The Liites, the cult of the Living Stream Ministry (founded by Chang-Shou Li, a Chinese national, ca. 1963) is more dangerous than larger organizations such as the Jehovah's Witnesses or the Mormons. The LSM has rightly earned notoriety for persecuting Jesus Christ; they have sued every major Christian publisher in the USA and are constantly harassing website operators for discussing their organization publicly.
For Liites, the fate of believers is the same as for non-believers: you will be terminated! This is a real doctrinal belief, the one that Li called "the heart of the Gospel." It necessarily produces an abusive system, wherein the soul, the self, the "I" is ruthlessly attacked. You do not matter. God wants to terminate you. This also leads to a totalist organization structure wherein your opinions and needs will not be considered, and will be ruthlessly put down.
This frequently leads to total mental breakdown of members leading to hospitalisation during which the family intervenes to pull them out of the cult. Is the cult sympathetic to the pain of these members? No! They become the butt of stories. They use these stories to scare membership into submission.
The Liite cult of the Living Stream Ministry is full of stories and gossip about members who left; that is, members who had total mental breakdowns and were rescued by their families. In the cult, you hear it all. Here are some examples. A wonderful young woman, while attending a high-stress "Training" (indoctrination camp) in California began having hallucinations and showed symptoms of paranoia. Eventually she left the Training and was hospitalized, diagnosed with schizophrenia. The doctors said that with a normal life, she never would have shown symptoms. But under the extreme duress and mind-alteration among the Liites, schizophrenia erupted.
The woman received medication and was soon after married in a real church. But years later in the cult, her story is still told: that she left the cult and had a mental breakdown. Their moral is that God judges anyone who dare leave the Liites.
Other stories abound such as the couple that were married and had a child. Then suddenly under stress, the father turned homosexual and left her for a man. A year later the mother, too, discovered she was homosexual and moved in with a woman. The real names of these people are used. These are people you knew and loved. Was this another case of victims to the stress and mind-alteration in the cult? Or is it just an example of the viciousness and gossip wherewith the cult punishes anyone who dare leave?
Yes, the Liites are a dangerous cult.
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- Good Christian Boy
- This website is not a blog. I am committed to Christ and active in a Bible-believing church. I dedicated my life to Christ, thanks to a school teacher, as a young boy. Sadly, as a youth one parent went astray and took the family to the Liite cult, known to most as the Local Church of Witness Lee. I never missed a training and read every book published under Witness Lee's name. I learned every dogma; but really it is quite simplistic: it comes down to the dharma wheel, which Liites call "mingling." That is, God came to terminate man's soul, replace man's evil nature with his own, and then absorb it back into himself. It's Buddhism with a twist. The twist is: send money to the LSM.
