Invisible Wrote:
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> We can find fault with anyone or anything if we
> choose to do so - we can even cry about how we
> were robbed of all the presents we didn't buy,
> give or get because some one told us not to
> celebrate Christmas (easy now) - or one might ask
> - why did one join the church, if they had to give
> up something that was extremely important to them
> or why would one give up was what they believed
> in?
Invisible, I am happy for you that your family was able to live and let live and remained intact. I can assure you that many posters on this message board had the opposite experience.
I came into the church as a young person living at home. I didn't "decide" to join the Walk, and neither did many other young people. One parent joined the cult and one didn't. I'm not sad over presents. I'm sad because of a divorce and lost time and memories with parents and other loved ones who are no longer living.
I have the impression that you are a JRS apologist, feeling that the Walk only went astray after your "apostle" was no longer leading. I don't know what to say to you, other than that was not my experience. I believe that JRS was a cult leader who ruined the lives of so many. He instituted the practice of arranged marriages and arranged divorces. He tore families apart. He taught us to pray for the death of his enemies. He taught us that we alone were God's chosen people and all other churches were Babylon. If someone dared disagree with him, he branded them a nephilim. That person was shunned in no uncertain terms. He led people to invest their life savings in idiotic ventures like the Nevada mine.
Here's a quote from "The Path", a show about a cult on Hulu: "Once you've seen the freak show, you can't unsee it." You apparently never saw the freak show.
Also, blamimg the victims for joining is a low blow.
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> We can find fault with anyone or anything if we
> choose to do so - we can even cry about how we
> were robbed of all the presents we didn't buy,
> give or get because some one told us not to
> celebrate Christmas (easy now) - or one might ask
> - why did one join the church, if they had to give
> up something that was extremely important to them
> or why would one give up was what they believed
> in?
Invisible, I am happy for you that your family was able to live and let live and remained intact. I can assure you that many posters on this message board had the opposite experience.
I came into the church as a young person living at home. I didn't "decide" to join the Walk, and neither did many other young people. One parent joined the cult and one didn't. I'm not sad over presents. I'm sad because of a divorce and lost time and memories with parents and other loved ones who are no longer living.
I have the impression that you are a JRS apologist, feeling that the Walk only went astray after your "apostle" was no longer leading. I don't know what to say to you, other than that was not my experience. I believe that JRS was a cult leader who ruined the lives of so many. He instituted the practice of arranged marriages and arranged divorces. He tore families apart. He taught us to pray for the death of his enemies. He taught us that we alone were God's chosen people and all other churches were Babylon. If someone dared disagree with him, he branded them a nephilim. That person was shunned in no uncertain terms. He led people to invest their life savings in idiotic ventures like the Nevada mine.
Here's a quote from "The Path", a show about a cult on Hulu: "Once you've seen the freak show, you can't unsee it." You apparently never saw the freak show.
Also, blamimg the victims for joining is a low blow.