Black Charity

In the 1970s, the ministers of the Wordwide Church of God were pushing older members to change their wills to give all their money to the WCG rather to pass it on to the next generations of their own families. After all, the WCG was doing the most important work on the face of the earth and anyway, the world wasn’t going to last much longer. You might as well give away your heritage because you won’t have one….

The following story could just as well be told for the Philadelphia Church of God, the Restored Church of God, Living Church of God or any of who knows how many splinters are left:

Bonus: For you servants of false gods, know the damage you have done and know that there is no forgiveness for you:

Der Fuhrer, Herbert W. Armstrong

Way back in 1984, about two years after my baptism into the Worldwide Church of God, I read The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, the classic history of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer. While reading the book, I was struck several times by the similarities between the Third Reich and my church. I should have heeded my misgivings and left the church then, but like a good cult member I pushed unfavorable thoughts to the back of my mind.

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