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Originally Posted by Igzy
In the first place, they are more than just publishers. They are leaders of the movement you identify with.
In the second place, it isn't just about what went on in the 80s. It's what has gone on this decade and is still going on.
As long as you identify with the movement that LSM and the BBs lead, your silence is consent. Now, you might say you have no other way. But that doesn't change the fact that your are implicitly giving consent. It's just a fact your are going to have to deal with. Right now it just seems you are compartmentalizing it.
I sympathize. I'm not trying to condemn you. But I wouldn't be honest if I didn't tell you there is some inconsistency there.
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This is faulty logic. I absolutely disagree that silence is consent in this case. By the way, I am not silent. I have express many times to my fellow brothers and sisters and I don't believe everything that WL wrote. But why do I need to call up LSM and tell them that? It is none of their business. Who says I identify with them?
I enjoy Witness Lee's writings so I decided to join/stay in this church. But this does NOT require me to agree with everything in the church. I buy Proctor and Gamble's product. But it does NOT require that I believe in everything that PG does. I like to eat at a particular restaurant (for example, Red Lobster). But it does NOT require I agree with everything the manager of that restaurant do.
Does it mean that I consent with everything that the restaurant manager does just because I'm silent? Are you suggesting I should confront the Red Lobster manager just because 10 years ago he cheated on his wife? And by eating at his restaurant and being silent I am consenting to his behavior? This is ridiculous.
Are you saying all the current members of the Roman Catholic Church, who have never confronted the Pope, consent to the its dark history? They all consent to the murder of many innocent christians 1000 years ago? They all consent to the recent sexual scandals of the Bishops?