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Submitted by:Totanaca at: 7/17/2008.
This Blog is for and about Jewish Survivors of childhood sexual abuse, survivors of sexual assault, rabbinical sexual misconduct and those who care about them.
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Submitted by:Totanaca at: 7/6/2008.
When Values Collide: Why Many Leave Orthodox Judaism
Yesterday, I asked, Is Orthodox Judaism is for All Jews? Today, I'm going to elaborate.
Orthodox Judaism, like any belief system or community, has a certain set of values. There are many people who, either by temperament or ability, are unable to comfortably fit into a community based on those values. I believe that the gap between Orthodoxy's values and peoples' ability to conform to those values is the primary cause of people leaving Ort
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Submitted by:Totanaca at: 8/4/2008.
The Watchtower Society teaches that very shortly billions of humans will be killed at God's war of Armageddon. Only Jehovah's Witnesses will be saved, surviving to live forever on a cleansed planet earth. It is common for fundamental religions to teach that only they know truth and hence only they are worthy of salvation. The reason for this site is to make it as simple as possible to determine if Jehovah's Witnesses have 'the truth'. I have tried to be accurate in everything contained here. Ple
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Submitted by:Totanaca at: 11/19/2008.
Site Mission:
To provide a positive and encouraging environment for former Jehovah's Witnesses, to help with the transition from the organization into normal society, and to promote positive healing and recovery.
Who This Site is Meant For:
This site is primarily intended to help former Jehovah's Witnesses but is inclusive of all people who have been in some way affected by or are interested in the Watchtower Society.
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Submitted by:Totanaca at: 8/15/2008.
Our ultimate aim is to guide the Muslims out of the fold of Islam. We also expect that critical voice against Islam will render it somewhat benign.
We plan to achieve our goals in the following manners:
We will criticize and expose the real truth about Islam without minding about any political correctness whatsoever.
We will establish that Islam is false, that it is not revealed by any almighty God, but was created by Prophet Muhammad himself to fulfill his greed, ego and ambition.
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Submitted by:Totanaca at: 7/17/2008.
Crying Out for Help: Victims of Sexual Abuse..
By Hwaa Irfan
Writer, counselor, editor - Egypt
The domestic environment does not seem to have escaped the growing violence that we are experiencing in the world today. Violence trickles downwards whether it is internalized or expressed. The young have become victims to that expression in a form most violent – sexual abuse. Lost and alone with the horror, many have turned to Cyber-counselor at Islamonline.net for help. Most of those victim
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Submitted by:Totanaca at: 5/26/2008.
This is a group for people that have been victimized or hurt in any way by the Assemblies of God (AOG) church
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Submitted by:Totanaca at: 10/3/2008.
Do you get the sense when you talk to Christians that you never make any headway? Well this blog entry will tell you exactly why this is.
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Submitted by:Totanaca at: 8/3/2008.
I am a moderator on www.richarddawkins.net/forum, and a volunteer for the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science. Recently I attended the American Atheist Conference 2008 the Atheist Alliance International Conference of 2007.
I am also a writer for Ask The Atheists. My user name on both is Homo economicus (a homage to both economics and biology) but my real name is John Sargeant.
My childhood experiences in the Jehovah’s Witnesses has made me particularly concerned about the labell
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Submitted by:Totanaca at: 7/20/2008.
"CHILD ABUSE is not an individual issue but a community one,'' says Lois Englebrecht of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, founder of the Centre for Prevention and Treatment of Child Sexual Abuse. Creating awareness, writing the curriculum for schools, equipping parents, teachers, children and social workers with skills on how to handle the problem... all these have been part of her crusade against child abuse.
Tamil Nadu-born Englebrecht, who holds a Masters Degree in Social Work from the University of
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Submitted by:Totanaca at: 8/14/2008.
Personal narrative of a 15 year old Amish girl that escaped.the cult.
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Submitted by:Totanaca at: 8/14/2008.
This is the final continuation of Part 1, where Torah Bontrager — who escaped the Old Order Amish culture to attend Columbia University — explained common misconceptions and myths about the Amish, as well as the pros and cons of being raised in this alternative American culture.
Here we chronicle the actual escape…
This two-part piece is not intended to generalize all Amish. It is a chronicle of one person’s experiences with the common constraints and abuses of the Old Order Amish, leading to
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