It never ceases to amaze me how various churches of God continually whine that they are being persecuted. These guys have no idea what persecution really is but use it as a tool of fear to keep their members whipped into a state of frenzy at ongoing persecution. None is more perverse in this tactic than Bob Thiel. He gets how wholistic knickers in a tight knot whenever we mention him here and runs off with his sore behind telling his followers how the church is being persecuted as a sure sign of the end times.
Last week 70 Christians were beheaded in the Congo for being Christian and refusing to renounce their faith. Compare that to Bob Thiel, who has never taken a stand on anything since he self-appointed himself as the Grand Overseer of a splinter group. Yet, he is constantly being persecuted by YouTube, Facebook, the internet, the Catholic church, Satan, and all of the big meanies on this blog.
It's not only Bob who screams persecution. Flurry does it. Pack does it. UCG does it, COGWA does it, et al. Even the old Worldwide Church of God claimed persecution while wallowing in riches and luxury.
Armstrongism has no idea what real religious persecution is, yet they mock "so-called" Christians outside their circle for their persecution. How many of the false COG leaders would ever willingly die for the crap they teach? They claim they will, but we see them screech like little third-grade school girls every time something goes wrong.
2 comments:
Persecution is a foreign concept to the Armstrong movement. What these Christians in Congo suffered and many others in sub Saharan Africa is truly horrific. The persecution of Yadizes in the Middle East, the Kurds, numerous other sects and minorities there and globally is ongoing and a stain on humanity. The oppression in Iran Yemen Saudi North Korea China is relentless.
These groups would be astonished at the world of wealth riches peace and prosperity that the Armstrong movement inhabits and be amazed that they might even begin to cry ‘persecution’ when the internet goes down during a broadcast etc etc etc. A local plumber near me is from the former East Germany. I spoke to him about his life there and he said I wouldn’t understand.
I left it at that. But it spoke volumes. I worked with former Soviet ‘refuseniks’ in Israel in 1980. Words fail to fully transmit their ordeals. Armstrongites in the free world have never experienced the depravity of the human soul in its brutality to their fellows.
Yea, we in the West, live very comfortable. They would have to start living in "enemy territory" or something drastic were to occur on the global scale. They think people bringing up their errors online is persecution. Others may think losing your job because you kept the feast is persecution.
Tank
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