When did you realize you were in a cult?

My friend in school started a cult as a joke. She made roles for all of us and one kid was like satin and I was the priest. We had a shared google doc Wich we used to write down funny ideas about the cult, it was like our own bible. After a few months the leader and the higher ups in the cult started taking it more serious. You had to do a ritual to join and one of us was recording all the names on a paper. Also you had to get baptized. At this point it was still a joke and people were begging to join. But towards the end of the year I left the cult for personal reasons. Someone else took over the role of priest and everyone in the cult hated me. Apparently they also hated the kid who was satin, and kids who were “demons”. Like at this point it wasn’t a joke they HATED these kids. And they hated me for leaving. Only one of them even talked to me at all and they didn’t talk to me much. All my other friend who were higher up in the cult refused to talk to me or people who are low in the cult. It got worse tho. The leader brought a weapon to school and told some people that they were going to use it on me. I told as many teachers and staff members as I could so that the situation didn’t escalate. Right now I’m back in the cult and best friends with the leader. One of the members disappeared. Like no joke they are GONE, I even went to his house and nobody is ever home. I’m scared. All my friends are in the group so I can’t leave. I only have one friend outside the cult and we aren’t really taking. The cult leader told me bad stuff about all my non cult member friends. This is getting too serious.

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