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FORUM WITH STANLEY RADER (NOVEMBER 22)
Greetings, everyone. There is an envelope here--must be the winner
of the Academy Awards.
This is a question that's been addressed to me by one of the employees,
and it has to do with third tithe. I'm really not at all well versed
in this area, but I will see that this question gets immediately to
Mr. Cole. And he will address himself to it, and if it needs Mr.
Armstrong's input I'm sure that he will get it.
I just wanted to share with you a couple of pages that are in this
week's Pastor's Report /November 22, 1978J, which unfortunately you're
not all privy to, although I think, perhaps, it might be a good thing
that more of you would be. It's being printed now--this is a xerox
copy. It's Mr. Armstrong's second contribution to this week's Pastor's
Report titled, "Answering Smear Stories," so I guess it ties in pretty
well with what Mr. LaRavia was just talking about. We didn't compare
notes. He hasn't seen this report either. That's one of the reasons
I was late--! was waiting for this, and also, while I was waiting,
Mr. Armstrong called me. So, that conversation turned out to be more
than five minutes. �r. Rader proceeded to read the entire article.J
Maybe we will wind up having that reprinted in the GOOD NEWS--a very
powerful statement.
So, here we are again. I've talked to Mr. LaRavia upon my return frrom
New YorkJ. I told him I'd be leaving for the Middle East and Europe
in a few days and, therefore, we wouldn't have another one of these
sessions, probably, until right after the first of the year. So, for
those of you who have some questions you might like to have aired,
I'm here again. The questions that were raised and answered at our
last meeting are now in the GOOD NEWS /November
20J
which was just
published this week. Did you all receive your copy? Did you see those
comments when you read them were totally unedited? The questions were
there in their entirety, and the answers were there, as poorly phrased
as they might be, in their entirety. So, who wants to lead off?
QUESTION: Mr. Rader, a couple of questions in regard to the news media
and religion from the present time--what's happened to the Peoples'
Temple. I've been noticing a write-up in the press now of people get
ting involved in checking up on so-called sects. In conjunction with
this, there's going to be a demonstration at so-called Faith Temple
in Los Angeles. I don't know if you are familiar with them, but they
are the ones who own Channel 52, and they are fighting the State At
torney General's Office in respect to taxes. I guess they want to
investigate books of any non-profit organization whether or not there
is a hint of any wrongdoing. And so what I'm wondering is, how is
this involving the Church and how do we foresee this involving the
Church in the near future?
RADER: We don't really feel that there is a direct connection between
the problems of this movement that has been in the papers the past
few days, or any other reprehensible organization. If you read between
the lines, you'll see that the news media treat certain organizations
as "cults," rather than as sects, as a rule. And when they use the
word "sect" they generally mean cult.