In Reply to: the discussion on Wikipedia posted by keeping perspective on January 06, 2005 at 13:14:43:
The whole (in) rather un-genious, very nonChristian
invention was, you can f.ck whom you want, when both consent...as long as it is in "God's love"...
That - strange thing - was first pushed outside of TF, although we know, Berg already practised it himself in the higher circles.
Now the word porneia really can also be traced back to something being sold...
Berg justified temple-(religious) prostituition &
of course, people living by "faith", they had to make it pay.Since when was literature, tapes & videos given away freely?(unless someone sponsored it, who most likely got fished!)I personally made
not so many acceptions (more with lit), where I accepted, that someone just didn't have much to give & therefore gave it under the suggested minimumrequirement or for free.
I've lived personally in homes, where FFing became the major funds-factor...even if they shifted later to tapes & videos...
You can imagine how soon a fish got dropped, who didn't show some financial favour.The message was very clear to them.It wasn't may be for that night, but hardly a month would pass & they expected them to show up with something. Also not so "big sheep", but people with lots of funds were kept on the long line, for some financial crisis.
It's absolutely stupid for Cognomen to even dare citing some courtcase etc.Even if it happened that way, then the judges can also only go by the information fed to them. (Plus it happened in Italy ; ) )
I agree totally, that the whole thing was suuuuuper far from being Christian.On the contrary, that was one main issue, where churches
finally distanced themselves from TF.
I mean, Berg never understood Jesus nor Paul on that issue of marriage & sex outside marriage.
So since he didn't understand it, neither wanted to understand it - as his lust was bigger - he had
this whole "fancyfreesex-invention".
This wouldn't be exactly as bad, if he named the
"cattle", say as it is & admitting, that it has
nothing to do with EarlyChurch-behaviour & faith.
But with this Christian-cover, they continue to fool people & get the simpleminded to give to their so called charities...I think a minimal percentage of good will come out of that too.
But the appalling thing for me is their lack of honesty.I think exer said, they want to survive at any cost...I guess that's true...that's more important than being honest.SAD.