For some reason Armstrongism has always had a great interest in porn.
So it is no shock to find that Gerald Flurry is using a porn purveyor as his
source for vital prophetic news. Only in Armstrongism!
Gerald has an article up on his site dated July 2012. In his article,
A
Deadly Secret Plot Has Been Uncovered, he starts hyperventilating
about those nasty Germans who are secretly plotting to bring into power a new
world dictator who will be really, really fierce. I am assuming that when Gerald talks bout "fierce" he is not referring to it's current definition:
a term used in fashion for cool, sexy, awesome,
or any other positive remark about something. it is most famously used
by christian sirianos, project runway winner, and tyra banks.
Damn that dress is so fierce! I love it!
Look at that model and her feirce little strut! Urban Dictionary
I digress, on to the earth shattering news that
is ruffling Gerald's skirt:
“A covert group of EU foreign ministers has drawn up plans
for merging the jobs currently done by Herman Van Rompuy, president of
the European Council, and José Manuel Barroso, president of the European
Commission.
“The new bureaucrat, who would not be directly elected by voters, is set to get sweeping control over the entire EU and force member countries into ever-greater political and economic union.
Tellingly, the UK has been excluded from the confidential discussions
within the shady ‘Berlin Group’ of Europhile politicians, spearheaded by
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle” (emphasis mine throughout).
This “new bureaucrat” is going to get control of the EU by
flatteries—not by being voted into office. That means that he and a few
cohorts will hijack the powerful EU. It will be led by Germany, the only powerful economy in the Western world.
There may be a few small twists and turns, but this secret plot is
going to usher in a fierce dictator! Bible prophecy makes that
powerfully clear.
He then breathlessly continues:
The Express secret-plot article continued: “Opponents fear the plan could create a modern-day equivalent of the European emperor envisaged by Napoleon Bonaparte or a return to the Holy Roman Empire of Charlemagne that dominated Europe in the Dark Ages. …
For about 70 years we have been prophesying of the Holy Roman Empire and
emperor soon to appear on the scene. It will be the seventh and last
head of that superpower.
He then believes that a new German-Italian alliance will form, just as it did with Hitler and Mussolini.
These secret plotters saw the end of the Franco-German axis coming
in the lead-up to the May 6 French presidential election. These two
nations had led the EU from its inception. The plotters then moved to
help form a German-Italian axis.
Germany and Italy are the first two nations of the 10 nations or
groups of nations to form the Holy Roman Empire. The other eight are
already a part of the EU and probably eager to join Germany and Italy.
Germany and Italy have been at the heart of the Holy Roman Empire
throughout the ages. When Hitler and Mussolini became allies in World
War ii, it was the sixth head of the Holy Roman Empire. Mussolini even called their union the Holy Roman Empire.
This new German-Italian axis—including the worldwide power of the
Vatican—is a major shift in Europe’s direction. These two leading
nations are going to shock the world as they demonstrate their worldwide
ambitions—which they have done in the past.
Everything in Armstrongism has to have a conspiracy behind it. Satan is that
big meanie who is influencing the Europeans to dump France and England in order
to prepare for world domination.
So now that the secret plot has been exposed for all the world to see by the
great Gerald Flurry, where does the porn connection come into play?
His source of news is The Express out of England. The Express has been
kicked out of journalism associations and censured by advertising watchdog
groups. Here is what
Wikipedia
UK edition says in the "Desmond Era" section:
In 2000, Express Newspapers was bought by Richard Desmond, publisher of a range of titles including the celebrity magazine OK!. Controversy surrounded the acquisition because, at the time, Desmond also owned a number of pornographic magazines such as Big Ones and Asian Babes.. He is still the owner of the most popular pornographic television channel in the UK, Television X. Desmond's purchase of the paper led to the departure of many staff including the then editor, Rosie Boycott, and columnist Peter Hitchens moved to The Mail on Sunday, stating that he could not morally work for a newspaper owned by a pornographer.
The Express group lost an unusually large number of high-profile libel
cases in 2008–2009; it was forced to pay damages to people involved in
the Madeleine McCann case (see below), a member of the Muslim Council of Great Britain, the footballer Marco Materazzi and the sports agent Willie McKay. The string of losses led the media commentator Roy Greenslade to conclude that Express Newspapers (which also publishes the Star
titles) paid out more in libel damages over that period than any other
newspaper group; although most of the individual amounts paid were not
disclosed, the total damages were disclosed at £1,570,000.[9] Greenslade characterised Desmond as a "rogue proprietor".[9]
Is Gerald Flurry so desperate to find news that fits his absurd
prophetic brain farts that he has to turn to a porn producer to gather his information?
Apparently Flurry's news/editorial department did not have the sense to do a
little fact checking before allowing this to go to print. Flurry comes
off looking like a fool. Oh, no shocker there!
Hat tip to Tom who had this to say as a perfect conclusion:
Which of Desmond's publications is he going to cite next? "Big Ones?" "Asian Babes?" Or maybe his porn network, "Television X?"
"It's a shocking demonstration of how infantile his thinking is, and
of how his entire organization is built on sand. What a complete joke."
