{"id":1734,"date":"2016-12-06T15:54:28","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T20:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubfriends.net\/?p=1734"},"modified":"2016-12-06T15:55:02","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T20:55:02","slug":"move-on-with-your-life-dont-blame-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/move-on-with-your-life-dont-blame-the-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Move on with your life &#8211; don&#8217;t blame the Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the typical advice you get from a cult that does not want to change.<\/p>\n<p>Leah Remini, one of my favorite actors &#8211; though I actually only know her from &#8220;King of Queens&#8221; &#8211; got the same advice when she started to speak out about her experience and tried to warn and help others:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O5dk4i0nMw8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Dropouts are pushed to move on so that the cult can also move on undisturbed, exploiting the next generation of victims.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, there are always a few who don&#8217;t just move on, but also care about revealing the truth to the public.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s difficult. You will lose your former &#8220;friends&#8221; in the cult, and even worse, you may lose family members still stuck in the cult. People outside the cult will not understand what you&#8217;ve gone through and why you stayed in that toxic environment for so long, they may think you&#8217;re crazy. But leaving the cult is the best thing you can do, and telling others about your experience is even better.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Leah.<\/p>\n<p>(See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aetv.com\/shows\/leah-remini-scientology-and-the-aftermath\">Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the typical advice you get from a cult that does not want to change. Leah Remini, one of my favorite actors &#8211; though I actually only know her from &#8220;King of Queens&#8221; &#8211; got the same advice when she started to speak out about her experience and tried to warn and help others: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,129,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-cults","category-movie","category-personality","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}