A blog entry Saturday on Experience Project: I am a Loner
That realization came to me after months of honest in depth bible study . I felt that I had to leave the church. The church had been my only family and all my friends were in the church. My own real family had abandoned me years earlier. When I left KY to go to Pasadena CA, for years I went by and nobody from my family bothered to call and check up on me. I could have been dead all those years and they would not have even known.
Anyway back to Worldwide Church of God. Sometime around 1989 I decided to leave the church. I was living in Milwaukee WI at the time. When I left my phone stopped ringing. Nobody invited me over anymore. It was as though I had died. None of the church members kept in touch with me. My real family had abandoned me earlier and now my only friends from church now left me alone. I was living in Milwaukee, no family and now no friends. It was tough. I had never been alone before. I grew up in a family of 8. Never knew what it was like to be alone. Now I was all alone.
Complete story here: Legalistic Religion Ruined My Life: Lonely Man Today