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Originally Posted by Unregistered
It’s a shame that certain people make it so off putting for many others to participate as I am certain that there are many more church kids out there that stumble upon it.. Unfortunately it often reflects the very same attitudes from the LR that we’re trying to find healing from. We’ve already spent The entirety of our formative years being manipulated by men of a certain demographic on how to behave, think, feel, dress, marry, raise children etc and don’t have any energy left for people who wish to be version 2.0.
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I suspect that there are thousands who grew up in the LR and left, totally unprepared for the world but determined not to look back, like Lot's wife. They do a search on the web, find this forum, see people harping at each other over the Trinity or "modes" or whatever and they're like, "No thanks". Completely sensible and valid reaction. Why go back to version 2.0?
Many on here, yours truly among them, are not "good discussion forum material" but simply use the forum to sound off. But the ex church kids are especially not meant to fit in here. Maybe they don't want to discuss, they want to shout! They don't want to reflexively say, "amen" they want to say, "Naff off!" And we should give them LOTS of grace to find a safe space to speak up here. Many of them now want nothing to do with God, associating it with years of unrelieved trauma that they (hopefully) left far behind them.
The WLMCP
* was so subtle, for all its amateurishness at times, in that it weaved 'orthodox' Christian tropes with mind-control techniques, so many of these ex LC children are simply allergic to what most would call 'normal' Christian discussion. Yet they passed thru the fire and deserve a place at the table. Whatever place that is, is theirs to determine, not ours.
They were told that Mommy & Daddy made a choice, now they can't make any choices but have to be sold out for the ministry. Or Grampa got some light back in 1968, now they have to shut up and sit in some dumb meeting, day after week after year. Give them some space. They need it. Even if they choose to say things we don't always agree with, let them feel free to speak up. They have a right to vent, to heal.
Jesus healed people, fairly indiscriminately. He didn't just heal the "good material" for some Greater Cause. His greater cause was the human being, every single one of them who came in front of him and asked for help got it. Even the Syro-Phoenician woman, who wasn't supposed to be approaching a "good Jew" like Jesus. Yet he cared, he reached out, he healed. He taught, "Love those who can't/won't love you back." The whole thing w Jesus was the formerly dispised/rejected/shunned "Other" was now "Us". Yet we too easily set up our arbitrary comfortable fences to keep out the "Other".
How many thousands of ex Church Kids have stumbled on this site and said, "Why bother". They might get some helpful info but why bother with the abuse? Who needs LR 2.0?
All of us have been abused, and have also been abusive. I'm sure I have.
*Witness Lee Mind Control Programme