You would think that with Herbert Armstrong restoring the one true religion after 1,900 years and creating the ONLY true church on the face of the earth that it would be a place of refuge and comfort for the dispossessed. But no, it actually worked the opposite way. It destroyed families, wrecked marriages, caused the deaths of thousands because of medical doctrines, and contribute to the suicides of hundreds more.
There have been numerous cases through the years of church members kicking their kids out of the house for one reason or another. One woman has written a little about her life when she was 13 and decided she no longer wanted to attend church with her mother. Her mother basically turned her back on her as did the rest of the family. Not until her brothers and sisters left WCG did there ever begin some healing. Of course her mother still ignores her because she currently is in some splinter cult (probably Flurry's cult). Read Amelia's story here I was Abandoned By My Family
What I want to describe is the emotional anguish of someone who was abandoned by their family simply because I could not in my deepest soul believe what they believed. Intrinsically, I knew the WCG was wrong for me. What I didn’t realize was that my family would cast me out because I did not believe. For 15 years my family would have nothing to do with me because their "family" was the "church." I was ostracized, unwelcome, and had none of the "normal" family contact. My mother told no one that she had an eldest daughter. I was never mentioned to anyone as a sister, and when I came to visit my parents at their home, they were embarrassed to receive me and couldn’t wait for me to leave. I felt like a pariah.
There is a guy on Facebook who is telling those that are discussing the things they went trough and the abuse they received in WCG, to "just get over it'.
Armstrongism continues to this day to stick its head in the sand concerning what it has done to its youth. They think summer camps and "Winter Festivals" makes it OK. They can remain diligent (suffer) through absurd doctrine but can be rewarded with a little fun now and then.
