Good morning brethren. We hope you
are having a pleasant Sabbath. Some of you may have
noticed that the doors have been locked. That is because we have a very important announcement
to make and we don't want anyone bolting out before we finish. If
anyone feels like they might faint, please lean your head forward on
your knees. The elders will furnish water if needed.
We just wanted all of you to know we are gonna
level with you about everything and tell the TRUTH, because that's what
you all
deserve. Sometimes things in life aren't what we think they are, or
even what we want them to be. This is
one of those moments. Mr. Herbert W. Armstrong, the founder of our
church, and who is the reason we are
all here, did not tell the truth. (Please, everyone, take a deep
breath and don't glare at each other.) We can prove what we're saying.
Mr. Armstrong was a charlatan
who used religion for a racket. He couldn't succeed with anything he put his hand to until
Loma helped him see how gullible people could be when it
came to religion. Mr. Armstrong was a fraud.
You've all been duped. (Elder, furnish a glass a water to that woman who
is about to faint.)
The New Covenant that we at HQ have been
hem-hawing around with was
actually understood by
certain evangelists back in the `70's, but you may remember that Mr. Armstrong slandered them
and kicked them out, calling them "servants of the devil," and
told
you that "Satan was attacking God's Church!" It couldn't have been,
though, because those ministers were really telling the truth about
all the corruption and hypocrisy going on at the top levels. If you had listened to those who
left, you wouldn't be sitting here today.
And if you want to know the real rotten truth, Mr.
Armstrong lived an opulent, immoral and hypocritical lifestyle; he
plagiarized most of his material
and he even
distorted historical church doctrines. (We have several books,
newspaper clippings, and references on the back table that will
substantiate what we're saying.) Therefore, we know that God
couldn't have ever worked with him, let alone used him. Furthermore,
we've used
mind-control on all of you in order to keep you believing that Mr.
Armstrong
"restored the true Gospel" and that this was "God's one true Church," so
that you wouldn't leave and we could continue to control you. (We'll be
passing out papers explaining what mind control is, also known
as thought
reform, and how cults work.) Yes, unfortunately, Worldwide was
a destructive "cult."
When
WACO got in the news, it started to place us in
the spotlight more (but not in a good way). Now, none of us like being
targeted as a "cult," and more importantly, the label has hindered us
from getting into other countries. In fact, since Mr. Armstrong died, we
had to face up to the fact that Armstrongism just
wasn't working as well for us
anymore--that is, to bring in the money. (Oh yes, the 30% increase per
year was a lie also.) Even if Mr. Armstrong had lived longer, he would
have seen the futility of trying to go on with this whole scam. How many more
scores of false
prophecies could he give?
So in order to keep from going
belly up, we've had to make some major changes--sell our real estate
holdings (slowly so no one would notice), have extension groups in place
for those who want to keep believing a lie (by the way, there's
information on Global and
United on the back table, if
interested), and
join the ecumenical, global church. After all, that's where the profit
is today, and we can’t just give this up. (Elder, help those people who
appear to be in shock.) There's no need to worry, though. We
plan
on
compensating
you for your financial losses. After we sell off all of Mr. Armstrong's
assets, we will reimburse everyone. We may not be able to give you the
full amount, but we will try to give back all that we are able.
So in conclusion, this has all been one big
mind control experiment and...well, we lied. If any of you want to stay, you can; if not,
you're all free to go wherever, blah, blah, blah. May the rest of
your day be enjoyable.
Anybody in their right mind knows that the "give them all the truth at
once" step would never be taken because there's too much risk. Not
only would WCG be buried in lawsuits, but the entire
"church" would crumble with the ensuing stampede of exiters. It's so much easier
to present new changes with confusion and
propaganda, discount
anyone who would disagree, and tell
the remaining members to "forget the past and move forward with the new
programs!"
By
D. W.
Exit & Support Network™
October
13, 2006
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