Paper on Holy Days
Author
-
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.
View all posts
It should be noted, as pointed out by a minister of the CoG7d that it wasn’t like the Festivals were revealed all at once. Each one was added a little at a time over several years.
So not only were the Feasts likely adopted from pagan religions (much like the 10 Commandments from the Code of Hammurabi) but they sprang up one at a time as, you know, required.
Also note for those who believe the Kingdom of God is not about eating and drinking, except for Yom Kippur, these Feasts were absolutely carnal, in that they were all about eating and drinking.
One should also note that the Feasts represented entropy: That is to say that resources were preserved and saved to be consumed at a later time — thus removing them from sustaining and maintaining the people who ‘spent’ them all at once — making them unavailable, since they were all supposed to be used up during the Feasts in question.
Entropy is all about chaos and disorder, making energy less and less available. For example, wood is stored energy. Once you burn it, it takes more energy to release the potential — thus, burning ashes is unproductive:
https://herbertwarmstrong.com/2018/12/31/2019-whats-ahead-burning-ashes/
Armstrongism is all about taking your resources away from you to decrease the entropy of the ministers who contribute nothing, but use up everything that is given to them selfishly.
“Armstrongism is all about taking your resources away from you to decrease the entropy of the ministers who contribute nothing, but use up everything that is given to them selfishly.”
Well said. That is what armstrongism has always been about. Feeding your resources to parasites.