Remember those
Bible Story books from the halcyon days of the
Worldwide Church of God when the church had some slight relevance and meaning in peoples lives? Remember those idyllic nights cuddled up in bed and your parents reading you cute little stories about Noah's ark and all the soft furry creatures that miraculously made their way to it?
Wait! What? STOP!
That was the stories read to the kids next door by their "so-called" Christian parents. This is what they saw in their books:'
God smiling down on Noah and all the cute little animals.
So what did the kids in the
Worldwide Church of God get to see?
This:
and this
Children in the Worldwide Church of God were scarred for life by these images. Of course this was deliberately done. It was a subtle tool to keep kids and members compliant to the church. If you sinned or screwed up you would die just like these poor miserable souls, though your death would be more horrific, thanks to Rod Meredith and you would die like this:
Oh what memories! Endless rants by Rod Meredith over us being strung up on meat hooks as the Germans tortured us in concentration camps or shipped us off to Germany to be their slaves.
Now you will get to relive those memories all over again. The dark and twisted cult of Gerald Flurry and
The Philadelphia Church of God are republishing this crap for a new generation of people. Just one more tool in Flurry's arsenal on keeping the kiddies in line and submissive.
Living Armstrongism is
reporting that when the PCG claims to have bought the publishing rights to
The Bible Story. LA notes that this set of books was NOT in the original number of books and booklets that PCG dished out over $3,000.000.00 for when they lost the court trail over their plagiarizing of
Mystery of the Ages.
So Joel Hilliker says that PCG bought the copyright
to The Bible Story. He made this claim that PCG has purchased the
copyright for The Bible Story, a retelling of the Old Testament by Basil
Wolverton made for HWA's WCG in 1958-1972.
In this particular segment of PCG's Trumpet Hour Hilliker talks with Brent Nagtegaal about
PCG's Bible Story. While introducing this segment Hilliker makes the
following statement:
Well, for several years now the Philadelphia Church of God has been
working on a multi-volume project called The Bible Story. This was
actually started by Herbert W. Armstrong back in the 1960s. We bought
the copyrights to it and we're printing it again. (20 minutes.)
Really? PCG bought the copyright for The Bible Story? It was not one of
the eighteen booklets PCG purchased in 2003. I was aware that PCG was
publishing their own version of The Bible Story but this is the first
time I have heard that PCG has purchased the copyright for The Bible
Story.
What is going on here? Did PCG purchase the copyright without going through WCG? Did they give even more money to Tkach's WCG?
Surely Grace Communion International (WCG) did not sell more books to Flurry? The fact that they did it in the first place raised a lot of eyebrows considered they believe everything that Herbert Armstrong taught was heresy. But I guess money still speaks louder than integrity.