Comments on: Stephen Wallace

By: Koresh

Koresh — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 21:47:13 +0000

Hi Ray, you stated that:

“I am an atheist, I have never seen god or any evidence he exists. I will never trust anyone who is an authority figure. I may never trust another human being enough to allow them close to me.”

You know that this will not lead to happiness anymore than being in a cult did. Your past life experiences turned everything to black and darkness. But darkness disappears the minute a light is turned on. Find your light switch, turn it on, learn to love again.

By: Ray D. L.

Ray D. L. — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:03:30 +0000

Stephen,

Greetings, and a happy today! Like you, I am a former WCG member, having entered the church in December 1971, the told not to return again in summer of 1982. I experienced years of not being permitted to drive a car, as I was tld by the ministry to take lessons from anyone out of the Church would disqualify me from entrance into God’s kingdom. I was told about having all kinds of dating opportunities within WCG, yet never once had a church girlfriend although I tried. Withoutdriving, no American girl wants you, including the stuck-up snobs of the WCG. Eventually, after years, I dated a girl not in the church, me a white guy and her an Oriental. So, I was told not to return to church (1982). The ministry did not want me to date either in the church nor out of it. The WCG ministry is, I believe, a blasphemous homsexual prversion. Also, in 1972, the ministry visited me with the suggestions that I drop out of school and get a job in the local steel mill, and that I marry a certain church lady… and I did not even know who she was, yet the ministry wanted me to marry her. There were other things too. The Feast of tabernacles was a financial albatros around my impoverished neck, as were other Holy Days. Tithing and special offerings ate up my finances, loneliness was driving me insane because I couldn’t drive. Then, because I dated an Oriental lady who was not a ECG member, the ministry told me that as far as they were concerned I had experienced a false conversion and was never really a Christian to begin with. This is the sort of cruelty the FALSE ministers of satan apply… not the true ministers of God. So, I am no longer a member of WCG, but I am now a free man, and I don’t need the baloney of the hate-filleed ministry of the WCG ministry.
I’ll remeber you in prayer. Remember, God is not our enemy. However, the churches that misappropriate His name are His and our enemies. God bless!

- Ray D. L.-

By: cathy

cathy — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 13:48:34 +0000

There is more to life than what has happened to us in the past–there is also the future. I understand the anger that you speak of completely, but I feel that if we get stuck in that part of our greiving process that they have won!! We are a strong people to have survived the hell of the church! I wish you peace.

By: Jen

Jen — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:19:02 +0000

I can remember the worst of the most impossible worst at my time dealing with my mother forcing me to go to the ROLLING HILLS COVENANT CHUCH week at Lake Arrowhead…Some kind of friggan retreat…RETREAT for the PARENTS…okay…so…here I did as my mother told me to every year for (2) years…it WAS HELL!!!! Talk about being left out, it was absolute friggan HELL!! Cheer leader-types up the wazoo, it was the wurst of the wurst…here we go!!! Give me a break! I took off every opportunity…it made matters worse not better.

By: Robert D.

Robert D. — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:54:34 +0000

I was really grieved and saddened to read your story. You say that “in the end you will have nothing”, and your sufferings and losses are plain to see. Yet you have realised the cultic influences to which you were subject, — as I too have. That’s really something isn’t it? There are thousands who haven’t realised this but you have. And you have your life, damaged to be sure, but still present.

I do hope you will find peace and not let the damage of the past rob you of a future.