Ex-Cult Members Are Sharing The Moments They Realized Something Was Wrong, And Holy Crappp

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“I attended but thankfully didn’t join in the end. I had just moved to Korea at 18 years old and didn’t really know anyone. I was just starting to learn Korean (conversational but still low-level) and didn’t really have many friends yet. Someone invited me to go to church with them, and they were really nice, and I wanted to meet people. I had a lot of fun at this church. The people would take me out to eat, help me with Korean, and even help me with my homework/test prep. It was the nicest church I’ve ever visited, and I felt like I had a place to fit in now. This is how they suck people in.”

“Eventually, they started pressuring me to stop working out, saying that there was an imbalance between physical and spiritual strength. I love bodybuilding, so being physically strong was an issue for them. They were pressuring me to lose muscle and try to make myself sick if possible, to make my body as weak as possible. They said if I didn’t, my soul would grow restless and crawl out of my mouth when I was asleep.

I repeatedly said I wasn’t interested but wanted to continue attending this church. This was not acceptable at all. They strongly pressured me to start making myself sick. I stopped going to the church, and they waited outside of my school for me and followed me around for what seemed like a couple of months. They knew my class schedule and were always outside trying to talk to me. Eventually, they backed off, and I never heard from them again.”

—kyoto_kinnuku