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Excellent Analogy: Except Berg Didn't Create What Is Within...

Posted by Dr. Death on June 24, 2006 at 20:16:12

In Reply to: The Family's Culture of Death posted by CB on June 21, 2006 at 12:49:29:

You wrote about the Family's Culture of Death:

"It was created by David Berg, and it feeds on the children of his followers. It was made strong and protected by the leadership of the cult,..."

Berg like any charismatic salesman tapped into what the customer wanted. Easy answers.

But let me say that Berg would have got no where without the the sycophantic, compliant, lying leadership that found it commonplace that one person may enslave another by excessive love, laced with appeals to gratitude, compassion, and duty, so that the loved one may actually feel those sentiments—love, too, of a sort—while at the same time wanting nothing more than to be out the door.