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Originally Posted by OBW
Did Lee really change? Or did he just get more confident to let his grandiose dreams out of the bag? I suspect more of the latter than the former. He had a history going back to Taiwan, and even to China before that.
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Originally Posted by Freedom
I think that this is a difficult question to answer. I do think that certain characteristics of WL that later became more problematic were there from day one. I also think that WL didn't set out to become the person he was at the end of his life.
What I see is that WN served as WL's role-model. WN ruled churches in an autocratic fashion, and that is what WL saw as an example, an example which he imitated. Eventually the lust for power consumed him, just like it would for anyone handed that kind of power. Combined with insulation from criticism and negative feedback, things got more and more bizarre.
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This topic has been discussed at length on this forum. Many here, like OBW and our moderator, believe Lee never changed, and was always "bad." I can somewhat agree with them, however, based on all my research, and the scores of brothers I have known, I am convinced that Lee left his early principles, at least those he promoted during the Jesus people movement. Definitely in the early 1974 "consolidation" and in the 1985 "new way," Lee enacted numerous changes to bring all the LC's under subjection.
I will say also that many brothers in the GLA still hold to the simple maxim handed down from Titus Chu: W.L. good, B.B. bad.