David C Pack: You Will NOT Go To The Bathroom During Services!

Silenced has the following entry on their blog about a woman who attended for a brief time with the Restored Church of God cult.

Shirley Ward left this comment on our last post about RCG cult lunatic David C. Pack’s efforts to control his members:

I was with the RCG for several months, but got out because I was treated like child in an elementary school. I was told I had to call (one of the members) to let them know if I wasn’t going to be there on the Sabbath. I made it very clear that I, am 76 yrs old, and had some medical problems that kept from leaving the house. When I didn’t call, I was reprimanded. I explained that if I didn’t show up, that I was too ill or the weather was too bad.. I also, explained the difficulties I had, getting to and from the meetings, as it took me two hours to get there and that the traffic was extremely bad. Then I was told that I nor my grandson wasn’t allowed to go the restroom during the sermon to do so before or after the sermon, which was a problem for me, because of the medications I took. I was furious when I would get phone calls about how I or my grandson would leave during the sermon, so after the last tongue lashing I went on line and left a scorching e-mail and told them what and how I felt about the RCG Mr. Pack and his ego trips, constant need for money for his building fund and so on. So there, I just validated all of your comments.

Silenced ends the entry with this:

Dear Wadsworth media,
Potential sources criticizing Pack’s cult are practically being handed to you. Your laziness and lack of intellectual curiosity are rather sickening at this point. Real reporters would be probing this already.

Amen to that!  The Wadsworth "reporters" have given Dave a free pass on his cultic behavior. They know the criticism but refuse to hold him accountable.  How many lives need to be lost to this dangerous cult before one of them wakes up?

Merry Christmas! Thiel Says Earth Will NOT Be Destroyed By Comet ISON on December 16th.

Whether it is eating halal turkeys or worrying about the Mayan calendar predicting the end of the world, Armstrongites continue to be attracted to everything imaginable, except to Jesus.


Bob Thiel wants us all to know that the comet ISON will not destroy the earth or cause Armageddon. Bob knows he is correct because 32 of his other prophecies have come true.

That being said, the ‘great tribulation’ itself will not start on December 16, 2013. Perhaps I should mention that world events also aligned with at least 32 predictions in my book 2012 and the Rise of the Secret Sect (a list can be found at the beginning of the old article End of Mayan Calendar 2012–Might 2012 Mean Something?). And yes, I do believe my biblically-understood prophetic views about the start of the ‘great tribulation’ will also be correct.  Comet ISON is not going to destroy the Earth.

Is It A Sin To Serve Halal Blessed Turkeys To Your Guests At Thanksgiving? Thiel Says It Might Be...

The silliness that occupies the minds of so many entrenched in Armstrongism seems to get worse every year.  Thiel is reporting that he got asked a question about halal slaughtered turkeys that have a prayer said over them as they are slaughtered. 

The enlightened prophet says:

COGwriter
A while back, a reader sent me a link to the following item from 2011 that was somewhat true then:

America’s favorite meal may be secretly dedicated to Allah…

Customer service representatives from Butterball, one of America’s most popular Turkey brands, confirmed to WND that the company’s whole turkeys are – without being labeled as such – slaughtered according to Islamic “halal” standards…Multiple phone representatives at Butterball confirmed the turkeys are slaughtered according to halal standards, and one named Tracy (she declined to give her last name) further confirmed the words of Islamic dedication are spoken over the birds. Has your Thanksgiving turkey been sacrificed to idols? http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=370177#ixzz1eRWF91z4

But then there was a change in 2012:

Butterball’s Thanksgiving turkeys won’t be served with a side dish of Islamic dogma this year.
The company has announced that its turkeys are not slaughtered according to Islam’s halal dietary principles, which say that animals should be killed while conscious and amid the sound of Islamic prayers.
The theological turkey turnabout came after an online protest on the topic last year threatened to sour the public’s taste for Butterball-branded products. http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/21/butterball-disavows-islamic-turkeys/#ixzz2jb9crgyn

Perhaps I should add that the first article also states that Butterball was not the only company that has allowed Islamic prayers over turkeys (there also may be Islamic prayers over other slaughtered animals as well).  It should be understood that Jewish rabbis also provide their approval/blessing on various ‘kosher’ foods and ‘halal’ is somewhat of an equivalent in the Islamic world.

Thiel ends with this:

The reason I said basically, as can be seen, is that if this somewhat would offend an acquaintance, then one should not eat such meat in a manner that would make him/her stumble. Otherwise, eating meat that in other ways is proper to eat is fine.