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I could understand it if you compared leaving Scientology with a book club or another similar organization. I mean, a book club with all the side dishes Scientology has to offer.Glenda. My use of the concept of courage and leaving a marriage was to find some kind of real world context that can increase perspective and judgement on the experience of leaving scientology.
Ex scientologists, in terms of hardship and life struggles, are not unique from other humans and their hardships and struggles. Leaving scientology is not different enough from any other loss of faith to separate it out from comparing it to what other humans have experienced in similar circumstances.
And when you start doing that - comparing leaving with what other people have done? It's not that big of a deal compared to war, famine, or even waking up and finding out your husband of 20 years has a whole nother family in another town.
It's the constant use of artificial specialness and the contrived uniqueness of the experience that can be alienating and cause a bunch of hysteria for Exes.
That's why I compared it to the courage of leaving a long term marriage. In terms of self identity and fear of the unknown, I think it can me compared.
And should be.
I could understand it if you compared leaving Scientology, as a 2nd gen, with leaving that same book club, if the club also forced parents to have their kids be a part of it.
Just "leaving" something or someone under mental duress isn't really enough in my opinion. A Mafia organization would be a more understandable comparison then a failed Marriage.