tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5846567313402731847.post5012412683886870738..comments2024-01-08T12:37:24.482-08:00Comments on Living Armstrongism: Reading PCG's Booklet, Australia—Where to Now?Redfox712http://www.blogger.com/profile/17734930967002040931noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5846567313402731847.post-65335356166864523732015-10-03T13:25:47.698-07:002015-10-03T13:25:47.698-07:00Well, OK, best two out of three: I'm sincere, ...Well, OK, best two out of three: I'm sincere, I'm not wrong, but I am hostile (to what he says).<br /><br />So he's got me there.<br /><br />If only he were reasonable and listen to facts, it would mitigate some of my hostility.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5846567313402731847.post-52569913658481766232015-10-03T11:28:57.911-07:002015-10-03T11:28:57.911-07:00"It is hard to believe someone could be so nu..."It is hard to believe someone could be so nuts."<br /><br />I will say I was taken aback at Fraser's statement that Australia ""does not deserve to survive." (Chapter 7, p. 43.) <br /><br />Fraser makes it sound as though he is referring to Winston Churchill. But Churchill did not write this booklet, Fraser did. And Fraser is talking about Australia, not any other nation.<br /><br />I don't know why Fraser was like this. It is baffling to me.<br /><br />Fraser did not mention that the immigration of non-Europeans was restricted as part of a "White Australia" policy (Chapter 8, p. 49.) I cannot help but think that policy may have contributed to Fraser being the way he was. Living in a society in which he had less chances to meet and socialize with peoples of other ethnicities may have made it easier for him to accept stereotyped misinformation about people he viewed as not part of "the white race."<br /><br />But this does not remove Fraser's personal responsibility for adopting the racialist views that he adopted as his own. It is safe to assume that most Australians who lived under this "White Australia" policy did not adopt views like Fraser or have moved away from such views if they held them. <br /><br />"a hobbyist who has no idea what facts look like."<br /><br />Ouch. <br /><br />As far as I can tell by reading what he wrote part of Fraser's problem is that if he happens to believe something he dismisses any contrary information as "biased," insists it is misinformation promoted with a hostile agenda or insists that they come from sources he distrusts.<br /><br />Also he has this habit of viewing anyone who says things he disagrees with as hostile. He rarely (if ever) express any sense of goodwill towards those he disagrees with in his writings. He just dismisses them as wrong and hostile. As far as I can tell he never portrays those he disagrees with as being sincere.Redfox712https://www.blogger.com/profile/17734930967002040931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5846567313402731847.post-58653425235967179472015-10-02T20:13:55.610-07:002015-10-02T20:13:55.610-07:00It is hard to believe someone could be so nuts. He...It is hard to believe someone could be so nuts. Here it is, the season to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. In Australia, it's spring time. Fraser is keeping a fall festival in the spring. What craziness, but when you fall for a false prophet and his heresies, that's the sort of thing you get.<br /><br />Moreover, all the Feasts of the Old Testament were tied to both animal sacrifices and the Temple (at Jerusalem). These were both done away. If anyone wants to say that they are commanded for Christians to keep, think again and look at Acts 15. Nothing about the Gentiles keeping the Feast is mentioned and circumcism is done away.<br /><br />Now to be fair, for the most part, we've found Australians to be a sensible people. It's just a few in the minority like Fraser that are nut cases.<br /><br />I'm not so frightened. All of Armstrongism put together can't rival even the Church of God Seventh Day -- the CoG7D is approximately ten times larger than all of the Armstrongist churches of God combined. <br /><br />As big as the booklet may be and as loud as the bellowing might be, it's all minor league stuff... well, not even minor league: It's just pure amateur stuff by a hobbyist who has no idea what facts look like.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com