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Originally Posted by zeek
We took our freedoms so much for granted that we forsook them to get involved in the Local Church-- a top-down authoritarian organization where we had no rights. Our LC experience ought to be enough to motivate us to reject the peddlers of American Theocracy.
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There was also some talk about Lee bringing his Chinese way to the US but we overlooked the fact that neither he nor Nee had any democratic experience in the church life or in their government experience. Every experience they had in China or Taiwan was authoritarian government and their Church life was very authoritarian if you read Spiritual Authority by Nee.
Some of us forget that whether it was freeing the slaves or obtaining Women's right to vote, we had choices that many nations or churches never have in their entire existence. Let's not throw it away over an emotional appeal by Cahn that reaches for our base desires and prejudices and gives in to a theocratic appeal to rid us of the very freedoms that many Christians have worked for over the history of this great nation. This begins with the Pilgrims who came to America for the freedom to express their ideas freely and openly which we all enjoy.