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In Reply to: Re: Thanks. Feeling of anger but gratitude for salvation posted by anon on October 12, 2002 at 11:02:34:
When I left the Family I retained faith in God, but I realize that I'm in the minority. That may also largely be that I was a Christian before I joined them, and wanted to get back to simple stuff.
Most people like yourself and especially the second generation have either chucked God out or put him in the box in the attic. No surprise. We all experienced such faith-destroying, hypocritical, Pharisaical, "christianity" that used, pimped and crushed us, that many of us wanted nothing more to do with even a non-Berg form Christianity after the Family experience.
Our faith was Bergered, if you take my meaning.
I think the reason my faith survived was because while still in the group, I realized Berg and Zerby were out to lunch and clearly began to see where they were wrong. So I could make the distinction between basic faith and what I was more and more recognizing as an abusive, warped version of Christianity.
But many people I care a great deal about have been so spiritually abused and raped, not to mention physically and psychologically molested, that any concept of 'God' disgusts them. This is the TRUE "fruit" of the Family, not the puffed-up, falsely-inflated witnessing stats.
I think one helluva big millstone is waiting for Family leadership and it's gonna take them right to the bottom of the Lake.
