great repost from Moving On, very powerful stuff

from Albatross - December 6, 2002
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Letter to Zerby # 2

To: Zerby and FGAs

At the time of my writing this article there are 448 registered members to the movingon site. I am given to understand that most of these are unique. In other words, only a very small percentage of users have more than one screen name. There are many more who read this site on a daily basis.
The virtual screaming continues. The stories of pain and abuse continue. The suicide count grows.
Where is The Family? Where are the leaders? Where is the media team? Where are our parents? Where are the Christians so dedicated to helping the poor, the abandoned and the lost?
What has been you direct response to us? SILENCE. Why silence?
Because you are listening to your lawyers instead of to the cries and anger of your children. Does this surprise us? No. It does not shock us that the same people who abused us or who looked the other way as we were abused, should now look the other way and turn a deaf ear when we come for answers.
To our Parents: Where is the outrage?
Where is the outrage at the abuse that we suffered? Listen Family adults……Silence is consent. Your selfish search for meaning in your life has led you to be silent as the innocence of your lambs was slaughtered. Forget your tired and overused mantra that “The Family is the best place you know to serve Jesus.” You now have hundreds of your children who beg to differ.
Let’s talk about underestimating us. We are people who survived years of abuse.
We are people who have left everything to try to rebuild our lives from scratch. We are people who learned to read those over us in order to survive. Every Gn that comes out damning us as being vehicles for blood dripping demons, every month of silence that goes by, every ignored tale of abuse, only serves to augment the ranks of these determined and resourceful people.
We are not the FGS. We did not choose your way of life, not even in its halcyon days. Your castle is not only in danger from the front. Sappers are quietly mining under your walls. The “fifth column” in your midst is your children and our brothers and sisters. The fire has burned a gap bigger than any “Abner” will ever be able to fill.
Can you fight a war on multiple fronts? Do you have enough media teams? Do you have enough lawyers? Do you have enough stamina? We are young. We are in our ascendancy. We are just stretching our legs and sharpening our claws. Family leaders, when will you decide that it become too much and just cut the rest of The Family loose and live off of your ill gotten gains? Here are some thing for you to keep in mind Zerby: we are not the FGAs, we do not work like them; we do not react like them, and our stories are not them same as theirs. Your strategy for combating their attacks will not work on us.
Are you really so proud of who your are. Do you really believe in your C vs. C revolution? Then come out and answer for your writing. Come out and face your past beliefs.. Face the children you abused. Zerby, tell the children who you watched Berg abuse, your beliefs on fondling children.
Once the word of your hidden past spreads to all those Christians you have been courting, you will find the reception chilly at the very least, and you may even find a profound sense of anger and betrayal. But I am sure you must by now know. Whether they believe the stories of the abused children or not, the shear weight of the horror of the stories will put them off you for good.
Forget “A rose by another name.” Forget “deceivers yet true.” We will always find out. And you will always be running. You will have no rest in your dotage Zerby. You will find no refuge Peter. You have destroyed lives. You have built an empire of religious charlatanism. History has not dealt kindly with the likes of you. Give it up. Let the people go. Face your crimes. Let the real Christians and the real missionaries do their work. Let the sordid memory of Berg rest where you buried him. Don’t prop up you dictatorship with the conjured up words of the ghost of a perverted incestual child molester.
Your days as a deified false prophetess are numbered.

Daniel