Living Armstrongism: Joel Hilliker Insinuates Porn Used to Come from the "Ghetto"

Monday, December 21, 2015

Joel Hilliker Insinuates Porn Used to Come from the "Ghetto"

Back in the September 2009 issue of PCG's recruitment magazine, The Philadelphia Trumpet, Joel Hilliker wrote an article condemning pornography. It is entitled "Keep the Ghetto Out of Your Bedroom".

Why would Hilliker bring up a ghetto in an article condemning pornography?

Pornography used to be more difficult to get to—confined to the other side of the tracks, hiding in the hardscrabble, no-go zones of the city. The shame used to be prohibitive. (Joel Hilliker, Keep the Ghetto Out of Your Bedroom, September 2009.)

It seems strange that Hilliker should describe pornography as coming from a ghetto and from some scary place in the city. What about our hormones? Surely they have something to do with why pornography is commercially viable.

Alas, that is all Hilliker has to say about pornography supposedly coming from the ghetto, "the other side of the tracks" and "the hardscrabble, no-go zones of the city." One can only wonder what kind of hardscrabble, no-go zone he is talking about.

I will admit one possibility that comes to mind reading the use of the word "ghetto" but it must be emphasized that is little evidence in the article to support it one way or the other so I will not share it here.

But it seems bizarre that Hilliker should present pornography as originating from some scary place in "the hardscrabble, no-go zones of the city" instead of admitting that our sexual hormones make such things appealing to many people.

2 comments:

AnonymousDecember 22, 2015 at 3:09 PM
It is in the so called ghetto where families, (black and Mexican) due to financial difficulties, embraced family ethics and shunned moral depravity.

The rich "middle class" kids are the ones who had the porno films and most of that material was the parents. Both parents worked and the kids left to their own devices.

So no, this idiot minister doesn't understand shit about the people of the ghetto.
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Byker BobDecember 22, 2015 at 5:31 PM
Hilliker needs to do a little more research. Hugh Hefner would be surprised at his premise. Playboy was around for years or even decades before Players came out. Black people from the ghetto didn't have the disposable capital to invest in making pornographic films at the time that the industry was born, and even if they had, black pornography would have needed to "cross over" like pop music occasionally did, to make it profitable and self-sustaining.

I take it that Joel and his wife don't relax in their tithe-funded hot tub listening to some Jimi Hendrix or Ike and Tina Turner, preparing for and getting into the right mood for the sabbath.

Back in the '50s and '60s, there used to be what was called "red light districts" where law enforcement turned a blind eye to certain criminal activities. This quarantined the crimes from so-called "nice" neighborhoods. But red light was never a synonym for ghetto.

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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.

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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.