Living Armstrongism: Astounding Turmoil in UCG

Friday, December 17, 2010

Astounding Turmoil in UCG

J has a post detailing the current turmoil in UCG.

For me it is hard to be sympathetic to those responsible for igniting yet another round of turmoil. How many families and friends' relationships will be torn apart from this latest schism?

I am very sorry to the members of UCG because their ministers have once again failed them and are busy tearing each other apart in this vicious power struggle. During these turbulent times the members have been burdened with yet another problem, a most severe split in UCG's history.

I hope the unfortunate members caught up in this turmoil will try to calmly, as much as possible, contemplate whatever decision they are going to make.

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RichardDecember 18, 2010 at 9:22 AM
their ministers have once again failed them and are busy tearing each other apart in this vicious power struggle.

Amen to that! Which of these feudin' fussin' and-a fightin' ministers will be first to quote from I Corinthians 1? Or 12? Or 13?
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AnonymousDecember 20, 2010 at 7:37 PM
Astounding Turmoil in UCG?

No, it is expected. As the tithe farmers reach out and steal sheep from their fellow farmers, we can expect to see a shootout at some point.

The survivors will be those who see the COG'lets play on people's conscious and unconscious belief structures.

The membership should leave and join a more sound minded environment. Perhaps the CG7. After all it was Herbert Armstrong that left that group in rebellion, stealing sheep and creating turmoil in his wake!

In general, the churches of god leadership apparatus is addicted to the feeling of power, to the idea of controlling people, to the concept of destroying families for the sake of control over others lives!

Sadly, they have no real concern for the welfare or the destiny of the people they desire to lead.

I believe we can therefore extrapolate (I'm fully convinced) that the UCG leadership will spit on their members by the next full moon, destroying their last hope of surviving as a religious institution!
By their actions you shall know who their father is. And it ain't Jesus!

The methods and tactics of the COG'lets have changed over time. The COG'lets goals are still the same: to teach the next generation how to hate and whom to hate! This is the practice of religious husbandry.

In the end, when the rotten structure collapses in on itself, a wholesale slaughter will have occurred, and the shrinks will have to be called in once again. Another toxic wasteland will once again have to be cleansed on the taxpayers dime.

And of the tithe farmers, what becomes of them?
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Henrik V BlunckDecember 21, 2010 at 12:36 AM
There isn't much surprise in the current crisis, as I am also saying on my blog [http://armstrongism-ultimate-guide.blogspot.com/]. The whole concept of the UCG, from its very inception, was one of collegial leadership, which rather quickly developed into the exact same hierarchy as seen in other offshoots.

What then emmanated was an avalanche of incoming ministers who jumped ship in the WCG/GCI when they could see things were going very quickly in a new direction.

Authority, power struggles, nepotism, college friendships and many other things have controlled the decision-making process in numerous of these organizations for decades and that can't just be changed with the stroke of a pen...
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Fall of Berlin Wall NOT Proof HWA was Right

It is often asserted that the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 proved that HWA was right and he really did see the future.

This of course is nonsense. Herbert W. Armstrong said that Christ would return within twenty years in his book Mystery of the Ages. (PCG has since deleted those words so someone in there knows HWA spoke nonsense.) How convenient for them to forget this.

Also Herbert W. Armstrong never said the Soviet Union would collapse. He thought it would survive intact until a few years after Christ's return. It shows how biased some many in the COGs are that they never seem to notice this. This inconvenient truth is just tossed into the memory hole.

It is true that HWA said that some Eastern European states would break away from Moscow's orbit and join the European Empire he said would arise at any moment. But he never talked of the Soviet Union collapsing. He did not teach that. Also he portrayed the rise of the European Empire to be far quicker then what has actually happened. In Mystery of the Ages Christ was supposed to return by 2005 at the most.

So assertions that the fall of the Berlin Wall somehow prove that HWA was right is just complete nonsense spread by people who, for whatever reason, are still in denial that HWA was a false prophet who merely talked out of his own "human reasoning".

Truth about Roderick C. Meredith

What sort of man is he? A man who could say things like this.

"Mr. Armstrong has reminded us again that we are to disfellowship any members who attend GTA's [Garner Ted Armstrong's] campaigns, church services or other meetings. Some of our weaker members apparently do not realize that this man is in direct rebellion against God and His government! We must not allow them, or ourselves, to rationalize about this matter, to try to "help the underdog," or in any other way lend support to one whose gross immorality, whose long standing "play acting" and hypocrisy, and whose direct insubordination to the Government of God has long been and is now a source of confusion and DIVISION among God's people. So, as per Mr. Armstrong's instruction, I charge and exhort every one of you faithful ministers of the living Christ to explain this in no uncertain terms to your members, to warn them about this cause of division and then to disfellowship any who consort with GTA or any of his fellows." (Roderick C. Meredith, Pastor's Report, May 21, 1979, pp. 1-2.)

See here for this statement's context.

David Robinson on Roderick C. Meredith

WCG minister David Robinson had this to say about Roderick C. Meredith in a letter he wrote to him on September 19, 1979.

"During the ten years I have been an employee of the Worldwide Church, you have been poorly spoken of by most of the ministers and employees I have known. I vividly remember the absolute unbounded glee that was openly expressed by a good number of respected men in the church when you were first "shanghaied." [In 1972.] I could begin by naming names, which I am sure would shock you. I was one of the few who stood, where possible, for you. Your tenure as superintendent of ministers, as I believe the office was then called, was looked on as nightmarish. While you held office during the years of growth, most of those whom I know gave you very little credit for that growth. Almost everyone whom I know, whether they be former friends of yours, or continuing foes, recalls insensitive and terrible things you have done. Without exception, at least among my acquaintances, they all credit you with an unbridled lust for power and list you as one who is willing to pay the price of gaining that power, no matter what. I have, through many of the last few years, believed you had principles you would not violate. Many a man of experience in the church assured me of my error. Events have proven me wrong and them right. Mr. Armstrong has himself been widely quoted as saying of you that you were so righteous that you were so "righteous you were unrighteous." " (David Robinson, Herbert Armstrong's Tangled Web, Chapter 16, p. 207.)

Of course it is impossible for me to personally verify these assertions but people deserve to know what this knowledgeable man had to say about him.

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