Counsellors ? They never had counsellors when I was there, their idea of counselling was to surround you and shout over your head in some weird hysterical language. I'm not surprised you struggle to trust anyone after suffering these bullies. Nae forgiveness here, just hope you can get some professional counselling from a patient competent professional.
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When the leader stars denouncing members and asserting her and her father's authority over the church in God's name of course, then it's time to leave. When the positions of authority are given to family members of friends of the leaders it is time to leave. God does not exist, manipulative men have invented the idea and used it to control others for centuries.
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I wish I had had someone to talk to when I left a manipulative church 20years ago. Now, all I have is a partner with dementia who does not understand any of it. I replaced it with beer and family, sadly the beer was a better support than the selfish wasters who claimed to be family. I only joined the church because it was the first place I felt I belonged after bullying by family and at school.
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Hullo Henri, I didn't get the impression from the 13 years I was part of this awful lot that anyone really cared who you were or what you thought of them. You cannot approach the leaders, they only go through their God and when I did express a struggle with my faith Jennifer Jack was shocked but not interested in asking why. That shows arrogance. I did send them an Email asking for an exp
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These people do not believe in a God. They believe in their own power to dominate and manipulate people to make themselves look terribly spiritual and very righteous. Gillian Beath, who was prominent in the Sunday School in Falkirk in 97 even suggested to the youth meeting that retail therapy was good preparation for spiritual cleansing at night. I can't believe anyone would still believe
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Oh yes, I now about this. A church in Glasgow, called Struthers, had a leader who made us all stand like naughty school children while she admonished anyone who had questioned the leadership. She let us all get into a state of mutual hysteric excitement before launching her tirades. Struthers Memorial Church in Greenock, Glasgow and Falkirk run by the Black family an their accolytes in the Beath
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I joined this disgustingly manipulative group led by the bully Hugh Black in 1984, by 1996 I realised how dishonest they really were. They tell you God does not want you he wants your funeral, just to emphasis how worthless you are to the. Then, when you ask for prayer to be delivered from you weakness they remind you how you failed in the past and say it is up to you. So, if it is God who gets t
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