RE: Advice needed
November 18, 2016 at 11:22 pm
(This post was last modified: November 18, 2016 at 11:24 pm by Whateverist.)
(November 18, 2016 at 10:17 am)Alex K Wrote:(November 18, 2016 at 9:44 am)mh.brewer Wrote: If she is not harming herself or others, they (the church) is not harming her and she is happy, from my POV you're gonna have to let it go. You don't get to force her not to believe any more than she gets to force you to believe.
Who knows, the church and their community may be filling a need that she was missing. Kind of sad but it may be true. Would you say that she was in a place that would make her susceptible to their sales pitch?
Sorry, but I don't share your happily libertarian attitude towards family-destroying cults.
If they practise scientology-style disconnection, and it sounds that way, it's a case for professionals who know how cults work. Yes, they probably fill a need of hers, but exploiting said need as a vulerability to psychologically isolate and enslave people is not cool, don't you think?
I don't think it is necessarily a matter of being too easy going. If you fight her on it, it likely won't change her mind but it may well push her away and out of your life. Very sad though.
Wait. Is she a minor? Screw that, get her out of there.
Nope. She's 22. It's her call.
