Living Armstrongism: Overview of the March 2015 Issue of The Philadelphia Trumpet

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Overview of the March 2015 Issue of The Philadelphia Trumpet

The latest issue of PCG's recruitment magazine, The Philadelphia Trumpet (March 2015), is now out. Let us see what PCG's leaders say this time in order to get more tithe money from PCG members and co-workers.

This issue has a circulation of 311,350. This is the lowest figure since the March 2011 issue (307,097). This is part of a continuing decline since the December 2012 issue (341,259). Where is all that money going?

Gerald Flurry has a 'from the editor' article condemning the recent thaw in relations between the United States and Cuba and exploiting this development to indulge in anti-Catholic fear mongering.

Robert Morley has an article fear mongering about the recent decline in oil prices.

Robert Morley also has an article fear mongering that too many Americans are becoming dependent on government welfare.

Jeremiah Jacques has an article condemning welfare fraud.

Andrew Müller has a particularly silly, ahistorical article that fear mongers about Communists in America. It is essentially nonsensical. (His name is sometimes rendered "Miiller" but his actual name is Müller.)

This issue's Infographic is used to promote marriage.

Joel Hilliker has an article insisting that welfare is wrong and presenting his own ideas about on how welfare should be given based on his understanding of the Bible. Hilliker seems to not notice that PCG lives on the welfare acquired from PCG members.

David Vejil has an article insisting that one should listen to would be Prophets who supposedly understand the Bible better then anyone else.

Jeremiah Jacques has an article fear mongering about Russia.

The Bible IQ article encourages people on how to make decisions.

Worldwatch has articles about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including a little article insisting that Prime Minister Netanyahu is preparing to ally with Europe, a canard PCG's writers have been promoting since at least 2001. It also talks about recent massacres by the Pakistani Taliban, claims that Germany is preparing to arm Europe, the uncertainty regarding Greece's finances because of its election, fear mongering against China for providing loans to various nations and fear mongering against Japan because of moves to weaken the pacifist character of the Japanese government.

Societywatch has articles fear mongering that more Americans are no longer have family relations that do not conform to PCG's ideals and fear mongering that many people are vulnerable to falling into homelessness.

Stephen Flurry has a little article encouraging people to view problems as an opportunity to improve oneself and learn to follow PCG's God more perfectly.

The Letters talk about Britain. There's not much to say about it.

Joel Hilliker also has a little article bemoaning people being dependent upon government welfare. As though being dependent upon the privately given welfare of tithe payers is any different.

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AnonymousFebruary 11, 2015 at 8:31 AM
These PCG all-stars are awfully optimistic, painting a picture of gloom, doom, destruction, devastation, problems -- but coming out with a March issue before March is even here.

The way they tell it, the world is coming to an end and going to hell in a handbasket (and they sell handbaskets) and there's no reason to expect there will BE a March this year.
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Redfox712February 14, 2015 at 11:51 AM
Good point. While PCG leaders speculate that the Great Tribulation may occur in a very short time (10 or 15 years at most or some such speculation) they go and buy a college in England.
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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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Overview of the March 2015 Issue of The Philadelphia Trumpet

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