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Originally Posted by aron
In the Asian-flavored LC... we get the faceless grey sea of proletariat small potatoes. There aren't any individuals... Maoism with a religious face.
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It's a trope of story-telling to put two cultures in apposition, and record the mirth that follows. The hayseed that goes to the city, or the city slicker stuck on the farm. Or the Yankee in Paris or Tokyo or the Chinese person in Des Moines. In every case, there is incomprehension, and amusement, as different worlds collide.
So it's not really too much to expect, that a Chinese man leading a church in the USA would have some of these issues. WL's apologists say that his word selection is misunderstood, because English is not his native tongue. He just seems to be non-orthodox in his presentation of the trinity, for example. But it's merely awkwardness in language.
And so forth. My castigation of LC "Maoism" may have be too strong, because there's another culture at work here, and not from heaven but earth, with its behavioral customs and social expectations. So I don't want to be judging an ethnicity or a culture or history, as if mine were somehow better. If my posts seemed venomous (and surely some were, at some point), then mea culpa. I apologize.
Certainly we can make the generalization of the individual vis-a-vis the collective in Asian versus Western thought, and how it played out in the care for the proverbial lost sheep, and the have-nots, and the ability for the individual member to take initiative in their spiritual life versus waiting for a command from HQ. And so forth.
But if my tone has been unpleasant I apologize.