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Advice needed

Posted by Michael on September 05, 2004 at 14:26:26

Getting out of the cult is one thing but getting the cult out of you is quite another. This has been brought home to me quite forcibly recently and l am in a real quandry as to what to do about it.

I recently joined a very on fire charismatic church and met a couple who are also ex members. However, our respective take on the whole thing is completely opposite. I am totally opposed to all aspects of what we experienced and now realise that we were well and truly duped to the point where l treat any F teaching, no matter how doctrinally innocent it is, with the utmost suspicion. This couple however seem to view there time in the F as having been beneficial and are grateful for all that they "learned". There attitude to the other church members is, to say the least, condescending. In short l see so much in their behaviour that has definite F overtones.

This wouldn't matter that much if it weren't for their two children, nine and ten year olds, who they "home school". The problem is that these kids are getting zilch education. Whenever l have visited them at all times of the day they are never receiving structured lessons, the best they get is some educational software on the computer that they are left to their own devices with. The youngest is illiterate. This is put down to his "dyslexia" which l doubt exists and if it does then surely it is all the more reason to put him in school where he can get the right support.

I am so concerned about this that l am considering alerting the authorities to their plight. As adults the parents can do and believe whatever they please but it grieves me to see their children's education being neglected because of their inability or unwillingness to see the F for the destructive cult it was and remains.

What would you do? I have tried to broach the subject with the parents but their minds remain closed.