Lee as Lt. Colonel Nicholson

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Originally Posted by Igzy

Lee on the other hand tooted his own horn like he was the Minister of Advertising.

And who believes such a thing? Naive members might not know better, and they feel extreme pressure to not question it. But the upper level guys, the elders and Blendeds, they should know better. So they might be nuts, too.

There's an assembly called the Geftakys Assembly, and ex-members have their own website discussion forum, and some of them have noted the similarities with Lee. Grandiosity, obsessive control, special key words and insider meanings, alienation, and paranoia/persecution complex. And the Geftakys were not Chinese.

But Lee caught millions in China for his schemes. So there was certainly a larger 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 all 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.

Originally Posted by Igzy

At least Nicholson's madness could be attributed to the time he spent under the hot Burma sun in his captors' "cooler." What was Lee's excuse? We will probably never know in this life.

Lee's experience of the hot Burma sun was his native culture. It made him think and act the way he did. If it had been mitigated, God might have used him. But it took him over, the notion that China was "virgin soil" and somehow God, through him, carried the torch of biblical purity forward. But he was shot through with cultural concepts. And he built a house of mirrors where it all shined back at him, noting but "amens" from every corner.