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Post by philiprosenthal on Apr 26, 2006 11:08:25 GMT
I wouldn't normally recommend posting criticisms of Christian leaders on the internet. Nevertheless, EveryNation has no internal forums to discuss problems and tend to just throw out dissenters. Thus we have a really unhealthy and dangerous situation where scandal, abusiveness and hypocrisy just gets covered up and seldom properly dealt with. To overcome this unhealthy culture, we have to break the 'no talk' rule.
Nevertheless I think we need to still show Christian restraint in what we say. Some posters on FactNet I feel are going over the boundary of what is acceptable and engaging in speculative public slander. This I feel is unacceptable.
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Post by philiprosenthal on Apr 26, 2006 11:10:10 GMT
I feel this forum is a good place to put things, since it is probably not read by many people outside EveryNation and thus the damage to the credibility of the gospel is minimised. The people who are a stumbling block to peoples' faith are the hypocritical and cultic leaders within EveryNation.
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Post by StationAdministration on Apr 26, 2006 11:40:26 GMT
Reading the first chapter of Maranatha1984's story last night I was struck by the fact that Joe Smith tried the same spiritual blackmail on Tik when he was a pastor and decided to leave.
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Post by helpfulcommentary on Apr 26, 2006 22:51:50 GMT
I think that unrelenting criticism not done in love is bad. There is such a thing as constructive criticism and we all need that. Preferably in private first. Many have tried that with EN leaders, but did not get very far, which is why I feel a forum like this is warranted.
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Post by philiprosenthal on Apr 27, 2006 15:45:27 GMT
Dear helpusall
With regard to your comments under Rice Broocks thread
Thanks for your encouragement. There are a variety of people on FactNet, who post with different purposes and with different levels of care about accuracy. I tried to steer the conversation toward reform. Others didn't like that. In most cases they had been there a lot longer thna me. Also, certain EveryNation leaders don't want to post on FactNet so we started a new board to include EN leaders in the discussion and try keep the conversation salted in content.
FactNet was started by someone who left Scientology and wanted to help others still in the movement. Certain EveryNation members and ex-members started a thread on the movement.
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