The Painful Truth-Herbert W. Armstrong's Worldwide Church of God
Understanding the psychology of religious seduction and spiritual abuse.
Waaaaaay back, and looooooong ago, Apostle Herbie and Teddy la Stud used to hold audiences captive with their selective and unique verbal BS. In later years, however, when congregations really âawoke,â our viewpoints and earpoints took a one-eighty. The realization finally hit us what was the âplain truthâ behind all this hallucinogenic BS.
Seeing how I’m posting today some humor is suggested.
I have not been a skeptic all my life, but I left my faith behind so long ago that it is hard now to remember clearly what it was like. All I know is that, judging by certain dim, imperfect memories from fifty years ago and more, I must have had it. I worried about prophecy. I prayed. I went through episodes of religious emotion. I observed ritual taboos.Â