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Originally Posted by Ohio
For a system willing to use the pagan Chinese New Year celebration to preach the gospel (one of their official "feasts" btw) to immigrant Chinese, it would be nice if they extended the same liberty to others.
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Originally Posted by Freedom
Ultimately, that is why when people or certain groups take certain stands on issues like Christmas, the stand is never taken seriously. It's just too easy for a double standard to arise, and the glaring contradiction is what everyone sees, not any presumed testimony that has come about from eradicating things that aren’t ‘pure’.
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This nails it. The LCM folks hold to the standard it has settled upon as if it makes "total sense" to them, even though anyone could come along and point out the compromises and contradictions in it.
So why does their standard make so much "sense" to them?
Because that's the standard their leadership endorses. And regardless of how much they argue as if they really believe it, the real reason is that doing so is the path of least resistance in the controlling culture in which they exist and have their identities validated. When someone holds a gun to your head and says "believe this or you'll have trouble here" it's very natural to tell yourself you believe it, until you finally decide you don't want to be there anymore and are willing to risk escape.
That's how cultures of control and fear operate. Just ask anyone in Iraq who "loved" Saddam Hussein.