Date Posted: 14:47:55 06/18/03 Wed
Author: ChicagoXile
Subject: Re: I think we are beginning to love to hate
In reply to: Tony Lang 's message, "I think we are beginning to love to hate" on 11:04:25 06/17/03 Tue
Tony, let me first say: thanks for your concern. I mean that sincerely.
>Lee damaged a lot of people, and
>in the letters that appear I can see a lot of hurt. I
>have a kind of feeling that this is the sort of thing
>that will make Lee very happy. Lee was a negative
>influence during his life time and I can see that
>this controling power that he had is continuing long
>after his death.
>
>I ask myself what is the best way to insult the memory
>of someone no longer present? I think it is to forget
>them. That is what we should do with Lee. Think of
>all the pleasure he is getting in hell knowing that
>the very thought of him brings out such negative
>emotion in people.
No one gets pleasure out of anything in hell. It's just eternal torment in utter darkness. So, no, Lee isn't laughing it up that people are still writing negatively about him.
Also, I don't think anybody in UBF thinks it's particularly funny that Lee's true character continues to be revealed because Lee's teaching and his family (including Barry) are still central to UBF.
I find that as Lee's true character and the facts of his evil deeds are revealed, it leads some people in UBF to start questioning. For instance, see http://voy.com/60734/4121.html and http://voy.com/60734/4165.html, both recent posts. I think they start to question why their chapter leaders and shepherds revere Lee so much when there is ample testimony against him. They may start to see that the UBF "reality" is not reality at all. They may start to see and be disturbed by UBF's "ends justify the means" philosophy as it is applied to Lee's life by UBF leaders. They may start to see the personality cult within UBF. (As Andrew S. wrote after he left UBF: "I raced back to UBF and read more of the newsletter, and suddenly the articles there seemed very strange. They came into focus. These articles were praising Samuel Lee, UBF's late chairman, instead of God.")
People who wake up to the reality of what Lee really was may not necessarily leave UBF. But they might be more careful lest they prop up another Samuel Lee. Or they may decide that they're not going to submit so easily to UBF's destructive authoritarianism that continues in Lee's name. So even those who stay in UBF might be bettered by the Lee reality check that we try to provide.
>Ubf is a worthless organisation, it is going down a
>road that leads to nowhere. My advice is to allow it
>to travel on . In these days of advanced education
>it will not survive.
Unfortunately, level of education has not been proven to protect people from cult involvement. M.D.'s, Ph.D.'s and engineers abound, not just in UBF, but in many other cultic groups and abusive churches.
>We should allow it to commit
>suicide which it most certainly will. It might take a
>little time, but in the not too distant future it will
>not be around.
Unfortunately again, the Moonies and Scientologists aren't going away. Neither is North Korea. And neither is UBF. While we wait for them to just go away and do nothing, more lives are damaged.
