Have you forgiven your parents for bringing you up in the JW cult? (page 3)

Witness 007

My mum is a brainwashed mind controled Witness Zombie....who cooks nice Spagetti and loves me heaps so YES I do!

JustHuman14

This is not a matter of forgiveness. They did it because they were misleaded by false prophets. They join WT because they got deceived by liars. My dad spend his life for that. He was CO.

I do not feel agry, just pain, because this Evil Cult brought us ONLY PAIN

ohiocowboy

Renaii said...

"we as parents have that right and if the child chooses differently once they are adult they to have that right."

At what cost??? Unfortunately we all know too well the horrifying answer.

I have more trouble forgiving myself, for not waking up at an earlier age, like before I got baptized. I regret that more than anything my parents did. They never pressured me to get baptized, I made that decision all on my own.

isaacaustin

Yes, I have forgiven my parents. They did not ruin my childhood. The org did.

Black Sheep

They did it because they were misleaded by false prophets.

My father saw a prophesy fail two years after he got baptised and misled me into thinking that they were prophets.

He hid their dirty laundry from me.

He is the Watchtower.

He is guilty of everything they are.

Nowman

Yes, I forgave my parents. In regards to Renia's comment, I have to diagree with for my case. I have three children, 12, 10, & 2. I do not practice any religion and my kids know it. But, I do not tell them to stay away from religions, or what they want to believe in. We just talk when they have questions. I do not raise them with my way of thinking, because I am agnostic, they know I am but I do not encourage them to be agnostic, I encourage them to think for themselves when it comes to this and they need to learn for themselves. I do not think religion is something I can teach my children, nor do I want to.

This comes up because their dad is Lutheran, not a true practicing one, but that his affliation. My older two have asked if I wanted to be Lutheran, I said no, but that its their decision if they want to be Lutheran.

In the end, if they chose to be JW though, I would warn them...but they know what happened to me...so I doubt that they will go that way...but I will always be their mom no matter what, will always be there for them no matter what religion.

Nikki

read good books

I consider it kind of like a bus accident, my parents raised me as a JW and therfore my life was hit and run over by the Witness bus you never quite recover but you limp along the best you can.

I forgave them.

Virgochik

Yes, and no. They were simple, uneducated young people who got reeled in and raised their child as they felt was the right way. I feel sorry that happened to them, for they're good hearted. But they're older and shouldn't they be smarter now? Yet they still preach and plead with me to "return." That's the no part. In spite of everything we know now, they still want to pull me back in. Disgusting.

I imagine we have alot in common, my parents and me. Love, and frustration at the same time.

wobble

Nope. My parents looked at a number of religions, and then chose the stoopidest one.

And my own Sons resent not having had a normal childhood, I doubt they will ever fully forgive me, my excuse is ,I was born in, and I am thick.

Love

Wobble

Have you forgiven your parents for bringing you up in the JW cult?