of cards that is only impressive on it's surface and only meant to appeal to a certain audience. Guys like him interest me in that I wonder if they have studied the psychology of what they are doing. He's old school in his approach, forcing his "victims" to choose between God and friends and family. It's the first wedge you have to drive, separate the "victim" from friends and family (authority figures etc...) by trying to get them to draw the conclusion on their own that all of these people are "wrong" and "lost."

Once you have done that you begin to build an insulated world around them and turn items from daily life and the outside into examples for why everybody else and everything else is wrong but this way is right. It feeds itself and grows...like a plant...Ruckman is a gardener. He never turns to facts, he claims "scripture is fact" but his support for this is faith, and he'll even cite a "dream" as an example of where his "path" may lead.

So he's fun with the drawing and all that but when I think of people taking his words to heart I feel pretty sad about it.