| 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, no doubt, Earle, a long time minister,
was already 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):
- "scattergun of charges"
- "ludicrous charges"
- "wildest accusations"
- "want someone (?) to attack or dump upon"
- "HWA certainly made his share of mistakes"
- "more wild rumors"
- "wild stuff"
- "really weird"
- "wild accusations"
- "our cadre of competent, well-trained professionals"
- "wild fire claims"
- "one Gene Michel interview is worth a 100 wild fire accusations"
- "unethical illegality"
- "the way this personality type2 [HWA's] operates"
- "brilliant Jewish research said, 'We were never a cult3 but some
people wanted us to be.' "
- "some people wanted to believe all these things"
- "people often read what they wanted to read into HWA"
- "his [HWA's] particular "sanguine" leadership style2 was to blame for
much of the distortions done in his name"
- "Armstrong haters who have helped cloud his reputation"
- "more than 1001 distortions that are extant"
[did he count all of them?]
- "plagiarism [in HWA's day]...was not the crime it is today"
- "such nonsense"
- "where do people get this stuff?"
- "make sure you check your sources"
- "a more balanced side" [regarding what Earle says we
need regarding HWA]
By A. W.
Exit & Support Network™
September 15, 2005
*Excerpted from an email which was
forwarded to ESN by ex-WCG member.
NOTICE:
In 2006 Worldwide Church of God
was considering a name change. Read: Worldwide
Church of God is Changing Their Name.
Footnotes:
1
Neil Earle is the pastor of Worldwide Church of God in Glendora, California
(Glendora is WCG's new headquarters). In 1998 he 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 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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