Charity
Just found your website and it’s very nice to know I’m not the only one. WCG/Armstrongism helped my mom ruin my life. My mother was an immature 19 when she had me. She and my father were young when they had married and I apparently was in her way. I wasn’t allowed to be anything less than perfect. I was under constant pressure from her, my grandmother, and the church to do everything just right. I unfortunately have this nasty little habit of thinking for myself and had it as a child too.
My mother would beat me or sic my father on me for being rebellious because I didn’t get something done quick enough to suit her. When I had finally had enough of this kind of treatment I went to the pastor and complained. He told on me and I received an awful beating for it and was made to apologize to the pastor for “wasting his valuable time that he could’ve been spending with other members that really did need his help”.
I was made to take care of my younger sisters at church while my parents enjoyed the company of their peers. If one of my younger sisters got into trouble then it was my fault and I got beaten again. If I didn’t set the proper example for them and they screwed up I was beaten. Everyone knew what was going on and no one ever said anything to my parents.
I attended church off and on for a few years after my nervous breakdown at 16. I did go back to a splinter group that my mom attends(United Chuch of God) when I had my first child. She was born out of wedlock and people that I had know all my life snubbed me. These people watched me grow up and could barely mutter “hi” to me.
Now, I want nothing to do with organized religion/crime. Unfortunately, My mother ended up with custody of my daughter and now she is being exposed to the same BS that I was. I’m headed back to court to try to rescue her from the hell of my childhood.
Thanks for the site.
Charity
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June 11th, 2006 at 3:17 pm
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Take it easy, Charity.
I was a member of the Worldwide from 1975 to 1996, in England.
While the national culture believes in freedom, democracy and equal rights under the law for all, the ultra-Armstrongite clergy class here believed in gratuitous abuse and insult, not only in public but in private. I saw this with other people, and experienced it myself. I was a very good example, having entered Worldwide in my mid-teens. However, it made no difference to the swaggering, arrogant clergy class and their treatment of myself. I am afraid they succeed brillantly in ruining my young life. Fortunately, I can look back to my, often times really, happy childhood before Worldwide decided to teach myself their ways, and their perverted doctrines. The reason I replied to your post is for you to realize that this so called church and all its offshoots was a totalitarian,money making scam as proved by Ambassador Report on the painfultruth.org website. My personal pain at the hands of the Armstrong Clergy Class could fill a big volume! Please read the letters sent in by people that were published in Ambassador Report. Best of luck!
July 31st, 2006 at 8:11 am
Good news guys! You can have your own personal digitized issues of the late John Trechak’s Ambassador Report on PDF at http://www.hwarmstrong.com/ambassador-report.pdf . Enjoy!
October 21st, 2006 at 8:44 pm
Or if the PDF of all issues of the Ambassador Report is too large, you may browse individual issues online at http://www.hwarmstrong.com/ar/index.htm
March 12th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
Ilija,
I have deleted your comment. Preaching is not allowed here.