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If you need someone to talk to that is trained in assisting people who are suffering due to leaving a religious group or cult, please consider contacting Recovering from Religion Foundation. https://www.recoveringfromreligion.org
Some suggested reading/viewing/listening (Amazon referral links) These are all books I've read and that I feel are valuable in helping either the waking up process, processing our cult life, and understanding more fully Christianity as a whole:
exjw books: Crisis of Conscience (a must read for any Jehovah's Witness) by Ray Franz, former Governing Body for 9 years https://amzn.to/3fVGymQ
Gentile Time Reconsidered by Carl O. Jonsson
The Reluctant Apostate by Lloyd Evans https://amzn.to/3d05irV
How to Escape from Jehovah's Witnesses by Lloyd Evans https://amzn.to/3uW19LV
Leaving the Witness by Amber Scorah https://amzn.to/3d25bfx
Is It Really So? by Mark Anthony Joyce https://amzn.to/3uA66tx
Self-help books: Combatting Cult Mind Control by Steven Hassan https://amzn.to/3mI4xY5
Cracking the Cult Code for Therapists: What Every Cult Victim Wants Their Therapist to Know by Bonnie Zieman https://amzn.to/3dq6DbN
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson https://amzn.to/2OCBd8G
Bible books: Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don't Know About Them) by Bart Ehrman https://amzn.to/3agCkSQ
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why by Bart Ehrman https://amzn.to/2Qxw95Q
The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts by Neil Asher Silberman, Israel Finkelstein https://amzn.to/3dq6d5d
On the Historicity of Jesus: Why We Might Have Reason for Doubt by Richard Carrier https://amzn.to/32jKPZ4
A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam by Karen Armstrong https://amzn.to/2QAS9Nd
Science and bible history books: The Bible Unearthed by Israel Finkelstein https://amzn.to/2PQZPee
Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin https://amzn.to/39We1cS
Why Evolution is True by Jerry Coyne https://amzn.to/2PMl6WB
The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins https://amzn.to/3mwfk7m
On Cults and Mind Control: Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of Brainwashing in China by Robert Jay Lifton https://amzn.to/3tt776v
When Prophecy Fails by Leon Festinger https://amzn.to/3wlu6l7
Podcast: The History in the Bible https://www.historyinthebible.com/
Documentaries: The Witnesses by Oxygen
Leah Remini Aftermath Episode 3 Episode 12 on Netflix
If you are inside the U.S., text "CHAT" to 741741. You'll be connected to a trained Crisis Counselor from Crisis Text Line. Or call the
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