[aron]

Drake,

I read the Wikipedia article you linked. It focuses on an incident in 1983. "There is reason to doubt connection".

What about the last 34 years? What about Witness Lee, from the podium, claiming affiliation of 20 million Shouters in the mid-'90s?

Speaking of abandoning the dear, precious saints, what about the guy caught with 30,000 LSM Bibles, whom was promptly disavowed of any connection, who got saved from jail by the "atheist" U.S. Government? LSM didn't know anything about how this guy got 30,000 of their Bibles.

LSM seems to be willfully ignorant. Forgive us if we point out glaring connections between these groups. Sorry about having to state the apparently obvious. I was a recruiter once, for the LSM, and the "we are just Christians" tactics, the divide-and-conquer, the isolation, the paranoia, the persecution complex, the "obey without question", the "Big Brother is always right", the "everybody but us is Great Harlot Satanic Babylon Dragon" refrains, the simplistic slogans repeated ad nauseum as if repetition creates reality, the "don't ask any questions" themes, the constant negativity about everyone else and "don't be negative" about anything in the group, are all just too similar to pretend to ignore.

But other than that, yes, perhaps there's no connection what so ever.