The Asian Mind/The Western Mind

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Originally Posted by aron

And I think that Witness Lee abandoning John Ingalls, his "closest co-worker" for his profligate son Philip is neither shocking nor incongruous if you remember the ingrained values he brought with him into the "glorious local church". Family was family and church was church. With the Caucasians, the local church would easier over-ride family ties. Even though he encouraged us to call one another "brother and sister", Lee clearly valued his son Philip more than his "brothers" Max Rappoport or John So or Bill Mallon. And the rest of us essentially lived in a personality cult, as we had to take his values (Philip Lee over John Ingalls and Bill Mallon) as our own.

I found this to be the absolute pinnacle of hypocrisy, yet to W. Lee and his merry band of Blendeds, this made absolutely perfect sense. For Max Rapoport to confront Philip Lee about his adultery and molesting the female volunteer staff at the LSM offices was akin to the unforgiveable sin. How dare Max R. for thinking that Witness would place righteousness above the Lee blood ties -- for his "sin," Max could not be washed in the blood of the Lamb. Rather, Lee would make Max into Azazel, the proverbial scapegoat to protect his own darling son. Then Lee branded Max as a rebellious leper, who needed to go outside the camp proclaiming, "unclean, unclean, unclean."