My parents were members of the WCG since my earliest memories. My family and I, including two older brothers and younger sister, attended church services for most if my life until the early ‘90s when the church’s doctrines were changed.
I am lucky in that, as a teenager in the church, I was far [...]
Wow. I had no idea there were so many former Worldwide Church of God members out there and especially had no idea how many had become atheist like myself. Finding your blog has somehow made me feel relieved because for so long I felt like I was the only one dealing with these personal and [...]
Hello,
I grew up from an infant in the WCG. I remember moving from Texas at about 3 and going to church at The Cotillion Ballroom in Wichita, KS. I was put out of my mother’s home at age 14 when I began to question why church officials such as Charles Reitmeier were allowed to beat [...]
This is my story, you can post it, delete it, whatever you want to do, I felt compelled to write it.
I was born in 1966 and somewhere around that time my mother, who already had some issues, became what I would regard as a hardcore christian with the church. She actually trashed a Christmas tree [...]
Dear Robert,
Thank you for your blog and I am pleased to enclose a few words regarding my personal story:
My mum joined the WCG when I was 4 years old in the early ’70s following her marriage breakdown with my father. She was a bright scientist (a nuclear physicist), but she had become disillusioned with life [...]
I JUST found this one web site, The Painful Truth and links to many, many more. I was 2 when my parents joined in San Antonio, Texas. I am still STUNNED that there are so many people out there such as myself, that STILL suffer the effects of the Gestapo tactics used in WCG. I [...]
I wrote a comment to Angela about her experience and how it saddens me to have been even a small part of such hurts and pain. Unfortunately, in my nearly 25 years as a pastor’s wife in the WCG then UCG, I saw firsthand the over-controlling, spirit-nullifying abuses of power and the misappropriation of “God’s [...]
Thank you, thank you.
Found your site about a week ago and did not sleep that night but stayed up reading the posts and following links to other sites. I cried for several hours reading stories that were so similar to mine. For the past week I have been spending an inordinate amount of time on the [...]
Dear Mr. McNally:
Thanks for creating and maintaining this blog. I am not an atheist, but I ma trying to make the most of my gift of doubt. If anything, I am a kind of Deist, maybe…believing in a great creator, or great mind behind everything, who has pretty much left us alone.
I always feel [...]
Somebody just sent me a humorous “You grew up in WGC if…” email , which inspired me to have a look around the web. Having found this site I thought I’d present my story, though my perspective may be a little different from some other posters.
Anyway, I grew up in WGC in the UK [...]