[Cal]

Let me state things a little clearer. I don't like this idea, which we were fed, that the LCM was labeled a cult because they were so much for the truth that it made them seem weird. That is self-serving nonsense. Billy Graham was uncompromisingly for the truth in his crusades, so much so that he truly seemed not of this world, and he never got labeled a cult leader.

The LCM got labeled a cult because they took on cultic characteristics, beginning with, as Harold said, unaccountable, absolute authority afforded to Lee, and all the baggage that grew from that.

I've never visited SC's group, but I believe him when he says it is benign. I would just ask, is the decision about not having a name really about oneness? Or is it actually about being different and distinct? It seems to me that not taking a name is something that sets you apart, but, oops, isn't oneness about not setting yourself apart? And if you really want to be one, wouldn't the way to do it in this day and age be to take a name, because after all the Bible never prohibits it? It's just that you have decided it is somehow bad. But it seems to me it works to accomplish exactly the opposite of what you claim to want to accomplish. You want oneness, but you don't get oneness by consciously being different in an arbitrary way.

To me it's sort of like wearing white shirts when everybody else is wearing colored shirts because you've decided it makes you more holy, when really what it's about is being different.