The evils committed by Ravi Zacharias were enabled by a toxic organizational leadership that is evidenced by how these same leaders responded when confronted about the widespread and ongoing abuses being perpetrated by the namesake of the institution. 1/29

Please take time to read this piece by @DavideAFrench and the 26-page letter written by a first-hand witness. Here are just some of the excerpts: 2/29
"At one point, Ravi suggested to me that the Task Force “issue a statement that they [the Thompsons] are hooligans, they are scoundrels, they are thugs, they are serial extortioners.” If we didn’t do that, he told me, he would ask his attorney to do so on his behalf." 3/29
"...I distinctly recall Ravi & Sanj mocking the Thompsons’ marriage & scornfully predicting how soon Brad & Lori Anne would get divorced. “I predict their marriage won’t survive the year,” Ravi asserted with laughter. “A year?” replied Sanj. “I wouldn’t give it six months!” 4/29
"In 2017, in the early stages of his RICO against the Thompsons, Ravi would often invoke Kelly [his attorney], making statements such as “my attorney said we are going to crush them.”" 5/29
"I will never forget an odd encounter with Ravi and Brian Kelly [attorney] at the Trump International Hotel in Washington D.C. on October 24, 2017, shortly before Ravi was headed to speak at Museum of the Bible for Kirk Cameron’s “REVIVE US 2” program that evening...6/29
...Ravi and Brian Kelly were literally high-fiving, trash-talking, laughing at the Thompsons, and gleefully celebrating the results of the mediation. “You really saw us through this,” Ravi told his attorney. “How can we ever thank you enough?”" 7/29
"When the question of whether to investigate the spa allegations came up there was widespread resistance to the idea. Abdu [Murray] [VP of RZIM] in particular was vigorous in his opposition, and suggested that instead we hire private investigators to go after the accusers." 8/29
"Abdu [Murray] said he had hired private investigator(s) to investigate the accusers in the spa allegations, stating something such as, “there are a lot of checkered things in their past,” including potentially criminal records." 9/29
"Mark DeMoss pushed back heavily to Abdu [Murray]... Abdu argued and told Mark and our team, “I disagree, I think it will help us discredit their accusations if we can show their past. I think we could convince people that they are lying.”" 10/29
"Then Abdu [Murray] said, “Brian Kelly knows an ex-cop in Atlanta who does his own investigations, and Brian told me he ‘doesn’t have a light touch.’” 11/29
"Abdu [Murray] went on to describe that according to Kelly, this ex-cop was “rough around the edges” and that approach might be effective in going after the accusers and exonerating Ravi." 12/29
"...no one else in the room expressed support for an investigation, except for Michael....The prevailing theme from that meeting was, “we are confident these accusations are not true” – a statement Sarah [CEO of RZIM] echoed verbatim in her memo to all staff that day. 13/29
"...when asked about RZIM issuing a call for possible victims, Abdu pushed back..., “Well that would assume that there are victims.” He echoed a similar sentiment a few weeks later, stating, “We would not want to give the impression that we think there are any victims.”" 14/29
"In an all-staff meeting in late October, Michael [Ramsden] even suggested that the women who spoke to Christianity Today [spa victims] might not exist at all." 15/29
"....Abdu [Murray] stated in a conversation with myself and Mark DeMoss that RZIM hadn’t decided what we mean by “the investigation’s findings” when it came to releasing the report....He continued, “We can never say ‘we know he did it,’ unless there is a video.”" 16/29
"Within my first month at RZIM, I was warned...“Whatever you do, don’t cross the Zacharias family.” ....It quickly became evident to me that there was not just an unhealthy adoration for Ravi, but also a focus on self-preservation—and we were all expected to play along." 17/29
"...Ravi’s traveling masseuse was placed on the ministry’s payroll as the Project Manager for “Touch of Hope,” an effort that has not been properly defined or explained even internally." 18/29
"I myself went on RZIM trips, including an international trip to Asia, where this young woman was traveling with Ravi." 19/29
"Their [Ravi and the masseuse] interaction struck me as very odd and I was concerned about the optics, but of course I learned early on that it was unacceptable to raise questions about Ravi whether at HQ or on the road." 20/29
"On December 3, 2017, during a call with Mark DeMoss, Nancy Gifford, and myself, Board member Bill Payne stated that he and the Board “did not ask Ravi any questions” [with regard to his RICO lawsuit against the Thompsons]. “Why would we, it’s Ravi?”" 21/29
"When I started to raise questions on the Task Force in January 2018—I was systematically marginalized, maligned, and misrepresented to others by key members of senior leadership." 22/29
"Michael Ramsden said in a Task Force meeting that I was “tired and emotional” and suggested I “can’t handle it” (after stating he was uncomfortable with my notetaking in Task Force meetings)." 23/29
"Vince Vitale [Regional Director - RZIM] said, “You just don’t know Ravi as well as I know him. If you had spent as much time with him as I have, you wouldn’t have these concerns.”" 24/29

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Part of what is going on here is that large sectors of evangelicalism are poorly equipped to help people deal with basic struggles, let alone the ubiquitous pornography addictions that most of their men have been enslaved to for years.


On the one hand, there's a high standard of holiness. On the other hand, there's a model of growth that is basically "Try Harder to Mean it More." Identify the relevant scriptural truth & believe it with all of your sincerity so that you may access the Holy Spirit's help to obey.

Helping sincere believers believe and obey the Bible facts is pretty much all the Holy Spirit does these days, other than convict us of our sins in light of the Bible facts.

If you know you are sincere and hate your sin and believe the right Bible facts as hard as you can but continue to be enslaved to your pornography addiction, what else left for you to do? Just Really, Just Really, Just Really Trust God and Give it to Him?

To suggest that there are other strategies available sounds to those formed in this model of growth like one is also suggesting that the Bible is insufficient, but it also suggests something just as threatening- that there are aspects of reality that are not immediately apparent.
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It's all in French, but if you're up for it you can read:
• Their blog post (lacks the most interesting details):
https://t.co/PHkDcOT1hy
• Their high-level legal decision: https://t.co/hwpiEvjodt
• The full notification: https://t.co/QQB7rfynha

I've read it so you needn't!

Vectaury was collecting geolocation data in order to create profiles (eg. people who often go to this or that type of shop) so as to power ad targeting. They operate through embedded SDKs and ad bidding, making them invisible to users.

The @CNIL notes that profiling based off of geolocation presents particular risks since it reveals people's movements and habits. As risky, the processing requires consent — this will be the heart of their assessment.

Interesting point: they justify the decision in part because of how many people COULD be targeted in this way (rather than how many have — though they note that too). Because it's on a phone, and many have phones, it is considered large-scale processing no matter what.
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