Thiel: LCG Mouthpiece Says God Does Not Like Football

Armstrongism and it's acolytes have never had the sense to pick their battles.  Instead they open their mouths and make complete jackasses of themselves over various subjects.

Bob Thiel, the Unofficial mouthpiece of the Living Church of God and official world renown authority on prophecy, has picked his favorite battle to rail against this Thanksgiving. Football.

How many of you sat at home today and before dinner or after dinner to watched a football game?  If you did you are a filthy sinner that has bought into the ruinous lifestyle that Satan is promoting as enjoyable

God's greatest earthly messenger on ALL subjects has give us all his two cents about Thanksgiving and football.  Of course no proper Armstrongite can speak on any subject without invoking  the name of God's greatest theologian, Herbert Armstrong.

At least Thiel still thinks it is appropriate to observe Thanksgiving, unlike Apostle Malm who thinks it is a Satanic day for devil worship.

For many, other than food and family, football is a major focus of the Thanksgiving holiday.

Should Christians support violent sports like American football?
The late Herbert W. Armstrong wrote:

Hostility toward the other is sin…Boxing at Ambassador College is definitely banned. God did not create the human brain and head to be pummeled and knocked senseless by an antagonist.
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) 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)

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 scripture used to back Thiel's stance up is this:

“Love does no harm to a neighbor” (Romans 13:9), yet what do sports like American football and boxing do?

This is something that Christians, and others, should think about.

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It leaves me speechless that so many "Christians" seem to relish punishment, judgment and pain for those whom they consider "sinners."   You indeed must be a "sinner" if your views differ with that of "Christians" or church goers, or the "pastors" of churches.    Some seem to think that Sunday church goers are so evil, that they have no chance of salvation, because they are part of "Mystery Babylon the Great."   Without realizing it, Saturday Sabbath keepers are a very small minority among human beings on earth.  In fact they are a speck of sand upon the seashore of humanity.   Are these the only people who will survive into eternity?

Oh foolish human beings, who follow preachers who take captives.   Every pastor takes captives and only the childish in thought, follow such people.   Pastors of churches dearly love to cause church goers to live in FEAR, that "God is going to get you, if you do not comply."   For thousands of years, the simple minded have been screwed by the religious rulers who assume power and control over the childish, naive and gullible minds of non-thinkers. Pastors of churches love to quote verses from the Bible, that instill FEAR in church goers.   Naturally FEAR is one of the greatest motivations in life on earth.

Preachers endlessly proclaim "tithe or be cursed", "obey those who rule over you"  or God will "get you."   I suspect that this fraud actually has been going on long before preachers, who use the name of Jesus Christ fraudulently ever existed.   In the old days, it was purchase your animals from the priests or temples and then sacrifice your animals for your sins, or be cursed.   The benefactors have always been the priests and the pastors.

Among the greatest frauds in life on earth, are "pastors" of churches and "priests" who pretend that they speak for God.   No one but the most childish of adults would submit their lives to such charlatans.   Every church goer who thinks some "pastor" or "elder" or group of men, speak for God, is among the most STUPID of human beings on earth.   Until God Himself speaks to you individually and personally, you actually know NOTHING about God, other than BLANK SPACE.


Van Robison