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“I used to be unintentionally in a non secular cult. I might see how the pastor would deal with non-members and members who didn’t adjust to what he needed. I might assume, ‘I hope he doesn’t begin appearing this fashion in direction of me.‘ He would berate individuals, gossip, anticipate us to remain at his home till late hours, forbid us to hang around with non-members, and he even requested me to maneuver in after I already had my very own place. I observed it was a cult after I advised them I used to be hanging out with an outdated buddy, and so they proceeded to ask why, as a result of they had been my pals. I got here to a service the next Sunday, and the pastor noticed me and mentioned, ‘I had a message I used to be going to evangelise, however I’m going to evangelise a unique message at this time.’ The entire service was just about him speaking shit about me and making impolite jokes…”
“I knew his sermon was about me when he saved referencing the ‘particular person’ hanging out with different individuals and saying it was sinful. I by no means felt so embarrassed in my life; everybody was laughing at me. I sat there the complete service, embarrassed. As soon as I left, a number of members tried to contact me, just a few of them making an attempt to ‘go to the flicks’ with me at midnight once they knew rattling effectively the closest film theatre was an hour away. After I finished going to that church, just a few of the members utterly stopped speaking to me, regardless of us being ‘pals.’ I nonetheless can’t consider that occurred to me.”