Did I join a cult?

And worse, a sex cult? Heaven's no, I never thought I joined such a thing. Was I given all the information when I joined up? No way. Had I known what Berg was doing with young girls and his own children, I would have run the other way without ever looking back.

I think there were many abuses in the F., young and old alike and I feel sorry that the young or second gens do not see that. I know some do and Porcelein doll here gave a very good account of her feelings. I can talk to her, I can talk to others that I have met online and they understand. What do you think the difference is where some hold all FGAs in low regard and have no idea what we might have went through. Sure, sure, we joined of our own free will, that is true, but what did we join? Once we joined up and thought we were serving God or doing something worthwhile and beneficial for the good of mankind, the indoctrination began and it never let up, it only got worse and worse until when we finally left from either pure disgust or being kicked out, or to save our children, we were nothing but emotional shreds. I personally think there are abuses and victims across the board and I don't understand why the second gens cannot see that.

One of my first encounters with friendship when leaving the F. was with a second gen Hari Krishna. She sat in my legal typing class and we would talk endlessly about our past. She being the child of hippie parents who joined the Hari Krishna and me being the 60s girl who joined the COG and had children. She was just the sweetest thing and so understanding. Both she and her parents left together after her brother was murdered in the hari krishna and the murder being subsequently covered up. She was very close to her parents and never breathed a bad word about them. She could have been very bitter by the sheer fact that her parents were stupid enough to join an alterior lifestyle like that and subject her brother to being under the hands of unscrupulous people. Yet she didn't blame her parents. She was very, very helpful to me in understanding my children and what they were going through, coming from the angle of a child of cult parents. I wish I could find that in the SGA community here, but it's hard to find. Anyone else with comments?