Living Armstrongism: PCG Makes Booklet for Desperate PCG Singles

Tuesday, June 2, 2015

PCG Makes Booklet for Desperate PCG Singles

PCG has released a booklet for their young single members entitled Single-Minded for God. It was first published in 2013 and has been republished earlier this year.

Here are the authors of this booklet in order of appearance.

Good News and Plain Truth, (Preface), pp. 7, 8-9, 17-18, 18-21, 40, 56, 62, 69-70. (More on those unattributed articles later.)

Joel Hilliker, pp. 2-6, 12-17, 26-40, 41-42, 46-56, 80-81.

Carolyn Coates, pp. 9-10.

Eric Anderson, pp. 10-11.

Ryan Malone, pp. 21-22.

Modern Dating, pp. 22-24, 40-41, 43, 74-79.

Garner Ted Armstrong (from Modern Dating), p. 43.

The Notebook of Richard Rice, p. 43-46, 62-67, 87-92.

Gary Restall, pp. 56-57.

Women's Club (1980), pp. 57-59.

Antonius Hallmark, p. 60.

Herbert Armstrong, pp. 67-69.

Steve Hercus, pp. 70-74.

Gerald Flurry, pp. 82-87.

Dennis Leap, pp. 94-102.

Stephen Flurry, pp. 103-106.

The Dismembered Old WCG Articles Cited Here

Here is the article by HWA.

"What is the Best Age for Marriage?" by Herbert Armstrong (Youth 84, October-November 1984, pp. 1-2, 25-27).

In regards to the other WCG articles whoever made this booklet has done something strange with them. They have cut apart the various articles and given each separated part another title. There is no indication in the booklet that those articles have been altered in that way. These three articles are cited several times but there is no indication that they are from the same article.

Here are the old WCG articles that are quoted in this booklet:

"Single Christians -- Glorify God in YOUR Life" by Malcolm Tofts (Good News, September 1980, pp. 4-7).

"Single Christians and the Abundant Life" by K. Neil Earle (Good News, January 1984, pp. 6-8, 21-22).

"SINGLES Who Can't Find Mates" by Ronald D. Kelly (Plain Truth, July-August 1984, pp. 8-9, 36).

PCG Quoting Garner Ted Armstrong

Amazingly PCG's leaders think Garner Ted Armstrong is worthy of being quoted for the benefit of single PCG members despite his well known and documented behavior which was contrary to Armstrongite dogma. He is quoted on page 43.

It is well known that Garner Ted Armstrong conducted numerous adulterous affairs which led to him being temporarily suspended for a few months. Many WCG members and ministers were disillusioned that he was reinstated soon afterwards by his father and this helped provoke the great mass defection of 1974.

Also in 1996 he was caught on camera behaving in a most shameful manner and his own group was compelled to kick him out of the Church of God International because of it. Somehow PCG's leaders think he can be trusted to give advice to young single PCG members.

Also Garner Ted Armstrong got kicked out of WCG by his father in 1978 and was thereafter demonized by his father in a most terrible manner. Why is it that PCG should quote a man who was viciously by the man PCG says was the "end-time Elijah"?

Why Listen to PCG?

Gerald Flurry seems to think people refusing themselves medical attention is a beautiful act of witness of faith in PCG's God. It is widely reported that he continues to teach HWA's anti-medicine superstition.

Joel Hilliker vilified Palestinian children as being raised on Jew hatred. He seems to think even their children are guilty and deserve to be feared and viewed as enemies. While condemning an address by President Obama advocating the creation of a Palestinian state Hilliker condemns Palestinian children as "raised on virulent Jew hatred". In essence he is denying that those children are just like our children.

They woefully ignore several pressing realities: that the Palestinian children of which the president speaks are being raised on virulent Jew hatred ... (Joel Hilliker, "Obama in Israel", March 23, 2013.)

Joel Hilliker once stated that he viewed President Obama as being like Stalin. In the following quote Hilliker is comparing the Obama Administration to Stalin.

Pardon the historical allusion—it will sound extreme. But Stalin and his technocrats were so convinced of their own wisdom that they imprisoned and murdered untold millions of their own people trying to realize their vision. (Joel Hilliker, "Beware the 'Well-Educated' Technocrats", November 11, 2013.)

That allusion is so wildly unhinged from reality it does not deserve a response. It is simply old McCarthy-like red baiting to accuse American leftists of somehow being just like Stalin's justly infamous regime.

Who would listen to men capable of saying things like this for advice on how to find a significant other and maintain this relationship?

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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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