#because they'd so successfully gone after local church

[k-she-rambles]

"my radio show got people killed" How???

An apology: to be totally above board I was exaggerating. The author doesn't outright say he knows people died, but he does bring it up as a possibility as in "What we did could have gotten people imprisoned or killed and it got people imprisoned for sure."

The How: So it turns out that if it's the 60's and 70's and you insist very loudly and with great credibility

that a pan-pacific Chinese church is a dangerous cult

not only does it ruin good people's reputations on THIS side of the pacific, it's very convenient for a moral purity obsessed political movement on the other side that thinks ALL non-state organizations are cults and is looking for excuses to eradicate them.

#look at me running my mouth with no sense #on a post about people running their mouths with no sense #anyway these people were branded cultists in the US for DECADES #and some people who grew up hearing 'local church is a cult' #still believe it #they're pretty darn orthodox #but in a greek flavored way rather than latin which explains some of it #i'm reading truth matters; life matters more by hank hanegraaf #(yeah him) #at this point i don't even know what the book is about #i was blindsided by the introduction/ 'we fucked up' manifesto #hanegraaf's organization lost credibility in recanting #and trying to repair the damage #(after decades! they didn't realize what they'd done until tha aughts) #because they'd so successfully gone after local church #that a lot of people thought CRI had gone off the deep end as a cult itself #which it could be #i'm reporting this from the author's perspective i know jack #remember: authority without accountability #zero tolerance of criticism #financial secrecy #demonization of non members or those who leave #unreasonable fears about the other and the outside #all can be warning signs about cults