Why would you let a religious organization tell you that you can't talk to your own children?

Tori Christman tells a story that we hear over and over from many victims of religious dogma.

Tori was not a Jehovah's Witness. She is a personal friend of mine, though we live too far away to see each other often. I've been to her ex-Scientology support meetings. Though the Scientology religion is world's apart in belief structure from the Watchtower, all of our intimate feelings as ex-members remain in the same primal plane. We are hungry souls. We seek more.

I trust that you're smart enough to see the simple yet powerful primal manipulation used by many groups (fear, guilt, shame), religious or political, to advance their own egotistical causes. Don't mistake that for "more."

12/2000 - More of Tory Christman's experiences from her 30 years in Scientology. She talks about the pain of disconnection.

think: disfellowshipped, demeaned, denigrated, discounted, dumped

...for believing in something superior in morality, which oddly tends to ignite the anger of the passing heirarchical status-quo.

It's just bad gas, let it pass.

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