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Originally Posted by Evangelical
Sorry I missed that history - you are saying that the Recovery in the USA was started by people other than W. Lee ?
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There were many seekers back then. Lee did no gospel work here. He just held forth the hope of a way to go on with the Lord in love and oneness. People were attracted to that. For the first 12-15 years it was very positive and general, not so much about Lee and his stuff.
But in the late 1970s he started to assert his power and influence more and more. People like Benson and Graver took over in Texas and ran off every "dissenter," meaning everyone who was not blindly for Lee. A friend of mine was an elder and simply asked that we not follow Lee exclusively, but be more open and general as we were taught by Lee himself in the beginning. The response was to force him out.
It really was like that book "Animal Farm." The leaders in the beginning promised a 'brave new world,' but in the end they treacherously terminated anyone they saw as a threat. Brothers were accused, tried in kangaroo courts and shipped out, like Boxer to the glue factory.
That was the end of the dream.
After the 70s the shell of being for oneness remained, but the reality of truly being for oneness was gone. All the talk about oneness just became a way, ironically, to justify separating from everyone else.
I never said anything about the Catholics or ecumenicism.