False promises. They told me that they would help me attract the opposite sex (along with the paradise, living forever, and the like) if I went along. Of course, they kept pushing that back every time I met the goals--and, once I got baptized, they started putting me around all men and using the a$$emblies to prevent me from making it with the opposite sex. Of course, they wanted me to pio-sneer, and to become a hounder (which would have been up to them, and they would make sure I had zero opportunities with the opposite sex (and plenty of Value Destroyer Training School/Second Dark Ages Starting opportunities) before letting me go on.
All a scam--I soon realized that, if I made it into the New Dark Ages (and that was if it came), the opposite sex would be driven away (and, if I stayed in the congregation, the opposite sex would be driven away and all die, even if the New Dark Ages came on time). And I would be forever with just plain men--and the knowledge that all the opposite sex's demise was my fault because I drove them away from the congregation.
Needless to say, I have zero to lose by practicing apostasy.