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Originally Posted by awareness
I see deputy authority of any kind as bunkum. If anyone claims anything except as on par with me I consider them a laughingstock. But that's just me.
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No, that's not just you. It's me, too.
I remember one time an elder in Austin discussing Sun Myung Moon, the self-proclaimed Messiah and leader of the Moonie cult. He said, with appropriate concision, "If you are talking to a Moonie and he can't say 'Moon is a wet noodle', walk away."
That's what I say now. If you are talking to a LCMer and he can't admit deputy authority is the brain-child of wet noodles, walk away.
This isn't to say that God doesn't give some members authority. But that's a far cry from the LCM model of authority, which is really nothing more than an instrument of control and intimidation, and the work of wet noodles.