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Heyo subreddit, new queer ex-jw visiting possibly lingering
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Idk, just want honest advice, not trying to attack anyone, honestly. Got a nasty response in the main sub, and was told to post here

I posted a post on the regular exjw subreddit. And in doing so i realized nobody wants to talk about how the fact converts willingly joined a organization that was openly homophobic. And regardless of what they were aware of the true nature of, they were at the very least aware all queers would die in Armageddon and complacent with the notion. Like is it weird for me to not have sympathy for grown adults who joined. I feel sympathy for the abuse, but not for being manipulated. Like there are many things wrong with the religion that were blatant even to me as a 12 year old. A lot of people framed me as a mad angry born in trying to invalidate converts.

And i dunno, like i feel like i gotta draw some line there. Cause so many things that you are aware of way before baptism are so twisted. As a born-in i quite literally didnt even know what reality was even really like, and i at least could reason homophobia was suspect. Like i understand born-ins staying in as adults, cult indoctrination from birth is insanely hard to get rid of.

And by the end of my post thread, and even explaining all this, only queer people even took up this notion to even address it. Everyone else was like dont focus on everyone else. And im like, idk, this seems like something we should at least talk about, especially when it could hamper someone from feeling sympathy if its necessary

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