PCG's Awful Article About Anti-Semitism in France

PCG has recently posted an article discussing a case of a murder of a Jewish women in France in which the killer was judged to be not guilty due to his use of cannabis. Naturally this is a controversial and painful issue. In response PCG has written an article with the following lurid title, "Is It Murder If You Kill a Jew?" (January 27, 2020).

This title is irresponsible. While no fair minded person would even ask such a depraved question it is worth bearing in mind that there are extremists out there who hate Jews. Some of them just might say no to the lurid article title. We should not give them any reason to think their hatred of Jews is somehow justified in any way. It is shocking that anyone in PCG's 1% thought such a title for this article was a good idea.

Later the article states the following:

the hatred for the Jews is coming from ... Satan the devil.

Has this PCG writer thought through the implications of this statement? If Satan is causing some people in France to hate Jews then how can those Anti-Semites be blamed for they did while being supposedly under the influence of Satan? Such reasoning excuses Anti-Semitism and relieves bigots of responsibility for their actions.

Oh, what confusion and luridness Armstrongism has wrought upon the world!

Infamous Hollywood Mogul Convicted

It is good that Harvey Weinstein has been convicted. It is terrible that a man with such power has committed so many horrific crimes for so long. Now the whole world knows he is a convicted criminal.

May all those guilty of such horrific crimes be brought before the courts of justice.

PCG's Fawning over Republican President on Alledged Eve of America's Doom

So often PCG's 1% preach doom and gloom about so many things but somehow one ceremonial car ride of the President prompts PCG's 1% produce a fawning paean to President Trump. The PCG leadership heavily favors the Republican Party when discussing political matters.

After two weeks of victories, United States President Donald Trump took a victory lap, literally. ... 

With the crowd bellowing familiar chants of “U.S.A., U.S.A.” and “Four more years!” the president again took to the beast and led the pace lap. The president even picked up a radio and spoke directly to the drivers and pit crews. ... 

The president is basking in a supreme moment of success. (Callum Wood, NASCAR and the Supreme Moment of Success, February 21, 2020.)

Considering that PCG also teaches that the United States will soon by conquered by a German led European Empire very soon one would have thought that PCG's 1% would not be so enraptured by the sight of their preferred president making an appearance in Florida.

PCG's Andrew Hessong's Twitter Account Goes Silent

One PCG minister, Andrew Hessong, had a rather active Twitter account under the username @SupportEliakim. But no more. It is now offline.

He had this account since about 2013 or so. It is clearly his Twitter account as may be seen in this PCG post on Facebook which promotes this 2015 article from PCG's website.

He often made heated comments about political affairs, proclaiming his loyalty to President Trump despite numerous reports that he has done things contrary to PCG's stated teachings, denounce Democrats, bewail homelessness in California, allude to PCG's dogma that the State of California is cursed by PCG's God, state how great PCG is, etc.

He wrote the following on December 4, 2015.

Guess what San Bernadino, the government is planning Syrian Refugee settlement in your town.

On October 22, 2015 he wrote:

Californians reduced water usage 25%+ Now water co's in LA will RAISE RATES. #CaliforniaSocialists

On February 3, 2017 he wrote:

Church of England bishops say Christians must repent, essentially of, leaving the Catholic Church. #SoProphetic.

On August 12, 2019 he wrote:

It is amazing how accurate the Iron Lady was.

On August 20, 2019 he wrote:

San Francisco homeless stats soar: city blames big business, residents blame officials

On September 23, 2019 he wrote:

Former Gov Weld wants the president executed. This response is a whole new level.

On November 8, 2019 he wrote concerning the eye:

And people want to say this evolved.

But his Twitter account has now gone offline. We outside of PCG's 1% are left wondering why he chose to do so. Does PCG's God no longer approve of Andrew Hessong's tweeting?

PCG Says Killing Soleimani More Important than Killing Osama Bin Laden

Look what PCG's demonization of Iran has led to. PCG presents the killing of Qassim Soleimani as more important than killing the leadsrs of Al Qaeda and ISIL.

For a point of reference, the death of Suleimani is far more significant than that of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Ladin and Islamic State head Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi combined. (Brent Nagtegaal, World's Most Wanted Man, Qassem Suleimani, Is Dead, January 3, 2020.)

PCG has spoken of Iran in a most bellicose manner for years. But at the same time PCG forbids their followers from serving in the armed forces so PCG members will not be on the front lines if war should happen to erupt with Iran. It is terribly hypocritical that PCG's 1% should be so bellicose while insisting that their followers must not go to war.

A war between the United States and Iran would terrible. It will not cause PCG's fearful predictions to occur. PCG does not know the future. Catastrophe is a real possibility and thereforei needs to be avoided.

Trump Courts Catastrophe with Iran

Before he became President Mr. Donald Trump speculated that Obama would launch a war against Iran to get elected in 2012.

Presently President Trump has apparently ordered a strike killing a prominent Iranian general, namely Major General Qassem Soleimani. Others have been killed in the bombing. No one really knows what this act will lead to.

Most of the Armstrongite COGs insist that it is Europe that is fated to attack the United States in the near future. This prediction suggests that the United States need not fear getting entangled in a war elsewhere in the world since it will be Europe that will conquer America and no other power. This is a false comfort. The COGs do not know the future. A cataclysmic war with Iran could occur. The real world cares nothing about the COGs prophetic speculations.

A war with Iran would be terrible. Many people will die. It would also silence calls for reform within Iranian society.

The COGs false comfort of certainty will be of no help if war with Iran should happen to occur. They help to make our society better instead of waiting for the Second Coming and recruiting new tithes paying members.

President Trump Impeached

The House of Representatives has impeached President Trump.

The leaders of the Armstrongite organizations in America tend to be very supportive of the Republican Party. Evrn though they do nlt vote they must be quite annoyed at this development. It is the price the Armstrongite 1% pay for choosing to take sides in political matters even though they do not pay taxes.

No doubt they will try to exploit this event to promote their false prophecies but such dire predictions are doomed to fail.

Hysterical PCG Scare Monger of "Unprecedented Bloodshed" within America "Soon"

PCG's 1% are fanatically partisan for the Republican Party. The latest sign of this may be seen in Andrew Müller's article speculating that some sort of "civil war" may erupt if President Trump is removed from office.

Whatever the case, the 2020 U.S. presidential election is set to be extremely divisive. Bible prophecy foretells that this division will soon escalate into unprecedented bloodshed unless the nation as a whole turns to God in repentance! (Andrew Müller, Would an Impeachment of President Trump Spark Civil War?, October 7, 2019.)

It is so pathetic seeing PCG's 1% indulge in such disturbing and overblown rhetoric because they do not want their preferred president from losing power.

Considering that PCG also teaches that the United States will soon be conquered by a German led European Empire one would think PCG would more worried about that then the possibility of President Trump's impeachment. That is if they actually believed what they teach.

Praising Israel Before World War III: Overview of the September 2019 Issue of PCG's Philadelphia Trumpet

Let's take a look at the September 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 251,694 issues.

Gerald Flurry has a personal article talking about Jerusalem. It is taught by PCG and the other Armstrongite groups that after Christ's return all the world will be united under one government led by Christ headquartered in Jerusalem. Flurry talks about focusing on what Jerusalem will be like after Christ returns. In the article Flurry uses the word vision 36 times. In other words he is calling upon readers and PCG members to be enthusiastic in believing PCG's dogmas.

Christopher Eames has an article discussing an recent alleged discovery of Ziglag, a city which in the Bible was associated with David before he ascended to the throne, at Khirbet al-Ra'i.

Brad Macdonald has an article insisting that the State of Israel will enjoy a temporary revival for leaning to the political right. After Trump ascended to the presidency the PCG leadership has been boasting that President Trump is leading a temporary revival. PCG's 1% are so happy that a Republican is in the White House.

Richard Palmer has an article decrying anti-Semitic bigotry against Jews. While it is certainly good to combat anti-Semitism it is worth mentioning that PCG has some troubling teachings regarding Jews. Traditionally Jews have long feared attempts to make them convert to Christianity. Most Jews consider conversion to Christianity to be a renunciation of one's Jewish identity. But buried within the intricacies of PCG's teachings it is assumed that most Jews will eventually convert to PCG's religion if they happen to live after Christ returns or after a resurrection. Or else.

It is taught in PCG and other Armstrongite groups that God is not trying to convert the vast majority of humanity today. In their teaching most people have been supernaturally blinded by God and left unable to comprehend and believe in Armstrongite teachings. God will not give them a chance to be saved until after Christ returns. After the thousand year reign of Christ on Earth those who had been blinded by God before the Second Coming will be resurrected in an event the Armstrongites call the Great White Throne Judgment. Then they will either convert to PCG's religion and worship Christ or they shall be cast into Armstrongite hell. It is assumed that the divinity of God the Father, Christ and the other God beings predicted to exist by that time will make conversion an easy and happy choice. In Armstrongism it is taught that those who are not saved will be cast into the Lake of Fire and will be annihilated. Those people will have no afterlife after that. Any Jewish person who wishes to maintain his or her religion and not worship Christ or any of the other Armstrongite God beings are doomed to the Lake of Fire in this teaching. Armstrongism pushed the issue of hell to after the Second Coming for non-members but the issue is still there.

It is worth noting that PCG has been producing writings in Hebrew seeking to preach to a predominantly Jewish audience within the Holy Land.

Palmer's article also features a graphic photo of a mass grave at Mauthausen in 1945 on page 13.

Richard Palmer and Daniel Di Santo have an article scare mongering that continental Europe is able to get the resources they need by trading with Africa and Latin America. The fact that the United States has armed forces in continental Europe in fulfillment of their duties as part of the NATO alliance is blissfully ignored in this dogma.

The Infographic props up the article above.

Brad Macdonald has an article telling Americans to be scared of Germany because, he insists, the Germans are the descendants of the ancient Assyrians who conquered the northern Kingdom of Israel. But Macdonald and the other Armstrongites are wrong. The Germans are not descended from the Assyrians. The DNA evidence proves they are not related by descent. Therefore any prophecy that assumes Germans to be descended from the Assyrians is bound to fail.

In this article Macdonald indulges in one again scare mongering about Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg. For years now the PCG leadership has often speculated that he is destined to be the military leader fated to lead a German led European Empire to conquer the United States and take Americans as slaves back to Europe.

Who is this modern Tiglath-Pileser III? We can’t say for certain, but for more than 12 years now we have considered former German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg a potential candidate. Guttenberg has all the ingredients; he is aristocratic, rich and powerful. He has charisma and communicates with conviction, candor and power. Guttenberg isn’t popular with Germany’s elites or the mainstream media, but many regular Germans adore him. Watch Guttenberg: He could be Germany’s end-time Tiglath-Pileser III! (p. 23.)

Gerald Flurry has an article calling upon his readers to get to know God. However PCG insists that one can only know God by joining PCG. And one of the requirements for PCG members is to pay three tithes to PCG. That is how PCG managed to get an income of about $19.5 million in 2012.

Jeremiah Jacques has an article discussing the mass protest movement in Hong Kong. This anxious event is unfortunately used to indulge in some scare mongering about "Gentile rule" after the fall of the British Empire.

In Hong Kong, the effects of the transition from Israelite rule to Gentile rule are on display in microcosm. No one argues that British imperialism was perfect; it was administered by men, and all men rule deficiently. But when Hong Kongers anxiously brandish the Union Jack and insist that their colonial legacy means “Hong Kong is not China,” they are giving the world an early signal of how dark the times of the Gentiles will be. 

Hong Kong is a bellwether for what Mr. Flurry called the coming “catastrophic storm.” And as Beijing tightens its grip on the territory, it reveals how violent the tempest will be. (p. 27.)

Armstrongism often viewed British colonialism as the will of God. This is connected to PCG and Amrstrongism's teaching of British Israelism. And because they think the British Empire was the will of God they have a hard time understanding why it collapsed. Those who are conquered do not want to be ruled by conquerors.

WorldWatch discusses Bastille Day celebrations to scare monger about Europe's military power; complaining about the European Union seeking to persuade other nations to conform to EU rules regarding data protection on the Internet; a report indicating some German police officers have been aligning themselves with the Alternative for Germany party; fear mongering about the EU organizing their air defenses; four Russian warships taking a stop in Cuba; Russia placing fortifications in Crimea; fear mongering about President Putin meeting with Pope Francis; an attempt to integrate pro-government militias in Iraq into the Iraqi armed forces; and Iran choosing to retaliate against President Trump's breach of the nuclear agreement by making more enriched uranium than was agreed to under the agreement President Trump threw away.

SocietyWatch frets about homeless people and diseases in Portland (which seems quite low); condemning curricula in California that treats the LGBT community as normal people; and condemning advertising standards in the United Kingdom that seeks to discouraging limiting gender stereotypes which, with typical hyperbole, is condemned by the PCG leadership as "part of a larger attack on biblical sex roles." (p. 31.)

Alex Harrison has an article encouraging children to be close to their grandparents.

Joel Hilliker has an article discussing the horror of the illegal sex trafficking of underage persons in Portland. It is a rewrite of a December 2010 article.

Here is a passage from the September 2019 article.

The human mind can only take in so much. And in this information-saturated age, news of people mistreating their fellow human beings comes in such a torrent that we can easily grow numb to it. And—truth be told—we are helpless to do anything substantive to stop it. These blights are painfully endemic to the human condition, resilient against virtually all efforts to stop them. 

There is one, however, who has seen it all, who has never succumbed to apathy—and who absolutely will put a stop to it.

Here is the same passage from the December 2010 article. Only one word has been altered.

The human mind can only take in so much. And in this information-saturated age, news of people mistreating their fellow human beings comes in such a torrent that we can easily grow numbed to it. And—truth be told—we are helpless to do anything substantive to stop it. These blights are painfully endemic to the human condition, resilient against virtually all efforts to stop them. 

There is one, however, who has seen it all, who has never succumbed to apathy—and who absolutely will put a stop to it.

This points to a larger issue: Armstrongism keeps repeating itself over and over again. But it is still as false as it was in 1934.

PCG calls upon their followers to keep PCG's vision of the future in mind. But PCG has made many false prophecies since its establishment in 1989. There is no need to give heed to them. These false prophecies prove that they are but false prophets.

Cheerleading for Trump and Barr: Overview of the August 2019 Issue of PCG's Philadelphia Trumpet

Let's take a look at the August 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 252,593 issues.

Gerald Flurry has an article denouncing the Mueller investigation which he views as attempts to remove President Trump from office and praising William Barr for writing a memo condemning the Mueller investigation. Flurry even believes that "God's hand" was in Barr's memo.

Barr loves the Constitution and understands it as few men do. During his confirmation hearing, he said he reveres the law. It has been a long time since America has had someone like this in the Department of Justice. It is refreshing to have someone praise and uphold the law at a time like this! This should be uncontroversial—but in a way, it has challenged the whole government structure in Washington! 

Barr is very concerned about what Obama-era officials did to Donald Trump. He sees that something terribly wrong has been going on. He wants to understand why government officials were spying on an incoming president. He wants to know why the DOJ withheld information from the president regarding what the Russians were doing and regarding its investigation of him. Mr. Barr chose ... a prosecutor ... to look into the origin of the Russian investigation. That has a lot of people on the Democratic side nervous, as it should! When you begin to apply the law, as Barr is, lawbreakers get nervous. 

On June 8, 2018, William Barr sent a 19-page memo to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein that stunned the Mueller team. It is a masterpiece about American law. And I believe God’s hand was in it. (pp. 4-5.)

And Flurry seems to see a lot of significance in Barr using the word "divine" at one point in this memo.

[Flurry quotes Barr:] “To establish guilt, all that remains is evaluation of the president’s state of mind to DIVINE whether he acted with a ‘corrupt’ motive.” ... These men think they can “divine” whether Trump acted with a corrupt motive. That is a well-chosen word William Barr used, and it really is appropriate for what they are doing. It means “to prophesy, to guess, to find out by intuition.” ... 

Another definition of divine, as an adjective, is, “of, like, or from God or a god.” That too is appropriate, because these men are acting as if they are God! Do you really want to be ruled by someone who thinks he can sit there and act like God, telling you that you have a corrupt motive? Do you want these men with corrupt minds judging you? (p. 26.)

It is clear Barr was not talking about God in the memo. Why Flurry wants to bring up another definition of the word "divine" out of context in this article is perplexing and strange.

Brent Nagtegaal has an accompanying side article discussing Jeroboam II as a king who brought about a revival of the northern kingdom of Israel. The PCG leadership often compare President Trump with King Jeroboam II of Israel as fated to bring about a temporary revival of fortune for the United States before the Great Tribulation occurs. They are so happy that a Republican is in the White House.

Brent Nagtegaal has an article speculating if war may erupt with Iran. PCG often scare mongers about Iran in response to Gerald Flurry's dogmatic proclamation in 1994 in which he identified Iran as being the future King of the South. Most other Armstrongite groups tend to assume the King of the South will arise from within the Arab world. And originally HWA taught the King of the South was Ethiopia.

Jorg Mardian has an article discussing chronic inflammation.

Jeremiah Jacques discussing the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon to promote the Armstrongite dogma that after the Millennium and the Great White Throne Judgment all of remaining humanity will by this time be God beings as fully God as God though of a lower rank and they will go throughout the Universe and change all the countless planets into paradise worlds. Maybe they should try to heal the world we live in now that is currently under threat from the ongoing climate change crisis.

Richard Palmer has an article discussing various far right parties in continental Europe.

Andrew Müller has an article insisting that American farmers are about to experience catastrophe on their farms. While many American farmers are clearly suffering because of President Trump's trade war with China it is not a sign that World War III will soon occur.

Gerald Flurry has an article telling his readers that they need to read HWA's last book which was published in 1985. In that book HWA falsely predicted Christ would return by 2005. (PCG has removed that passage in their copies of that book.) HWA condemned interracial marriage while discussing Noah's flood. HWA cited history books out of context to promote his insistence that the "true church" was suppressed for nineteen centuries from AD 53 onward. HWA's book is terribly flawed.

Richard Palmer has an article insisting that a "Nazi underground" continued operating after World War II. Palmer is imitating HWA. During World War II HWA assumed the war would end with Christ's second coming. After this expectation failed and the Allies triumphed over Nazi Germany HWA desperately tried to update this teaching by insisting that the Nazis had simply gone underground and would soon return to power to conquer the United States in World War III. This allowed him to continue scare mongering that a German led European power would soon conquer the United States. In 1953 HWA and Herman Hoeh decided that the Great Tribulation would begin in 1972 with Christ returning in 1975. HWA promoted this idea of a "Nazi underground" in his 1956 booklet, "1975 in Prophecy." This is the original context for HWA's talk of a "Nazi underground."

While it is certainly unfortunately true that some Nazi war criminals escaped accountability before the courts of justice they did not mange to launch a nuclear war against the United States by 1972 as HWA taught. Nevertheless PCG insists on reviving this idea even though so much time has since elapsed since the defeat of the Nazi regime.

WorldWatch discusses that Germany has increased its budget for its military; Germany sending soldiers into Syria; Germany hosting a conference of foreign ministers from Latin America and the Caribbean; Sebastian Kurz losing the chancellorship of Austria; Iran leasing the commercial port in Latakia, Syria; Netanyahu's decision to call for a second election in the State of Israel; Modi's victory in the election in India; North Korea launching more missiles in tests; and Chinese-Japanese relations.

SocietyWatch discusses millennials being poorer then previous generations; bewailing the US debt; bewailing colleges as left wing; and tensions over attempts to restrict abortion.

Joel Hilliker has an article calling upon readers to find "the true church" by studying PCG writings to later be told that PCG's teaching that they are the only "true church" in the entire world. And once a potential recruit is convinced that PCG is the one, true church such a person is also taught to pay three tithes to PCG. This is main source of income for PCG and a major reason why PCG could gain an income of about $19.5 million by 2012.

Brad Macdonald has an article condemning environmentalists by saying that at least some of them are "anti-family" for encouraging people to have fewer or even no children. Grousing about birthrates is not going to do anything to solve the ongoing climate change crisis caused by the excess emission of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Hurricanes such as Dorian are now more powerful than they were in the past because climate change has made the oceans warmer. And shamefully the PCG leadership insists to their followers and readers that climate change is not a problem. PCG's 1% are climate change deniers.

While PCG continues to peddle their views and insists that they know what happen in the future in fact PCG has made numerous false prophecies which simply has not occurred thus proving that the PCG leadership does not see the future.