Living Armstrongism: PCG's Jeremiah Jacques' Bizarre Tweet About Stores and School Closed in Silwan

Thursday, February 4, 2016

PCG's Jeremiah Jacques' Bizarre Tweet About Stores and School Closed in Silwan

Back on December 28, 2011 PCG's Jeremiah Jacques posted a tweet seemingly speculating that the scheduled demolition of a Palestinian home in Silwan, East Jerusalem would allow them to excavate the area. I do not know if that is true. I would be skeptical of this claim unless it could be verified.

Digging soon? Israeli authorities shut down a mosque, a school, and some stores in Silwan today: http://t.co/5rOGunxG
— jeremiah jacques (@js_jacques) December 28, 2011

The tweet's link is broken. It links to an article from the website of the Federation of Arab News Agencies (FANA News). The article appears to be no longer online.

This tweet is quite similar to Brent Nagtegaal's tweet of November 18, 2011 mentioned in the last post.

I am quite skeptical about this claim made by Nagtegaal previously and at present it is not possible to verify Jacques' claim but I suspect he is wrong.

But even if Jacques is wrong (which I strongly suspect to be the case) this tweet shows a terribly nonchalant attitude to a Palestinians being inconvenienced by having institutions shut down by Israeli authorities. And it is even worse to express a statement that at least part of these buildings will soon be demolished in order to dig underneath.

This tweet is deserving of contempt and shows once again PCG's bitter hostility and prejudice towards the Palestinian people. He does not even bother to accuse them of doing anything wrong. Jacques writes of those Palestinians living in Silwan as though they are but obstacles to be removed.

It is terrible that people should go to Jerusalem, dig up precious historical artifacts and direct so much attention to them but at the same time express such contempt for many of the people living in the area.

If Jacques' home was about to be demolished I somehow doubt he would want us to be so casual about it. If his church or school or the stores he uses got shut down unexpectedly I suspect he would not be impressed if somehow insinuated they would soon be digging the ground underneath. So why make such a casual tweet like that about other people going through such things? We need to be careful about what we say about other people.

But what can be stated is that 467 Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem have been demolished between 2009 and 2014. Many of the Palestinians of East Jerusalem have been forced to endure the trauma of having their homes ripped away from them and smashed to smithereens. How dare Jacques and Nagtegaal should insinuate (I suspect incorrectly) that they somehow benefit from this.

We need peace now.

Credit: The IMEU via Haaretz.

For more this topic see:

PCG and the Dark Side of Politicized Archaeology in East Jerusalem.

PCG: Brad MacDonald's Vilification of the Palestinians of Silwan in East Jerusalem (2009).

467 Palestinian Homes Demolished in Jerusalem (2009-14).

PCG Writer Bizarrely Justifying the Demolition of a Palestinian Home (2011).

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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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PCG's Jeremiah Jacques' Bizarre Tweet About Stores and School Closed in Silwan

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