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Stripped Naked

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It's very sad when those who have been abused are sought after to be discredited. It sure makes it hard to be a vicitim and not be belived because people are always out to discredit things they don't want to belive happen. Stripped Naked is a testimony of one woman's walk through Mulitiple Personalites.. a ray of hope for others like her out there.

For those of you who actually believe she went through all this, and think that anyone who speaks against her like she is some kind of saint, look for yourself, everything about her is unreal, she wrote another book claiming to be Raped, abused and forced into satanic rituals, then she claimed to be a concentration camp survivor. I understand that these books she has written may have touched a lot of people but there is no proof other than her own words, that she is who she claims to be.

I would have to agree that there are many in Denial about Lauren Stratford. There were many inside and outside the church who wanted to discredit and demonize her. For those of you who deny her story, do you deny the existence of pornography and satanism? Do you believe they exist? Lauren's story needs to be told and told again, and who among us, if having gone through the same thing she did, would have not maybe behaved in the manner which she did. The abuse she went through, including all kinds of pornographic and satanic ritual abuse. I dare anyone to ever be "normal" again. But she won through the power of Jesus Christ. And if there's anything Satan wants to do, it is to discredit the name of Jesus Christ. The investigations can go on all day long, but the Truth will always win out!!! Lauren's story will touch your heart. You need only to put on love and compassion.

One hates to speak ill of the dead. However, the late Ms. Stratford successively claimed to be a survivor of "Satanic ritual abuse", a survivor of the Holocaust, and someone with multiple personalities.

(In fact, some of the "ritual abuse" she discusses in the book "Satan's Underground" and some of the "concentration camp experiences" she related in appearances with pseudo-survivor Binyamin Wilkomirski "took place" simultaneously--it would be a remarkable feat for Satan himself to place his victim in Washington State and a Jewish children's detention center in Krakow, Poland at the same time!)

It's hard to separate the knowledge of Ms. Stratford's tragic delusions from a reading of her prose, which is incoherent and disorganized. The heartbreaking truth is that she would have been better served by psychological and spiritual counseling that brought her closer to reality than by gullible acceptance of her wild stories.

THE ABOVE REVIEW SAYS:

"Lauren Stratford has been investigated by a number of Evangelical ministries and has been shown to be a writer of fiction."

Yeah, and you are someone who blindly believes everything you hear, have others' beliefs for your own, never question the government...etc. You are what's wrong with this world---Sit in judgement, all the while being a foolish follower. You tell us not to believe everything we read---and yet, you believe these 'Evangelical ministries' that 'proved' her story to be 'fiction'. Sorry, but the only fiction here is people who try to be something they're not...

Apparently, the late Laurel Wilson (a.k.a. Lauren Stratford, a.k.a. Laura Grabowski) wasn't satisfied w/fooling a willing public twice (first in "Satan's Underground", where her wildly untrue stories of SRA first came to light, and then again in "I Know You're Hurting", where she tries to offer counseling to actual victims), and decided to go for the trifecta...even if it were true, the book itself is poorly written and drawn out in many places.

Oh, and to the anonymous reviewer who attacked the very first one, I don't believe everything I hear (just look at my posts to the Media Matters for America forum, LOL), nor do I avoid questioning the government (considering the shape our country's in, how can I not?)...it seems to me like *you're* the one who's in denial by refusing to accept that Stratford wasn't who she said she was and had a history of lying about abuse. Why do you think her first book, the aforementioned "Satan's Underground", was later pulled by its original publisher? And how do you justify her later attempt to portray herself as a Holocaust survivor and accepting donations intended for REAL survivors?

As for the other anonymous reader, no one's denouncing her story because they don't want to believe it's true, they're doing so because it's NOT true...read the Cornerstone expose if you haven't already, or even her Wikipedia bio. Aaron, perhaps you'd like to check it out and see if you still think the negative reviewers like myself are "engaging in a deliberate misinformation campaign"...more importantly, can you tell me where anyone said anything about Willson/Stratford/Grabowski that wasn't true?

In short: Don't waste your money. Grieve for the late Ms. Stratford and how different things would be if her untreated psychological problems had been dealt with at an early age, but refrain from furthering the lies and outrageous claims that should be left to die along w/her unfortunate legacy.

Lauren Stratford has been investigated by a number of Evangelical ministries and has been shown to be a writer of fiction. Her first book, Satan's Underground was exposed and withdrawn by the original publisher. I feel that it is safe to assume that nothing in her current book relates to real events. A fun book if you approach it as a piece of fiction.