A strong offense is the best defense

[penworks]

In one of my old Way Corps notebooks I wrote an entry dated 12/5/72. It is from my second year in the Way Corps at headquarters. We were sitting in the back of the BRC and VPW had us listen to a tape by Dr. Walter Martin called, The Kingdom of the Cults.

Ironic, huh? One of VP's famous cliches was "a strong offense is the best defense" or put another way, "the best defense is a strong offense" - probably his adaptation of a basketball motto to a witnessing motto. He always told us "truth needs no defense." In having us listen to this cult tape, I can only imagine he was redirecting our attention away from his own cultish indoctrination. He tried to run interference about info on cults before we had a chance to realize we were in a cult ourselves! (his technique worked on me for MANY years). Point the finger at others and away from you at all costs!

On the tape, Martin said cultists were people of these faiths: Mormonism, Christian Science, Bahiahism, what he called Spiritualists, and Unitarians. Others included the Jehovah Witnesses. One comment he made on the tape: "Cults devour people who don't know what they believe or can't prove it." And another doozie: "Cults are founded on what leaders say scriptures say." Mmm...

Kingdom of the Cults

Edited November 16, 2010 by penworks

[excathedra]

"Cults are founded on what leaders say scriptures say." Mmm...

now that's a good one lol

[Oakspear]

"Cults devour people who don't know what they believe or can't prove it."

For all the hoohah about biblical research, very few people bothered to do any research on their own and fewer understood on even a basic level what they supposedly believed.

[cheranne]

In 1978 after Jonestown happened ...he had that sinister laugh...while defending anything the news may have said about The Way and it being a Cult.

Anyone have that Sunday night teaching tape from Emporia?