Look who's back—the Almighty's absolute favorite prophet, gracing us all with his endless symphony of whines about how he's just the most persecuted soul on the planet. Because, you know, in the entire annals of church history, no one has ever suffered quite like this pint-sized powerhouse and his merry band of followers. Truly, the agony he's enduring right now—and oh, the horrors yet to come—puts everything else to shame.
But hey, if this sniveling little turd really wants a masterclass in "real" Christian persecution, why not take a leisurely glance at Nigeria, Pakistan, Sudan, Egypt, Somalia, Libya, Eritrea, and Iraq, or any of those charming spots where actual believers are getting massacred by the thousands in just the past few weeks? Meanwhile, our pampered little devil's advocate lounges in his plush, impeccably decorated home in Arroyo Grande, CA, furiously hammering away at his keyboard like the forces of darkness are about to kick down his door and silence his oh-so-vital "ministry." How utterly terrifying.
It must take an impressive amount of brass balls for this phony, self-crowned newbie—who kicked off his tiny cult in a glorious tantrum against Rod Meredith and the Living Church of God—to play the persecution card while genuine Christians are out there getting butchered. No wonder absolutely nobody from the LCG or the Churches of God bothered to join his adorable little fan club. Those folks can spot a con artist and a me-me-me egomaniac from a mile away.
And sure, when the magnificent Great Bwana Bob finally leads by example, ditches his cozy setup, and jets off to Africa to preach like a "true" man of God, we'll all just drop everything and believe every word. Yeah, right—keep dreaming, champ.
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The ironic truth is that Bob's African ministers are persecuting the suffering African members who get involved with CCOG in the hope of getting a small share of Bob's American wealth.
Reposting my Comment from yesterday as relevant to this post as well. We await HWA wannabee Bwana Bob's answer:
Ah yes, Foxe’s Book of Martyrs. I remember it well. I can think of two R/WCG scarry sermons I sat through where that book reading was the subject of the sermons. The message conveyed was persecution through martyrdom was coming to God’s true Church and the ministerial message was to 1) be brave and 2) die faithfully.
To date after 50+ years since then, I am not aware of anyone in the R/WCG and/or in its harlot daughter Splinter churches that have suffered martyrdom persecution. Not one person that I am aware of.
Meanwhile, while Cartoon Bob plays Church Prophet, real Christians in Nigeria are suffering REAL martyrdom:
7,000 Christians Have Been Killed in Nigeria This Year, Group Says - Newsweek https://www.newsweek.com/christians-killed-nigeria-religion-2116416
I hate to be the one who asks this really hard question: If martyrdom is a proof of God’s true Church, then why can’t we name anyone who was actually martyred for their faith in 90 years of Armstrongism?
It’s not a hard question – really, it isn’t. Perhaps Prophet Bobby Thiel can answer it.
Richard
11.27, I doubt Bob will answer. God calls the weak of the world, so it takes many decades for these members to mature. Which rules out premature death due to martyrdom. And this isn't to say that they are not persecuted at home, in their workplace and also at church, oftentimes by their minister.
Six COGWA members were ordered to leave a Feast site in Uganda this month, because they were from Rwanda and their papers supposedly were not in order.
The persecution there involves Rwandan officials setting so many legalistic hurdles that non-Catholic churches cannot meet them. Try as they might.
Meanwhile, several UCG members had to be smuggled out of a dangerous part of Haiti by truck during the spring so they could keep the SECOND Passover.
And you post this as brethren of all COG's in Jamaica, Cuba and the Bahamas are enduring Hurricane Melissa.
So "persecution" can take many forms. Check the Bible uses of that word, and you'll find it can mean far more than life-and-death moments.
Persecution, martyrdom? What’s that?
A foreign concept for the Armstrong movement.
The suffering of Christians in North Africa and the ME is truely horrific. And the brutality displayed against other minorities in the ME is appalling. Like that of the Druze and Yazidis who are mercilessly hunted down and slaughtered for just belonging to a ‘different’ ethnic or religious group from the majority. One simply despairs as we look at humanities inhumanity shown to our fellows.
For the Armstrong movement, persecution is simply went someone disagrees with their doctrines and publicly has the audacity to say as such. The greatest danger facing them is the competing groups of the harlot daughters of the mother church, one could almost say Babylon the Great and its offspring. Funny old world isn’t it.
You can always see from Booby’s rants that persecution comes from anyone who disagrees with him and eventually the Catholic Church. Trials are what members face when it comes to weather and other issues. That has been the long standing definition of the church.
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