Losing my religion: life after extreme belief

[TubbyTubby]

Losing my religion: life after extreme belief

http://gu.com/p/4t62v?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Tapatalk

"Word spread among the family and several of my aunts and uncles turned up to talk us out of it. It started with: “You know better than this” and spiralled into shouting as we left. I went back the next day to pick up the rest of my stuff and knocked on the front door of the house I grew up in for the first time. The cold was immediate. I knew straight-away that I was not a part of the church any more. I was out. I miss my family every single day."

3 victims of very different cults but their stories all sound similar.

[Athene]

I casually told a co-worker that she was weird once, because she would just blurt out the oddest shit at inappropriate times. Imagine my surprise when teared up and told me that she was sorry. She'd spent all of her childhood and formative years in a cult, isolated from regular society, and that she too thought she was weird; It frustrated her to not be particularly good at reading social cues.

Hoo-boy....Awkward!

These days she's a very outspoken atheist, btw.
Makes even the most 'angry' atheists here seem like lightweights.

[Excited Penguin]

Well here's a nice interview with Megan Phelps-Roper:
https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/l...the-church