Non-Believer Former Members of the Worldwide Church of God

I was a member of WCG— for too long— a huge chunk was taken out of my life.

A while back, I came across “The Painful Truth”, and after reading many of these articles, I realized I had made a deadly mistake— from age 13.

In this post I would like to make the following points:

1) WCG had the greatest impact in my life— its tentacles still pull at me.

2) Years after exiting, and much research, I found no answers— there are NO answers.

3) Some attempts were made by myself to inform others of my “new found” information; NO ONE responded; ironically I could not convert them; so much for “open minds.”

4) I had pointed out many horrors that former members had experienced, such as broken homes and
other issues— typical comments were that these tales were an exaggeration— so much for “True” Christian values; the DOCTRINES were all that mattered; never mind the misery of the members— I have been appalled by the CALLOUS nature of its members, and the blase response to suffering.

5) Many members who had exited, still had the SAME PROBLEMS than when they were in the WCG; e.g. self righteousness, talking down to people, thinking they have to correct other churches, starting tiny followings of about 5 or 6 people, and then castigating me for not joining their “fellowship”

I was a member in South Africa, and reside there at present.

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