Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Fear, Fear Everywhere: Overview of the July 2019 Issue of PCG's Philadelphia Trumpet

Let's take a look at the July 2019 issue of PCG's recruitment magazine, The Philadelphia Trumpet.


The editors of this issue are Gerald Flurry, Stephen Flurry, Joel Hilliker, Brad Macdonald, Richard Palmer, Jeremiah Jacques, Dennis Leap and Phillip Nice.

This issue had a circulation of 252,373 issues.

Gerald Flurry has a personal article in which the adopting of an EU law named the General Data Protection Regulation is hysterically portrayed as a German plot to control the Internet. Flurry uses this issue to scare monger about Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg as he has often done since 2009. PCG's leaders have often implied that they suspect he will be the future dictator fated to lead a German  led European Empire to conquer the United States just before Christ's return.

Jeremiah Jacques has an article complaining that other nations are excluding the United States from trading.

Gerald Flurry has an article commenting on the 2019 college admissions bribery scandal. While discussing that topic he goes complains about President Trump being under the scrutiny of the Mueller investigation.
People today don’t want truth. They love deceits. The media are so intent on bringing down the president that they will not accept the results of a two-year investigation into whether President Trump colluded with the Russians. Robert Mueller’s team of Trump-hating lawyers spent two years and more than $25 million doing everything possible to find the president guilty—and found nothing! There was no collusion, which means legally there could be no obstruction of justice. But Mueller said he didn’t exonerate Mr. Trump in that area—to help the Democrats keep this thing alive. They will not stop attacking! They discard the evidence and keep hammering away at all the supposed crimes and terrible conspiracies the president is involved in! 
Most of the mainstream media are like robots. They all say the same thing, exactly what the Democratic Party directs them to say. And they are walking in lockstep toward a cliff, and are about to walk right off! (p. 9.)
Having read the Mueller Report for myself it is clear that Robert Mueller was persuaded that President Trump should have been indicted for obstruction of justice but he chose not to do so because he decided that he was required to follow a legal opinion of the Office of Legal Counsel that meant the Department of Justice could not indict a sitting President.

Andrew Müller returns to his McCarthyite roots by making an article claiming that about 67,000 Democratic Party members have taken over the Democratic Party. Behold this strange word salad of his while discussing organizations in which seemingly any connection between them is presented in the worst light.
What makes the Justice Democrats unusual is that it has partnered with Our Revolution, the largest Marxist front group in America. Claiming more than 100,000 members, Our Revolution acts as a front for the three most influential Marxist organizations in America: the Democratic Socialists of America, the Communist Party USA, and the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. 
Most of the leadership of Our Revolution comes from the Democratic Socialists of America. Some are members of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization or Communist Party USA. Communist Party USA leader John Bachtell explained their strategy for hijacking the Democratic Party in an online webinar on May 23, 2018, when he told an audience of activists that they must campaign for openly socialist candidates within the Democratic Party to challenge President Donald Trump. (p. 11.)
Müller even quotes an article by HWA from 1969 to make his case. The spirit of McCarthyism is alive and well among the PCG leadership. No good can come from this.

Joel Hilliker has an article saying that those liberals are plotting to discriminate against white, heterosexual Americans by favoring African Americans, women, gays and transgender people. Incidentally that reveals that this article is mainly trying to appeal to white, male Americans. And once again Hilliker shows that PCG's leaders are quite partisan towards the Republican Party.
Radical leftists don’t want people to become diligent, disciplined, driven, resourceful, persevering people who take responsibility for their own lives. After all, if more people judge themselves and others not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character—what would they need the Democratic Party for? (p. 14.)
Democratic Party voters want to be lazy? But if that was the case then surely PCG's preferred political party would have no problem defeating them in elections. This sounds like a crude caricature, not a reflection of reality.

Jorg Mardian has an article discussing smells.

Jeremiah Jacques has an article discussing the geopolitical tensions concerning the Arctic Ocean.

The Infographic reinforces the article mentioned above.

Brent Nagtegaal has an article of the discovery of a bulla that appears to date from the reign of King Josiah. It is sad to see discussion of these precious artifacts being used to prop up a recruitment magazine trying to get more tithe paying members.

Richard Palmer and Brent Nagtegaal have an article fearfully announcing the arrival of a new Arab Spring following mass protests in Algeria and Sudan by people determined to try and improve society themselves instead of waiting for some Armstrongite reinterpretation of Christ to return and solve everything for them.

Gerald Flurry has an article discussing PCG's interpretation of Armageddon. PCG and the other Armstrongite sects teaches that Armageddon refers to a massive battle at the time of Christ's return in which the forces of the European Empire (and possibly other political forces) will assemble in Megiddo (Armageddon) and advance south to Jerusalem and there try to fight the returning Armstrongite Christ. It is taught that the armies of the European Empire will be routed by the Armstrongite Christ and afterwards the Armstrongite Christ will rule over the world for a thousand years.

WorldWatch discusses the fire at Notre Dame in Paris; a xenophobic statement against Muslims from a Catholic Cardinal; the rise of far-right parties in the Netherlands, Finland, Spain and Germany; power cuts in South Africa; Russia sending soldiers to Venezuela; the US State Department designating Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization; floods in the Mississippi River; China's control of rare earth minerals; and the installation of Carrie Lam as Chief Executive of Hong Kong on April 18.

SocietyWatch discusses the rise of underground bunkers; the increase of people with no religious affiliation in the United States; and cites a study saying that young people are unhappy because they are not getting married, having less sex and not being religious.

Joel Hilliker has an article calling upon readers not to be hypocritical or deceptive.

Stephen Flurry has an article bemoaning the problem of homelessness and drug addiction in Seattle. He thinks the problem is all about religion.
Isaiah 1:5-6 describe our nation: sick from top to bottom. We lack strong leaders taking bold action to eradicate these problems (Isaiah 3:1-3). The cause of this sickness is transgression (Daniel 8:12). We are breaking God’s laws—laws that specifically protect us from such disasters—and are reaping the consequences.
But PCG claims to be the only religion to know the will of God and the vast majority of those unfortunate people know nothing about the peculiar doctrines of Armstrongism. Waiting for the Second Coming does not help such unfortunate people now.

PCG's leaders say they are confident that this and that will happen in the future. However PCG has made numerous false prophecies since its establishment in 1989. That fact proves that PCG does not see the future. There is no need to live in fear of their predictions of doom and destruction.

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