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Download full e-book version (173 pages) of the book "The Power and the Glory: The Cult of Manalo" written by Ross S. Tipon in 2005. The Author is a freelance writer who has written a number of books on travel and other subjects. He used to write a column for a national newspaper. He is a graduate of the University of the Philippines. FROM THE BACK COVER: "His name is not even Manalo but Ysagun. He did not, as he once claimed, attend the Pacific School of Religion at Berkeley, California. He was never ordained a minister or pastor of any Protestant denomination and was, in fact, disciplined by the Seventh-day Adventists for 'moral indiscretions'. Most of his doctrines are based on wild interpretations of the Bible or on his own bad English. Felix Manalo spent some of his youth with a Colorum cult engaged in sedition and got 'disenchanted' with its leader when he was hanged. A Stalinist purge of the INC senior positions in the early fifties assured Erano Manalo’s succession, which appears though to be shot through with legal infirmities. Cathedral-building is a Manalo family business. So is the INC’s hybrid/commercial broadcasting. The INC, operating through its subsidiaries, is allegedly into a number of serious violation of environmental laws and is reported to be abetting the squatting of lands reserved for cultural minorities. There are only 1,760,000 INC members, representing 2.3% of the population, not 5 or 7 million as they brag about. The Evangelicals (started only in the 70s), who now account for 2.8% of the population, have outstripped them and the INC has reacted violently to their presence. 'Church of Christ', which it uses in many of its official documents, is not even a legally allowed name because there is a church of that name which predates the 'Iglesia ni Kristo', this cult’s registered name."