EVEN A BROKEN CLOCK IS RIGHT...

EVEN A BROKEN CLOCK IS RIGHT...

Ah, 'tis the season..

when the Broken Clock of COGdom actually gives us the correct time.

Yes, Viriginia, Christmas is indeed a holiday arising from ancient pagan (non-Christian) practices, Saturnalia and a whole sleigh-full of other traditions and symbols, and has very little if anything to do with Jesus being born in the Middle East 2000 years ago.

So all of the anti-Christmas articles up on RCG, UCG, PCG and all of the other WCG shrapnel groups are basically right as far as that goes!

But not to worry, Christmas will soon be over, and theological mishmash will again be the order of the day! :-)

And who cares, it's still a fun holiday for all, and yes even for absolute atheists :-)

Merry Christmas, Merry Xmas, Happy Holidays, and everything else!

A Banned Reader

Christmas 2013

For 13 years now I have been decorating a large church for Christmas services 

with over 3,500 people attending. 

 I remember the first  time I ever attended a Christmas service after leaving the cult.  

It was sensory overload.  It was visually and audibly stunning.  

Glorious music, choirs, magnificent grand processions, 

Rabbi's reading Hebrew scripture, the Gospel stories, and so much more.

That strange, unexplainable event that occurred over 2,013 years is filled with mystery, awe and wonder.  What ever may have happened in that cave centuries ago has had an impact thousands of years latter that cannot be ignored.  I revel in the mystery of an event that cannot be rationally explained.  I don't want or need pat answers like the Church of God has for everything.  The unexplainable cannot be explained  no matter how many COG leaders claim to have all the answers.  

May the unexplainable mysteries continue to disturb and attract you 

to something bigger than our wildest imaginations could ever imagine!

Conclusions...

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT #28 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2013

A Conclusion Everyone Should Read

This will be my last announcement for some time. It brings additional aspects of the Haggai/Zechariah prophecy to completion.........

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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT # 29 >> DECEMBER 22, 2013

A CONCLUSION EVERYONE SHOULD COME TO

This will be my last announcement for some time. Maybe forever.  I can't stand the heat it brings me and people waking up to me.  It brings additional aspects to the fact I was so wrong and screwed up theologically.  I will be taking a break to recover and try and hold the whole mistaken idea together until Spring where I can bring additional fantacies to light.  Don't miss it. It will leave you gyrating in your seat again and will be equally as foolish of me to think such things about myself.  Not to worry though.  It is what I do best. 

Living Church of God Still Humiliating Bob Thiel

Ever since Bob Thiel stabbed Rob Meredith in the back last year by starting his own splinter personality cult, he has been repeatedly humiliated by Meredith and other LCG members comments about him.

Bob has produced yet another long missive about how the Living Church of God is picking on him. 

A reader sent me an email last week which mentioned that Wallace Smith of the Living Church of God had posted statements attempting to discredit the internet reach of COGwriter and the Continuing Church of God.  After responding to the reader, I decided to post a response on the News of Those Once Affiliated with GCG page.

Bob Thiel is just like David C. Pack.  Bob seems to think his new upstart ministry is the most awesome thing to ever hit the Church of God.  No other work is doing as might a work as he is.  Bob thinks he is doing a more powerful work that Dave Pack.  Pack thinks he is doing a work mightier than Thiel.  The pissing contests are getting to be silly and childish.

Bob has been claiming the Alexa web counter is saying he is getting more hits than other COG groups.  Wallace took him to task for his deceptive twisting of the numbers.  The COG, particularly in Pasadena, was great at twisting numbers to fit the scenarios they were trying to get across to members.  One Accounting Department manager told me several years ago that they could make numbers mean anything they wanted, even if the income was down.

Bob was particularly incensed that Wallace said this:

And as for the “flag draping” Alexa fan I mentioned parenthetically up there who keeps beating the same drum–no matter how tattered and torn that drum gets–forgive me as I mix my metaphors by recommending a prescription: (1) Read Proverbs 20:10 & 23, (2) consider what you’ve claimed of others concerning having (ahem) a “love of the truth”, and (3) prayerfully study Matthew 7:3-5.

My apologies for those who find all of this minutia boring. Frankly, I do too. But when minutia is used to deceive (even self-deceive) and accuse, it’s helpful to get some honest perspective. Thankfully, it doesn’t seem to be convincing anyone, as I have heard of literally zero people who find such figures convincing. But in the event that anyone ever does get confused by such nonsense and “horn tooting”, hopefully this can be a resource for them.

 Bob then responds

...in addition to passing on insults, Wallace Smith is flatly accusing me of being dishonest or self-deluded. He also later in his post claims my use of (verifiable) numbers is deceitful.
The facts prove that neither of those accusations against me are true.

Bob wants everyone to know that the LCG no longer has God's blessing because Bob took it with him when he left.

Wallace Smith’s “perspective” on this is not, in my view, honest. I am also not ‘flag draping.’ Yet, if he is saying that most of the people he knows prefer to believe a lie than the facts, that is sad, though probably true. LCG simply does not have the Philadelphia mantle anymore, so it is little surprise that most there will accept these improper attacks against me as valid and will choose not to believe the truths I try to report. And the truths about CCOG’s and LCG’s Alexa rankings are so easy to demonstrate.

 You can read Bob's little snitfest here:  LCG Leader Again Continues to Attempt to Discredit


Talk about being thinned skinned!  Grow some balls and stop whining like a little spoiled brat!