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Originally Posted by aron
In the Asian-flavored LC, if the individual couldn't be utilized to service the collective, they had no value. As in zero - the lost sheep don't exist. The collective must go on, and acknowledging lost individuals threatens the group-centric church life. Instead, we get the faceless, drab, grey, sea of proletariat small potatoes. There aren't any individuals - Mother Ship is all. It's Maoism with a religious face.
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There aren't any individuals....Those partial to science fiction think of the Borg from Star Trek The Next Generation. Individuals are assimilated into the collective
Seriously though in the local churches individualism is de-emphasized. The end justifies the means even if the result is utilizing brothers and sisters as pawns for LSM's bottom line.