Are You One Of Those Grievous Sinful Americans Who Watches Sinful Football On Thanksgiving Day?

 

Here we go, again, everybody's favorite self-appointed Prophet of Doom™ — God's Most Highly Favored Crackpot™ — has slouched back onto the scene for his sacred annual ritual: the Thanksgiving Buzzkill Sermon™.

Instead of, I don't know, noticing that we live in a country where we can literally eat turkey until we pass out while watching millionaires throw a ball around on television, Pastor Gloom'n'Doom has once again chosen to take a giant steaming dump all over the one day we're supposed to be grateful for.

And if any of you fake Christians dare watch football today — or (gasp!) actually go outside and play catch in your own backyard with neighbors like some kind of heathen — you better drop to your knees right now and beg Almighty God to forgive you for the mortal sin of… enjoying yourselves for five damn minutes.

Can you even imagine what the world would be like if Bwana Bob just shut his joy-sucking mouth for seventy-two blessed hours and stopped marinating in his own industrial-grade negativity? My God, it would be a foretaste of heaven itself. Angels would weep. Turkeys would volunteer.

Today is the national holiday in the USA called Thanksgiving. And despite certain claims, its specific origins are not pagan. But, of course, no Christian needs to celebrate national holidays like it if they do not wish to (cf. Romans 14). And the Bible does condemn gluttony.

Yet, whether on this day or others, the Bible teaches that people should give thanks:

4 Sing praise to the LORD, You saints of His, And give thanks at the remembrance of His holy name (Psalm 30:4).

The Bible is full of admonitions to give thanks to God. The New King James Version of the Bible has the word ‘thank’ 25 times, ‘thanks’ 75 times, ‘thankful’ 3 times, and ‘thanksgiving’ 32 times. It also has the word ‘praise’ 237 times and ‘praises’ 11 times.

One thing that I have noticed on the day called Thanksgiving by those in the USA, is when I have been at many other places than the home I lived in, American football has been playing on television.

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

American tackle football is unsafe and clearly harms those who engage in it a lot. Therefore, American football is not something Christians should encourage.

Pastor Gloom'nDoom even drags out Dead Herb to support his claims

...the late Herbert W. Armstrong wrote:

Hostility toward the other is sin… 

 

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)
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)…because football is such a violent body contact sport, it TOO OFTEN is played in an ATTITUDE OF HOSTILITY, and is too DANGEROUS and fraught with PHYSICAL INJURY . Therefore it must be BANNED so far as participation by God’s Church or people is concerned…This is sufficient to illustrate the application of the PRINCIPLE of God’s Law to sports. That participated in with an attitude of HOSTILITY toward the opponent is evil. That which HARMS mentally or physically an opponent is evil. 

 

Satan is the author of COMPETITION based on hostility, harm to the opponent, GETTING by taking FROM an opponent–to his harm or loss. God’s way is LOVE TOWARD neighbor equal to love of self. (Armstrong HW. Not all sports are banned. Pastor General’s Report, Volume 2, Issue 36, September 5, 1980)

Yet, Herbert would sit in front of his TV and watch football, "professional" wrestling, as well as basketball on Thanksgiving and Saturdays.

It really pops Bwana Bob's gizzard that some people, inlcuding COG ministers give thanks for football:

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.

Then, the Great Bwana has to end his post with this crap:

To close, perhaps I should mention that we do not ‘add a day’ to God’s holy days if we somehow observe Thanksgiving or other national holidays. National observances are NOT holy days, nor does anyone have to keep them. Jesus, however, observed at least one (cf. (John 10:22-23), setting an example that we can if we so choose. But not through encouraging violence.

Is there ANYTHING in this entire world that the Great Bwana Bob is EVER happy about? 

Armstrongism: 1972-1975 And Its Backpeddling And Repurposing Of Its Folklore

The overriding folklore of Armstrongism was very wealthy in terms of theories or stereotypes which could be applied to nearly anything which was trending either within the church, or in "the world". Some people did not learn from the failure of 1972-75. They backpedalled and repurposed. In Pasadena, when men began growing beards, moustaches, and long, "rebellious" sideburns and when men and women finally began wearing contemporary clothing styles, the more conservative members of the church believed that the Laodicean era of the church was emerging. Per their revised view, the Germans may not have come on time, but, Laodicea had indeed arrived! This is also when, due to the failure of 1975, members began giving in to their intellectual curiosity and undertaking their own in-depth studies of the Bible (as opposed to proving all things by simply reading and agreeing with church literature!) leading them to doubt, disagree with, and challenge what HWA had laid down as restored truths. Many of the ministers, having similarly suppressed their own questions for years, agreed with these new "dissidents", and began challenging HWA at ministerial conferences. This was quite a sizable group of respected and credible ministers, and it was a phenomenon previously unheard of in HWA's church! It had to be dealt with, and could not be swept under the rug as if it had been the effort of one "misguided" individual who had lost the way.

A mass exodus ensued, one which would never have happened if HWA's prophetic timeline had been inspired by God, and thus proven to be accurate! I was one of the members who was part of that exodus, as were many of my WCG friends! We have to remember that HWA had preached many times in the years leading up to 1972 that obedience to God (as defined by the "truths" he had discovered and taught, which "had not been taught for over 1900 years") were the reason why he alone had the gift to understand the end times prophecies of the Bible. Apparently, the people who remained in the WCG in 1975 had found a work around for this direct association between obedience to correct doctrine and correct understanding of endtimes prophecy. I could not accept HWA's insipid rationalization that "you people in the church were not ready!" Assuming for the moment that the (R)/WCG ever had anything to do with God or Jesus, that dishwater explanation does not fly when compared to the parable of the ten virgins of Matt. 25:1-13, in which the wedding went on!!! It's just that the foolish virgins who were unprepared were left out! This had always been the way of describing the fates of the Laodiceans/Philadelphians, as if there even were such a thing as "church eras" and as if WCG were Philadelphian! 

For many, the nightmares gradually decreased and ceased as our lives progressed past HWA's false dates (which he actually had the gall to deny having set, even as "1975 in Prophecy" was pulled from publication (Russian style)). We went on, rededicating our lives to family and career, salvaging them from an artificial and bogus negative stimulus. Some turned to other Christian sources, others to disbelief. We've watched, in an effort to determine whether "the church not being resdy" could in any way have been a valid explanation for the failure of the original Armstrong prophecy mold. Over the past 50 years, apparently not a single one of the Armstrong related churches has ever been "ready", and none have had similar power to HWA's COG to get out an audible warning to the world. Hi! I'd like to introduce myself as one of the kids from the 1950s and '60s. We and our parents are supposedly the generations of the Olivet Prophecy who were warned. So many of us have had good lives, have died, and no Germans have ever arrived. Still, I'd like to thank Mr. Armstrong for my zest for life and accomplishment, which I would not have had, if his "half a gospel" had actually been the truth!

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Crackpot Bob Sends Underling To Malawi To Find Out Why No One Showed Up For The Feast This Year

 

God’s most exquisitely favored prophet is having an absolute meltdown over his stubbornly rebellious African followers, who keep voting with their feet and walking away from his certified premium-grade nonsense. After precisely zero souls bothered to show up at his Malawi Feast site (awkward!), he’s now been forced to send poor Evans Ochieng on a desperate reconnaissance mission to figure out why everyone suddenly has better things to do.

Naturally, in a few days we’ll all be blessed with radiant, glowing reports sent back to the Big Bwana assuring us that the Malawian brethren have never been more loyal (truly, their devotion has reached previously undreamt-of heights). And really, what else could we possibly expect when Bwana Bob’s devoted lap poodles are still furiously slobbering over-the-top superlatives about how staggeringly magnificent the Bobist Ministry supposedly is in Africa?

Shocking. Truly shocking.

Karl Kolchek reporting on the ground in Africa 

Just in: this Wednesday, the Crackpot Prophet sent his head, Witchdoctor Evans Ochieng, to Malawi to prove the CCOG Malawi still exists there, as virtually no one showed up for the Feast 2025 this year. 

 

Radson Mulowzoa was made a fool of as he only had around 50 or 60 people from Malawi-Mozambique come to his Migowi Hall. It was reported to be a disaster as the people there were not even fed properly for the few days they spent there. Living on dried cassava root, Radson left them high-n-dry. 

 

Radson was too embarrassed to even send Dr Pastor Bob Thiel pictures, as he couldn't produce the thousands that the CCOG Thiel claims are there. Sadly, Dr Pastor Bob will believe what Evans and Radson tell him, even without proof. 

 

It has also been reported that Sosten L., Thiel's trump card with so-called thousands, has left CCOG as he can't stand Radson's treatment and treachery. He's now working with an Australian Church of God. Oh my, what will Bobby do now? The witchdoctors aren't being paid enough to spread the spells and deception to cover Evans and Radsons' fake reports. 

 

Fake dreams. 

 

Fake numbers of members. 

 

Bob, you've been conned Big Time. 

Word has just arrived that Ochieng is on the ground in Malawi as we post this. Should we start a countdown clock for the soon-to-be slobberfest? 

 

Fleeing in the Night: Roberta’s Harrowing Childhood Inside the WCG and Her Journey to Healing

 

Roberta was born into a nightmare—and raised in the Worldwide Church of God, a religious group with deep cultic control. In this raw, unfiltered interview, she recounts her earliest memories of violence and terror inside both her home and the WCG environment. From surviving extreme family abuse and escaping into the woods with her mother and siblings, to experiencing racism as a young mother and eventually finding healing through contemplation and therapy—Roberta’s journey is a powerful testament to survival, rebellion, and renewal. This is a story for anyone who has faced religious trauma, spiritual abuse, racism in faith communities, or family systems rooted in control and silence. Through the pain, there’s a message of hope, healing, and transformation. Watch as Roberta shares what it meant to reclaim her voice after decades of silence. 👇 If this story resonates, please like, comment, and share. 🔔 Subscribe for more survivor stories and cult recovery conversations. 👍 Like, Subscribe, & Hit the Bell to support our work! Join this channel to get access to perks like Behind-the-Scenes footage and :    / @apostatesisters   Support the Sisters’ work on Patreon: patreon.com/ApostateSisters 📢 Follow Us on Social Media: Instagram:   / apostatesisters   Tiktok:   / apostatesisters   Facebook:   / apostatesisters   BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/apostatesist... Disclaimer: This episode may contain irreverent, personal, and critical discussion of religion, culture, and systems of control. Some material may be sensitive or challenging. Humor and bluntness are part of emotional procession and social critique. Opinions shared are personal and not attacks on individuals. We support curiosity, compassion, and the right to question systems that control our lives.

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