The Painful Truth-Herbert W. Armstrong's Worldwide Church of God
Understanding the psychology of religious seduction and spiritual abuse.
I was drawn in by the WCG back in 1968, and, being a teen-ager, I didn’t truly suffer that much. My parents, however, were broken apart by the damn divorce-remarriage doctrine. They stayed separated for about a year and a half, but finally saw the light and and reunited. They enjoyed another twenty years together before my mother died.
Mussing’s by Ralph Haulk.
I recently saw a show on PBS titled “Prohibition”. I’ve always had some interest in this era of history, with the crime and violence resulting from the attempt of the people to do “good”. What I did not know was that Prohibitionists helped usher in the Sixteenth Amendment, allowing the federal government to directly tax people, and avoid tax dependence on alcohol sales. I also did not realize that Prohibitionists encouraged hatred of Germans in WW1 so that German breweries such as Pabst and Schlitz could be demonized as evil on two fronts, being part of the German enemy, and producing alcohol that weakened the resolve and courage of “true” Americans.