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Date Posted: 07:52:32 11/04/04 Thu
Author: Chris
Subject: Re: Parents in UBF
In reply to: PECAS 's message, "Re: Parents in UBF" on 19:08:33 11/03/04 Wed

Jim and Sue Paul once visited us in Germany and I had the pleasure to talk with them for a while. They are really nice people. Probably they have no idea what is going on in UBF, because parents - as indicated - are treated very different from ordinary members. They get love, appreciation, Korean food etc. and they are not pushed to participate in anything, they are not forced or abused, they don't need to practice dancing or delivering messages, they don't need to spend all of their time with UBF. Even if we would talk to them about our experiences, they would probably not believe, because their own experience is so much different. They only see the bright side of UBF (yes, UBF has a bright side).

Anyway, parents in UBF is a rare exceptions. Normally parents see very quickly how bad UBF when they see the personality change in their children. On the one side, they may see the positive changes, at least outwardly, but on the other side they also see the inner personality change towards a cult personality, which is always very frightening for parents. And they see that their children are not allowed to visit them on Sundays or whenever there is one of the many UBF activities. So, normally they would not join UBF, or maybe only to learn the group from inside and get their children out (I know of one such example in Germany).

I remember that Jim and Sue spoke about their son "Augustine" and wondered why they had chosen such a strange name for their son, I thought it was his real name. They also talked about founding a "Parent Bible Fellowship" affiliated with UBF, but that probably never happened.

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Replies:

Re: Parents in UBF -- bruce, 09:27:40 11/04/04 Thu

Re: Parents in UBF -- PECAS, 14:39:45 11/04/04 Thu

Re: Parents in UBF -- bruce, 14:47:43 11/04/04 Thu