Milk before meat

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Milk before meat (Mormon usage) or Gradient (Scientology usage) are two of many terms used in cults and other authoritarian settings to describe the process of concealing doctrine from outsiders and new inductees.^[1] Since many such groups base themselves on principles that outsiders often find outlandish, such groups often choose to spoon-feed doctrine to inductees rather than letting them study it independently, in hopes that the extreme points of doctrine will be much more acceptable to the new believer after a period of conditioning.

[edit] See also

• Code word
• Front group

[edit] References and notes

1. ↑ L. Ron Hubbard famously referred to such outsiders and newbies as "raw meat".

S T U B (The Pet Goat ate it)