In Reply to: Rethinking Berg's doctrines posted by Oldtimer on November 18, 2005 at 16:26:46:
Berg was, let's be honest, a rhetorical genius being the son of a famous evangelist. He grew up listening to so many sermons, styles of rhetoric, modes of persuasion, that he couldn't help but inculcate similar technique for swaying an audience or congregation(of the already converted).
His sermon on DID GOD MAKE A MISTAKE, is a flight of rhetorical genius. Sure there are some smudges of fact, blurring of reality, paraphrasing of references, but that's rhetoric---that's preaching sometimes.
The problem with the FAMILY, and cults in general, is the ability to separate rhetoric from DOGMA. Critical thinking is not taught properly under an ideological regime.
Everything in FANATICISM requires so much enthusiasm and inspiration--like a football or basketball team, that Berg became the ultimate cheerleader.
We sadly become the ultimate LEMMINGS that ran, jumped, sat, laid, and crapped at his command.
THINKING WAS AN AFTERTHOUGHT.