Toby Maguire to Play Bobby Fischer in Upcoming Movie

Toby Maguire will be playing Bobby Fischer in an upcoming movie.  It will be interesting to see if they portray Fischer's involvement with Armstrongism.  The Worldwide Church of God used this guy and exploited him for all they could get out of him.  The more money he gave the better they liked him.

I wonder if the movie producers realize that the very buildings that Fischer played chess in are now vacant and can be used for the film.  It would certainly add more authenticity to it all.

Given the numerous articles and books that tell the story of Fischer's involvement with Armstrongism and if the movie producers us it, the church will not be portrayed in a positive light.

Tobey Maguire To Star As Troubled Chess Prodigy Bobby Fischer, But Who Was He Really? 

The movie will look at Fischer's career in the 60's (which started at the age of 13) through the '72 match from a script by Steven Knight ("Eastern Promises"). Spassky was the Soviet Chess champion twice while Fischer was the youngest grandmaster at the age of 15 1/2, and would be going head-to-head with a player six years his senior. I can almost see the sports movie trajectory it could take, "Miracle" on a chess board (although Fischer had a pretty flawless win record, so a montage of him always being good at chess might be a bit of a drag).

It's Fischer's life after the win that's ripe for exploration. He stopped defending his chess title officially after a dispute with the World Chess Federation in '75, and later got in trouble with the IRS over unpaid taxes from his winnings in a '92 rematch against Spassky. Here's where it gets rocky: Fischer, a Chicago native, never returned home to the States, living as an expatriate in Hungary, the Philipines, and Germany, among other countries while becoming increasingly prickly and reclusive.

What Zwick and Knight will be missing out on in confining the story to the '72 match is the impact the sudden rush of fame and success had on Fischer and how it effectively broke him in later years. In the few interviews you can find with him in his later years, he not only becomes critical of his home country but outright anti-American, and laced through all of that is a weird strain of anti-Semitism (he actually disavowed his own Jewish roots at one time, and you can read an interview where he discusses discovering the doomsday evangelical sect the Worldwide Church of God here).

Sabbath Restaurant Eaters are "...pathetic, self-serving, childish..."

Apostle Malm has some stern warnings for those of you that dare to eat in a restaurant or get a coffee from Starbucks on your way to or from church:

When you are paying someone to work on the Sabbath, you are responsible for them having done so. Whether they would do it anyway or not is immaterial. The fact is that you, by your action have become the root cause of them doing it. You have encouraged them and suborned them to commit this sin. Therefore, you are guilty of that sin. If they are adulterers: Will you join them; because they are going to do it anyway? The idea that they are going to sin anyway somehow justifies us joining in with them: Is a pathetic self-serving, childish self-justification. And it demonstrates that such people; really want to join in this sin, and DO NOT want to truly keep God’s commandments.

E.W. King on "Exorcising" Faith

No wonder Armstrongism has such difficulties!  Exorcise?  Now we know why they are all having such difficulties in maintaining members.  They consider faith something to be cast out.

Doubting God is also something we sometimes struggle with. We seem to be born doubters. This sense is also proper. This means that we must develop faith. True faith is a gift but it must be exorcised. If you don’t use it you lose it. When we do not exorcise true faith we become self-dependent. Learning to be Christian

ex·or·cise/ˈeksôrˌsīz/

Verb:

Drive out or attempt to drive out (an evil spirit) from a person or place. Rid (a person or place) of an evil spirit.

E. W. King - Mockers Beware!

E. W. King, the wanne-a-be prophetic end time leader of the Worldwide Church of God and/or Church of God Speaking To The Remnant, is not happy that people doubt his prophetic end time standing.  Woe be to you mockers out there!

I am always fascinated by these kooks that refer to themselves as Mr. in their communications. Dave Pack does the same thing.  I guess they think it adds an air of authority to their otherwise impotent names.

Integrity of Mr. E.W.King

Many people who used to be friends with Eric are now on a mission to attack him because he teaches the Truth! If one truly takes time out to visit the website, “Church of God ~ Speaking to the Remnant” and to really read the articles posted in the Library they will learn the Truth.

Eric has asked all members of COGSR to continue praying for all those who are on a “Hate Mission” against the True Church of God [WCG]. We are now even finding out that people in private chats have said things to disrupt the COGSR on Hate Blogs.

God is coming back only for His true Church, “The Worldwide Church of God” [COGSR] and that church has Mr. E.W.King teaching and proclaiming the One Truth about the One Church which was started by the One Christ.

The other thing that continues to fascinate me about these kooky COG leaders is that they declare that God is only working through them and will only come back to their church specifically and use it in the world tomorrow.  When pigs fly...

Did UCG/COGWA Ministers Play "The Good Germans" or Were/Are They "Academic and Ethical Prostitutes?"

The Malmites have been an a tear against the "academic and ethical prostitutes" that run UCG and COGWA.  These men, all former WCG leaders who actively worked to disfellowship those people who were not in agreement with WCG's new teachings, while working in the background to form a new church.  While they played heavy handed dictatorial policies towards others, they themselves were whoring themselves out to a new organization and the almighty dollar.  The Malmites are correct in their observations of these men and the continued hypocrisy they all share to this day.

This is a comment written in by an acolyte of Malm.  Malm's comment is the highlight section.

No second hand, twice removed, hear-say, gossip in this matter. Rather, we have the informed and published comment of Michael Feazell and the official WWN heroic triumphal PR releases published for the consumption of the brethren.

The truth that emerges from these documented sources is that Donald Ward was in early and up to his eyeballs in the process of indoctrination of both the executives and the academic teaching faculty of WCG Inc. in evanghelical protestant theoogy(which is to say reformed Roman Catholicism).

Ably assisting and helping in the process were such other UCG bigwigs as Robin Webber, Larry Salyer, and David Hulme.

Don’t forget Victor Kubik, Michael P Germano [who now "educates" LCG youth and is a big influence behind Bob Thiel's false prophecies] and Michael Synder [the Tkach front man to the Evangelical Movement from at least 1990] who is now the consultant for the changeover to the New UCG. James

They and the others of their ilk not publically identifiable (at least not yet anyway)were mostly either the “good Germans” who would never countenance the results of their superiors actions, but efficiently carried out their assigned duties like so many parts in a well oiled ($$ being the “grease” applied) machine. As Victor Kubik told Warren Zehrung at the UCG founding conferance in Indianapolis when asked by the latter for an apology for having disfellowshipped and fired him from his former employment–”of course not, I was just doing my job.”. Like the switchmen who kept the Reich’s trains of cattle cars running and the guards who “maintained order”, they were the “good Germans”.

Some others were academic and ethical prostitutes who just wanted the best job they could find and who would go wherever and do whatever it took for that to occur. (Like Larry Salyer whose COG career eems “born to trouble as the sparks fly upward” (Job 5:7).

Those who behave in such a manner declare themselves more intersted in their reward in the here and now than in waiting for Christ to grant it to them at His return. Those who remain willingly blind to such motivations on the part of their presumptive leaders and brethren are more to be pitied than mocked.