There are indeed entire books of the old testament about this kind of shit happening.
"Arch-heretic" Simon Magus started all this Gnostic garbage pushing salvation through secret knowledge and pretending to be the son of God. Literal antichrist shit. And here we go hundreds to thousands of years later it morphs into modern communist thought movements of veganism, feminism, eco-terrorism, transgenderism, cross-fit and whatnot pushed through cult tactics. They no longer have the capacity for rational thought unless something shocks them out of their brainwashing; it has been taken from them.
simon magus sauce - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Simon-Magus