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Originally Posted by Drake
I hear that in this forum from time to time... yet, I don't doubt some people have that thought... it's human. I heard similar reasonings in the holiness denomination "brother so-n-so got drunk, crashed his car and died, and in his drunken state went straight hell. He was our best song director to date and we'll miss him. So, don't drink or you might end up in hell". Stuff like that. Yet, your allegation is that the fear of getting whacked by God is systematized to keep people away from "the light outside the local churches". That is a ridiculous notion. Nothing has been systematized to keep people in fear from reading anything their lil ol heart desires. If you heard someone say it then I'll accept your testimony but that is an isolated incident. Just anecdotal not systematized. ]
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Drake, watch out here comes a "drive by"!
Not systematized? You would know better than me, I was only in the LC for a year and that notion was pushed on me twice explicitly, I don't know how many times implicitly. It was also discussed at the dinner table at length with a dozen or so "saints" in Irvine. I guess you just chalk this one up to another isolated incident... At what point are we allowed to look at these isolated incidents and come to the conclusion that there is a systematic problem?