Posted by saya nara on May 07, 2008 at 01:10:19
In Reply to: Re: Leaving religious groups - your experinces posted by Helena Dawn on February 23, 2008 at 13:02:41:
I guess this question wasn't for me. I was in a destructive cult that I thought was a religious group with good intentions. It was called Children of God, then Family of Love and I was recruited as a teen. I wasn't saved from drug addiction or crime life.
I left an abusive home and thought the COG was loving at first. It didn't dawn on me how organized it was from the begining or that it's top honcho was an incestuous pedophile.
It was hard to see the bad for the indoctrination that was contrary to the (at first)secretive life of the leader and a handful of leaders.
I thought I found loving family and although there were loving individuals, I saw the life go out of them as they advanced in positions towards the top. As another has said, families were split up- in the name of the best thing for them. There is too much to write, but years and years later it can still have profound effect on people.
Looking back, I can see that a man and his whore (current leader- KZ) played behind the scenes via charismatic leadership, like they were Christians when they were methodically setting up plans to exploit the young women, turning them out as "Hookers For Jesus" and then encouraging mass pro-creation so they could be able to exploit a "pure" generation by separating many of them from there families and seriously abusing them. All were injured.
Look at the literature provided here by clicking on COG pubs. Read the Articles. Go to boards to see the fallout on the youth born into it. Have a read of "Not Without My Sister". Google this book and you can get it via Amazon or order it through your local bookstore.
Plenty of info in there.