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In Reply to: Your case is very interesting posted by Donny on October 29, 2002 at 23:27:42:
but it seems correct. I didn't join to "serve Jesus" as many of you did. I was not even a Christian even though I did ask Jesus into my heart and I wanted to believe. You are right about not signing off my concience but I still became sold-out in due time. What I bogth was not the vision of a leader or a prophet but the message and the idealism that people. When I say the message I don't mean the stupid letters, I had already read most of the classics by the time I joined so there was nothing new for me there. What I mean is the powerful message of practicing real Christianity, which I saw in the idealism of the people I interacted with. I say the Liberation Theology in effect and that is what I bought into.
I didn't join a cult, I didn't even join an organization. I joined a group of people whom I liked and appreciated. The infrastructure appeared much later as they decided to reveal it. Remember how babes could not read LT material for quite sometime but by then we had alredy too much invested and was difficult to see anything strange.
The lates posts in this site have made me examine my own position on why I joined, stayed and left. I never realized that people had so totally given themselves up to Berg. I knew some who followed him for every crumb of crap but I always consider them the minority and very scary. They would kill themselves for him, or even worse, kill others. But the vast majority were nice human beings I never suspected them to be so hypnotized by the drunk pedophile.
