Living Armstrongism: PCG Boasts of Blessing Oklahoma Despite High Rate of Shootings

Monday, January 11, 2016

PCG Boasts of Blessing Oklahoma Despite High Rate of Shootings

Back in July 2011 PCG's Ron Fraser wrote an article insinuating that the presence of PCG headquarters in Oklahoma was blessing the State of Oklahoma with divine favor.

As America languishes in recession, the Sooner State shows the rest of the nation its heels. ...

I’m glad to live in a state where the vast majority is still conservative in outlook, and not given at present to extreme changes in the law. ... the real reason for the blessings currently being enjoyed by this state and by the city of Edmond, in particular, would be hidden to most. ...

In the meantime, not only the city of Edmond, not just Oklahoma City, but the whole state of Oklahoma is shining brightly with a reputation of being “recession proof” amid the increasing pain that is being brought upon the United States through its current economic crisis.

Is there a lesson to be drawn here?

There certainly is, though most are blinded to it.

God blesses His work. Those blessings soon benefit the whole community surrounding the location where He places His name and from which He chooses to administer His work.

Place is important to God. It always has been. He makes that evident by showering His blessings on the location of His choice as He moves the earthly headquarters of His work to suit the times we are living through in any given generation. (Ron Fraser, "Oklahoma--You're Kidding!", July 18, 2011.)

If PCG's God is blessing the State of Oklahoma then why is it according to CBS that the State of Oklahoma has the eighth highest rate of death by gun violence in all the United States? It has a rate of 16.5 per 1000 population. In comparison the state with the lowest rate of deaths by gun violence is Hawai'i, with a rate of 2.6 per 1000 population.

This is a ghastly state of affairs for the people of Oklahoma. They do not deserve to have their families and friends to be afflicted in such a way.

Considering this dire state of affairs how dare PCG's leaders should boast that their mere presence somehow blesses the State of Oklahoma. PCG should do something about this terrible rate of violence blighting their own neighborhoods and friends and families neighboring their headquarters instead of boasting that their mere presence somehow blesses the State of Oklahoma.

[Update: Thanks to Opinionated it has been brought to my attention that currently Oklahoma is enduring an unprecedented wave of earthquakes (2009–16 Oklahoma earthquake swarms). Some suspect these earthquakes are caused by the use of fracking to get more oil. I wish the people of Oklahoma well in this crisis.]

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AnonymousJanuary 11, 2016 at 3:52 PM
Will see if Gerald holds this opinion when his monument to himself is left a crumbling wreck after one of hundreds of earthquake that Oklahoma experiences daily.
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Redfox712January 11, 2016 at 6:53 PM
Good point. I forgot about that. Since 2009 Oklahoma has been afflicted with an unprecedented wave of earthquakes. Some suspect these earthquakes are caused by the use of fracking to get more oil.

There is even a Wikipedia article about it: 2009–16 Oklahoma earthquake swarms.

This is a terrible affliction for the people of Oklahoma. I wish them well in this severe crisis.

What superstitious nonsense PCG teaches.
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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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PCG Boasts of Blessing Oklahoma Despite High Rate of Shootings

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