so I don't think I'll say much, except to say that everything you've said here is absolutely correct, and I wish people wouldn't be so flippantly dismissive about it. I guess they just ... they don't know, don't care, can't relate, have no experience with cults. I sincerely, sincerely hope no kossack ever hears of a family member or friend getting caught up in the isolating, brainwashing clutches of this so-called church.  If there was ever a virtually invisible, profoundly fascistic, insidious threat to humankind, this is it. I know that sounds absurd, but it's true.

On the other hand, I suppose it's understandable that people wouldn't want to hear about yet another highly organized, bottomlessly wealthy, pseudo-religious evil running loose in the world. It's been years since I made a study of it. It's so god awful--so much the stuff of nightmares (and you're so completely helpless to do anything about it), now that the personal, family issue that brought the whole thing to my attention in the first place is over--honestly, I try never to think about it. I warn people when and where I can. Good posts, sock.