BibleNewsProphecy: Increasing Secularism Will Not End Well
Bob is obviously heavy on the right side of the political spectrum. Obviously anti-vax, anti-vax, anti-current administration and mostly likely in love with the last one. Most if not all of the splinters or at least their pastors are such as well as are the majority of alumni on the Ambassador College Alumni site.
I rarely, if ever, comment on politics. I don't care much for it all. But I do find the personalities that rise to the "top" and their disorders quite fascinating. This includes the "I see me in scriptures" types we are all so familiar with. Dave Pack, Gerald Flurry and Ron Weinland being our most beloved examples of this kind of mental illness and personality disorders.
To me, here is Bob's best ignore-ance on display presentation yet on atheists, agnostics, secularists and those who don't tremble at Biblical perspectives on how, long ago, the authors thought their world worked and who were the main problems. Bob spits out the word "secularists" so fast it comes out "securlists" as he flaps away. The man is an ignorant "raca" himself, stuck in his WCG routine of scripture mining to promote his choce to be ignorant of reality and opt for all things Bible.. IMHO of course. In many topics, I personally don't care one bit what the Bible says about who or what the problem is or what the supposed cause or solution is in an age where we can know better. But you knew that.
"God said it, I believe it. That does it for me" is Bob's excuse to stay judgmental, foolish, ignorant and hardly the scientist he imagines himself to be.
Bob notes:
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"Where for leftists your freedom is their misery. Your slavery is their joy. There is a certain level of madness required to reach the state of our country it is in today. The political left is now the side that is most appealing to narcissists, sociopaths the emotionally unstable, etc...and this attraction is attracting a mob that can easily be exploited by the establishment..."
Kettle black...
In Bob's world, it is science when you base your actions on a dream somebody reports, but it is atheism when you wonder why no god has ever healed the limb of an amputee.
ReplyDeleteWe can take it as a small victory, however, that Bob is now writing about narcissism and sociopathy, and that in order to maintain his own emotional stability he feels a need to project those qualities onto other people so he won't have to acknowledge them in himself. Deep down, I expect he knows he's a fraud and a failure.
The ACOGs have always being partial to narcissists and sociopaths. When I once complained to a minister about such members, he threatened to throw me out of the church.
ReplyDeleteContrary to what such ministers secretly believe, there's no such thing as "the right to sin."
Bob may possibly be the Biblical Character "NIMROD".
ReplyDeleteI've never understood why SOME of my fellow Christians are "anti-vaxers"....
ReplyDeleteIt's really not a surprise or a leap that the majority of ACOG members, ministers, and AC alumni would get behind the lies, conspiracy theories, and anti-democracy rhetoric that have recently corrupted the Republican party, and still threaten our future. They have willingly accepted those same things in their Armstrongite religious beliefs for decades. They probably even interpreted the Trump craziness as meaning that God was leading the nation to repentance, thus forestalling the end and giving them more time to get their half a gospel out.
ReplyDeleteIn the midst of the Trump administration, I told a close personal friend that the worst thing that could happen would be if the next Democratic administration took a radically opposite and reactionary approach to all that 45 had done. We agreed that the country would best be served if the next administration simply returned us to sanity, taking a moderate approach, not a radical one. Unfortunately, our worst fears have come to pass, preserving the radical roller coaster ride. Surveys have consistently shown that the majority of US voters are not radicals, they are middle of the road. Yet those of us who fall into that category really have no representation, because the radicals have taken over both parties. They will not compromise, and they eschew unity. The idea of Civil War II has quietly crept into our national lexicon. Unless moderates begin to speak up, and to bring reason to our political processes, we're most likely done as a nation.
Bob is obviously heavy on the right side of the political spectrum.
ReplyDeleteThe previous administration obviously appeared to fulfill more of his prophetic end-time speculations than the current one.
Secular tech is more likely to bounce more of his videos for unacceptable content. It's as if denouncing LGBTQ+ was part of his gospel, or his "Ezekiel Warning".
Elizabeth Holmes---Stanford dropout---Fraud--Sociopath--will take your last dollar!
ReplyDeleteHerbert Armstrong--H-School dropout---Fraud--Sociopath--will take your last dollar!
As people of the Kingdom (Christians) in a world that demands evidence, the most impactful thing that we can do is live our faith. As Francis of Assisi once observed, that may be the only sermon that some folks have an opportunity to "hear" - a message that is much more effective than any sermon, homily, pamphlet, booklet or book!
ReplyDeleteThe traditional and Armstrongist notions of religion are antiquated and ill-suited for the present environment. Arguments about doctrinal truth don't interest or inspire the general public in the same way that eternal and common-sense spiritual principles do. I'm thinking of things like love, compassion, kindness, forgiveness, mercy, patience and tolerance. In other words, the core teachings of Jesus Christ!
It is extremely unfortunate that Christians have observed the exodus of so many folks from their churches, but so many of them have attributed the phenomenon to Satan working overtime. In most instances, such circumstances would provoke a little reflection and self-examination! I believe that the relatively modern inventions of Fundamentalism and Literalism have been extremely detrimental to the Christian Church - to make our faith a contest between Scripture and science will go down in history as one of the most ignorant and suicidal moves of all time! Moreover, we should all recognize that we have zero chance of influencing intellectuals and scientists when we dismiss their work and findings and call them fools!
As for the politics, Christians are supposed to be citizens of the Kingdom. When we seek to preserve or perpetuate this world's systems, we have betrayed our primary loyalty and made ourselves part of what Scripture tells us is to be replaced. As a lifelong student of political science and history, I have observed that radical swings in one direction (right or left) provoke an equal and opposite reaction in the body politic. The United States may be the best this world has to offer, but it's still NOT the Kingdom. Over the last twenty years, we have been witnessing the decline and failure of democracy and capitalism (HUMAN systems). From our perspective, this should be expected! Moreover, when we make ourselves partisans in these battles that rage around us, we effectively cut ourselves off from the other side. Once again, NOT something that Christians should want to do!
ReplyDeletePerhaps we should be a little gentle with Bob on this one.
The carnage of the last century under secular rulers caused the deaths of countless hundreds of millions of souls. One only has to look at Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, Kim Ill Sung, Mengistu Mariam and so many others who promised paradise without the restrictions of religion and the fear of an all consuming God.
Their utopian vision and its aftermath are written with the blood of their victims in our history books.
We cannot allow secularism or for that matter atheism to accuse the ‘church’ for all the evil that has befallen humanity when so many of them have inadequately addressed the facts of their own history. We must acquaint ourselves with the history of modern authoritarian and its secular underpinnings.
Wall Street Journalist Peter Berkowitz asks, ‘ why the twentieth century embrace of secularism unleashed human depravity of unprecedented proportions’.
A reading of books by Richard Wurmbrand gives us some idea of the Tartarean depths to which atheists and secularists will go in crushing faith in God and faith itself.
Bob would do well to also acknowledge ‘Christianities’ at times bloody history. For that in many ways lead so many to embrace ‘secularism’.
I'm just pleased you cited many more individuals than Hitler. Reducto ad Hitlerum is so tiresome.
DeleteYou seem to ignore that Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Hitler etc had a religious spirit, and are religions as well.
DeleteMiller/Lonnie wrote:
ReplyDeleteThe United States may be the best this world has to offer, but it's still NOT the Kingdom
From a Christian perspective, wouldn't a constitutional monarchy be the best this world has to offer? Especially under a monarch who has genuine care and concern for his/her subjects.
Anonymous 1/30 @ 2:28,
ReplyDeleteChristians and secularists could certainly make very compelling arguments in favor of some other nation being "the best this world has to offer," but the fact remains that NONE of them approach the ideal of the Kingdom (this world's best isn't good enough). My comment was intended only to acknowledge that there are a good many people who believe the United States to be that nation (especially within the United States)!