“I drank the Kool-Aid for seven years and it didn’t hurt me!”
One of the difficulties of hosting a fully documented anonymous attack blog is the amount of time it takes to gather and organize my documentation. Unlike those who have the luxury of hosting fully autonomous self-willed attack blogs, I actually have to document my facts. Of course, the irony is that they declare my documentation “slander” while they produce no evidence or arguments to support their claim. They just assert it. I suppose that’s because they are fully autonomous self-willed attack blogs. Anyway, the last few posts as well as the next few posts are all ground work for an upcoming post on the personality cult at Christ Church, Moscow. I appreciate your patience.
A couple of weeks ago during the brouhaha at Reformed Catholicism, a young man named Tim Enloe posted a passionate defense of Christ Church, Moscow, claiming that the words “cult” and “compound” do not apply there.
Tim Enloe wrote,Mary Louise, I don’t know what you’ve been reading (I don’t care to read anonymous attack blogs or receive anonymous or vague charges against pastors, regardless of their purported “pastoral” purpose), but I lived in Moscow for 7 years and I have to say this about your “compound” remark. There is a sense of close community, perhaps even of unique community, at work in Moscow, but to call it a “compound” and invoke the word “cult” is more than a bit over the top.
Like any other community under the sun, Moscow has its problems. But if one hasn’t lived there, worshipped there, fellowshipped with them in their homes, I don’t believe it’s appropriate for one to be talking about their problems. And especially not on the basis of tales told by people one doesn’t know about circumstances one is only getting one account of, and that one account in a medium notorious for its impersonal ability to ratchet things up to levels of controversy far beyond what would ever occur in a face-to-face context. I don’t defend everything that comes out of Moscow, and I never did and do not now walk in total, uncritical lockstep with my teachers at NSA — but I lived there, worshipped there, and fellowshipped with many of those there face-to-face for 7 years. Neither “compound” nor “cult” are appropriate words to use of them.
I don’t doubt that this young man really believes what he wrote, but the very credentials he put forward to establish his authority on the matter tell us all we need to know:
- I lived in Moscow for 7 years.
- There is a sense of close community, perhaps even of unique community, at work in Moscow
- But if one hasn’t lived there, worshipped there, fellowshipped with them in their homes, I don’t believe it’s appropriate for one to be talking about their problems.
- I don’t defend everything that comes out of Moscow, and I never did and do not now walk in total, uncritical lockstep with my teachers at NSA
- I lived there, worshipped there, and fellowshipped with many of those there face-to-face for 7 years.
Let’s let the same person — Tim Enloe — answer the question for us. Four years ago (I presume this was part of his seven-year stay in Moscow), during the Southern Slavery scandal, Mr. Enloe posted the following email to Vision 20/20. Read it and tell me if he wasn’t walking in total uncritical lockstep with his teachers at New Saint Andrews College; tell me if his sense of unique community (i.e. peer pressure) didn’t contribute to his unquestioning loyalty to the cause:
From: Solafidian@aol.com
To: “Vision2020”
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 14:02 PM
Subject: Re: Slaves vs non slave ownership
So a guy can write a pamphlet expressing an alternative view of Southern slavery, and next thing you know he’s the focus of a full-blown internet Inquisition based on ethical absolutes that aren’t being acknowledged for what they are or from whence they came, and which cause some of their adherents to act like contemporary American culture is the highest form of good that humanity has ever produced. Why, just look at how every age of history and every other viewpoint gets summarily judged by the standards of “tolerance” emanating from 21st century American universities and those who defend their closed-minded, double-standard fulminations about same.
I was going to write an e-mail explaining why cultural imperialism was evil, but it dawned on me halfway through it that it was incredibly stupid to have to write it in the year 2003 AD. I thought we’d gotten past all that hate speech junk. This isn’t the Dark Ages, you know.
Tim Enloe
Another Backwards Christian Dupe of Wilson & Co.
The amazing thing about this post is the way he mimed Wilson’s sound bites without any critical thought whatsoever. Doug said it. I believe it. That settles it. It’s clear, however, that he could not develop substantially the thoughts behind his sound bites. He simply repeated them, by rote, just as he learned them in the compound. And even though he meant (apparently) his tag line, “Another Backwards Christian Dupe of Wilson & Co.,” as a “ha ha” preemptive answer to anyone who might suggest that he appeared quite duped by the Fearless Leader, he nevertheless presented himself as “Another Backwards Christian Dupe of Wilson & Co,” though I would strike the word “Christian.”
SSAIW was not an “alternative view of Southern slavery,” it was racist propaganda written (plagiarized) by two certifiable morons for their mindless disciples, which included Mr. Enloe. I’ve already written that Wilson uses the mythology of SSAIW as one of the critical steps in programming his disciples to accept his universe of make believe: Mr. Enloe stands as living proof of this thesis.
Rosemary Huskey’s response to Mr. Enloe still stands unanswered by him because no one at NSA taught him how to think critically.
Thank you.
3 comments:
Ms. Huskey proposes a false dilemma with respect to Mr. Enloe: Brain-washed OR brain-dead? As I have read his work over the years, it seems to be more a case of both/and, rather than either/or.
Killer.
Now you did it. As soon as you mention Tim Enloe he’ll start trying to defend himself, turning up the rhetoric. And the only thing he’ll end up doing with any certainty is look stupid. . . .
Oh, and you might want to give this site a look. It has an interesting couple of podcasts about mind control under the auspice of spiritual abuse.
www.thatmompodcast.com
I love your site Mark T. Keep hammering away at that ogre.
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