I am in the process of rewriting a questionnaire I developed a few years back that I have used when counseling people out of the teachings of “Armstrongism.” I thought I would share the starting questions, which I have decided to pattern after the old Bible Correspondence Course many went through in their indoctrination into Armstrongism, as I felt it would be a great venue for deprograming some with a similarly structured question and answer format that sucked them in to Armstrongism to begin with. It only seems apropos to do so. If you have any questions of an embarrassing nature to Armstrongism that you would like to submit for possible inclusion into the final product, please let me know through the comments section.
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A New Questionnaire for Armstrongites
Good visual art perhaps is as much about ideas as images. We can admire the skillful composition and painterly effects of masterpieces by Caravaggio or Rembrandt, but without some understanding of the subject matter and historical context, we likely would fail to appreciate just why they are so special.
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Redux photography exhibition explores cultural connotations of sacred space
I have wanted to write a post on this topic for some time. I figure I’d better do it now. After recently discussing at length with several members of various Armstrongist Churches of God on the topic of judgment and condemnation (they weren’t talking much about it but I sure was), I spoke with one man who seemed to make a personal crusade of condemning the Catholic Church because he so deeply believes that the Catholic Church is Babylon the Great, as taught by Alexander Hyslop and Herbert Armstrong.
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Babylon the Great
Al Buchanan, minister of the Belleville Church of God , almost universally considered one of the least oppressive ministers in the oppressive Worldwide Church of God splinter-groups, has announced his intention to step down from the ministry. Depending on your point of view, this could be a black day in Armstrongism or a time to celebrate. In his announcements given during Sabbath services on October 17th, he recounted how several members of his close family narrowly averted death in the Gulf of Mexico at the FOT 2009 in Panama City, Florida
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Belleville COG through?
Upon completing my study of Herman Hoeh’s “True History of the True Church”, 1959 edition, I saw that the study was so long the best way to get the information out was to write a small post summarizing what I’d found . What I had found was disturbingly similar to another study that I had done earlier about Herbert Armstrong’s 1960 booklet “Who Is the Beast.” I thought it would be good to summarize that earlier study here in the same way I did for “True History”.
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Another True History?
She was the head of the Church Universal and Triumphant, which gained notoriety in the late 1980s for its followers’ elaborate preparations for nuclear Armageddon. Elizabeth Clare Prophet, retired spiritual leader of the Church Universal and Triumphant, which was based for several years in a Calabasas headquarters called Camelot and gained notoriety in the late 1980s for its followers’ elaborate preparations for nuclear Armageddon, has died
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Elizabeth Clare Prophet dies at 70; former leader of religious sect
Mammon: Term that means wealth or profit, with the implication that the zeal of some to achieve wealth can too easily overshadow one’s relationship and duty to God. This then becomes a form of idolatry, where wealth and its unrelenting pursuit becomes an obsession to the point of the individual’s self destruction being the result. Religious leaders are quick to point out this inherent danger, and offer as a solution the person divest themselves of some of their wealth in their direction; but in so doing, they overlook that they too can easily fall prey to this as the pursuit of wealth by a prophet.
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Bible Dictionary, part II
* * * * FLASH TRAFFIC: WASHINGTON UPDATE * * * * NRB NETWORK WILL RE-AIR 9/11 TOWN HALL MEETING MONDAY NIGHT, SEPTEMBER 21 AT 8pm & MIDNIGHT EASTERN * Joshua Fund expands efforts to care for the poor and needy in Israel By Joel C. Rosenberg (WASHINGTON, D.C., September 21, 2009) — The following is a press release issued Monday by the NRB Network: Viewers who missed the National Town Hall webcast featuring Joel C
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9/11 town hall to re-air Mon, Sept 21
The 20th century is an interesting one from a Church history perspective. Its a time where we saw a massive shift in how we “do church”. With the onslaught of new technologies, new musical styles, and increased pressure from society to have our churches not “feel like church”, the sanctuary has gone from a house of worship to a house of rock. Our rock star worship bands raise the roof while people cheer and applaud the guitar solos which get flashed up on the giant video screen. Pews were re
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What does your doctrine say?
Wednesday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time Reading 1 1 Thes 2:9-13 For you remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of you, we preached among you the gospel of God. You are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and without blame we have been to you that have believed: As you know in what manner, entreating and comforting you (as a father doth his children), We testified to every one of you that you would walk w
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August 26, 2009 – Daily Mass Readings