The latest issue of the Philadelphia Church of God's rag,
The Philadelphia Trumpet has an article about conquering depression,
Defeat Depression - Master Your Mind. This is appalling coming from one of the most morally bankrupt COG's out there! More people have suffered, been abused and died because of this cult than any other COG - including LCG which had a shooting.
Families have been destroyed, marriages broken up, parents abandoning their children, grandparents refusing to see their grand-kids. People have died because of their medical stance. People are mentally and spiritually raped by this despotic cult, and, they have the gall to talk about depression!?
There is so much to mock in this article but too many to list here. Here are a few highlights.
The article starts out with
Twisted and distorted thinking
is the major cause of suffering for people flattened by depression.
Those who have experienced a major depressive episode feel locked onto a
painfully negative mental and emotional tilt-o-whirl—a cruel carnival
ride stuck on go!
Hellllllo! Gerald Flurry needs to take a look at his own twisted and distorted preaching to see what it has done to members!
Mental health experts recognize that depression sufferers often resort
to suicide “to achieve a peace of mindlessness.” Most seriously
depressed people struggle to find the words to describe their mental
torture. It is just as difficult for the non-depressed to relate to
descriptions of it.
What about the PCG, LCG, WCG, UCG members who have killed themselves because of the mental torture that Armstrongism has put them through? Never being good enough for God's love, never quite getting it right, always being beat down but disgusting sermons. The list could go on and on!
So what causes mental health issues? Here is PCG's example:
In order to conquer anxiety, depression, fear and worry, you must come
to know how the human brain, empowered by the human spirit, works. You must learn how to properly operate your mind. In addition, you must come to face the truth about your human nature.
i.e. - you are horrible sinful disgusting filth that is an abomination in God's sight. Unless you repent there is no hope for you.
Then to support their stance they immediately get into Herb and his amazing knowledge:
Herbert W. Armstrong, the great theologian of the 20th century, understood special knowledge about the human mind.
Greatest theologian??????? In who's eyes? The world? The world did not know he was a theologian because Herb admitted himself that he could not go around the world talking about "god." It was embarrassing to him. Herb was NOT a theologian. He had absolutely NO training in theology. Was ignorant about bible study. He also was no authority on the human brain! He got the information he had from Robert Kuhn
So what is the ultimate cause of depression:
You must admit this next fact: Modern Christianity does not provide such
education! In fact, most ministers and other Christian leaders teach
that God’s law has been done away. People are not taught to practice the only way of life that produces true happiness—the way outlined by the Ten Commandments.
All of you mentally ill people are rebellions sinners for not keeping the law! Therefore Satan has been allowed to infiltrate and use your mind.
To truly solve our mental and emotional problems, which are all
spiritual in nature, we must have the spiritual knowledge that can only
come from God through His Holy Spirit. Yet the Bible states emphatically
that God will only give the Holy Spirit to those willing to obey Him
(Acts 5:32). Realize also that the Holy Spirit, actively living in a
human mind, is sound mindedness (2 Timothy 1:7). A sound-minded person is in control of his thinking, emotions and moods.
Your mental illness is from being a degenerate law breaker!
Here are some tough questions you must ask yourself. Is God’s Holy Spirit residing in me? How do I know for sure that I am obeying God?
The answer to both of those questions is found in the practice of the
Ten Commandments. If you are not actively keeping all of God’s Ten
Commandments, you can be certain that the Holy Spirit is not
actively leading, instructing and helping you. If you are
depressed—meaning you have lost control of your thinking, emotions and
moods—then look at your life. Where are you disobeying God? Study His
Ten Commandments to find the answer.
Hallelujah! The Ten Commandments are the cure for depression! What disgusting bullshit! When you do not have the holy spirit in you you have a "carnal" mind and therefore are Satan's plaything.
The carnal mind refuses to yield to and obey God in all things. The
natural human mind is heavily influenced by Satan the devil (Ephesians
2:2-3). Satan’s top goal is to control your mind.
So when Gerald Flurry was
arrested parked along side the road while in a drunken stupor with beer cans piled on the ground outside his car door and in his lap, was he in a state of carnal mindedness? Was Satan controlling his mind?
The PCG is the last COG than needs to be lecturing the world about depression considering you are a major cause of depression in the COG's.
