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Originally Posted by Ohio
Reminded me of a conference in Cleveland ... with Lee in which he attacked culture.
...Culture had become the "bugbear in the closet," the bogey man, the vehicle to control the members, holding them in fear, lest they seek greener pastures elsewhere.
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Exactly. Like "Christianity"; Lee hadn't been anywhere near "Christianity" for lo, how many decades? Yet he would hold it up as a "straw man" to his audience. And naturally we were amazed with his keen, penetrating insights about what degradation was occurring everywhere else. And we congratulated ourselves on "coming out of Babylon", even while ignoring the red flags popping up within us.
And ironically, there
is degradation in Christianity. There
is a lot of hokum in the holidays, which is not only unspiritual, but distracts us and distorts the spiritual element (rampant materialism, socially-enforced "jollity", etc). But there is a splinter-and-beam analogy here. Those who sit on their self-righteous thrones, eagerly pointing out the splinters in others' eyes, are missing the beam in their own.
Merry Christmas, everybody.*
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(a little humor, there. Just couldn't resist)