Van Robison on "The Profound Impact of Religion"

The Profound Impact of Religion

When innocence is raped by man-made religion, the impact is profound.  The Worldwide Church of God was a religious rapist.  The minds of many innocent human beings the world over were scarred for life by the
Worldwide Church of God experience.  The proof of this profound impact is that many ex-WWCG members have turned to atheism and many others committed suicide.  The fruit of being spiritually or religiously raped
is profound.    We all know that in the middle ages that some were actually burned at the stake for denouncing the orthodox views of the then church world.  Those in power or control are the status quo and those who reject or resist are the whistleblowers that the status quo hates.  Jesus Christ Himself was a Whistleblower who denounced man-made religion.  Real TRUTH is always a lie to the religiously indoctrinated.  Humans have most often perceived that lies are truth and that truth are lies.  We see this in the propaganda of the "news" media.

I once had a Jehovah Witness dentist come to my door with his sidekick and try to give me some of their literature, which I refused.  I told him that if He would give me enough time, I would prove that Jesus Christ was God in the flesh to which he replied that "there would not be enough time in life to prove that."  The reason is because Jehovah Witnesses consider Jesus Christ as a human being and not God.  Young people are especially vulnerable to religious groups and they are seduced into going to their colleges.  This is of course a sure ticket to indoctrination.  Ambassador College was no exception and it indoctrinated its young students into their particular belief system.  The same is true of Brigham Young University and Mormonism.  Baptist colleges are no different.

No matter the Bible college, there is no doubt that what is taught is that which the founders or their inheritors believe.  If you listen to anyone, they tell you what they believe is "true" and that is common to all of us.  Those who call themselves "Christians" are not the only ones in the world with religious beliefs.  In fact the world is an ocean of differences in what is perceived to be "truth."  If "Christians" had been born in another culture, there is not even a doubt that they would believe in some other belief system.  Does this not prove that human religious culture defines what most people believe?

I suspect that God is actually far more and exponentially greater than human thought or belief.  If God exists then He is light-years beyond human thinking.  I choose to believe that God is and the Worldwide Church of God experience never caused me to doubt God.  What it actually did is cause me to question and question and question and never stop questioning.  Atheism is not the answer to human life, existence or the future.

Van Robison

Apostle Malm on Camel Sin

Are you wearing unclean animal skin on your body?  Apostle Malm has this to say about St. John wearing camel skin.

Some have asked about John wearing a coat of camel hair.  In reference to unclean animals it is only their dead bodies which are unclean and not to be touched.  All animals shed hairs and we would all become unclean just by touching a living animal.  There is no command against riding a horse, or touching a dog, or donkey.  The issue concerns the eating and touching of their DEAD bodies.  Camels grow a woolly coat in winter which they shed in spring, or it may be shorn and then woven into fabric. That fabric is NOT unclean because there is NO death associated with it. An actual skin would be unclean because it comes from a DEAD animal.

So a camel skin coat, or boots, or rug would be committing major sin? What about cows and sheep that have their skins tanned and made into clothing and carpets.  Major sin?

I have to wonder how many people reading his drivel actually believe what he writes.  He just gets weirder and weirder as the days go by.

Apostle Malm on Long Winded Sabbath Baby Talk

Apostle Malm is really getting ticked at the women who stand around after 3 hour church services talking about their babies and children.  The Apostle says you should spend less than two minutes talking about your kids.  Longer than that then you are getting close to committing major sin by blaspheming the sabbath by not talking about his mind numbingly daft sermons.

Is watching sports and movies a distraction from God? Of course! Is talking about business and babies after a church service really spiritually edifying and and godly fellowship? Or is it a distraction from the things of God? That said, is simply expressing concern and asking a simple how are the children and spending a minute or two on that wrong? Compared to talking for hours about what the children did during the week. These things are a matter of balance and wisdom; and if we err [we all do from time to time] let us err on God’s side. There is no list of do’s and don’ts except for the major things, like buying and paying others to work for us, or real physical labour: The rest is a matter of judgment and wisdom and following the principle that this is GOD’S TIME, NOT OUR TIME