I considered them excorcisms, but I'm not completely sure if they were or not. I just constantly look back on the program and can see so much wrong with it and wonder how I got so blind to get sucked into all of it.

I was a resident in Mercy US in 2007 and I love this quote. "You see, to read and implement the utter filth and rubbish that is RTF you have to believe it, believe it to a point that it is near impossible to have any other view on life and reality without some drastic long term therapy." It's so, so, so true. I have friends including myself trying to recover from Mercy's bs.
They used the RTF in all the homes, because if the whole program is a "vision from god" then it has to be the same in every home. I can gaurantee it's the same manual....they are just trying to keep their god ordained, last chance of healing, charismatic, bullshit homes open, because Nancy and the staff don't want to see how messed up the program is and realize that it's not "godly" at all...whatever godly is...