Does Neil Earle Use Disinformation Rules
 to Respond to Former Worldwide Church of God Members?
 

Many exiters have learned through hard experience that the WCG leadership has had its spin control artists--those trained in propaganda and who are experts in sophisticated thought reform techniques and disinfo tactics. (Be sure and read The Twenty-five Rules of Disinformation.)

In the past, a former WCG member attempted to correspond with WCG minister Neil Earle1, in order to furnish him with many pertinent details and facts about HWA (which, being a long time minister, Earle should have been aware of) and to ask why he didn't come out and let others know the entire truth about Herbert W. Armstrong.

Below we have listed at least 25 phrases* picked up from Earle's replies to this exiter, which show how he avoided the issue. If Earle is skilled in using disinformation tactics when necessary, how much more do you think the WCG leaders over him understand it and know how to use it?

Following are these phrases that Earle used to justify Herbert Armstrong and to write off his opponent (all repeats are his):

  1. "scattergun of charges"
     
  2. "ludicrous charges"
     
  3. "wildest accusations"
     
  4. "want someone (?) to attack or dump upon"
     
  5. "HWA certainly made his share of mistakes"
     
  6. "more wild rumors"
     
  7. "wild stuff"
     
  8. "really weird"
     
  9. "wild accusations"
     
  10. "our cadre of competent, well-trained professionals"
     
  11. "wild fire claims"
     
  12. "one Gene Michel interview is worth a 100 wild fire accusations"
     
  13. "unethical illegality"
     
  14. "the way this personality type2 [HWA's] operates"
     
  15. "brilliant Jewish research said, 'We were never a cult3 but some people wanted us to be.' "
     
  16. "some people wanted to believe all these things"
     
  17. "people often read what they wanted to read into HWA"
     
  18. "his [HWA's] particular "sanguine" leadership style2 was to blame for much of the distortions done in his name"
     
  19. "Armstrong haters who have helped cloud his reputation"
     
  20. "more than 1001 distortions that are extant" [did he count all of them?]
     
  21. "plagiarism [in HWA's day]...was not the crime it is today"
     
  22. "such nonsense"
     
  23. "where do people get this stuff?"
     
  24. "make sure you check your sources"
     
  25. "a more balanced side" [regarding what Earle says we need regarding HWA]

Neil Earle continues to whitewash Herbert Armstrong, as evidenced by his forthcoming book about  HWA: Blow the Dust Off Your Bible: Herbert Armstrong and American Popular Religion. (Read article concerning this.)

By A. W.
Exit & Support Network™
September 15, 2005
Updated February 9, 2009

*Excerpted from emails, which were forwarded to ESN by ex-WCG member.

UPDATE: In 2006 WCG was considering a name change. (Read: Worldwide Church of God Changed Their Name
) In April 2009 Worldwide Church of God changed their name in the United States to Grace Communion International. 

Footnotes:

1 Neil Earle is the pastor of the Glendora Friends Church, a Worldwide Church of God congregation in Glendora, California (Glendora is WCG's new headquarters). In 1998 Earle graduated from Fuller Theological Seminary (where most of the "church growth movement" can be traced back to, and which houses the extensive archive of David J. DuPlessis, "father of American Pentecostalism")

2 On his website, Earle attempted to psychoanalyze (and whitewash) Herbert Armstrong.

3 Read Identifying Marks of an Exploitive, Abusive Group in order to make the assessment of whether or not WCG could have ever been classified as a "cult."

Twenty-Five Ways To Suppress Truth: The Rules of Disinformation (Includes The 8 Traits of A Disinformationalist)

Neil Earle Whitewashes Herbert Armstrong

Outsider's Inside Update Newsletters (Shows how doctrine was used as a massive propaganda tool. OIU FIVE and SIX are detailed reports surrounding the Ecumenical Movement (EC) and the current EC strategy involving the Worldwide Church of God conglomerate. Those interested in researching the "reasons behind the events" and activities of the Worldwide Church of God and its extension groups; i. e., United Church of God, Global Church of God (today the Living Church of God), Philadelphia Church of God and other splinters, will find these two Volumes helpful, thought-inspiring and possibly shocking. The OIU looks behind the scenes at the real activities and associations pertaining to the "transformation" of the WCG. OIU 4, Pt. 1 has a section on Propaganda and Dialectical Materialism)

Neil Earle Coined as One of the Nazi Twins (letter to ESN)

Questioning Herbert W. Armstrong (Was HWA who he said he was?) (Many articles)

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