Would you marry a Scientologist?

[Moonwalk]

196. I didn't say I knew a guy who knew a guy...

I know this woman. She was raised by the Krishnas. You want to argue with her that her childhood was blissful and she wasn't sexually abused? You want to argue with her that, at age twelve, she wasn't nearly sold into a marriage with a man three times her age? You want to tell her that the people in charge didn't say this was all right, even sanctioned by the religion? Go ahead. Tell her how wonderful your experience was and how the Krishnas could never have allowed that to happen.

The facts are the facts. FACTS that won that settlement not just for her but for several adults who were children and trapped in the Krishna cult and had similar, if not worse, experiences. That you had a nice old time doesn't erase those facts. And my argument is that cult thinking is cult thinking--creating these exact results. It's dangerous no matter how agreeable the religious or philosophical teaching. Just because they're socialist and such in thought and teachings doesn't mean they're not subject to cult thinking and cult dangers.

Which was the question asked above--were the Krishnas less likely than others to be extreme? Answer--obviously not. And no after how nice a time you had, you can't argue against facts proving otherwise.