movinon (movinon)
10-05-2005, 08:15 PM
I've been reading the recent thread where "silverbee" graced this forum with his presence, as well as reading about the latest goings on over at the ccg board, as they have been reported by others here. I refuse to ever go back to that place, but that is another thread altogether!
Anyway, one thing that I have been noticing is just how easy it has been for people (in all fairness, not everyone, but in my estimation, way too many) to begin to act just like they were programmed to act at CC toward any dissenting opinion or person. Enough people now frequent the ccg board, or at least did when I was there, that still haven't come out of the cultish mindset of CC, so that it has become very easy for them to fall right back into that mode of behavior and thinking. But, I think it has taken more than just getting enough (numbers wise) of them together to make this happen...I think it has been in some of the particular people that have been frequenting that site who have essentially acted like catalysts to allow the old CC mindset to rear its ugly head and manifest itself toward others.
What Onesimus has endured from the moderator and many on the ccg site is very telling in regards to not only what has been happening openly on that board, but more importantly, the change in attitude that has been going on subtly there as well for quite some time. It seems that it didn't take much to make many folks fall right back to where they left off 10, 15, 20 odd years ago. I guess I'm really amazed at how easily most seem to step right back into that way of thinking, and more importantly, that way of responding to others.
To refuse to discuss something with someone privately is just not scriptural. Where is the love? Where is the concern for people's hearts, feelings, and lives? To spend an evening reading through one person's arguments, but then refuse to hear the other's arguments is, dare I say, unchristian; not to mention unfair....BUT, very chapelesque.
If anyone ever wanted to know where people really stand on issues of CC, its doctrines, its practices, and their views on the current validity of same, I think it has become very clear by the reactions and responses we have seen. I find them ridiculous in some instances, unscriptural in others, but overall, it still saddens me to know that people who claim to love others (but whose church was destroyed because of a supposed move of love) still haven't figured out that treating people the way they did and still are is nothing close to the love they seem to want to emulate.
mo
Anyway, one thing that I have been noticing is just how easy it has been for people (in all fairness, not everyone, but in my estimation, way too many) to begin to act just like they were programmed to act at CC toward any dissenting opinion or person. Enough people now frequent the ccg board, or at least did when I was there, that still haven't come out of the cultish mindset of CC, so that it has become very easy for them to fall right back into that mode of behavior and thinking. But, I think it has taken more than just getting enough (numbers wise) of them together to make this happen...I think it has been in some of the particular people that have been frequenting that site who have essentially acted like catalysts to allow the old CC mindset to rear its ugly head and manifest itself toward others.
What Onesimus has endured from the moderator and many on the ccg site is very telling in regards to not only what has been happening openly on that board, but more importantly, the change in attitude that has been going on subtly there as well for quite some time. It seems that it didn't take much to make many folks fall right back to where they left off 10, 15, 20 odd years ago. I guess I'm really amazed at how easily most seem to step right back into that way of thinking, and more importantly, that way of responding to others.
To refuse to discuss something with someone privately is just not scriptural. Where is the love? Where is the concern for people's hearts, feelings, and lives? To spend an evening reading through one person's arguments, but then refuse to hear the other's arguments is, dare I say, unchristian; not to mention unfair....BUT, very chapelesque.
If anyone ever wanted to know where people really stand on issues of CC, its doctrines, its practices, and their views on the current validity of same, I think it has become very clear by the reactions and responses we have seen. I find them ridiculous in some instances, unscriptural in others, but overall, it still saddens me to know that people who claim to love others (but whose church was destroyed because of a supposed move of love) still haven't figured out that treating people the way they did and still are is nothing close to the love they seem to want to emulate.
mo