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Anonymous asked this question on 4/17/2000:

My sister's neighbor and his wife recently split up after her church (she's a Scientologist) said she had to "disconnect" from him. I thought that was a little weird- the Scientology religion doesn't ask people to do that, do they?

Greg Churilov gave this profoundly unmitigated lie on 4/18/2000:

Actually, yes they do.

But they do this in VERY SEVERE cases, such as incidents of domestic violence, or drug abuse, or a situation where the individual is greatly harmed by the relationship (codependency, etc.)

[And that's an extremely evil lie. The Scientology cult orders followers to "disconnect" from their family when anyone in the family trys to help the cultist escape. According to their mad messiah Hubbard, anyone who wants to leave the cult is ipso facto insane and anyone who helps them is "tone 1.1" and "PTS" -- Potential Trouble Source.

As such, to keep the unfortunate cultist in the cult -- and paying money, of course, since that's the whole point -- the cult's leaders order their followers to "disconnect" before the family member can help them escape.

This practice is one of the classical earmarks of a destructive cult. In this particular cult, the cultist is ordered to write a "disconnection letter" to the happless family telling them not to try to contact them or speak to them ever again.

Other dangerous cults employ this classical cult earmark, of course. The Scientology cult isn't the first and, unfortunately, is likely not the last - flr]

The idea of disconnection is always looked at as a VERY LAST RECOURSE after having exhausted ALL other means of resolving difficulties. (Although some people jump to this option as a copeout - something VERY frowned on).

[More of the same Satanic lie. In fact many pickets and protests outside of the criminal cult's offices are directed solely at loved ones who have been ordered by their cult's ringleaders to "disconnect" from their family.

The Lisa McPherson Trust is planning to assist family members who's loved ones have been ordered to "disconnect" find out whether their loved ones inside of the cult are still alive and, if possible, to let them know where they are being held - flr]

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