Herbert Armstrong's Tangled Web of Corrupt Leaders

Sunday, November 10, 2019

The Friday Night Dilemma


17 comments:

  1. Act now! Stay home and save 10, 20 or even 30%

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  2. I went to see Gerald Waterhouse
    To learn a thing or two
    But then I sat for three long hours
    Until my butt was blue

    Gerald said that Herb was like a phone
    And God was on the line
    And we should listen even though
    The phone was old and blind

    “Get with the program!” “Get the point?”
    Gerald had a way with words
    We could not see that what he said
    Was often quite absurd

    But now it’s been so many years
    Since Gerald was in his prime
    And, sad to say, it seems it all
    Was just a waste of time

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  3. Gerald any day. His ramblings didn't need to make any sense but he was FAR more entertaining than "Now brethren...in the beginning there were two tress, two trees, two trees, two trees, two trees, two trees, two trees, two trees, two trees, two trees, two trees......"

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  4. Next to Mystery of the Ages, the Two Trees was the second biggest load of crap that Herbert tried to foster off on us. Total idiotic and without scriptural basis.

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  5. I guess I have a claim to fame. Sat through TWO of Waterhouse's mind-numbing talks BACK-TO-BACK while attending the Orlando group in the 80's. My ass is still sore, and btw, it was almost word for word.

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  6. Follow Jim Meredith's example and watch Hawaii Five-O and NCIS on the Sabbath instead.

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  7. There wasn't enough new or interesting content in Gerald Waterhouse's sermons.
    He should have spent less time in gay bars, and more time reading.

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  8. Anonymous said...
    I guess I have a claim to fame. Sat through TWO of Waterhouse's mind-numbing talks BACK-TO-BACK while attending the Orlando group in the 80's. My ass is still sore, and btw, it was almost word for word."

    I three timed it when pastoring London, Somerset, Ky and Middlesboro, Tenn. While not an option and considered a long term solution to a short term problem, jumping into the Cumberland seemed an option.

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  9. An edition of the Worldwide News had a large drawing with FOT-related humor. One part showed a man carrying a pillow, who was asked him if he was a newcomer and not accustomed to long sermons. No, he replied, he was an old-timer, and knew Waterhouse would be giving the sermon...

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  10. My mother hung on every word this guy said as if it were directly inspired by god. Waterhouse was a theological idiot and had no real training in theology or eschatology which led him to say the most incredibly stupid things over the decdes.

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  11. *flips radio dial* *station comes in*

    ***

    And now, for a limited time, Church of God MEMES presents "COG Christmas Songs you'll never hear in real life!" You'll hear great tunes like:

    Here Comes Waterhouse
    We Three Evangelists
    Oh Little Town of Big Sandy
    Oh Come, All Ye Ushers
    Away In a G-II
    Little Garner Boy
    Have a Holly, Jolly Feast Time
    Happy Holy Days
    Un-Deck the Halls
    Herbert We Have Heard, Kids Cried
    We Need a Little Leavening Now
    The Sermon Cracker

    Today, let's listen to a bit of We Three Evangelists!

    We Three Evangelists
    of Worldwide Church Fare
    Rod, and Gerald,
    and Raymond McNair
    Three Suits Walking,
    Always Talking,
    One with sky-high Hair

    Standing at the lectern with ease
    Hoping that none of them will sneeze
    Get the point,
    will God anoint,
    for hours one two and three,

    oh, ohhhhhhh,

    Oh your butts they get so sore
    How could you take any more
    Talking, yapping, flailing, sapping
    Waiting for sunset score

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  12. Edgar Allan Blow and SHT - Thank you for the good laugh!

    My vote would be for the Waterhouse button. We learned useless things like "Did you know Waterhouse means 'Go water the house of God'?" I guess Waterhouse thought he was keeping "God's Church" hydrated.

    Richard

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  13. Can anyone confirm what I heard the other day, that COGWA's "Friday Night Live" video Bible studies actually are taped in the middle of the week?

    If they are, why doesn't COGWA change the name?

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  14. Waterhouse and his “lip galaxy”. LOL.

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  15. Hark! The Winter Weekend's here
    Games and food and lots of beer!
    Hotel full of lighted trees
    But, "No, we do not worship these!"

    Joyful ye teenagers rise
    For a group of peers this size
    With the superdeacon, say
    "No, we don't keep Christmas Day!"

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  16. Can anyone confirm what I heard the other day, that COGWA's "Friday Night Live" video Bible studies actually are taped in the middle of the week?

    If they are, why doesn't COGWA change the name?


    What's to change? These are ACOG ministers we're talking about. They give commands to the brethren. "Live" isn't an adjective; it's a VERB!

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  17. I'll never forget being in a high balcony of a Chicago performing theater in the 70's, with about 1,500 members being screamed at for over 2 hours by "brown nose" Waterhouse. He talked to members like they were his misbehaving dogs, threading that we'd miss our flight to Petra on the 747's HWA was going to lease before tribulation hit if we didn't worship the Armstrongs. When he said if the the Armstrong's weren't the TWO WITNESSES, then the Bible wasn't true, I got up and walked out. He was a real toxic nut case who enjoyed abusing members and Armstrongs let him tour the world and all it golf courses, because he promoted the idolizing of HWA and GTA.

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