Excerpts from a very long story in which Gwen, Tedd Ahn-zhay, and the newly late David Martin gang up on a depressed woman who broke cult rules by taking prescribed antidepressants and then ended up on an involuntary psych hold after their intervention:
[quote]When I got over to the food section, Gwen walked up to me in a very serious manner. She told me that she wouldn’t feel sorry for me at all, that I needed to get over this, and that she would cry for me when my husband left me because he would be so sick and tired of this. (In an earlier conversation in the Remnant parking lot, Gwen had seen me with all my make-up off because I had been crying. She told me that the next time she saw me at church, I’d better have make-up, lipstick on, a smile on my face, and serving everyone, and asking how they feel. She also said I’d better not have anyone ask how I feel because it’s not about me.)
[quote]Tedd and David Martin told me to get the medicine from my purse in my car. I did. Tedd then took me to the guest bathroom, told me to pour all the pills down the toilet and flush them. I did. He then told me that those pills were evil, were of the devil, and that he’d love to get his hands on the doctor who gave them to me. My husband, David and Tedd discussed that when we got home, he would find the pills and get rid of them. I was so upset at this point that I couldn’t even drive home.
[quote]The next morning I wasn’t much better. I didn’t want to go to church and be around people. David forced me to go and told me he would give up church permanently if I didn’t go in that building. I was crying, and Shannon Crowder came out to the car, told me to stop it, and to walk in the building thanking God for my eyes, ears, hands, family, anything else that I could think of.
Next stop: psych ward!
[quote]I called David and asked if Tedd knew a lawyer that could get me out of there. I didn’t want to spend one more night there! David said that Tedd said that I got what I deserved by disobeying God and that I was experiencing “hell on earth” which was good for me.
[quote]I can remember one Sunday when I felt okay to go to church, that Gwen had talked about Achan in the Old Testament, who was responsible for several people getting punished by God for his sin. She emphasized that none of Remnant would want to be an “Achan”, which meant that one person’s sin would cause the whole Remnant nation to fall. I felt like I was that Achan since I was still taking anti-depressants, in disagreement to what leadership said. What guilt to place on people!
She finally got out when they came for her kid:
[quote]When I said to Greg, “Do you mean that you have had trouble with Chris for 3 weeks and this is the first time I have heard about it?” he couldn’t answer me. The only defiance he could report was that he refused to work at the Remnant garden that the kids had planted at Ashlawn (Gwen’s estate).
[quote]Then the leaders began talking about everyone in Remnant Nashville taking their kids out of public schools and home schooling them. I fell for this and was planning on allowing Remnant members (who even weren’t certified teachers) home school my children while I would be working full-time. The Holy Spirit really convicted me on this as a mistake, because I began to visualize my son getting spanked and reprimanded harshly for not doing the hard work that they would demand of him.
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