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The Painful Truth-Herbert W. Armstrong's Worldwide Church of God

Understanding the psychology of religious seduction and spiritual abuse.

Author: James

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.
Posted on October 23, 2026October 21, 2026

Herbert W. Armstrong. Racist.

Ambassador College never previously allowed black men to apply until after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and even after that, the church only allowed married black men to enroll to keep interracial dating from infiltrating the campus.
–Silenced

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Posted on October 21, 2026October 21, 2026

Crazy Sabbath Rules

“Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy” is one of the Ten Commandments found in the Hebrew Bible. The full text of the commandment reads: Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. Continue reading “Crazy Sabbath Rules”

Posted on October 11, 2026October 11, 2026

Religion and other mental illnesses

First published, 2018

Three bad things happened to me on the night of December 31, 1965.  It was New Year’s Eve, and I was going to a party jointly hosted by two brothers Tom and Bill who worked at the same place I did.

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  • Herbert W. Armstrong. Racist. October 23, 2026
    Ambassador College never previously allowed black men to apply until after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and even after that, the church only allowed married black men to enroll to keep interracial dating from infiltrating the campus. –Silenced First published in 2018. There have also been multiple instances of the few interracial couples there […]
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  • Crazy Sabbath Rules October 21, 2026
    “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy” is one of the Ten Commandments found in the Hebrew Bible. The full text of the commandment reads: Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. Adding to the list […]
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“I want to make a statement about…me…now, if I became deceived, I will never tell you what I’m going to tell you now…I am telling you if I go off into strange ideas, misconduct, rebellion, you name it, don’t follow me. I want to tell you that now, because if I start doing that I’m gonna try to get you to follow me! I’m gonna come to you and tell you it doesn’t apply, it doesn’t mean me, no, no, no, no, no, no, it’s OK to follow me because ABCD and XY and Z. Do you understand what I’m saying? Listen to me now, when I tell you don’t follow me if I go off into weird ideas, or if I get off into other things that are total absolutely unscriptural conduct, because if I do I’m gonna paint it with a different face and try to get you to follow me. Do you understand what I’m saying brethren? Please remember that, because I promise you that if I become deceived, I’ll forget it, and I’ll want you to forget it…And I hope you’ll remember it well enough to quote it right back to me…But I’ll tell you what, I’m not going anywhere.”
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