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Originally Posted by aron
There's an assembly called the Geftakys Assembly, and ex-members have their own "recovery" website forum, and some of them have noted the similarities. Grandiosity, control, and paranoia. And the Geftakys were not Chinese.
But Lee caught millions in China for his schemes. So there was certainly cultural resonance. And today it's predominantly the Chinese grad students on the campus who come in, along with recent immigrants. They don't see the warning signs. To them it looks "normal".
And they simply ignore the Bible, where it doesn't align. When you show them the "much discussion" in the supposedly "normal" early church, they just change the subject and move on (Acts 15:7). It just doesn't resonate with their cultural predisposition.
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Yes, the Chinese were definitely a follow-the-leader, subsume-the-one-into-the-many culture. Which is one reason communism took them over so easily. Such a thing could never have happened in America. That's probably why the Recovery never really did that well in the USA. We value autonomy too much. As you said, they've had to bring in Asians because Americans, by and large, won't go for it.