@nomebullyyou @Blue @ChristiJunior Honestly speaking, the scriptures do warn you against false sheperds, they do talk against manipulation through faith and they condemn pathological altruism, I obviously don't know that much about what the scripture says exactly, but what I found (and funnily enough, this is also something I knew from religion classes as a child despite not being religious) is that "The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat,", and "work" here can also mean fighting against being manipulated and keeping yourself informed of your own damn religion.

Because the one manipulated also has the scripture, so it's at this point willful ignorance that you have fallen for the manipulation. You are still forgiven if your intent was pure though and I find that acceptable.

EDIT: Forgiven by God, not by me, I won't forgive you.