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Originally Posted by SerenityLives
One last thing, if this forum isnt built for ex church kids, shouldnt we be making it more friendly instead of keep following in our old ways to push the young out. After all, I’m sure the younger ex Lcers make up half the ex LC population.
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I was in a LC started in the Great Migration out of Elden Hall. Many young families with children, dozens of them all told, and when I went back years later, they were all gone but maybe 2 out of more than 50. The rest were "Not meeting" as the parents dejectedly reported. A few had been siphoned off to serve the ministry. The vast majority were gone as gone. That's just one "locality"... we're probably talking thousands of young children who weren't allowed any semblance of a normal childhood because they were being groomed for the Cause, then who got summarily spit into the World because they couldn't Make It. They were thoroughly indoctrinated to be isolated and fearful of the Evil World, run by Satan, then suddenly comes the troubled and uncertain teen years and then just as suddenly they're pushed out into the World because they weren't fit for God's Plan.
Don't you think they deserve to have some kind of voice? I do. Don't you think they matter? I do. We're only as self-actualized as we allow others around us to actualize themselves. If I'm the only person getting healed, then I'm not getting healed.