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Originally Posted by OBW
I have this quandary as to whether to blame Max for being a perpetrator, or just being a blind follower. Was he just blind until he opened his eyes and saw? Or was he really that ambitious?
At this point in time, I am tending to lean toward "just blind." Why? because the evidence of the remainder of what little I can see of his life would seem to indicate that the claim that he had some tremendous drive to run some big organization has not materialized in any way. He has seemed to be willing to serve at some level.
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Based on what little I know it seems that Phillip Lee's lasciviousness was the "wake up pill" (as SCP would say) for Max. I think prior to that he was willing to "be trained" by Witness Lee, but that was the point at which he had to make a decision and he made the right one. From there it seemed things just got better for him as a Christian (unlike what we were taught about those that leave the LRC).
Still, you cannot be an elder, the "president" of the local church, a member of the Board of directors of LSM, and the chief spokesman/Public Relations guy for WL and not bear responsibility for your actions. If Witness Lee was the leader of a cult, then what does that make you? Blind doesn't cut it for me. Mistaken, in error, and responsible are words that I would feel are much more in line with the facts.