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Originally Posted by InChristAlone
"The individual is subordinate to the organisation. The minority is subordinate to the majority. The lower level is subordinate to the higher level"...
That was Mao Tse-tung's quote but it pretty much sums up the LC's value system.
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Actually that's quite perceptive. In the U.S. you'd never get away with subordinating the individual. Our country is founded on the rights of the individual coming first.
Of course the state has been encroaching steadily but it is telling that no politician could make that kind of statement in the U.S. today but they can, and have, in China. That's exactly what I was alluding to in starting this thread.
If you look back at the Local Church established in the U.S. by Witness Lee as a product of someone who came from a society where a Mao Tse Tung could make that statement, then what we experienced there suddenly doesn't seem so weird after all. It almost makes perfect sense.
"The individual is subordinate to the collective" in spiritual terms became morphed into "Christ and the church" which of course is directed by Christ's bondslave Witness Lee who just happens to have the ministry of the age. So if you don't subordinate yourself utterly (being "one") to the ministry of the age, which is actually fronted by a book publishing house (and now a multimedia company) then you are not cooperating with God on the earth today.
The collective thus becomes the lens through which reality itself is perceived. God is pushed off, somewhere beyond the collective, waiting for us to approach Him through the "church life".