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From this week's Da Whirled Head Weakly Update...
Greetings from Charlotte,
Not since the Civil War has America been so divided, and we know what Jesus said about a house divided against itself. We may very well be witnessing the destruction of America, and even though many around the world may cheer America’s fall, it will not be good in the long run for the rest of the world. I thought it would be good to remind everyone why we don’t vote in these elections. God humbled the Chaldean King Nebuchadnezzar and taught him this lesson: “This decision is by the decree of the watchers, and the sentence by the word of the holy ones, in order that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, gives it to whomever He will, and sets over it the lowest of men” (Daniel 4:17). We can give a more thorough and complicated answer as to why we don’t vote, but very simply: It is God’s decision and we do not want to be found voting against God. Which one of us knows what God has in mind? Who is His choice at any given time? We all have opinions and that is okay, but the more you learn about politics, the sleazier it becomes. Meanwhile, the Work of God moves forward on our knees and we pray more earnestly, “YOUR kingdom come”!—Gerald Weston
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Gerald tells his followers not to get involved in politics yet every other article of his is warning about “leftist” boogie men around every corner. It’s easy to tell he listens to political media and takes it to heart.
Gerald noted: "It is God’s decision and we do not want to be found voting against God. Which one of us knows what God has in mind? Who is His choice at any given time? We all have opinions and that is okay, but the more you learn about politics, the sleazier it becomes."
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Personally saying that no god rules in the kingdoms of men, no god has anyone "in mind" or makes choices. That is Bronze Age ignorance and politic. I'd add, the more you learn about most religions, and those that think they know, the sleazier it becomes too.
Weston is a big hypocrite, and his hypocrisy is helping some in LCG wake up to the dangers of false church government doctrines.
For years, Weston taught that God was inspiring Rod Meredith's decisions and that if you dared to oppose those decisions you were in rebellion and worthy of a disfellowship. Now that Weston in Rod's seat, he has undermined or overturned a number of Rod's supposedly sacred decisions, and has broken a number of promises Rod made to LCG employees and members.
Weston rejects voting, but he supports and practices politics. Power politics. And he has the power.
I know Jerry dumped Living University - what else has he been up to?
Could you enlighten us what else he has done?
I note two things here.
1. While Gerald Weston and the LCG leadership make a pretense of distancing themselves from worldly politics and not getting involved in "worldly institutions" as a matter of worshipping God, hypocritically they are the very first to laud and to call upon these very institutions they preach against and tell members they must avoid. While they decry America's stagnation and sin, and while they rail against military service, corporations of the world, police, voting etc, they cheer and support what these institutions do. (We won't dirty our hands but we like what they do for us!) So then, the LCG does not agree with what the police do and carrying arms, and they do not agree with lawyering. Yet, Weston was the very first to call the police and sick a lawyer on Jeremy in toronto because Jeremy simply put Weston in his place and did nothing threatening nor illegal. (a long story) Weston also had the stupidity to order that Jeremy himself could have nothing to do with anyone in the Ontario churches. As it turned out all that backfired because Jeremy turned the tables on Gerald and Jean/Marc Arsenault (a ministerial hireling in western Canada who was once a good guy) by having the police deal with LCG as a matter of harassing him. Even the cops got a laugh at Gerald Weston over that. Good on Jeremy. we all got a laugh at that, and even the folks from as far away as Australia and New Zealand heard about it. Of course, weston had no authority to order and enforce anything like that. As long as the members give their sovereignty to their ministers and their hangers-on because they wrongly believe they are submitting to God by doing so -- just as do the kings to the beast power in Revelation 17:13 -- these ministers do as they worldly wish. Idolatry.
2. As someone who was in LCG and who had been considered as a possible minister trainee (which I vehemently refused several times), the more one comes to know LCG and their leadership, the sleazier it gets. LCG, its religio/political hierarchy and its hq are just as political and truly just as sleazy as any politic in the world!
I have given up on the human race. It is dirty politics in almost every company I ever worked for, and in the COGs that I attended (two of them) and in so many governments and companies everywhere I look. I am resigned to the fact that my old age will be under what could basically be considered a Communist Oligarchy disguised as a Democracy.
Plenty of people don't care if the election gets stolen as long as their side wins, whether by hook or by crook. That is not a democracy. Only a dictator can sort this out now. It will be a leftist one that takes over because the media are in the drivers seat. Hitler killed 6 million (so they say) and Stalin killed 20 to 60 million (depending on who you get the numbers from). There will be a Civil War at some point. Who knows when.
2:29pm Well said!
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