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.
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Corporate Vampirism

Thus the religion of Corporate Vampirism
has been and remains the
“Religion of the Rulers”

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Vampires are the predators of humans. They have come from human stock but represent the next stage in human DE-evolution. They are who accept and glory in their predatory nature. They are the Masters of the World.
They fully accept and embrace their bestial instincts and origins while applying the power of the mind and of the Will. Their achievements and deepest desires are made real by earthly and magical means.
From the highest corporate executive offices to the most secluded country
estate, our membership includes virtually every profession and lifestyle. We have a plan for you and it not what you think. We laugh in scorn at the humans who find themselves believing in the superstitious nonsense which our kind created for their control.
We care only for our own personal and physical well being.
We are the few who truly rule this material world and those who throw their lot in with us are wise indeed. For many are called.
Few are chosen.
Fewer, still, enter.

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One can associate vampirism within the corporate world of Armstrongism.  These corporate churches have only one interest: money. The search for powerless victims with which they satiate their desire for money, thus, will never come to an end. They have no concern for the individuals, nor for the fact that they are literally robbing them of their means of survival.

The corporation starts with brainwashing the parents and deludes them into thinking they are obeying God by following the dictates of the religion. Their true desire is to own the hearts and minds of the children. If they can gain the hearts and control the minds of the children, then they can feed off this life blood far into the future. Some will be chosen as replacement ministers.

They start by binding the minds of these church kids from infancy. The children are restricted to church activities and church traditions only. They are forbidden to participate in such “pagan” customs such as Christmas. They are forced to embrace the holy days that are mentioned in scripture. They are never told that these days are based on pagan agriculture festivals from so long ago. In time anger and resentment grows. Mental scars that will follow them all their lives begin to form.

The Church is a Revolving Door

The dehumanizing architecture of the corporate Armstrong churches ensures that there will always be the fresh blood they desire for their own survival needs. But what happens when the blood runs low? This is the revolving door effect.

A efficient manager knows that when you use people up and they can give no more they leave. If they don’t leave you give them the boot. (This is the way you can avoid giving pay raises if your unscrupulous as a employer)

When one family is burnt out on trying to maintain the rigid requirements of the corporate church, they leave. Another will soon join the group as a replacement participant who thinks they just found the “truth” or “Gods true church.” The corporate presence on TV continues to pitch deceptive rhetoric that is used as a recruitment tool so that they can continue to feed without financial interruption well into the future.

Economically speaking, times are tough now-days and the family sitting in the corporate chairs within the corporate church, singing from a corporate song book at some point will be forced into a situation where choices will have to be made. Feed the minister or your family. The sad reality is they will make choices as so many in the past have. These church members will choose to feed the minister over their own families, those men who they see having the power of life or death over them. A man who they see as their mediator between themselves and God.

These are the church members who forsake their children for the benefit of the corporation. They have become infidels. Scarcity of goods is evident to all those who cross your path. Your children secretly resent you.

Mental Issues of the Church-ed

Terry Ratzmann shot up Meredith’s corporate church killing 7 and injuring 4 others. It is an extreme case in point of how a person can act out his anger.
If you will recall, Ratzmann entered the Sheraton Hotel building carrying a 9mm Beretta handgun and fired 22 rounds into the Living Church of God congregation, killing the minister and six others including the minister’s son. Ratzmann then shot and killed himself midway through the second out of three magazines.

Who would have thought that you could get killed by simply going to a corporate church? But that’s the dirty little secret. The sermons. They have had an awful effect on so many people over time. Some leave the corporation due to developing mental problems that get to be just too much. Others leave because the church makes them feel deficient in some other manner of their personal lives. The corporation has a doctrine which says that if you leave “You’ll lose your salvation.” So you stay. And in your mind you begin to hate the entire congregation without realizing the real source of your hatred. Problems arise if you act on these emotions. People can and do die from others who become unhinged and act out their frustrations.

So Why Stay?

Quit playing Santa Claus to these thugs. Withdraw your consent! Resign and take responsible control of your life and that of your family!

In past centuries, churches served people and performed works that were of benefit of the local community. The modern corporate church is the anti-theist compared to those of the past centuries. They serve only themselves. Don’t believe me? Look at those palaces in the Armstrong church franchises. They are but monuments to men build with your money. These buildings don’t honor God, but they do stand as a testimonial. An indictment as to the egos of vain and worthless men.

The first step towards you sanity and freedom starts the day you quit going to the corporate church and hand in your letter of resignation withdrawing your consent to be governed.

The second step towards your own personal freedom is to be found in the instructional video below. Throw all those books and booklets away. You must learn to think for yourself and stop the corporation from doing it for you!

The third step to personal freedom and sanity is to get counseling for all family members. Talk therapy has proven to be an essential first step to understanding yourself within the context of your own personal cultist experience.

And remember you believers, you don’t need ANY corporate vampire to tell you the thoughts of God or what He might be saying. They are just making it all up!

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Will You Swing From a Nazi Meat Hook?

“Thus, once this EMPIRE is revived in Europe – AND BY UNITED
STATES HELP AT THAT-so gullible are we and dull of UNDERSTANDING!-
the new-born Fascist-Nazi military power will without warning
DESTROY AMERICAN CITIES AND BRITISH CITIES OVERNIGHT WITH
ATOMIC BOMBS, conquering our peoples, taking our survivors to Europe
as THEIR SLAVES! I have given you the prophecies on this time after time, and shall continue to shout this warning so long as God gives me breath and freedom !
Then it is that the MARK OF THE BEAST will be enforced. Unless OUR
people, then conquered SLAVES in Europe, will bow to the Roman religion,
THEY WILL BE TORTURED, AND PUT TO DEATH !
THUS SAYS THE WORD OF GOD !”
-Herbert W. Armstrong
December 1948 Plain Truth, page 6

“PLAIN TRUTH readers know world events, before they occur!…Bible prophecy does indicate that Hitler MUST BE THE VICTOR, in his present Russian invasion!…Hitler will emerge from his Russian campaign stronger than ever, free to turn the entire might of his forces against Britain-and AMERICA!”
– PLAIN TRUTH, September- October 1941, page 7, H. W. Armstrong

“As nearly as we can calculate from the dates of ancient history, the year 1936 will see the END of the Times of the Gentiles…. We may expect the present worldwide depression, time of trouble and fear of war to CONTINUE until the year 1936! …quickly after that time, we may expect to see the heavenly signs of the sun and moon becoming dark, the stars falling … which shall be followed by the ‘Day of the Lord'”
– PLAIN TRUTH, June-July 1934, page 5, H. W. Armstrong

“Mussolini and the Pope will hatch up an idea between them of setting up a world headquarters at JERUSALEM-and so Mussolini’s armies will enter into Palestine (Daniel 11:41), and eventually will capture just half of the city of Jerusalem (Zechariah 14:2).”
– PLAIN TRUTH, March 1938, page 8, H. W. Armstrong

“MUSSOLINI WILL FIGHT CHRIST!”
– PLAIN TRUTH, January 1939, Page 4, H. W. Armstrong

“Once world war is resumed, it must continue on through the Great Tribulation, the heavenly signs, the plagues of the Day of the Lord, and to the Second Coming of Christ, at the last battle, at ARMAGEDDON!…But this you MAY KNOW! This war will be ended by CHRIST’S RETURN! And war MAY start within six weeks! We are just THAT NEAR Christ’s coming!“
– PLAIN TRUTH, August 1939, page 6, H. W. Armstrong

 “God Almighty has spoken through His servants the prophets that He will punish our people for their sins. He will let our own lust cause such droughts, floods, pestilences and famines that we will be totally consumed and carried away captive to other nations as SLAVES WITHIN TWENTY YEARS.”
– PLAIN TRUTH, October 1955, page 15, H. L. Hoeh

Painful to know that there are some of the old timers who will explain to me that the time line might be off a little, but that it’s all going to come true soon enough!

What Armstrong wrote above was the practice of  “Undue Influence” on ignorant people who trusted him for no apparent reason other than he was a preacher. Would these folks do the same for a politician? I think not!

 

The questions I have for the members of the Armstrong brand religion is:

  • Why do you stay when the founder/prophet of your religion has gotten so much wrong?
  • Why do you ignore your bible when it speaks of the false prophets: “When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.” (Deuteronomy 18:22)
  • Do you REALLY fear God?
  • Do you fear the Nazi punishment that HWA said is coming?
  • When attending church, are you using the event as a social occasion?
  • And finally, why do you hold up an evil and incestuous man as holy and honorable?

Of course I wouldn’t think about asking Meredith, or Flurry, not even that other little rodent known as the “Pack Rat.” We should know by now that the Armstrong religion has spread out to become franchises. Little churches that use fear, and heavy handed tactics to keep their blue ribbon tithe paying soldiers in line while they themselves don’t have to go out and suffer a real job!

So when we read something like this:

“Where are God’s true prophets today? … This work has been warning America of definite and tremendous events to come for many years!”
“…on THE WORLD TOMORROW broadcast and in this magazine we have dared to unlock the Bible prophecies and apply them to specific nations and events that are now being affected. Do you grasp the significance of this’?”
– PLAIN TRUTH, August 1957, pages 3, 6, R. C. Meredith

 

Do I grasp the significance of this? Ya, its all bullshit!

It is about money. Money in the corporate world of Armstrongism. You the member get all the debts and the leaders get all the benefits!

You see, it is called “Corporate Vampirism”
More on that in a day!

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How Bad Was It, Really?

“Husbands, Take Control of YOUR Household!”  Part 3

Something Serious. An American Horror Story.

 

There were many occasions during which we had no heat. We had no phone. We lived in absolute poverty.

This alone would have been bad enough, but the true horror of having grown up in WWCg is the fact that parents were told repeatedly that they could do whatever it took, including beatings, to keep their children on the right path, which was the WWCg path. My parents, both of whom believed absolutely in everything that the WWCg taught, had no problems with beating me and my siblings bloody every day of our lives, literally. (Although, I must admit, that my having been the oldest of three children certainly meant that I received the worst doses of said beatings. My brother was also beaten, but as he got older, he hit back. My sister, too, was physically abused, but because my parents had her 17 years after they had me, their age sometimes limited how much physical abuse they could impart on my sister.)

But, during my brother’s and my childhood, we were not only beaten with slaps and closed fists, we were beaten with paddles that my father brought home from Imperial School (the WWCg private school), where he was a teacher. We were beaten with belts that had large belt buckles. We were beaten with the thorny stems of rose bushes! We were beaten and beaten and beaten! And, in addition to the beatings, we were told, repeatedly, sometimes on an hourly (if not more often) basis, that we were sinners and worthless.

And, if that wasn’t enough, all of the WWCg children were paddled constantly at the Imperial School. In fact, during my first grade year, I received more paddlings than there were days in school. And, why was I paddled? Well, there was that time that I threw up because I was sick and of course, because my father didn’t believe in our ever missing of day of “God’s school”, I was forced to go to school sick. My vomit induced a paddling from my teacher! Then, there was the time that I dropped my pencil case and of course, this minor infraction was akin to my having committed murder; therefore, what could my teacher do but paddle me (sarcasm intended). And, let’s not forget the time that, after PE, I did not fold up my shorts neatly enough to please the teacher. My punishment? You guessed it. Good ol’ paddle time!

As you can imagine, my siblings and I suffered tremendous emotional and physical abuse, and the scars remain to this day. While, I’ve been lucky enough to have found the courage to look deep within and face the horror of my first seventeen/eighteen years, and thereby grow and become a functional human being, my siblings have not been so lucky. My brother is an infantile and broken man; my sister is living a Jerry Springer nightmare.

And, this childhood foundation, while having made me stronger in the long run, has completely eclipsed my being able to trust in others. When I first left home, at age 17/18, I was very trusting because I was very naive and had no training in how to recognize inappropriate behavior in others (hell, I’d grown up witnessing nothing BUT inappropriate behavior). Therefore, when people acted inappropriately towards me and harmed me, I thought that the reason I was being hurt was because I was “sinning” and God was punishing me.

Luckily, I found my way into a therapist’s office while in my early 20s, and I began to find out that I was not the problem, I was not at fault. However, even with this help, it took another ten years before I could fully recognize dysfunctional and inappropriate behavior in others and stay away from these people. Unfortunately, by that time, I had lived through some horrible, horrible experiences because of my inability to recognize peoples’ harmful intentions.

And now, while I can recognize dysfunction 1,000 miles away, I have a very hard time trusting others.

So, I begin my 40th year wondering what kind of future I’m going to have. I observe people with whom I work or have contact with through classes and charity work; and, while everyone can point to a time in their lives where pain intruded, I have yet to talk to anyone who has even come close to experiencing the horror that I have experienced.

I envy others their lives. I envy their being able to rely on their families (my father and mother are not the kind of people to whom I can turn). I envy others having intact families of their own (I am raising a child by myself, and while I have been a very successful parent -my daughter is very stable, very mature, and a straight-A student, I’ve given up my life to be the opposite kind of parent than that by which I was raised). I envy others being able to afford decent homes. I envy their being able to take vacations. I envy their being able to sleep at night without nightmares. I envy their having had a childhood.

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