Living Armstrongism: Recent PCG Broadcasts

Thursday, April 21, 2016

Recent PCG Broadcasts

In PCG's world ISIL and Iran are really allies.

The prevailing narrative in the West is that Shiite-Iran and Sunni-ISIS are mortal enemies. Based on this premise, many believe that America and the West ought to partner with Iran to confront the Islamic State, or at least give Tehran license to do what is necessary in the Middle East to destroy the terrorist group. But what if Iran and ISIS are not the enemies many believe? On today’s Trumpet Daily Radio Show, columnist Brad Macdonald [sic.] explores the horrifying reality of the situation: that Iran was largely responsible for the rise of ISIS, that Iran benefits from the Islamic State’s activities, and that, prophetically, Iran and ISIS are on the same team. (Brad MacDonald, Iran and ISIS--Friends or Foes?, Trumpet Daily, April 20, 2016.)

It is an attempt to justify PCG's demonization of Iran. PCG's leaders are frustrated that so many people have rallied to oppose ISIL that it is now harder to justify PCG's demonization of Iran. It is less marketable. PCG's leaders are squirming that scare mongering about Iran simply cannot attract the audience that it used to.

Back in 1994 PCG's leader, Gerald Flurry, dogmatically proclaimed Iran to rise as the "King of the South." This incentivizes PCG to demonize Iran in order to "prove" that Gerald Flurry can see the future. That is why PCG's leaders keep downplaying ISIL in order to scare monger about Iran. But the real world refuses to follow Gerald Flurry's script.

MacDonald also congratulates Queen Elizabeth II on the occasion of her ninetieth birthday contradicting PCG's ban on birthdays inherited from HWA. Why is it fine to congratulate the Queen for her birthday and yet they forbid among themselves the celebration of birthdays?

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Also the latest broadcast of the Trumpet Hour contains discussions about the situation in Libya and the revelations of The Assad Files as recently highlighted in The New Yorker. There is also a segment that vilifies transgender people once again.

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AnonymousApril 24, 2016 at 6:21 AM
Laughably KPCGFM is probably the only radio station on earth that at any given time has more people inside the studio producing content than outside actually listening to it.

Like its forerunner the Trumpet Daily, KPCG FM is largely a stepping stone for heir-apparent Stephen Flurry to stamp his assumed nascent authority over PCG membership. Actual results and responses are sketchy and for the most part appear to be PCG-internal, with very little or no measureable results from the outside world.

Rather than embrace modern technology, PCG leadership almost worships archaic forms of communication such as free-to-air TV, hard copy print and radio as articles of faith, the departure from which is viewed as apostasy.

Along with Stephen Flurry other ambitious PCG ladder-climbers can be regularly heard on KPCGFM such as PCG man-for-all-seasons Joel (The Voice) Hilliker, “Pastor” Brian Davis or the ubiquitous and equally irritating Ryan Malone and his caustic-voiced wife Paula.

As far as Malone is concerned this glorified CB channel has become the perfect stepping stone for him and his wife frustrated ambitions, and complements nicely their surreptitious takeover of the PCG’s auditorium and concert series.

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Byker BobApril 24, 2016 at 9:07 PM
Radio could be such a creative medium even for the ACOGs, if freedom of speech and some sort of basic honor code were used. It sounds as if KPCG is throttled, in much the same manner as state radio is controlled in totalitarian countries around the world. However, that really does not matter any more. There is pretty much total freedom of speech on the internet, and no head of any splinter group can control that. They can threaten or disfellowship, but they really cannot control the flow of information.

As the saying goes, knowledge is power. The era of control of such knowledge has long since passed. There are so many ACOG members reading and commenting on so-called "dissident" blogs today, that the people who believe themselves to have all of the power have in reality lost control. And, there is very little they can do to get the toothpaste back into that particular tube.

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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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