Happy Thanksgiving to all. Below we have a few points for you to consider during this four day holiday weekend.
A good cult delivers on its promises. A good cult nourishes the needs of its members, has transparency and integrity, and creates provisions for challenging its leadership openly. A good cult expands the freedoms and well-being of its members rather than limits them. –Philip Zimbardo
āArrange your life in such a way that you don’t make choices based on fear of God, instead of love of God.ā ā Shannon L. Alder
Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. -Steven Weinberg
Ministers
‘There are all kinds of things going on in the splinters, frankly, that make me very sad. More and more senior ministers are either having strokesā¦Another evangelist, in one of the splinters, had a massive stroke that struck him at the base of his brain, right after he gave a sermon a week ago, and heās probably never going to recover. I helped transition him to the Living Church of God (Actually then, it was the Global.)ā¦I got to be very close to him.
Thanksgiving at Petra.
Another senior minister in that same organization, an evangelist (at least, the way they count them) just came through radiation therapy. There are others having strokes and suddenly dropping dead. It wonāt be long before there wonāt be many more ministers.’ -David Pack (RCG)
And you should noteā¦We havenāt proven yet that this is when Christ is reigning in Zion, but we willā¦it has sort of thrown some pretty heavy hints out there that these are a people who have beenĀ crowned, and they have glory and honorāexactlyĀ as they do inĀ Psalm 149Ā when they are leading the most powerful people on Earth and they have power to imprison themā¦You will find, as we go furtherā¦Not this weekā¦the power to execute peopleā¦and I will show you that youāll never get a single decision wrong, because that becomes a question. Well, could we ever get anything wrong? I will give you five proofs that itās impossible to get anything wrongāwhen we get to that. -David Pack (RCG)
Our responsibility will be laid out for us. It is just that there are three men who are going to have to function togetherā¦ā¦If you can understand what I am saying, this is what we are part of. Certainly, if I donāt go out and say what I think, judgment I think should be carried out, you canāt either. On the other hand, letās face itāitās enormous power and authority.
When the Two Witnesses are given power, they are told to do certain thingsā¦and the people donāt respondā¦boomā¦water turns to blood, the heavens dry up, plagues come, and if you threaten them, personally, you die by fire. They are going to make judgments. Brethren, you are going to have certain power. Understandāalong with two others, it is clear then, during the restitution of all things, that God is using a human spokesman and with those two others. Therefore, this becomes its own great proof that God has always intended the Kingdom be carried out through human leadership under Christ. All of itāmeaning you included. -David Pack (RCG)
Life should be a search for the true, the good, and the beautiful. However, there are dark forces working to lay all of society open to the predations of certain religious teachers.Ā Like in the Wizard of Oz, Dave is that man standing behind the curtain. Pull back the curtain and you’ll see a demonic nut hiding behind it, furiously pulling the levers of fanaticismĀ in an unforgiving attempt to cripple his membershipĀ psychologically.
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.
When the Two Witnesses are given power, they are told to do certain thingsā¦and the people donāt respondā¦boomā¦water turns to blood, the heavens dry up, plagues come, and if you threaten them, personally, you die by fire. They are going to make judgments. Brethren, you are going to have certain power. Understandāalong with two others, it is clear then, during the restitution of all things, that God is using a human spokesman and with those two others. Therefore, this becomes its own great proof that God has always intended the Kingdom be carried out through human leadership under Christ. All of itāmeaning you included.
When the Two Witnesses are given power, they are told to do certain thingsā¦and the people donāt respondā¦boomā¦water turns to blood, the heavens dry up, plagues come, and if you threaten them, personally, you die by fire. They are going to make judgments. Brethren, you are going to have certain power. Understandāalong with two others, it is clear then, during the restitution of all things, that God is using a human spokesman and with those two others. Therefore, this becomes its own great proof that God has always intended the Kingdom be carried out through human leadership under Christ. All of itāmeaning you included.
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