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Originally Posted by Cassidy
Ohio,
No, I did not miss the assertion you made because it is the same one you always make -- WL is responsible for everything that went wrong no matter what he did. However, you want it many ways.
Please explain. The behavior of Max at the time, that you find so appalling, was stopped by Witness Lee. Was that the right thing to do at the time? Do you think Max should have been reeled in?
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I guess I have become a little too predictable. But let's spin that as "
consistent."
Max was sent out to shake things up, which really means to undermine the regional and local authorities over the saints. He was only doing what Lee charged him to do, sending the young people to the campuses, and firing the elders who got in his way. So we have to ask what right does WL have to tell all the members of the body what to do? When all those young people rose up in defiance of their elders, they were clamoring for the elders to allow them to carry out Lee's burden, not Max's. Max was simply an intermediary, all his authority came from Lee.
Why does Lee never take responsibility for any of his failures and wrongdoings? He blamed it all on Max. Max took the hit for both of them, and he was shown the door, his reputation forever disgraced. Lee lived another day, his pristine image once again intact.
But let's not forget what was really going on behind the scenes at LSM. Philip Lee, the office manager, was molesting every pretty sister in sight, and when Max confronted him about it, he surely thought that WL would take a stand for righteousness. Boy was he wrong. Lee used the Chinese tradition of payback by shaming his opponent's wife, and thus Sandee Rapoport was ostracized in Anaheim before the church for some supposed "sisters' rebellion."
To display his hypocrisy in full sight, Lee proclaimed that all the members should have acted like cops to stand up to Max. Actually the only brother in the whole sordid affair who acted like a cop was Max, when he tried to protect the sisters by standing up to Philip Lee,
daddy's little playboy.