Background of The Gloryers
Jeane Dixon who was a famous American astrologer of the 20th century has accurately predicted the futures (Dixon, & Noorbergen, 1971). She prophesied that the Armageddon will come within 100 years, and her prediction is based on what Jesus told her in her dreams. Jesus told Jeane Dixon that only kindness people could survive after Armageddon. However, in the Bible, they did not tell us what means kindness and who can survive. So Dixon is the only one can say who can survive. The Gloryers believes what Dixon said and aimed to make practitioners become kind …show more content…
Previous studies (Gneezy, 2005; Hilbig & Hessler, 2013; Lundquist et al., 2009) had shown that people feel good while doing bad things by limited the amount of cheating (Mazar et al., 2008). The current study also showed that when some people involved in unethical behaviour, they may seek to regain their credibility by doing confessions. Confession always benefits the confessor, Paul Wilkes (2012) suggested that confession has the ability to relieve anxieties while keeping it secret. Confessor may undertake the social confession to relieve guilt and seek forgiveness from a wronged party, but confession may create social bonds between confessor and the person they are speaking to, so The Gloryers’ confession format will be confessor speaking to the statue of Dixon in order to reduce the problem of social bonds, also The Gloryers create a chance for practitioners to reduce the feeling of guilt and a rehabilitation chance in order to become …show more content…
A psychological explanation of doing sacrifice is about the unconscious and conscious motivations which mean the desire to maintain or restore a constructive relationship leads people to do sacrifice. James suggested that if the pattern of the relationship is broken, then something must be done to wipe out the offence in order to re-establish the vital union upon, which the welfare of the group an the individual depends on (James, 1962). James also said that if the relationship is breaded because of the nature of human, the evil had to be purged; confessions can transfer the sin to the animals (Girard, Pattillo, & Dawson, 2011). However in The Gloryers, as one of our belief is animatism which means no killing so we will use paper food and animal instead of the real one in order to rebuild the broken