09-05-2015, 10:55 AM | #1 | |
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“Local Church ‘Cult’ Label has stuck”—says LSM Star turned Academic
I brought this from the main forum, from the thread by same name, so while we're waiting for DCP, er, ah, I mean 'unregistered guest, to respond (if they ever do), we can discuss it here.
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09-05-2015, 03:23 PM | #2 |
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Default Re: “Local Church ‘Cult’ Label has stuck”—says LSM Star turned Acad
[QUOTE=Nigel Tomes] However, to claim that LSM and its Local Churches have “no connection or linkage” even “informally, to...‘The Shouters’,” is patently false. The correlation between Witness Lee’s Local Churches & the “Shouters” in China might not be perfect (100%) but it is high enough to render this assertion by LSM/DCP dishonest & deceitful.[QUOTE]
The above expert is my take-away from what Nigel wrote. Because Lee himself called LC members in China ‘shouters’, it demonstrates just how deceitful the DCP is. The unregistered poster was concerned about Nigel’s usage of the Zimmerman-Liu/Wright article, but that post failed to address the larger issue at hand. The last time I visited the DCP website, I quickly came across their denial of there being any LC linkage to the Shouters in China. It is clear that they don’t like that link, and beyond the Shouters being labeled an “evil cult”, I think Nigel’s point is that there were valid reason that label was given rather than it being just something the government arbitrarily did. Last year when the Eastern Lightning killed a potential recruit at a McDonalds, I think all the sudden the LC had a specific need to try to dispel any notion of a connection to the Shouters, because of course, the Eastern Lightning has a linkage to the Changshou sect, which is linked to the Shouters. On the DCP website, there is a specific denial of any linkage to the Eastern Lightning. I would ask the question, why is that necessary if there were no linkage to begin with? Do other Christian groups who have no linkage to the Eastern Lightning need to do the same? Of course not! That leads to the conclusion that the whole story isn’t being told. At a more general level, the LC doesn’t want to be called a cult, and of course, that is part of why the DCP exists. Now when you consider all the linkages to these radical groups in China, it raises the question, is the LC really all that “innocent”? As Nigel pointed out, in the earlier days of the LC, there were radical incidents like what happened at the Moody Bible Institute, and it would thus be fair to conclude that the LC deserves the reputation it has obtained. Based on the fact that there has been no type of formal apology for these past behaviors the LC has engaged in, I believe it is fair to say that at heart, they haven’t changed, they have only sought to improve their public image.
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I might need some help here, but didn't Lee and Co. in their lawsuits against being branded a cult, argue that the books in question were putting the LC Christians in China in danger? Weren't they defending The Shouters? "The “Lord Changshou” sect
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At any rate, if WL - the MOTA said that the shouters are LC members then I guess we should take his word for it. After all, he seemed to have no reservations about using it to refer to LC members. The Wikipedia article on the Shouters reads as if it was written by the DCP. It says something along the lines of the because the Shouters rebel against government, and because WL taught submitting to government, they couldn't possibly be related to him. It's really too bad more people aren't willing to challenge this kind of nonsense. As we all know, LSM operatives who smuggle Bibles don't seem to believe in abiding by government rules. DCP really is a PR department for the LC. They provide whatever narrative they want for a situation, and no one questions it.
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09-07-2015, 02:21 PM | #5 |
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How did the title for this thread end out being "A Wake Up Call - God is Speaking to Us"?
Can you fix this?
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Sorry about that. It was a copy error. This is more of what it was suppose to be.
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Do as I say and not as I do...obviously the shouters missed that conference.
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