The Painful Truth-Herbert W. Armstrong's Worldwide Church of God
Understanding the psychology of religious seduction and spiritual abuse.
It has become so matter of course for people to expose Herbert Armstrong, Garner Ted Armstrong, the leadership of Ambassador College, the Worldwide Church of God, the Churches of God, et cetera, that sometimes the exploitation and abuse lose their meaning in the background noise. Nevertheless, the relevance lives on in the ruined lives of tens of thousands, and perhaps hundreds of thousands of people.
No, we are not talking about the 1993 Hong Kong comedy film here,
but Grigori Rasputin as we compare him to Herbert W. Armstrong.
Before we start out on this journey, let’s read something that I found of interest….
Everywhere we turn in today’s world it seems we are beset by self-proclaimed “prophets” trying to make a profit by predicting the future for us. We can read our daily horoscope in the local newspaper, consult a palm reader in our area, read what the ten leading psychics predict will befall whoever, or tune in to radio evangelists proclaiming what the Bible foretells for the future. Most of these prognosticators do well to have a prophetic batting average as high as .200. Looked at another way, these seers are wrong more than 80% of the time!