What is the Liite cult all about?
Why does it spend so much energy in psychologically harming its members and persecuting (high-rolling lawsuits against) Christians?
The answer is money.
"For the love of money is the root of all evil." Since 1963, when Chang-Shou Li first established the Living Stream Ministry (LSM), his organization has been all about money.
The LSM sells books. Very badly written books. Boring books. Anti-Christian books. The only way that the LSM can sell these books is by governing a totalitarian cult wherein its books and only its books are sold and are the basis of all religious ritual (such as "pray-reading" and shrieking "O Lord Jesus"). Without its own tightly controlled cult organization, the LSM could sell nothing.
And the LSM must attack all levels of the church, the body of Christ, to eliminate all possible competition lest its followers spend their money on books sold by someone else.
Even with such a monopoly on a captive audience, no one reads much of anything printed by the LSM. Its publications are long and pedantic, confusing, twisted, boring, and to any healthy person, offensive. But a totalist cult can require its followers to buy them.
The LSM makes little effort to make its publications readable or to give them any value to the reader. There is no reason to do so. Once sold, who cares what the doop who bought them does with them? The LSM has his money. Poor fellow.
The same can be said for the LSM's labyrinth of training camps, full time trainings, conferences, cell meetings, socialized living arrangements, book stores, internet sales, and tax-free donations. Who cares what doops do with the product? The LSM has their money.
Chang-Shou Li lived in a lavishly landscaped and furnished, tax-free, multi-million dollar estate on Ball Road in Anaheim, California. He traveled all around the world several times a year and all his living and traveling expenses were provided free of charge, courtesy of victimized doops. I am confident the same can be said of his successor at the LSM (2007), Andrew Yu.
After operating expenses, the LSM has been able to build its officially publicized $72-million war-chest.
Something to think about.
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.
