Clips from "Exploring Ancient History"
Social Studies Department
Imperial Schools
Pasadena, California
Roy Schultz
1967
(Comment by NO2HWA: This is what the Church of God thought was appropriate to teach the youth at Imperial Schools. This is also what was believed as revealed "truth" to the church which supported some of its racial segregation tendencies. Racial intermarriages were highly frowned upon since it diluted the pure bloodline of Israel. White's are pictured as "moral" human beings while non-whites were the bedrock of immorality. Intermixing of races causes people to go "completely BERSERK, physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually!" The sad thing that today in 2018, many COG members still believe this.)
contributed by SHT
There is a whole subculture of COG "apocrypha" with exaggerated and bombastic proclamations in the Gerald Waterhouse mode of presentation.
ReplyDeleteRoy Schulz work falls into that category. In doing a google search, I see that Alton Billingsley still quotes from some of his material. Notice how none of these proclamations are ever foot noted or referenced, just belched out as "self evident truth".
Similar to how in the US&BC are the references to "ancient Irish Annals", or which no one has ever been able to come up with the primary source !!
Gerald Outhouse may have taught that bull shit, but the truth is almost nobody believes that garbage!
ReplyDeleteThere's an underground in the ACOG's that still do. That's the sad part. That's why it's important to bring up where the bull came from so the splinters are aware of the shameful origins of why they are... what they are. Many are STILL in denial.
ReplyDeleteYes, you are correct that it's garbage. Decades-old, stinking garbage at that. But for some reason, people still are drawn to it, and treat it like a fine wine.
Since he frequented gay bars, shouldn't it be Gerald Gayhouse?
ReplyDeleteIn WCG, if you as a member had dared to speak out and criticize these teachings, you would have been disfellowshipped.
ReplyDeleteThe great value of publicizing these teachings today is that it puts the splinters on the defensive. If they admit that these teachings are valid, they paint themselves as white supremacist morons who abuse the Bible to promote ridiculous teachings (e.g. that Adam and Jesus were white). However, if they say that these teachings are not valid today, they admit that the WCG/LCG/UCG/COGWA ministry has sometimes taught lies, in which case they have no moral authority to rule over church members.
Well said.
DeleteI had always thought of repressed conservatives as practically busting out of their skin, anxious to explore their own wild or dark sides. But, in the ACOGs, apparently the repression runs fairly deep.
ReplyDeleteWhat a bunch of gobbledegook written by a mind that had no idea what he was talking about. All assumptions and theories. Ancient history, my donkey!
ReplyDeleteYou have to back that far to find ...
ReplyDeleteThey get some stuff from the Talmud but they don't quote the source. They don't want you to know the same source says Jesus is burning in hell in a vat of excrement and unmentionable body fluid.
ReplyDeleteHow appropriate for the wellspring of all this BS...the Land of "Nuts & Fruits"...
ReplyDeleteI wonder what Hoeh & W'house were 'smokin" to come up with this wholesale racial fantasy.
ReplyDeletethe only thing I read in this scrip was that Lamech was a badass dude. "Punch" me & I KILL U!
Maybe it was some of those "mandrakes" that future Leah fed Jacob & got everybody all "screwed up" maybe even at that time. maybe some of it kinda "rubbed off" somehow on Hoeh & h2ohouse.
Came through some kind of time warp or ???
Not really. It was common stuff pre WW2. Eugenics and "breeding" and "pedigree" were very popular subjects in that period. It was a natural outgrowth of the state of Mississippi's declaration that they needed Africans for agriculture because white people were just too weak and fragile to work outside.
DeleteIf anything, you could say WCG held onto this nonsense longer than most.
DeleteDuring the early 1970s, the Pasadena public schools were under federal orders to achieve racial balance through bussing. Muir High School had been a primarily black school, while Pasadena High School, and Blair High were mostly white. The school district was under the supervision of federal judge Manuel Real to develop a bussing plan, and there were informational meetings for the parents of the students who would be affected. My mother in law lived in a neighborhood in which some of the meetings were held, and we happened to be visiting her on one of the evenings that such a meeting was transpiring.
ReplyDeleteYou would not believe the leaflets that one of the local hate groups was tucking under the windshield wipers of cars parked in that neighborhood! They didn’t just attack the idea of bussing! Amongst the tales of gang rape of white prom queens, one leaflet article postulated that not everyone evolved from simians, only the black race did. (Of course, the hate group’s writers prominently featured the “N” word throughout the leaflet) This “science” article stated that breeding experiments had been done in Mexico involving humans of different races and apes, and that only the black women in the experiments had been successfully impregnated by the apes. There were even bogus pictures purportedly of the stillborn offspring of such unions. This hate literature was repugnant on every level and horrifying, even though it was obvious that white people of double digit IQ had produced it.
It is incredible that Armstrongism would be teaching about mutants, just as hate groups were doing the same thing, even as the more enlightened members of the general public were working on a plan to promote equality in education for all young members of the human race regardless of race, color, or creed. Interestingly, when Imperial closed its doors, and the students were thrown into the public schools, many had a very difficult time adapting because of the attitudes taught as truth by people such as Roy Schultz.
It just makes me sick to know the type of organization I was a part of for 35 years. An organization of bigotry, idolatry, perversion, and extreme hypocricy, headed by a business man who knew nothing but greed, the need for power, and completely narcissistic.
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eh, not an uncommon notion in that day.
ReplyDeleteeveryone is a product of the times to some degree or another.
Anon 6:41A Ditto...:-(
ReplyDeleteI knew Gerald "Gayhouse" and I wasn't aware that he even believed or even taught such trash. Give us the source!
ReplyDeleteSo the WCG taught children that humans changed through random mutation and natural selection? But it was really unnatural selection?
ReplyDeleteThis White Supremacist mythology was developed long before the modern science of molecular genetics ascended. I will mention again briefly, Adam and all of his descendants (I believe there really was a literal Adam - some people see him as an allegory) were of the same race. In particular, they were Haplogroup J. Cain was not Black. Neither was Lamech or Nimrod. All these people were Semites. Adam gave rise to a collection of Semitic clans not the races of the world. I have written about this before, so I won't take it further. (And to really play with the minds of Armstrongist racists, the Caucasian race came into existence via mutation from the original Black homo sapiens living in sub-Saharan Africa. All of this is scientifically demonstrable and carefully recorded in the human genome. This, of course, leads to a different but plausible exegesis of early Genesis.)
ReplyDeleteWhat is more significant is the fact that many people who were attracted to Armstrongism as the early foundational lay membership were racial bigots. In Armstrongism they found an accommodation of their sick racism. In fact, they happily "discovered" that God actually supported them in their off-the-wall racist beliefs. This was an important stage in the development of this odd and pathological branch of Millerism. I have not done the research but I have a feeling that the Armstrongist branch of the Millerite Movement was unique in its extreme racism. The Branch Davidians were racially diverse.
It is interesting to see these excerpts of Schulz' article. I have never heard of Schulz but have encountered these ideas broadly in the WCG. I never knew where these ideas originated and assumed Hoeh was the source. As recently as about 1991, I heard a WCG minister in a Bible Study cite some of these ideas using the same phraseology. 1991 seems like a long time ago but it was near the end of the WCG era in 1995.
To attack this racism is to attack the foundational reason why many people are Armstrongists.
Near Earth Object said, "To attack this racism is to attack the foundational reason why many people are Armstrongists."
ReplyDeleteMY COMMENT - From my perspective, the foundational reason many people are Armstrongites is that the "One True Church" offered a way to escape all these things that were about to happen with pending "Great Tribulation" and to stand before God in the first resurrection.
As an aside, I hope you saw my response to you under the September 9, 2018 post "The Ultimate Conspiracy Theory". I think we are now in agreement with one another. If you didn't, here it is re-posted:
NEO,
Now that we've peeled back the onion, I now understand and get where you are coming from, and I agree. The Church taught British-Israelism and from a BI perspective created an undertone or undercurrent in the Church as it relates to Native Americans or Gentiles in general. Add Herman Hoeh's Compendium and it only adds toxic gases to the fire. In my mind, what you have described is the result of Armstrongism's mixing of the Old Testament (Physical Israel, National promises and history) with the New Testament (Spiritual & Church "Neither Jew nor Greek, male nor female")
Your posts about 4 months ago made it sound like you were saying that the WCG encouraged its members to go exterminate Native Americans which is what I was objecting to. You may not have meant it, but that was the way it was coming across. Thanks for clarifying.
Richard
Richard:
ReplyDeleteI think we are on the same page. When I used the term "advocacy" I should have qualified it further. It is subject to a number of different interpretations. And I had a particular meaning in mind. For the record, I have never heard anyone, minister or lay member, in the WCG suggest that church members harm Native Americans.
The funny thing is, unlike most kids in the ‘50s and ‘60s, kids in WCG weren’t allowed to play “Cowboys and Indians”, or for that matter, any other neighborhood game involving toy guns.
ReplyDeleteI haven’t kept up on the latest in video games, but I surely hope there aren’t any white supremacist games available on the dark web these days.
And you all wonder why those of us that attended Imperial Schools and WCG were called members of a cult and racist? Come on we were merely taught how the human race mutated. I guess that is why we had the following churches in Southern California:
ReplyDelete1) LA1 (Los Angeles 1) for the white race - this was the church for non-mutants;
2) LA2 (Los Angeles 2) for the black race - this was the church that the mutant blacks, I mean negros had to attend; and
3) LA3 (Los Angeles 3) for the Spanish race - this was the church that the mutant Spanish folks had to attend.