Korean Woman Warns Against Joining the Shincheonji Church of Jesus
When it comes to religion, Koreans can be quite aggressive in promoting their churches, but this particular church seems pretty extreme:
For a Korean woman surnamed Seo, 29, the last two years and three months have been traumatic.
Her passionate, can-do spirit drove her to leave her country, to pursue an ultimate goal to “take over” foreign countries by recruiting foreign members for Shincheonji Church of Jesus, the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony (SCJ).
A former nurse, she was a strong believer until just a few months ago. According to her, when she left Turkey, there were about 60 SCJ members in Istanbul alone, and the number was increasing rapidly. (……..)“I want the Turkish people to know what the group has done, and still is doing,” she said, as if confessing.
Korea Times
She said for two years and three months, she was one of “them” in Turkey.
With very little support, without telling her parents, her life was all about recruitment. All team members shared the same room, having only one or two meals a day. Some members were even forced to marry Turkish people, she said.
“Single members were often targeted for brainwashing, including me,” she said.
You can read the rest at the link.
Sounds like either the church leaders or the disgruntled former member misunderstood about the kingdom of God. Nowhere in the Bible does it instruct Christians to “take over” countries. We are to be ambassadors, witnesses, etc.
All religion about consolidating money and power around a few with “special” knowledge. Similar to communism, just with a nicer tag line.
“Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony ”
The tremendous temptation to temporarily terminate this tenacious travesty’s thieving ties to the troublesome temple’s tricky tithes through technically tasteless testimony temps the tactfully thoughtful to tauntingly talk tantalizingly terrible to temporarily torture these truly timelessly twisted theologians.
CH. You left out Tbone Tyler!
Flyingsword, CH, Tanker:
Profound prose promotes peaceful persuasion. (Too tired to try to top the teacher.)
That’s why I recommend the Bible, “Sola Scriptura” as the Reformation put it, as a source for action, not the baser teachings of any particular group of religious folks–no mater how honest or sincere they might seem…
There are and always have been con-artists. There are also people like Mother Teresa. By their deeds you will know them.
Your walk talks louder than your talk talks. And knowing I’m far from perfection, I lean on Romans 5:8 and Psalm 16.
Profound prose perhaps paradoxically promotes peaceful persuasion provided pompous participants promptly postpone perilously painful pedantry.
Trollish Tbone Tyler thirstily taste-tests trichomoniasis-tainted transient tubesteak tadpoles then tirelessly takes thick trousersnake to the toughened tailpipe thus totally trumpeting tantalizing thoughts that tempt the trailing tranny train thrashing Tbone’s tortured tush.
temper