Possible Concerns With My Articles [Updated]

It is here that I will like to address some possible concerns with my articles. After being with the ICC for six years it becomes predictable as to what methods or arguments they will use to attempt to character assassinate me once my articles are released and therefore it is here that I will like to put these accusations to rest before they can even be used (or may have already been used if they neglected to read all of my articles up to this point before issuing premature accusations).

The first concern has to do with the purpose for which I wrote these articles. My intent for writing these is not to attack the ICC congregation; I am not their enemy. Rather, these ICC leaders have made themselves into enemies of God by abusing God’s people. My intent is to help these people, unlike the ICC leaders who claim that they are just “helping them to be more spiritual” as they coerce them into giving more money. I am not after money or power and it is likely that I will be hated for the articles which I have written; I have no ulterior motives for doing this. Instead, seeing my friends that are still in this “Church” being manipulated and abused fills me with indignation.

Secondly, there will probably be an accusation that has to do with the fact that I used Sigmund Freud’s theory of group psychology as a source material for religious-based articles despite the fact that this man was an atheist, since I have witnessed such accusations in the past. I used both Gustave Le Bon’s and Freud’s group psychological theories to describe the corrupt psychological manipulation that was being carried out against the congregation (and I actually quote Le Bon more frequently). In the first place, just because a group is religiously-based does not mean that they are exempt from psychological theories made by a non-religious man, even if that man was an atheist. Freud’s theory on group psychology was actually largely based off of Gustave Le Bon’s work. Although Le Bon was not really a religious man, he considered atheism to potentially be just as religiously-minded as any other religious group. For a religious group to discount Freud’s theories on the fact that he was an atheist is completely baseless. Yet the ICC will still probably attempt to use this as an argument anyway (until they finally read this), because that is just the way they are. The usage of such faulty or silly reasoning by an ICC leader would no longer surprise me at this point. Not that I say this to insult their intelligence, for many of these people are very crafty, rather I’m saying that people will resort to any kind of mindless argument when they become desperate, even when they know very well that these arguments are full of fallacies. This is especially true when they are trying to protect their very jobs; their sources of income. 

Another accusation that I commonly hear is about my use of psychological concepts to describe Kip McKean’s manipulation of the church, and that I shouldn’t use “worldly concepts” when discussing “spiritual” things. Once again we see the ICC’s very unique definition of what it means to be “spiritual”.  Also is it not Kip McKean himself who has been employing these psychological concepts to use on the congregation? All I have done is describe how he uses them. Now the question must be asked; what is “spirituality”? Is it not referring to things concerned with God? I believe that God created the universe and therefore I also believe that he created the laws of mathematics, physics, and chemistry to make this world function. Why should these subjects be considered separate from God? I believe also that God created us and the way our minds work. Saying that the church should be separate from psychological concepts due to them being not being “spiritual” (apparently by the ICC’s definition of “spirituality”) is just like saying that God should be separated from reality. For people who profess to believe in God, this is ridiculous reasoning.

Now another issue that some people may notice is that for the most part I do not mention specific identities for ICC leaders in my articles and I simply refer to them as “ICC leaders”. This may seem questionable at first since I myself point out that the ICC of makes manipulatively obscure statements, however, the reason that I keep them anonymous is that I do not know whether they were intentionally trying to psychologically manipulate people or whether it is they themselves that are being psychologically manipulated and are unaware of the abuse that is being wrought. I do believe that there are a great many leaders in the upper leadership who know full well the corruption of their organization since both former and currently serving members of the upper leadership have confessed that they were aware of this corruption. Many of those in the upper leadership are experts at getting other people to do their manipulation for them without them even being aware of it and I wrote about these techniques in my articles. I only mention a few ICC leaders who I do know are corrupt and have made extraordinary displays of corruption, but other than that I do not mention specific people; unless the ICC actually wants me to start “burning their leaders at the stake” in a manner of speaking. These articles were written to free people, not to harm them.

I would also like to address an accusation that some people have tried to level at me already and I know that it will be a future concern/accusation that I can know I can expect the ICC leaders to fire at me following the release of my article about the downfall of Kip McKean’s “Old Movement”; "how do you know what happened during the ICOC? You were not even there.” Of course I wasn’t there, but now let me explain why this is a faulty accusation with a rhetorical question of my own; how do you know that George Washington was the first United States president? My anticipation of this "dumb question" is in no way a comment on the intelligence level of ICC members, but rather; after years of being in the ICC I am very well aware that these ICC leaders will often resort to extremely faulty arguments knowing that their all-too-trusting congregation will either choose to believe anything they say or will be too afraid to speak up.

My point is, there is a lot of information out there and this information can be gathered to get a picture of what happened at a certain point of time. I would also like to point out the inaccurate statements and blatant propaganda that Kip McKean feeds his own converts about the events surrounding the downfall of his old regime, not to mention that in my six years with the ICC not a single person could give me a sensible answer as to what happened during that time. Saying that I couldn’t have known what happened in the ICOC based on not being there is an argument based on desperation, especially since there were so many people that actually were there who seem to have no idea what happened (and these people who have no idea what happened have all seemed to have found their way into the ICC). I would also like to point out that on top of studying the apology letters as well as other documents that tell of the events that happened during that time (and I have gone to great lengths to show how the confessed abuses in the apology letters are related to the abuses being carried out in Kip’s new organization), I also read Kip McKean’s letter From Babylon onto Zion. Kip McKean’s distorted portrayal of the events that preceded his resignation was a total disgrace and was filled with smokescreens, character assassinations, obscurities toward serious issues, and outright propaganda (and I prove this in my article about these events as I also included an analysis on Kip’s letter).

Also it can be no coincidence that the information I gathered show that the corrupt ICOC policies mentioned in the Henry Kriete letter and then the ICOC Apology Letters (as well as accounts from those who left the ICOC long before these letters came out) are the same exact policies being practiced now in the ICC.  And being an ex-member of the ICC; I can definitely attest to the authenticity of the accounts of this abuse due to their disturbing similarities.

These are the only accusation/character assassinations that I can think of that they could attempt to use against me personally (besides the general character assassinations which I wrote about in my other article), however, the ICC has a very talented propaganda team so I’m pretty sure that I can expect some more interesting accusations in the future. If they wish to debate the content of my articles, I can only pray that they do so in a mature manner rather than the nonsensical examples that I have seen in the past.

Update 8/21/2015

It has been almost two months since my articles were released and I hoped that my articles would at least spark some discussion about repentance within the ICC leadership. I was at least expecting some in the upper leadership to try to challenge my articles but no one besides a shepherd and a few others who I contacted even attempted to have any sort of intelligent discussion (and even then they attempted to skirt around the serious issues or gave excuses). Instead the ICC has decided to respond to my articles in one of the most immature ways possible; with outright slander, lies, and deceitful propaganda. It appears that I have underestimated the upper leadership’s cowardice.

            Rather than attempting to debate the matter of my articles with any sort of intelligent argument the ICC leadership has decided to tell their members that my articles are all “lies” and that they are not to look at them because it will “damage their faith” (once again we see the ICC’s deceptive definition of “damaging faith”). What is sad is that those who claimed to have been my friends during my time in their ministries and claimed to know me are now saying that I “told quite a bit of lies” and that I was “well-known for lying”.

No, I did not tell any lies.

No, they did not know me and they are poor judges of character if they think they do.

These people should not claim to know me when many participated in slandering me behind my back even during the time that I was with them in their ministries, and now they continue to do so with made-up propaganda and false statements.

I dare these people to name a single lie I ever told while I was together with them in their ministries. They can’t (if they answer honestly). I never told any lies.

Yet now these leaders are suddenly telling their members that I was “well-known for lying”? Who are the real liars here?

In my articles I gave a lot of very specific information and referred to events which many people had witnessed. If I had actually lied about any of these things it would be very easy to prove.

They know that if they attempt to debate the content of the articles that they will undoubtedly lose such a battle; so instead they attempt to drag the author’s name through the mud with lies and slander while telling their members not to look at this material which undoubtedly exposes their true nature.

Somehow I was expecting more from the ICC leadership than this shamefully childish response.
Rather than trying to address the content of my articles directly they ran away while declaring me "marked by the church" and slandering me as they fled with tails between their legs. Where is your dignity? Where are your convictions? I proved how many scriptures the ICC violated. I proved the many ways that they do not actually follow the Holy Book that they claim to follow. I believed that there were at least some leaders left who had good hearts. Was this belief for naught? Is fear keeping them silent? This further shows the sad state of the ICC.