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certainly what you say here has some merit, but that does excuse, condone, or explaine the activities of the cult, whose MAIN objective is to control people, take their money, make them into slaves, while PRETENDING to do good.
I am not condoning cults - I was in one, (twice!), and I know how abusive they are. I also know how hard it is to break from a cult but I found in order to truly leave I also had to leave behind a lot of earlier parts of my life. I had to get rid of the stuff that took me in there in the first place otherwise I would have continued the same life in a different form - shacked up with an abusive partner, found an abusive workplace etc. etc. In this situation I would apparently have had more freedom. But essentially nothing would have changed.
Looked at from another angle a workmate of mine became a Jehovah's Witness. Many people found this strange because he'd always been one of the boys. He was also though always dogmatic, always correct, often very aggressive, felt himself to be superior to the rest, so from my point of view his becoming a JW was not difficult to understand. Again he was living out the same life as before, only now it was more expensive.
I applaud the work you do here, helping abuse victims is always worthwhile. I just see things in a particular way after my own experience and intense battle with the things in me that made me feel comfortable (for a while) in a cult.
This seems to have upset someone - did you remove a post? All I can say is that openess to others ideas and the willingness to constantly reexamine what you take for granted are the hallmarks of a free individual.