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Originally Posted by Freedom
It has been said that when WL was questioned as to what went so terribly wrong with Daystar, his answer was that the saints have "now lost their virginity."
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Btw, what an absolutely appalling thing to say. Just vile, when you consider the betrayal of trust and financial exploitation involved, of those loyal and devoted to him.
Another detail that gives it away that they know what they are doing and it is deliberate, comes from the link at the top of this thread. MC discusses the book that declared them to be a cult. Instead of illuminating the audience on some traits of cults, and explaining why this definition does not fit them, he deliberately makes a case to them being compared to a cult seem extremely unreasonable. He did this by mentioning that the chapter devoted to the LC was next to the chapter on Jim Jones, and outlines the tragic and complete destruction of the members of that very extreme group.
If he was sincere, he might explain that not all cults kill all their members, and cover what defines a cult and why they think this conclusion about them was wrong. Instead his approach does nothing to educate the people but rather avoids the claim by exaggerating the idea of what a cult is, to make it seem like a ludicrous claim to make against them.
That looks deliberate, for sure. They know the sham they are runnung, and how they square that with their own conscience is something I don’t want to be able to understand.