From my years of building bunkhouses, cookhouses, and outhouses, I say a building is no better than its foundation. If the lay of the foundation isn’t good, the building won’t be good.
And I could ramble on for hours about it, and how it applies to organizations, but I remember there’s a hymn we sing at church that makes that point. Now I don’t sing as good as pa, but here goes:
“The Church Has One Foundation”
Original lyrics by Samuel John Stone, music by Samuel Sebastian Wesley
The Worldwide church of God attempted to annihilate peoples personality, individuality, will, and character. The stranded souls that hitched their wagon to this organization unknowingly supported a power-hungry pharisaic and fastuous authoritative cult leader and his son, Garner Ted Armstrong. For all the alarums and excursions, the fact remains that without knowing it, we nurtured these two ungrateful incubi's. For that I can only ask for forgiveness.
After my WCG experience, I went to college to educate myself so I would have a greater understanding of the world about me and to understand why I ever fell for HWA's scam religion. This lead me to the conclusion that the appropriate action to take, in my judgment, is to provide people with opportunities to learn, develop, and exercise their potential as human beings, by freeing them from men who exploit and abuse them. This website and others are my vehicle to do just that.
Herbert Armstrong did build quite a solid foundation for an insane asylum run by the worst of the criminally insane: The CoG very own Gotham City Arkham Asylum.
Herbert Armstrong did build quite a solid foundation for an insane asylum run by the worst of the criminally insane: The CoG very own Gotham City Arkham Asylum.
It’s still standing, but it sure looks run down….
HWA kept the foundation solid, but (to quote Silenced) it’s a foundation of sand.
Apart from doctrines, the COGs follow the same sloppy scholarship, distorted interpretations of history, and biblical eisegesis.
While the GTA-spawned splinters dropped Church Eras and don’t claim a bogus lineage through the WCG, many retained BI and other fringe teachings.