In Reply to: Re: A clever political message? posted by OldtimerToo on July 09, 2004 at 10:30:22:
here's something - hubby and I watched Ararat the other day - he for the first time. For me, I had grown up hearing all these things about the Armenian genocide. I had heard it from my family and from other Armenian families. I heard and watched my grandmother cry almost daily - 1) because of all she suffered and the children she lost and 2) because she was so happy that God had found the U.S. for her to escape to, because she was so happy to be in such a safe place where no one could harm her or her family because of their religion.
So when my hubby watched Ararat and saw the first hand accounts of all that was done to the Armenian population in Eastern Turkey, he was nearly at tears. Then he said, "David Berg told us as Christians we wouldn't suffer when we were persecuted for Christ - how can that be when all these generations of Christians have been tortured and mutiliated for their belief and all of them suffered so much. David Berg lied to us again and again."
I believe that this kind of teaching, that we'd suffer no pain, or like the story that Berg would tell about the Russian Christians on the ice flow getting their crown, etc., was a way of making us feel unspiritual if we had pain or we suffered. Then we'd have to pray more and feel more guilt for not being spiritual enough or for lacking in faith. I think it's part of mind control. Of course one is going to suffer and one is going to be angry too. It's human nature.