To provide you with a holistic and thematic history of Herbert W. Armstrong’s crafty obloquies we need to begin with a frank acknowledgment of the basic humanness of each of us. And we must acknowledge that Herbie’s sole purpose in life was to impose his hate filled prejudices, and faulty theology on the public in order to enrich himself.
His rancor bitterness towards a world who rejected his so called “genius mind” has caused widespread social alienation within the daughter churches, and from this alienation a thousand social pathologies or churches have sprung up to entice and carry on his mentally deficient ‘work’.
Of course not all of the ACOG’s get as excited as we at the Painful Truth do when a birthday can be celebrated or the recipient of such birthday celebration lays opportunity to mock some smug snot-face cretin such as HWA.
But first a word about birthdays from someone who claims to know something:
What’s wrong with such a “harmless” observance as marking the day of your birth? God’s Word reveals the proper Christian attitude, and it’s inextricably tied to the purpose of human life!Ā Paper plates and
party hats lay strewn across the kitchen table. Some plastic forks and a few napkins have ended up there also. A now-empty ice cream carton sits on the sink. On the table, crumbs on a large plate are all that remain of a chocolate cake. Eleven icing-smeared, pastel-colored candles are stacked beside the cake plate.
In the living room, brightly colored wrapping paper lays crumpled on the floor amid several boxes of different sizes and shapes. New clothing is laying across a chair arm. In the chair sits a middle-aged woman wearing an exhausted smile as she watches her son and his friends through the window. Out in the street, the happy, excited cries of a dozen adolescents break the afternoon as they fight over who will have the next turn riding the new bicycle.
A joyous, harmless celebration? After all, it is only a child’s birthday
party. But would such a scene ever occur in the home of a member of the Church of God?”
-Kenneth C Herrmann
party hats lay strewn across the kitchen table. Some plastic forks and a few napkins have ended up there also. A now-empty ice cream carton sits on the sink. On the table, crumbs on a large plate are all that remain of a chocolate cake. Eleven icing-smeared, pastel-colored candles are stacked beside the cake plate.
party. But would such a scene ever occur in the home of a member of the Church of God?”Crazy shit you say? Wait, there’s more!
Now, lest you jump to the conclusion that the laws of nature don’t apply to the ACOG’s, I assure you that despite their self-image as the primary civilizing force of modern times, they seem to have no trouble brow-beating children’s parents into adopting HWA’s unconventional, fanatical ways of living. No sane person should accept these claims that the ACOG’s are morally obligated to teach misinformed concepts to the parent’s of little children. Ask anyone.
The truth is, the leadership of the ACOG’s are but illiterate, bestial gutter-dwellers, preying on the ignorant and the defenseless. They are men of low morality, poor achievements, and without noble qualities, who would never dream of sacrificing themselves in order to pursue that which is right and those things that truly matter. (1)
Not even the tribunal of public opinion will contain the insanity of Armstrongism and the callous jack booted attitudes that rise like a golem with its million hands on a million throats to choke the honor out of decent, hardworking people. This obligation and responsibility is on the membership.
With that in mind, let me end this post by stating simply that there are many illustrations of cruel, deviant behavior within the ACOG’s. All you need to do is to look around you and observe the behavior of these barbaric, stolid shysters. Its your money, you control the beast that seeks to devour you and your children. Of course there is THIS solution for those who are sick and tired of the whole sordid mess….
(1)Ā There are exceptions however such as Wes White who holds a unpopular view within Armstrongism for supporting dissenter sites like the Painful Truth, but still retains membership in a ACOG.
A joyous, harmless celebration? After all, it is only a childās birthday party. But would such a scene ever occur in the home of a member of the Church of God?ā Yes, as it does. Who wants to listen to idiots who hate even themselves.
Thanks to your articles because you are exposing all insane preachers and apostles who are misleading innocent people.
I wrote “Not even the tribunal of public opinion will contain the insanity of Armstrongism and the callous jack booted attitudes that rise like a golem with its million hands on a million throats to choke the honor out of decent, hardworking people. This obligation and responsibility is on the membership.”
The membership of the various ACOG’s could put a end to this insanity by ‘containing’ the leadership. But they won’t. They live in fear of them. This fear according to the bible is not based on love but control. Perfect love is suppose to cast out fear.
All this could be fixed by withholding tithes. In time the leadership will resign because it is and always has been all about the money.
Looking forward to yet another birthday bash. Rumor is that someone has some M-80s for candles on his birthday cake (they look a little like candles). Not sure how many we need.
It’s time to celebrate The End Time Apostle (who’s ended) for his stellar accomplishments like the pamphlet, “How to Have a Happy Marriage” and proved the point by having a $5 million divorce we all paid for with our tithes!
What a guy!
Concerning the resignation letter (a very fine tool indeed), excerpt:
” To whom it may concern,
This letter is my formal resignation from the and it is effective immediately. I hereby withdraw my consent to being treated as a member and I withdraw my consent to being subject to organization rules, policies, beliefs and ‘discipline’. As I am no longer a member, I want my name permanently and completely removed from the membership rolls of your organization and all mailing lists.”
United has been way ahead of all of us with this. Now mind you, they have not much mentioned to their followers about this, but their attendees are NOT members! They do not have rights to attend UCGaia internal meetings or ‘vote’ in church matters! Only the ministers are members!
Not sure what to say. Is the resignation letter even necessary if you aren’t even a member. I suppose it’s affective as a statement, but if you were never really a member [in spite of spending those oh so expensive membership fees], why would they even care.
They were only in for the salary and retirement, so you never mattered except to faithfully provide them with the resources they need to continue their useless lives on thru retirement.
And we’ll say it once again (with the approval of Banned!) all ministers of the ACoGs are liars. All of them. Even those retiring in August. No matter how nice they might seem to be. They have been lying all along.
And they have learned it from the best!
So we celebrate the birthday of the man who brought us all those lies and taught all those liars.
You have a good point there. The only members are the ministers. The tithe payer is what is known as a ‘associate’. The people who make the shit-shows possible have the solution to the whole mess. Quit supporting the corrupt churches of god and send them into oblivion.
When I see the term, ‘associate’ many things spring to mind, none of them favorable to the ministry, such as, “Yes, without you we would be nothing, but we get to treat you like scrap because you have no standing in our power structure”.
When something bad happens to an ‘associate’ the ministers respond, “Just get over it”. So if a guy commits murder last week, we should just get over it because it’s passed and we should all, “Just move on”? And you can get away with that sort of thing if you are a minister, but not if you are an ‘associate’.
As Gerald Flurry once said to a congregation in Quincy, Washington during his Sabbath sermon [and I quote exactly], “You have no rights”. Yes. He’s pretty consistent with that unto to this very day.
Rank has it’s smell… I mean, privilege.