It is a sunny, glorious Thanksgiving day here in California along the coast, and our most important living prophet to ever grace the Churches of God since the dawn of creation is extending to all a Happy Thanksgiving! Unless, of course, you are one of those Laodicean degenerate reprobates that like watching football or, God forbid, playing tackle football on a Thanksgiving afternoon with family and friends. The horrors!!!!!!!
The Great Magnanimous One starts off in his very first paragraph with this beauty of a comment:
Today is the national holiday in the USA called Thanksgiving. And despite certain claims, its specific origins are not pagan. But, of course, no Christian needs to celebrate national holidays like it if they do not wish to (cf. Romans 14). And the Bible does condemn gluttony.
Is this self-indulgent twit ever happy about anything?
He then writes that we should always give thanks.
Yet, whether on this day or others, the Bible teaches that people should give thanks:
4 Sing praise to the LORD, You saints of His, And give thanks at the remembrance of His holy name (Psalm 30:4).
The Bible is full of admonitions to give thanks to God. The New King James Version of the Bible has the word ‘thank’ 25 times, ‘thanks’ 75 times, ‘thankful’ 3 times, and ‘thanksgiving’ 32 times. It also has the word ‘praise’ 237 times and ‘praises’ 11 times.
Then...it descends into the degenerate pits of false 'propehtry' and its endless nonsense:
One thing that I have noticed on the day called Thanksgiving by those in the USA, is when I have been at many other places than the home I lived in, American football has been playing on television.
For many, other than food and family, football is a major focus of the Thanksgiving holiday for many in the USA.
He also quotes Armstrongist quackery from 1969. It is no wonder the Armstrongist belief system has always been so depressing. The boogeyman and evil lurk around every corner, ready to devour you. Armstrongism has never been about joy and happiness.
A 1969 article by Eugene M. Walker put out by the old Worldwide Church of God had the following:
To many Americans Thanksgiving Day means sumptuous turkey dinners, family reunions and football games…There is nothing necessarily wrong with good food, family reunions…on Thanksgiving Day. But all too many use these activities wrongly and forget the purpose for the holiday. Many glut themselves with far more food than they ought to eat; few, however, stop to give God thanks for this food – even on Thanksgiving Day. Family reunions all too often turn out to be family brawls…Millions of others push and shove one another in large crowds at football games and parades, and kill one another on the highway as they madly strive to make sure they get their fair quota of pleasure. (Walker EM. Plain Truth, Thanksgiving Day: What does it mean to you? November 1969, pp. 39-41).
Notice he wrote that certain activities were not necessarily wrong. Of course, a friendly game of flag football and a family dinner should be fine. But what about violent professional or intercollegiate American football?
The Great Bwana, the Bubba to Africa, and a few Caucasians then drags out Herbert to reinforce his anti-football stance:
Over a decade later, the late Herbert W. Armstrong wrote:
Hostility toward the other is sin…
Football (American football) is a violent body-contact sport. It is often played with an attitude of hostility and is dangerous and is fraught with physical injury. (Plain Truth, July-August 1984)
Wherever a game in sports involves ANTAGONISTS–in HOSTILE ATTITUDE to harm the other and/or to “GET” from the other–to get the best of the other–then a harmful, Satanic and evil attitude enters in, and the sport is EVIL, not good…football,(American football)…because football is such a violent body contact sport, it TOO OFTEN is played in an ATTITUDE OF HOSTILITY, and is too DANGEROUS and fraught with PHYSICAL INJURY . Therefore it must be BANNED so far as participation by God’s Church or people is concerned…This is sufficient to illustrate the application of the PRINCIPLE of God’s Law to sports. That participated in with an attitude of HOSTILITY toward the opponent is evil. That which HARMS mentally or physically an opponent is evil.Satan is the author of COMPETITION based on hostility, harm to the opponent, GETTING by taking FROM an opponent–to his harm or loss. God’s way is LOVE TOWARD neighbor equal to love of self. (Armstrong HW. Not all sports are banned. Pastor General’s Report, Volume 2, Issue 36, September 5, 1980)
Yet, Herbert watched football games as well as his beloved Lakers basketball games. COG prophets and leaders protested too much.
Our resident Crackpot prophet then lashes out at those who thank God for football:
While I have even heard some people thank God for football, it is not a sport that I believe that the God of love would condone.
The person that Jesus stated was greater than all others born of women (Matthew 11:11), John the Baptist taught:
14 Do violence to no man (Luke 3:14, KJV)
He then quotes several sources on sports injuries and then adds these dingers:
The truth about the harm the sport causes is something that professing Christians, and others, who think that they should watch American football, should think about.
As the above article points out, many (including Laodicean Christians) are too selfish to stop watching and encouraging the playing of American tackle football.
Christians should give God thanks, but not encourage violence in sports like American tackle football.
The Great Bubba Bob Mzungu ends his missive with this:
To close, perhaps I should mention that we do not ‘add a day’ to God’s holy days if we somehow observe Thanksgiving or other national holidays. National observances are NOT holy days, nor does anyone have to keep them. Jesus, however, observed at least one (cf. (John 10:22-23), setting an example that we can if we so choose. But not through encouraging violence.
Even Jesus is sitting there in the third heaven, shaking his head as to why he and the rest of the Holy Trinity ever dreamed Bob up as they were creating the foundations of the world. Their gift of free will in their creation created a monster!
23 comments:
The Classic and appropriate response to such drivel and to Bob Thiel is that there are three places he can stay for free. 1. In his own lane 2. Out of everyone's business and 3. Over there... Football is no more dangerous than believing Bob Thiel offers any truth about life, death or the hear after. There is no center to the Universe, so Bob is not it.
Actually aligning oneself with Bob, or any of the Wacko Church of God Teams is far more dangerous in the long run than football.
I didn't even watch the National Dog Show. Even if NPR did a news story on it.
"Beware of dogs..." - Philippians 3:2
I love the way Bob plays things so coyly! He does not mention that the secular holiday Jesus kept was also known as Hanukkah. HWA didn't want us even celebrating that!
You people are vile
This is crazy, BOBBY is ranting about watching Football when his WITCHDOCTOR Henchmen are Bribing other Church of God Ministers to lie and say BOBS truth is the Truth and nothing but the Truth. Even the average Joe Blo can see through Bubba Thiel's Shim shame Sand Dance
Look. Its true. Not a single Pilgrim Father fled Europe because he didnt like soccer and preferred football. Therefore please send me your booklet: "Fried or cooked chicken, which?"
nck
Bobby quotes Herb with "..and/or to “GET” from the other–to get the best of the other–then a harmful, Satanic and evil attitude enters in,..." This is another instance of Herb projecting his evilness onto others. This is the man who taught 1975, knowing full well that it didn't come from God, and that thousands would be greatly harmed. Demanding that his members strive for moral perfection while he and his minion ministers gave themselves the right to be above the law, gave him a great competitive edge in exploiting his members. That Bobby still quotes and has Herb on a pedestal, shows what a moral midget he is.
Squanto was a Catholic!
Nck
Anon705,
Maybe you are the vile one? I read the article and wonder what you considered so vile. The images are ugly but they are for the purpose of satirizing Thiel’s belief that football is evil. Do you think it vile because you are Thiel or one of his supporters? It’s over the top to use such language over this article.
No doubt Nck, you are referring the article on the Trumpet.com titled "The miracle of the first thanksgiving". It's about the English speaking Indian who entered the Pilgrims compound and taught them how to successfully fish and grow food. They wouldn't have survived otherwise. This Indian called Squanto by the pilgrims, was taught by the Franciscan priests, so of course he was Catholic. As the article points out, it was God who saved the colony by sending them a "savior.".
Anonymous 705 is one of Thiels White Sheepie, that worships him and can't think for themselves, they should pray to have the WITCHDOCTORs Spell Removed
Vile is an anagram for Evil!
Nah. It's something I saw on social media. Thanks for the addition though..
Nck
I think Anon 705 is witchdoctor bob himself. His Ego would not stand for banned to question his non biblical authority. How can someone who was never ordained or taken serious by any actual church leader has so much credibility in his own mind? Oh look he just got another 5000 people in Africa wow what a remarkable fake prophet he is. All hail Witchdoctor Bobby Thiel.
Squanto was a Catholic!
So is Bob! No, he doesn't profess Roman Catholicism anymore. But in his approach to prophecy he is still clearly shaped by his early religious upbringing. Psychologically, it seems that Bob wants to out-pope the Pope, just as he wants to outshine the other spiritual daddy he failed to impress, Rod Meredith.
Levi is also an anagram for Evil. "Christians" like Bob who try to set themselves up as God's special intermediaries over the flock, whether Levite or Melchizedek, are trashing Jesus' message of the New Covenant.
Just saw this podcast about PCG. Pretty decent take down.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6EUf7ymMyIc
If you don't think U.S. football is "evil," check how the Michigan-Ohio State and Arkansas-Missouri games ended Saturday. Certainly not good.
Football didn't cause the melee. People did! This was a violation of the tenets of good sportsmanship. As a feastgoer, you would not blame the Feast of Tabernacles for someone drinking too much and beating their wife or minister. You'd hold the offender responsible.
BB
PS: I can be so objective because I've got no dog in this fight. I'm not even a football fan. I prefer motorsports and boxing.
Now just a doggone minute. I find boxing more condemnable than football but the worst is "professional wrestling" which it is not but is unprofessional attempted murder.
Nah. The worst is probably cage fighting. I've known some cage fighters and mixed martial artists. Those sports really chew them up. One guy had no knuckles left and could barely walk, and he was only 35.
BB
Most "professional wrestling" is as scripted as a Young Ambassadors concert, but with less chance of getting raped by Garner Ted after the show.
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