My So Cult Life

  I took a break from blogging for a bit. I was concerned that my posts about my cult upbringing had me coming off as more of a “victim” than I had intended. That is to say that they showed any shred of victimhood whatsoever. In the process of worrying about how I was being perceived, I got a much clearer lens on the process of recovering from gaslighting . Recently, I started to notice that I have been teaching my daughter not to accept everything I taught her as automatically being a fact. There was always an underlying message there of “don’t trust me just because I’m your mommy.” Now that she is getting older, she is really starting to own the question “why?” And although she hasn’t asked the question itself yet, she has been building up to it over the past few weeks. “Why shouldn’t I trust my mommy?” Oh… uh… I think I may have screwed this up. After a bit of reflection, it became clear to me. I’m teaching my daughter not to trust me because I shouldn’t have trusted my mom. M...

  In a previous blog post, I posed the rhetorical question, "What did Herbert W. Armstrong do that was so wrong?" That post was shared on the  Banned By HWA  blog (which I HIGHLY recommend you check out at some point) and generated the following comment from one of its readers. " Tonto said... The post said...." So, really, what did he do that was so bad?" MY RESONSE: ARE YOU KIDDING?? * People DIED from the no medical treatment concept, including children! * Multitudes of happy marriages were wrecked because of D and R * Retirements and Financial well being were severely wrecked by endless hounding of money. * A culture of submission and minimizing denied 100s of thousand of people the opportunity to grow , explore and prosper * The promotion of child abuse and beatings. AND MANY MORE! Incidentally, the poster fantasized about "confronting HWA to his face". At least from 1970 on, it was impossible to gain access to HWA face to fa...