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Originally Posted by Unregistered
{Rather than fostering an environment of truth-seeking and transparency, Mr. Zacharias was strident and inflammatory. He described his critics as “nasty people” and “lunatics” who were engaging in “‘satanic-type’ slander and falsehood.” Some RZIM staff told us that he expressed frustration with having to issue an apology at all. He was able to convince many that not only was he innocent, he was the victim of malicious “evil.”}
....Hmm, sounds kinda familiar, doesn't it?
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Very familiar. In the case of Mr Zacharias, the fact that he set up as co-owner of a day spa with imported workers is bad enough. Whether or not he engaged in sexual trafficking is almost beside the point. As with Witness Lee, dunning the local churches for money for his for-profit business. That Daystar went belly-up and much of money disappeared - "my personal business", he told Sal Benoit - is almost incidental. How much money disappeared, and where... the fact that nobody can know is damning enough.
In both cases, the appearance of evil is more than sufficient, as it is. How much fire is behind the billowing clouds of smoke? How many corpses behind the stench?
And both have their implacable, stalwart defenders: "Who are you to judge? We're all short of God's glory". Are you kidding me?? When did I set up training centres round the globe? Give me a break! How obtuse do you think we are, here?
These men set themselves up as leaders. They did their utmost to convince us that it was so... God's humble bond-slave and all that. Rubbish.
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. ~James 3:1 (ESV)