Living Armstrongism: Listening to PCG's Trumpet Hour

Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Listening to PCG's Trumpet Hour

PCG has released a new broadcast of The Trumpet Hour. It is hosted by Joel Hilliker. It also features Robert Morley, Jeremiah Jacques, Richard Palmer and Anthony Chibarirwe.

Let's see what they have to say this time.

Fear mongers about China, this time citing some sort of paper by the Chinese military. Talks about China building on little islands in the Spratley Islands in order to strengthen their claim to those islands.

Saying America is just giving up. Cites advances of ISIL to say China is plotting to take on America.

Saying China is getting stronger and stronger.

Says neighboring nations are preparing to submit to China. These nations are labelled by PCG as "realist".

"Chaos" and "destabilization" because of America's retreat from the world. (10 minutes.)

Fear mongers about a report of some North Korean scientists visiting Iran last month. (13 minutes.)

Cites Reuters in saying that Russia is building up military presence besides Ukrainian border. Insinuates that Russia is plotting to launch "phase two" against Ukraine. (14 minutes.)

Palmer talks about Ireland voting to legalize same sex marriage recently.

Palmer talks about Prime Minister Cameron planning to legalize same sex marriage and to renegotiate links with the European Union. (19 minutes.)

Palmer says Europe is threatened by Russia to the east and a rising wave of radical Islam to the south. Fear mongers that Greece may become a flashpoint between Europe and Russia. Speculation that Greece could fall into Russia's orbit. Speculates the European Union will wilt into a smaller inner core. (22-25 minutes.)

Talks about the fall of Palmyra to ISIL. Says ISIL now controls half of Syria. (27 minutes.)

Fall of Palmyra called a big blow to Assad regime and Iran. (28 minutes.)

Says Iraqi government forces have no will to fight. But says Iran has the will to fight ISIL in Iraq.

Says the fall of Palmyra will now be difficult for Iran to aid the Assad regime.

PCG has taught for several years now that the Assad regime would fall and be replaced by an anti-Iran regime that would become one of "the Psalm 83 nations" which, in PCG dogma, is a future alliance of nations separate from the King of the South (Iran) and allied with the European Union. (32-33 minutes.)

Robert Morley talks about "Lots of news. Lots of important articles." (33 minutes.)

Fear mongers that the world economy will soon fall and will not recover. They've been saying that for years now. (34 minutes.)

"Multi-trillion dollar" catastrophe about to occur. (35 minutes.)

Morley moans about unions trying to get an exemption from having to raise minimum wage in California.

Fear mongers about raising minimum wage in California.

Says raising minimum wage is bad and does not make economic sense. (38 minutes.)

Morley cites an "iconic" comic book store saying they might be out of business by the raise in the minimum wage.

"Look at what the Unions did to Detroit". This is stated in order to insinuate that workers' unions are bad for business. (41 minutes.)

Armstrongism has a long history of vilifying workers' unions. This habit can be traced back to HWA himself.

Jacques fear mongers about tensions between China and Taiwan. This is not news. This is a long running issue. But this issue is being presented once again to strike fear into the hearts of listeners. (41-42 minutes.)

Hilliker talks about an interview Jeffrey Goldburg had with President Obama in The Atlantic. Obama's statements are presented as hopelessly naive. "Can't even acknowledge" that Iran hates Jews, Hilliker says. It is suggested that they will write more about this interview. PCG has long demonized Iran. (43-45 minutes.)

Palmer fear mongers about Britain cutting defense spending. Palmer says that the British government is going to spend more money on providing health care to her people. (46-47 minutes.)

Chibarirwe fear mongers that the United States is not being sufficiently belligerent against the Houthis in Yemen. (47-48 minutes.)

Morley talks about Baltimore and says violence is "escalating". Says arrests are down and says police are afraid to do their job. Fear mongers that crime is on the rise in Baltimore.

(Note how there is absolutely no mention in this entire program about the mass shoot out that happened in Waco which killed nine people. But those nine were white so it is minimized as not worthy of mention.)

Hilliker ends the program with a quote from Winston Churchill that seems to belittle raising taxes. As though PCG, being regarded by the government of the United States as a religion, even pays taxes.

Well at least they never said ISIL started in Syria which is what one article they mentioned inaccurately said.

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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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