Li's conception that human nature — at least that of everyone other than himself — is absolutely evil and must be terminated has numerous consequences on the psyches of Liites. The active Liite is expected to attend five meetings a week and attend two ten-day long intensive indoctrination camps a year. Older members may attend less, but they are expected to support the LSM with donations and buying books. Since the central dogma of the Liites is Mingling, the single most important theme running though all the meetings and printed material is the worthlessness of other individuals. Man is utterly evil. Liites cannot love their neighbor because all of them are completely evil. In practice, this means that the opinions and needs of individual Liites are not only ignored, but squelched.
As may be gathered, the stress of so much activity, expectations to know LSM material, and the attack on human nature leads to distress and even nervous breakdowns.
It is for this reason that the Liites are a dangerous cult.
About
- 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.
