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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The Apostle’s Unwanted Resurrection

Foreword

Forty years have passed since Herbert W. Armstrong was laid to rest on January 16, 1986. To his followers, he was the end-time apostle, the voice crying in the wilderness, the man chosen to restore the true gospel before the Great Tribulation. To his critics-and there were many-he was a false prophet whose repeated date-setting, authoritarian control, and personal scandals left a trail of broken lives, emptied bank accounts, and shattered faith.

What follows is not history.
It is not biography.
It is a dark fiction born from the shadows of those real controversies: the unfulfilled prophecies that stretched into decades, the splinter groups that still fight over his legacy, the lingering fear among former members that the teachings they once embraced might one day demand everything again.

In this story, the grave does not hold.
The limousine waits.
The auditorium has been transformed.
And the man who once declared himself God’s final messenger discovers that resurrection is not always salvation.

Sometimes it is judgment.

Sometimes it is simply the next chapter of a nightmare no one saw coming.

Turn the page, if you dare.
The prophecy is about to be fulfilled-
in a way no one ever expected.

Welcome to The Apostle’s Unwanted Resurrection.

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“The Cult Attraction” by Jim Baldwin

 

“It angers me that I tithed until I was blue in the face”

I was so poor and lived in substandard housing while WWCG ministers had nice accommodations. I was unable to buy enough food, but thought I was buying myself a place in heaven by continuing to tithe. I was so broke that all I could afford to buy was an occasional bag of lentils. This was the cheapest bean in the store and so I learned to make lentil soup. Cooked lentils saved me from starvation. My body became emaciated, but I continued to attend WWCG church services. Again and again listening to those zealous, wordy, sermons. -Former WCG member. Link.

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