I took a little break from these forums, and just now read (most of) this sad thread.
As what seems par for the course on the other forum, here we see people who are ex-members of the LC fighting amongst themselves. And, as at the other forum, the escalation of the conflict lies almost solely on the shoulders of Matt and TJ.
I came to this forum to get away from this obsessive nonsense. Here I see the disease manifesting itself at full throttle... against Don (Hope) of all people, a man who was in the LC system but clearly not a member of the inner circle of corruption.
Don, I Hope you hang around in spite of the Pharisees. It was good to hear from you again after all of these years.
The problem with the LC in child raising is simply this, Witness brought into the eldership the Chinese way of raising kids, where humiliation is accepted by the culture as a proper tool. What WL failed to see is that our culture would not embrace such methods.
I too was the target of more than one elder lecture. My reaction was one of rebellion rather than acceptance. I did not accept these men as having the authority to make such pronouncements over me. I am sure that this reaction among the American kids to a foreign culture lies at the heart of why so many LC kids left the LC.
The eldership mistook this cultural thing as a spiritual thing and went along. This is not idolatry, this is just the myopic leading the myopic.
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