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In Reply to: forgiveness, accountability and responsibility posted by ethicist on December 08, 2002 at 21:24:38:
I agree with that summation regarding the Nazis, Germans and Jews. It is important also to note, I think, that all of us exers were in that concentration camp called the family, and there are major differences between the Wiesenthal issue and the cult issue. Do you see it as the fGAs being the Nazis and the SGAs being the Jews?
Maybe some people chose to join a sex-crazed abusive cult, but I didn't. And even if I had, I am sure I would have been nurtured along with the "milk" before the hook of the "meat". I actually believed God could kill me and/or my kids if we left. For a long time. A cult is much more subtle than what the Nazis did in Germany. The Jews knew they were being rounded up and facing extermination.
I still believe in the boiled slowly explanation with regards to FGAs. I think we were all victims of a holocaust and Jews in concentration camps, especially the ones that survived had to do atrocious things against every moral thought or ideal that they ever had. They told on each other, they screwed soldiers for food. Some were kept. When people are reduced to nothing, survival kicks in. And that can be ugly. So I have no problem with saying that I hate the Family doctrines and top leaders (M&P) but I do see some current members as being under the influence. Would I protect them as far as not exposing the family? No. That would not be helping them. I hope legal action does occur against the fam. and am all for the outing of public fronts for the fam. But I hope that most current members get out and have resources for recovery when they do. After all, many of them now have children. And all of us were at one time them. (FGAs were once adults that joined the family and stayed in for years, and SGAs, many are still in the family. And they are having kids.) So why not unite in the ways that each of us can work to further recovery? For some, it will be lawsuits and testimony. For others, digging up resources. Some may be able to house people or offer them jobs. Aren't these all positive efforts? What do you think?
