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Originally Posted by aron
The EL is, by all accounts, truly evil; ISIS-level kind of evil. And the similarities of EL with the LC is this:
1) both sprang from the "sensuous" school of Watchman Nee, where one's sensory experiences and subsequent feelings dominate. It's not for nothing the Lee group in China was called shouters: they whip themselves into an experiential frenzy through shouting. People in these groups open themselves into forces unknown through soulish excitement.
2) both isolate from other Christians. Only they are the pure remnant chosen by God for His present move on earth. Everyone else is "Babylon"; no balancing word from outsiders can save them from deviation.
3) both exercise tight operational control. Conformity and unquestioning obedience is expected.
4) both are free to modify the Word of God due to reasons 1) and 2). The "feeling" or "leading" of the Maximum Leader is equivalent to God's present speaking. The Bible no longer guides, the Leader guides. Any safeguard from the flock of God (Christianity) is removed due to the group's isolation.
I don't know about the PRC shouters; probably they're similar, since they came from the LC (though the LC denies this, WL once claimed them as followers) and the EL came from the PRC shouters.
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I agree with you. I may add some later.