Pardon me, for quoting myself here, however I'm wondering if dear old "Abel" might be able to provide some ready information on Tyrannus for us....the numbers in Aust. would not have been that great...McKay always being one to "beat his own drum" as loudly as he could, to the world at large....hence:
Born 17th May 1944, Rochester New York Sate. Marries Cherry in
1964Immigrates to Aus. 3rd May 1967 ...living in Peats Ridge initially (God knows why!). Moves to just outside Canberra,...
Residing in Queenbeyan '68 - 73 Working for the Bible Society at some point ...would have met the Children of God in Aus. over this period. The article must be an early "outreach" on his part and would thus be the start of the "eight years" of child rearing that he once remarked of to me....
Broken Hill '73 -77.....Employment with the local media (where working for "mammon" would seem to conflict with his earlier "vow of poverty" and non compliance with the "system"that he would have obviously already made as a "paid up" member of the Children of God....however I note I am dealing with the pathological deceit of hypocritical McKay).....actively promotes the COG's and publicly identifies with them....(Flirty Fishing introduced in '74, and McKay,
TWO FULL YEARS later at the very minimum(?) "leaves" the COG's....more due to Cherry's intransigence than from any pangs of his own "conscience"....)
ABEL's testimony...."District Shepherd" indeed...which district I'd love to know...[
www.cifs.org.au]
Alice Springs 1977 ....again (hypocritically by the standards he applies to others, when he "denigrates" them as lacking the guts to "live by faith" aka his own glorious example) in full employment of the Aboriginal Congress.
Wollongong 1979...Church inflitration....the brief fling John McFarlane had with him! Graffiti in mass of several of the churches who had "wronged" him.
Tallangatta 1980 -82....when clearly he considers his "cult" to have "taken off"...Neville, Ross, I, Roland, Ross....and several shorter term members coming in fairly rapid succession....
In 1982, David shows me his leather bound collection of the Mo Letters, at Tallagatta....I'm wondering now, if in fact David ever in fact actually "left" the COG's....after the RNR(Reorganization Naturalization Revolution) in 1978, Able describes how he was ultimately "booted out" as it became increasingly impossible for him to tenably be true to himself and the demands that COG's made on him ....McKay of course was never "booted out" (we know he moved out and "set up shop" elsewhere...that that does not necessarily mean that he disassociated himself).......hence couldn't it have been possible for him to have simply described himself as "independant" yet "affiliated" family of the COG's to the new organization, the Family of Love...hence he continues to receive the newsletters....
For a period of time, Berg was uncertain about the loyalties of his followers. The dispersion of adherents made solidarity difficult to achieve. He sent out feelers in the form of surveys, and asked for help to gather his scattered flock, through a "Dear Friend or Foe" Mo Letter.
Members now received the Mo Letters mailed directly to their homes, and were encouraged to send written correspondence to Berg himself if they felt their rights or the rights of other members were being infringed upon.[
www.exfamily.org]
He remarked to me that the introduction of "Flirty Fishing" had been the "final straw"....(for Cherry as it turns out, not for McKay despite the pretence he made to me, at the time, of his "principles").....but is there any hard evidence that David actually ever abandoned membership of the Children of God/Family of Love?...he would realize that they are "bad press" and wouldn't then, of course, publicly admit that he's associated with them....and once he began acquiring a "flock" of his own...then he was in a position to "forget" the COG's (...and he NEEDED to "disown" them as he would otherwise risk being seen to being plagiarizing Berg's materials as he was doing).......but where is the hard evidence McKay ever officially abandoned membership?
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/13/2011 12:24AM by Malcolm Wesley WREST.