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Originally Posted by Igzy
The funny thing is I did hear a leading brother say those very words.
"You can't leave the church!"
Beam me up, Mr. Mota!  |
For me the constant drumbeat of divine retribution, spiced up with tall tales and horror stories of the supernatural, had a far more gripping and insidious effect on me.
As I was researching Brethren history in the years before my exodus, I discovered from the historian Wm. B. Neatby how Brethren Exclusives regularly used British "Bug Bears" to manipulate their members. That helped to expose the whole scheme to me.
Then I read all the sordid details, long hidden from LC membership, about Philip Lee at LSM, and worse, what his Dad did to destroy the reputations of those who spoke their conscience on behalf of God's children.
That completely released me from the Chinese "Boogey Man."
This is one area of Lee history that Drake refuses to address.
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