Gerald Flurry: When Trump Is Reelected, He Will Deport PCG Members To Jerusalem

I think Gerald Flurry needs to be reported to the government for his assassination comment.  Given how incredibly crazy some COG members are in these lunatic fringe groups, there is a strong possibility that some whacked out member will do something stupid in order to make prophecy come alive.

From Exit and Support:

Flurry's "Prophecy" Might Shake Certain Members' Faith in Him:

August 2, 2019

If GF's "prophecy" in January 2017 [See January 14, 2017 PCG Letter] about President Trump fails, it might shake certain members' faith in GF. He has "prophesied" that Trump will be re-elected and will force the members of the PCG to be deported to Jerusalem, and will also be assassinated in his second term. --T. H.

Of course, we know it isn't going to happen.  It is just the diseased mind of Gerald Flurry dreaming up another lie like he is prone to do.  As his mental facilities deteriorate due to his alcoholism, his heart problems and advancing age, his mind begins dreaming up more and more idiotic scenarios, much like what Bwana Bob Thiel is doing.

Flurry is too stupid to realize that Israel would NOT accept a bunch of religious nuts from the United States into their country.  They prohibited Armstrongite David Ben-Ariel from entering the country as a single man, so they sure as hell would not let in a few thousand religious fanatics just because they restored a park in Jerusalem.

If we each had a dime every time a Church of God leader makes a false prophecy, we would all be multi-millionaires by now.  And yet, there are still gullible people who listen to these liars and send them their money.

Armstrongism, Atheism and Their Shared Predicate

“They never stop, these Stepford wives. They something something all their lives. Work like robots. Yes, that would fit. They work like robots all their lives.” 

― Ira Levin, The Stepford Wives

There is a striking commonality between Atheism and Armstrongism beyond the fact that they are both belief systems.  Though they may be antithetical in their larger purposes, the intersection between these two systems is to be found in their shared anthropology.  In short, both philosophies paradoxically deprecate the value of human beings.  Their deprecation is paradoxical because atheists often tout an impoverished form of humanism. And Armstrongism is highly dependent on human resources for financial viability.   Humans, the objects of their diminishment, are pivotal to both.

In Brief: The Atheistic Materialist Perspective on Humanity

Materialism recognizes nothing beyond the material realm.  It is typical for atheists to adopt materialism as their explanation of reality.  This seems to be a natural pairing.  The Universe to the materialist is a place of physical objects and forces where the credo is written in terms from physics and chemistry and other hard sciences.  Anything that transcends the physical is outside its purview and is denied. 

Materialism diminishes human beings to an accumulation of atoms and molecules.  Consciousness and thoughts, without any compelling rationale, are believed to be merely swarms of chemical reactions.   Humans are thought to be biobots, a kind of biological machine - a pleonastic fallacy.   And the frequent appeal to analogy is that the human mind is like a computer.  This comparison is inapt because non-thinking computers are programmed and operated by human minds.  If we are to go by the physical evidence alone, a comparison of our brain anatomy with that of our primate cousins would indicate that we should be only a little smarter than chimpanzees.  Our excess of sentience is enormous. 

But if a human is just a biological machine that means that he may be repaired, modified, corrected, repurposed and made to march to the drum of someone else’s intellectual pretensions.  To the atheist who is truly committed to the purity of materialism, the faunal human has no dignity. If someone claims that atheism does not deprecate humanity, that person needs to recognize the impact of mechanistic materialism on society: racism, control of lives, brainwashing, sterilizations, eugenics, compassionless survival-of-the-fittest social principles and humans as an impersonal resource. 

In Brief: The Armstrongist Perspective on Humanity

While Armstrongism does not present us with a documented systematic philosophy or a systematic theology, we may induce its attitudes towards human beings by examining practice in regard to the common lay member.   For example:

1.     Herbert W. Armstrong (HWA), based on his own words, had a low view of the lay membership of the Worldwide Church of God (WCG).  HWA saw them, principally through tithing, as little impersonal moving parts of a great machine called “The Work.”  He was the steersman of this great machine.  For example, he one time told the congregations that if they did not help him in doing “The Work”, God would raise up stones to replace them (a mishandling of Luke 19:40).   In other words, they were easily replaceable, like mechanical parts, and their humanity, salvation and theotic potential was not a concern.

2.    Robots require programming or they will be inert.  The programming imposed on church members included Old Testament regulations, New Testament regulations and denominational regulations and norms.   This legalism was like a stringent set of internal programs that made the biobots function as desired and curtailed deemed undesirable behavior, all at the expense of their humanity.

3.    The highly structured caste system of the WCG was also a means of diminishing people to the status of mechanistic modules.  Each module plugged into a carefully defined port in the great machine.  And each module recognized its immutable boundaries – the protocols for mechanistic operation and the attendant loss of human value. 

Thesis and Antithesis

Armstrongism and atheism are alike and unalike.   Unlike atheism, Armstrongism seeks to cloak itself in Christianity.  Unlike Armstrongism, atheism seeks to cloak itself inaptly in the august nobility of the scientific method.  Where they are both alike, the point of synthesis, is in their debasing humanity to the level of the utilitarian machine.  In the case of Armstrongism this is done by treating people like “cogs in a wheel” to induce a backflow of money and in the case of atheism this is done by relegating people to the status of mindless biobots so they can be, I suspect, controlled.  Whatever the purposes, whether apparent or inapparent, the dreadful impact is the same: the loss of the human and the formation of the soulless android.

 “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.” 

― George Orwell, 1984

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Resignation of Gary Gibbons from RLDEA

Resignation of Gary Gibbons from RLDEA

By Wes White

Dear Banned, 

Thank you for your inquiry regarding the resignation of Gary Gibbons from the board of RLDEA.  

            Gary explained his resignation as follows:

            “While serving as a member of the Board, I have seen much growth in this ministry and I am truly satisfied with the progress we have made.  I feel that my contribution as a Board member has met its limit and that it would be beneficial to the organization and myself if I were to step down.  In doing so, I will be able to spend more time with my home duties, other volunteer services and my part-time business.

“Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to be a part of such a strong and dedicated organization.  I have no doubt that Ron and Allie would be proud of our accomplishments and I look forward to hearing of the continued success of RLDEA.”

I am still close friends with the Gibbons.  Almost since the first day after Allie asked me to help her out by doing volunteer work at CEM, the Gibbons and I have been close.  Nothing in that regard has changed.  We still have lunch on a regular basis.  We talk and text and email regularly. 

            And, perhaps most important, Gary is still doing RLDEA’s commercials, voice overs, and other audio work.  So he is by no means gone from RLDEA.  

            I will always be appreciative that Gary did what he promised Allie he would do. He pledged to get RLDEA set up and moving in the direction that she wanted with a strong social media presence. Gary has met his obligation and is moving on with other things in his life.  He will receive a reward for his service. 

Personally, I will be forever grateful for his work on RLDEA because I certainly could not have gotten things this far without him and Cathy. 

            Which brings me to my next point:  If the goal of the Gibbons was to “take over RLDEA” and “get all of Allie’s money,” they are going about it backwards.  Until Gary’s resignation, the Gibbons had two votes on the board and I only had one.  They could have removed me from RLDEA.  They could have made decisions that I disagreed with.  They could have done things that would have forced me to resign for reasons of conscience.  (Yes, I have heard all the rumors.)

Well, now that Nancy has replaced Gary on the board, the Gibbons no longer have what other people call “control” of the board.

            And actually, this whole idea of “control” is absurd because the Gibbons and I have been in agreement probably 99 percent of the time as to what RLDEA needed and needs to do next. 

            There has been so much said about the Gibbons “getting” Allie’s money.  The Gibbons didn’t “get” any of what Allie’s will left to RLDEA.  I know how every penny of RLDEA’s money gets spent.  In fact, as the guy who hires staff and contracts jobs out and makes purchases, it is Wes White who actually spends RLDEA’s money – not the Gibbons.  

And I am proud of what we are accomplishing in the one year that RLDEA has been active.  We’ve only just gotten started.   We’ve got a lot more ideas for things we can do to accomplish our mission of preaching the Gospel and feeding the flock thru the terrific works of Ron. 

            All those who have falsely accused the Gibbons of being “snakes in the grass” might have to re-think the evil things they say about them.  In situations like this, the true colors of people come out in the end.  Gary’s departure from the RLDEA board is a demonstration that the Gibbons are people of high moral character – something I have been saying for years.   They have no desire to “control” RLDEA and, thereby, “get” Allie’s money. 

            Further, I hope there is at least some small degree of appreciation of the fact that RLDEA is transparent regarding its board.   Some of the Armstrong offshoots’ boards are NOT open about who is on their boards.

Even their members and donors have no idea who is running the organizations they support. 

            As soon as Gary resigned and Cathy and I replaced him with Nancy, we updated our website for the world to see. 

            We are a transparent organization, so please let me know if you have any more questions and I will be glad to answer them.  

            Wes White

            Wdwhite49@yahoo.com