Light

Cheryl, in post #95 you used the phrase “emotionally fondle” to describe how some of the women relate to the Bayly brothers. What an apt phrase that is! The Baylys use these women like cheap props to shore up their ego and their supposed high position in the hierarchy. They have no compunction about casting them aside, however, when they are done with them. I have also noticed they allow “villains” on their blog, as long as they can use those villains as a foil for their own (supposed) great theological insights. However, when the villain starts making too much sense – as I did last year, and Corrie, and most recently Suzanne and Rebecca – Tim Bayly is then in danger of looking foolish, because the villain is making too much sense. That’s when the villain is banned, not for discourtesy or falsehoods, but for so-called “false teaching.” By claiming he is banning them to “protect his sheep,” Tim is establishing himself once again as the alpha male. As you know, in cults the gatekeeping function is essential to keeping people in the dark about the truth – any light shed on the truth is a great threat to their control. Interesting, too, that to my knowledge no man has ever been banned from the Bayly blog. Only women. I suspect that has a great deal to do with Tim’s pride; he cannot bear to be shown up by a woman. He doesn’t deign to answer their difficult questions, but rather obfuscates and dances around it, and never gives a clear answer. Praise God there are blogs like this one, and TW, and others, who can present another point of view.