Living Armstrongism: Israeli Pundit Wishing Israel had an Inspirational Leader Like Obama (Haaretz)

Thursday, July 9, 2015

Israeli Pundit Wishing Israel had an Inspirational Leader Like Obama (Haaretz)

The COGs tend to lean to the right in regards to politics. PCG tends to lean especially far to the right. So PCG tends to belittle and condemn President Obama very often. President Obama is not right wing so PCG does not like him in power. One line of attack PCG's leaders use against him is to accuse him of somehow turning his back upon the State of Israel.

They condemn President Obama so often they probably have not noticed how at least one Israeli columnist has recently described President Obama as an inspirational leader and wishing that the State of Israel had a leader of Obama's caliber. Here Yossi Sarid discusses President Obama's eulogy for Clementa Pickney.

Our problem is that there is no voice of inspiration in Israel today; no voice that is heard above all the other voices. ...

There is a reason history remembers speakers and speeches, those that changed it, shocked and outraged worlds, enlisted entire nations, demolished and built walls, resulted in victory or defeat in wars, brought peace or destruction to the face of the Earth – from Moses and Jeremiah, Jesus and Muhammad, through to Hitler and Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt, John Kennedy and Martin Luther King.

History will not forget Obama either. And not just because of his revolutionary health insurance law, or the trade agreement with 11 Asian nations, or the unavoidable agreement with Iran, or the ending of the boycott of Cuba, or because single sex marriage won recognition during his time. Obama guaranteed his legacy when he laid down a bridge of hope over stormy waters. And what does Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leave after himself? Scorched earth, burned bridges, fallout of fear and hate and stolen treasures of gas.

Obama is quite a number of sizes larger than Bibi. The reports in the Yisrael Hayom newspaper on the death of the lame duck turned out to be premature. In Charleston he returned, and we are here to welcome him with gratitude for the moments of amazing grace. (Yossi Sarid, The Difference between Netanyahu and Obama, Haaretz, July 3, 2015.)

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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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Thursday, July 9, 2015

Israeli Pundit Wishing Israel had an Inspirational Leader Like Obama (Haaretz)

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