With Dr James Tabor
"You get the right person in charge of an insane script, the script becomes believable"
Why it is right, and even necessary to talk about our experience in the Doomsday Cult of our youth
The End of Fear - video
With Dr. James Tabor
The End of Fear
A look at the fear of growing up in a doomsday cult and believing that, any day now, the world may end.
In part two of our Apocalypse Maybe series, End of Fear, people raised with a belief in an impending apocalypse look back on their upbringing, and find some parallels in today’s increasingly unstable world.
Acclaimed author and professor Jerald Walker shares the story told in his 2016 autobiography, The World in Flames: A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult, while writer and PR professional Fleur Brown connects past fears with the current day.
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WOW, in the mainstream now. They continued in it. "in the next 10 to 15 years"...... Time will tell
As a rule I do not watch Al Jazeera since I feel it a force for Evil. Also I feel Jared Walker is seriously misguided in his understanding of Armstrongism close to being a liar, although I do not blame him since he was a kid at the time. Yet I found the documentary interesting of course because of Tabor who I hold higher than the FBI held him at what should have been a more important moment for him......
II understand Walkers point about his visit to Petra being "cleansing" (although I had that already in the eighties since my YOU church friends had already visited Petra and said it was too hot to live there.
Unfortunately Tabors point about Islam should have been the topic of the documentary on Al Jazeera. But since it is an evil station of course Apocalyptic views in Shiism and especially the evil regime in Iran will of course not be broadcasted by that bastion of faulty information viewed by billions, proving Armstrong was right about this world and its masters.......
nck
What was the motive for producing this? Trying to vilify Trump since he is current? It was good when they stayed on topic. Good to see Fleur after all these years.
1975 in prophecy
'' ..Yes, millions of lukewarm inactive professing Christians will suffer MARTYRDOM—and that before the anticipated push-button leisure-year of 1975 dawns upon us! You'll read of this martyrdom—the Great Tribulation—in Mat. 24:9-10, 21-22; Rev. 17:6; 6:9-11; 12:11, and in many other verses..''
''..By that time, the Red Armies of Russia, China and allies will number
TWO HUNDRED MILLION! Think of it. A vast army of. two hundred million soldiers! ''
Armstrong - one of the biggest religious conmen of recent times.
I watched a dissident Seventh day Adventist video today, and they also, like HWA, claimed that their second coming dates were off because Christ delayed His second coming due to its members not being spiritually ready. So it's the members rather than their leaders fault. Another example of these denominations "stealing" ploys from one another. They use an informal "Christian cults for dummies" book.
I find Aljazeera to be very good in keeping up honestly on Israel's genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and world opinion that is pretty much fed up with them
The End of Fear? That would be nice, but unfortunately impending apocalypse is alive and well today in the politically controlled narrative called climate change.
Just how does HWA'S countdown to disaster differ from the United Nations doomsday climate narrative, which continually projects 10-20 years into the future, with specifics that coastlines will disappear and weather extremes will destroy our food supply unless some intervention takes place? I have a feeling these fear tactics are for you and me, and NOT for the ruling class, for they continue to buy and live in mansions (Barack Obama) on the coastlines, and live in potentially dangerous areas for hurricanes like Florida. They have no fear!
The only difference I see in HWA'S narrative and that of the UN is that with the UN the world does not end, but will be saved by their intervention in the world's economy and our personal lives. We will no longer own anything but we will be happy. Think of John Lennon's song "Imagine".
These poor souls doing the documentary can make fun of Scripture and condemn HWA to hell, then turn around and swallow hook, line and sinker the fear tactics of this system without any conception of the danger it presents.
Where do I see this going?
" And the whole world wondered after the Beast", Revelation 13:3.
BP8,
I agree. I suppose I was an anomaly among those deceived into Armstrongism. I was never fearful (started attending after 1975) and I always had some common sense scrutiny of narratives.
I got in thinking I was pleasing God, not to save my skin. I got out to please God and better know my Savior.
Trump as autocrat has been a media narrative much too ham-fisted to have deceived some of the intellects here, but somehow it did.
I'm not concerned much with global warming, but am for reducing wasteful carbon emissions. There are multiple ways to cool our planet that won't wreck the economy. Some of these were considered when I was doing work regarding the holes in the ozone.
And not forgetting that today's cancel culture has always been an integral part of Armstrongism. Physical Israel is following spiritual Israel, which means that the USA will fragment and become an insignificant third world country.
Interesting to note. Not surprising how Armstrong’s excuses over the years make Adventists pale into significance because of the sheer number of them.
Al Jazerra seemed to be more on point with what the US and Britain did in Iraq , than our mainstream news outlets of Fox, CNN etc. There’s plenty of evil stations out there not giving the facts nck
You may well be right about the increasing centralization of government power - it’s occurring in lots of countries not just authoritarian ones. The UN is a very divided institution however. Thankfully we no longer have the never ending forecasts of the “”Woorrrld Tomorrow” dishing up the alleged plain truth of the news and only causing confusion.
Yea I see what your saying. Scripture is scripture and it was here long before Armstrong. And scripture has foretold of wars, disease epidemics and earthquakes. Thing about it is, can the splinters get it right. Can they do what HWA was unable to do?
I did watch Al Jazeera when they started. Thought of it as balanced and certainly better than the stable wwcog fair of CNN. My opinion of them as the ‘go to’ for news has changed over the last number of years. To say biased is an understatement. Financed by Qatar, a stronghold of the Muslim Brotherhood their rampant anti Israel Western rhetoric has damaged them. Qatar is hardly a bastion of human rights liberty diversity equality, ruled as it is by a authoritarian tribal regime and its ‘News’ operation reflects this, turning a blind eye to huge human rights abuses and brutal suppression rampant in its Arab neighbours. Glad this was aired by them however and would like to see it on other networks.
Lots of counties have turned a blind eye to human rights, even the Western countries. Slavery for hundreds of years, Trail of Tears, colonization all in the name of "christianity."
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