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In Reply to: See the several posts/explanations below... posted by Family on October 14, 2004 at 02:37:21:
Then I understood your post, sorry about that.
However, I do not agree with Laura. I just had a talk with my 28 yr old son who is going through some hard times. Not only did he lose his father to a sex cult, but he was raised in one and it still troubles him. How can you find good in that? How can you find something good when your adult child says to you, "Mom, we were watching a movie, and the shepherd came in and said it was too violent, so he turned it off and put on a video with sisters dancing naked?" How does one explain that to one's child? How do you make excuses for that and say, "well, son, but I had some good times and made good friends!" How is that going to go over to the son who is living a troubled adult life over it. He looks at his upbringing and all he can say is it was so weird and why did I have to be born into it? How is looking at a few good times make that better? Laura can feel what she wants, but it doesn't do any good for my children who suffer to this day because of my stupid choice in entering into a cult led by a sex crazy mad man that we chose to follow. I don't feel anything good about that. Sorry - you and Laura can try and make yourself feel better and maybe not so guilty by finding some good things, but every memory I have is tainted with the smell of David Berg and his mad rantings and the idiocy of us following it. When my son tells me he made no choice in being in that group it hurts me to the core of my being. Think about the Heaven's Girl series we made our children read and the Life with Grandpa books. And Laura says she saw no child abuse and that everything was pretty much good around her? Well, bully for her, but having a Pollyanna attitude about a pathetic sex group doesn't go over very well with me. And BTW, my ex husband was one of many pathological leaders in that group. He was only one of many that hurt me and my children. Sorry, I'm just very upset about what my son is going through right now.
