We've come a long way, baby! Have we not? How does that beautiful expression of God's Hand in our personal existence and national behavior match up with all that we've seen and endured from current national leadership, from Congress, to the Supreme Court or the President, or for that matter, the behavior of their constituents? It is doubtful that the protest crowds making “their voices heard” while abusing the freedom and safety of others have ever taken a single one of those sentiments to heart.Here he somehow manages to condemn the European Union, Muslim immigrants and labels the EU as socialist (whatever he means by that).
An unnerving report shows that the EU is attempting to rush ahead with the formulation of a European Army before Britain can legally pull the plug on EU membership (which is not due to begin until the end of March 2017) and thereby force the UK to fund the project to the tune of nearly a billion dollars. But it's not the last of the punishments intended to be heaped upon the British for being so “bigoted and hateful” as to reject Europe's socialist Utopia in a sea of Muslim immigrants. No, Europe's leaders intend to make sure that Britain pays dearly in a myriad of ways for rejecting the great wisdom of Angela Merkel and the entire EU bureaucracy.He then talks about problems in the Middle East. Even though under President Obama the US government supplied 20% of the State of Israel's military expenditure as foreign aid and recently made a memorandum of understanding that increases this to 25% Mark Armstrong hysterically insists that the US government had virtually abandoned the State of Israel.
The Middle East has been treated as crucial to western interests for primarily two reasons, Israel and oil. In recent years Israel, has suffered a virtual abandonment from its most historically generous benefactor, the United States. That may be about to change under the incoming U. S. administration, but the situation, particularly regarding Iran may be substantially more dangerous than before.He then praises fracking as keeping America economically afloat. There is no discussion of the various negative effects of fracking such as the social disruption accompanying it. Also it has often been speculated that fracking causes earthquakes as has recently been happening in Oklahoma. It is saddening to think that problems such as that may be expanded into east Texas now.
Surprisingly he includes a link to an article from Source Watch. Considering how far to the right he leans to politically it seems a bit unusual to see him referring to such a source.
On the subject of oil, the Middle East may be a much less critical a factor where the United States is concerned. If not for the advent of fracking technology, and huge output from North and South Dakota, we might well be in much worse economic condition. But maybe you've heard, vast oil reserves have just been discovered in west Texas that are more plentiful by far than anything ever seen before in the United States. There is weeping and gnashing of teeth among crestfallen “save the planet” activists. It looks like there might not be so much bowing and scraping at the feet of the Saudi royal family going forward.May Texas stay safe from earthquakes whatever they are caused by.
That's one more fabulous blessing for which we can be very thankful.
Why can't people just set aside the day to be, well, thankful. Maybe get together with some family and friends. Have dinner.
ReplyDeleteYou know, even atheists celebrate Thanksgiving Day -- because they are thankful for all the prosperity and technology, thankful for the people who have worked to make our lives easier and better.
To bring up all sorts of hyperbole and negativity sort of defeats the purpose, doesn't it?
It is bewildering how he chooses to be so negative on such an occasion. But it keeps his followers on edge and not relaxing.
DeleteC of God leaders have an opinion on every subject. They think they are experts in foreign policy, economics, science, etc. We should let Donald Trump know that these super experts are available and perhaps they can be nominated for cabinet positions. These leaders are some of the most ignorant and arrogant church leaders.
ReplyDeleteIf the COGs can see the future then why don't the rich and powerful beseech them for advice? Why don't they line up at headquarters begging for "prophetic insights"? They do not because the COGs do not see the future.
DeleteThere is a breed of salesmen known as the contrarians. They make their money based on negativity, profiteering from people's suffering, and the implied worsening of future conditions, as natural cycles vacillate between positive and negative. The more dire they portray conditions, and the worse certain things appear, the more money they make. Religion, that man-made system of worship as opposed to Christianity, is one of those intangibles which readily lends itself to negative salesmanship, and the Millerite family of religions in particular create and thrive on negativity. The state of that empire today is that in the face of the continued failure of their worst case scenarios, the shocking statements they make have become more bizarre, ridiculous, and absurd.
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Yes but Herbert Armstrong did it with style.
DeleteIt's too bad that his legacy just hasn't hit the right strides in carrying on.
Or maybe it isn't too bad, because Armstrongism deserves to die off, having never contributed one positive thing to society and contrariwise has done its own small amount of damage....
The news just keeps getting worse for Armstrongites. In the news today, a story about the death rate now outstripping the birth rate amongst whites in 17 states that hold 36% of the US population. Just devastating to British Israelism, even if half of the whites actually are German.
ReplyDeleteClimate change isn't in the headlines for most Armstrongites, but now we read of the most devastating coral die off in history in Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Up to 70%! Coral bleaches out with warmer ocean temperatures.
If Donald Trump ends up being a contemporary Ronald Reagan, it's going to set back the Armstrong prophecy agenda for years. They'll need to wait for a Democrat to be elected before the end times can be preached, and by that time we will be a minority majority nation that nobody will believe to be a credible Manasseh.
Bummer for them!
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Well, you know, it's already made Bobby Thiel look worse, given he wrote that book on Hillary Clinton being the Anti-Christ.
ReplyDeleteThe fact is, with her defeat, she's going into obscurity and furthermore, the Clinton Foundation which has been given over a Billion Dollars (of the which, about 15% seems to go to actual charity causes -- one of the worst percentages for managing charitable funds ever!) is going to suffer greatly. After all that is said and done, big money gave to the Clinton Foundation in hopes of getting favors -- favors which will now have no where to go, given that Hillary Clinton has lost any potential of power that she may have had.
She should go back to New York and take it easy for awhile. She can retire. Heaven knows that she has enough money to, even in New York.
After all, she'll live longer, even if she isn't happy losing.
But yes, though I really think that out of 100 million people or so that could run for President, we didn't really have a great pick, the Armstrongists will have to scramble now, batten down the hatches and prepare for better times ahead -- which will be absolutely terrible news for them. They need the world to be dark, gloomy, dystopian, depressing, miserable so they can be selfish and live off the poor duped into divesting themselves of their living to listen to cult leaders promise a better life ahead, only if you make sacrifices now (and make the Armstrongist leaders rich so they can wallow in their abject selfishness).
The only proper attitude in Armstrongism is weltschmerz.
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