“So anyone who comes on here to defend Mark Driscoll is automatically wrong.”

Not “automatically wrong”, just that we have yet to see anyone who comes here to defend Driscoll be right. Mostly they just come here an spew a bunch of nonsense, attempt to deflect the conversation, make unsustantiated accusations, refuse to provide any details or respond to questions, insinuate others are lying (but never really have the courage to actually say it), and generally make ridiculous excuses for Driscoll’s behaviour.

So anyone who comes on here to defend Mark Driscoll is automatically wrong. Sounds to me like you are deciding who someone can choose to associate with. By your own standards, aren’t you guilty of your own cult? We could call it the I HATE MARK DRISCOLL CULT.
Instead of wondering what goes on in Trinity Church, why don’t you come and see for yourself? Or are you afraid you find out you were incorrect?

I have attended The Trinity Church for four years. Not once have my friends been chosen for me. Not once have I been told what to wear, eat, where to go on vacation, how to speak, what to read (although it has been encouraged to read the Bible – duh). No one has ever told me where I should go or how I should spend my time. You people with your conspiracy theories and your hate would actually be funny if you weren’t so dangerous. As for merele, I guess she’s the looney redhead that has been picketing off and on for the past four years. That might work in Seattle, but people in Arizona have a brain and can think for themselves. They know the Word of God when they hear it. And if there is any question, they are encouraged to always check the Bible for reference.

That is quite a leap. You want to discuss Communism, let’s talk about the thought police of the left, the constant censoring of speech of anyone who doesn’t buy into progressive ideology and the danger of big tech/business operating for an ideology. Doctors and nurses and many others losing their jobs because they don’t want to put an experimental technology in their body.

While Christianese Cult-Watch Ministries(TM) were parsing Theology letter-by-letter under electron microscopes, abusive BITE-Cultic churches and “Fellowships” sailed right under their radar and used their Clean Bill of Theological Correctness/NOT a Cult as an additional weapon against their people. Didn’t hurt that these Not-a-Cults had the exact same Theology (Rapture Ready Bible-Believing Fundagelicalism) as the Cult Watchers.

“Doctrine over Person” was also a trope of Communism.
(Except they called it “Ideology” instead of “Doctrine”.)