Living Armstrongism: Overview of the March 2016 Issue of PCG's Philadelphia Trumpet

Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Overview of the March 2016 Issue of PCG's Philadelphia Trumpet

The latest issue of PCG's recruitment magazine, The Philadelphia Trumpet, is now out. Let us see what they have to say this time.

The circulation for this issue is 287,175, slightly higher than the last issue which was 286,191.

Gerald Flurry has a bizarre article demonizing President Obama as inspired by Satan, calls him a modern day Antiochus and accuses him of being Satanically inspired to hate the State of Israel. Of course President Obama hates the State of Israel. He hates them so much he lets the US government supply 20% of Israel's military expenditure.

The United States currently underwrites 20 percent of Israel's military budget through annual earmarks of $3.1 billion in weapons. (Josh Ruebner, "Military aid to Israel and US complicity", The Hill, November 9, 2015.)

Intentionally or not Gerald Flurry is misleading his readers.

Brad MacDonald and Richard Palmer have an article that exploits the catastrophic mass sexual attacks in Cologne to vilify and scare monger against refugees in general and insist that the crisis will somehow topple Chancellor Merkel. (PCG hopes Guttenburg will somehow assume power over Germany.)

Richard Palmer has a little article talking about Sweden and the refugee crisis.

Richard Palmer has an article that scare mongers that some sort of cyber-attack might cripple the United States in the near future.

Jeremiah Jacques has an article talking about Alzheimer's Disease and issues regarding the elderly.

Dennis Leap has an article promoting organic farming and belittling regular food.

Jorg Maidan has a little article condemning white bread.

The Infographic talks about farming.

Robert Morley has an article yet again insisting that the American economy is about to collapse. Let it be remembered that Robert Morley has had no professional training in economics and he has constantly insisted that the American economy will soon collapse. He also fails to mention the role of predatory lending in creating the crisis of 2007-8.

Brent Nagtegaal and Callum Wood have an article scare mongering about Iran. This time they exploit the execution of Nimr al-Nimr and Saudi Arabia's rivalry with Iran.

Their Correspondence Course teaser promotes looking after one's health but it promotes HWA's booklet, The Plain Truth About Healing, which promotes HWA's deadly anti-medicine superstition.

Worldwatch talks about the rise of the left wing party Pademos in Spain; Europe contemplating calling in their armies to manage the refugee crisis; complains about Secretary Kerry suggesting that the Assad regime might be allowed to remain in power; China's short trading week caused by the stock market crash there; scare mongers about China and India being friendly to each other; complains that the Obama Administration had not imposed sanctions on Iran regarding the launching of ballistic missiles; and the tragic flight of Christians fleeing the turmoil in the Middle East.

Society Watch condemns women being allowed to participate in all forms of combat in the US armed forces (and fails to mention the problem of widespread sexual harassment within the US armed forces); scare mongers that the IRS can now strip one's passport if one fails to pay taxes; and mentions that gun sales are the highest it has even been this year.

Richard Palmer has a little article scare mongering that the Pope is fated to unite Europe into a scary Empire which will conquer the United States.

Joel Hilliker has a little article encouraging people to use proper posture when sitting down.

Jeremiah Jacques has a little article assuring people that humanity is destined to colonize other planets. This alludes to HWA's false, heretical doctrine of the God Family.

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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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