Living Armstrongism: Remembering Last Year's War in Gaza

Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Remembering Last Year's War in Gaza

The COGs teach people to view events in a simplistic black and white manner. One side is good. The other side is bad. Many high demand groups teach people to view matters in a black and white way because it is easier to manipulate people inclined to view matters in that way. Such an attitude can all too readily teach people to be unmoving and stubborn when that may be unwise.

In regards to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict the COGs generally just cast one side as the good guys (the Israelis) and the other side as the bad guys (the Palestinians). Among the COGs there is no attempt to challenge one's self in seeing if there is something previously unknown about it to be found. Rather the conventional wisdom about it from the perspective of the leadership of the various COGs is continuously repeated to the membership.

Last year war broke out in Gaza, the latest chapter in the tragic, brutal and dehumanizing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Although fighting ended the month afterwards the political problems that led to that war have still not been resolved and despite the mass loss of life that occurred there is no reason to assume that such violence won't happen again.

That armed conflict was a symptom of the severe political crisis between the State of Israel and Hamas led Gaza. Unless the political problems that caused this conflict is solved, or at least mitigated to a considerable degree, it seems practically certain that war like this will occur again in Gaza. That is absolutely terrible and tragic for all concerned.

I strongly hope that someone, anyone, will prevent such a terrible thing occurring. May no more blood be shed on any side. May the solutions to this conflict be found and enacted quickly.

In the hope of providing resources for anyone who should happen to be interested in being informed about the conflict that occurred last year here are some resources regarding that conflict.

This is How We Fought in Gaza (Breaking the Silence).

Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict.

No More Impunity: Gaza's Health Sector Under Attack.

I encourage people to read widely about this conflict, and especially I encourage people to read the side you do not agree with. Not necessarily to agree with the other side but to at least be familiar with what they are saying amongst themselves.

Ultimately enough people from one side will have to find a way to reach out to the other side and connect in just the right way for peace to be created. May that day soon come. It cannot come soon enough.

May the day soon occur in which peace and prosperity come to everyone within the Holy Land and all may live in peace and safety and all may work to build a just and prosperous society at peace within itself, its neighbors and the world.

May peace soon come to the Holy Land.

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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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Remembering Last Year's War in Gaza

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