Posted by Doubtful on October 05, 2008 at 20:11:32
In Reply to: Re: False premises? posted by Edward on October 05, 2008 at 19:41:15:
In your opening post you state "your views are all respected." But when have this attitiude that experts know better than former members themselves and state that whether or not we agree with your statement doesn't concern you, you show that you have no respect for us.
So-called experts are a dime a dozen. Every once in a while some smart ass shows up to beat us over the head with what they insist are facts about us, no matter what we explain. They even quote quotes like you did, which are out of context to stretch it to fit their theories. Basically they want, as the coordinator explained, us to to confirm what they insist they already know about us. Last time someone looked in a text book on social studies and insisted that we walked around displaying symbols of our rank. And now you come along and equate COG with PT and say there was a doctrine of revolutionary suicide, And if we say there wasn't, we just don't know what the experts know.
If you are concerned with facts, not opinions, why do you repeat opinions that are not facts?
Your quotes refer to Berg's persecution complex, his explanation for what is causing deaths, not suicide.
What exactly is evidence of revolutionary suicide?
Why do you even refer to COG doctrine as church doctrine? How do you define church?