Did you ever make a wish when you saw a falling star? Seems innocent enough, right? Well.........leave it to an Armstrongite to find something pagan or demonic about it.
We all heard a gazillion times over how those nasty angels of light rebelled against God and were cast out of heaven and down to earth. Yada, yada, yada. So the logical conclusion for those trained in Armstrongism is to equate the falling stars streaking across the sky at night as fallen angels. So when you make a wish on a falling star you are wishing on a fallen angel/demon to make it come true. I kid you not!
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I was thinking of something not too long ago, and wondered if anyone else had thought of this.... you know how stars are sometimes used to represent angels in the Bible? Then there are "fallen" stars...and I wondered about the phrase we used to recite about wishing on a falling star... does that have some pagan origin...or am I just tired and reading too much into it?!!
I can just hear Dr. Bob Thiel right now:
"We in the TRUE Church of God KNOW that a third of the angels fell from heaven when they rebelled against God. We in the Living Church of God know that these fallen angels are now demons. No true Christian would be allowing their children to make wishes on stars, nor would adult true Christians do such a thing. Regular readers here would know that we in the true Church of God know that wishes should actually be prayers and we are to direct our prayers to God alone. We in the True Church of God do not pray to demons or ask them to influence God."
A "falling star" or a "shooting star" has nothing at all to do with a star! These amazing streaks of light you can sometimes see in the night sky are caused by tiny bits of dust and rock called meteoroids falling into the Earth's atmosphere and burning up. The short-lived trail of light the burning meteoroid produces is called a meteor. Meteors are commonly called falling stars or shooting stars. If any part of the meteoroid survives burning up and actually hits the Earth, that remaining bit is then called a meteorite.
The trick to being in a COG is to have a mind and brain that cannot wander outside the worldview scientific perspectives of the 800's AD. I may be being generous.
ReplyDeleteSometimes I think their theology is from the cavemen when they we shocked and scared of natural events that they could not explain.
ReplyDeleteWell, they are certainly focussed on paganism rather than on the things of God.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I find shooting stars to be a beautiful phenomenon, and a part of the natural cycles of God's universe.
BB
Dennis,
ReplyDeleteI think you are being more than generous.
What's next in the armstrongist mindset?
Maybe this:
Little Frankie: "Look Daddy! A shooting star!
Lil' Frankie's Dad: "Son, that's no shooting star. That's Herbert W. Armstrong shooting across the heavens getting everything back on the track!"
Norm
Oh, now, come on: Prophet Thiel should be happy to see the rocks fall out of the sky, streaking like a falling star to earth -- it is a sign of the end times!
ReplyDeleteOf course, he should hope that none of them hit him or Roderick Meredith, because that would be tantamount to God stoning false prophets to death.
I remember being taught, as a part of my Armstrongist upbringing, that the song "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" was honoring satan. Also that shooting stars (meteors) were a reminder of how satan was cast down in rebellion.
ReplyDeleteCrazy stuff! The Earth is flat, don't ya know?
There are several common sense actions that can be
ReplyDeletetaken to avoid being victimized. We are still waiting to see the headlines that read "Couple from the outback of New Mexico wins it big. On the flip side, some folk keep to its favorite statistics due to a profound plus powerful thinking around common models that are passed down to get countless ages.