Posted in Eastern Orthodox view on hell, Fredicca Matthewes-Green, Heaven and Hell on January 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I am still on the topic about hell and here I give you a link of Frederica Matthewes-Green’s article on her explanation of the Eastern Orthodox Church’s position on hell on Beliefnet.com at http://www.beliefnet.com/story/163/story_16319.html.
Posted in Brian McLaren, Heaven and Hell, Tony Campolo on January 26, 2008 | No Comments »
You may not agree with every single thing these men say (I don’t). Christianity Today in their website has Brian McLaren (of A Generous Orthodoxy fame) and Tony Compolo discuss their feelings on the topic of hell. Again you might not agree with it but it is important to understand where they both coming from. [...]
Posted in Heaven and Hell, Scaring people into worship on January 26, 2008 | No Comments »
There are times that I have been sooo close wanting to go meet Dr.Richard Dawkins and say to him, “Where do I sign up to be an atheist?!” I know again I have touched a few people’ nerves with that statement. Some will say, “Felix is little nigra getting out of line and I want [...]
Posted in Byker Bob, Intelligent quote of the day on January 25, 2008 | No Comments »
I don’t respect the mental stability of any of our contemporaries who find himself or herself specifically mentioned in the pages of the Bible. Since the Bible contains anecdotes and lessons regarding general behavioral patterns, I think that common experience alone makes us see ourselves in that general sense, but not specifically.
It should set off [...]
Posted in Exit and Support Network on January 24, 2008 | No Comments »
For those familiar with The Exit and Support Network website (which is just that—exit counselling from Armstrongism) picked up a very good article from the late ’70’s from The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette of people leaving the Worldwide Church of God at that time. Even at that time, people found life and more abundantly—post WCG! We salute [...]
Posted in Church-sanctioned sexual repression, Satire on January 21, 2008 | 4 Comments »
One man’s satire on church sanctioned sexual repression on teenage boys. Really funny!
Posted in Intelligent quote of the day on January 21, 2008 | No Comments »
This is a widespread mentality. People don’t vote because they think they can’t make a difference. They don’t get involved because they think nothing can get better. This is true of even non-religious people. In fundamentalist religions, the mentality is even worse, exaggerated. Such people fail to look at the fact that despite the huge [...]
Posted in Bobby Fischer, former contributors to WCG on January 18, 2008 | No Comments »
As of this morning I was watching a local cable news channel (CP24 in Toronto) and have been informed that eccentric former chess champion Bobby Fischer has died at age 64 at hospital in Iceland. The cause of death is unknown. To WCG old-timers remember him as one who once was a contributor to the Worldwide [...]
Posted in Aggie, New blogs, life in the historic WCG on January 18, 2008 | 4 Comments »
My friend who I met from J’s Shadows of WCG message board has a new blog aptly named Purplehymnal’s Weblog. Basically it’s discussing the Worldwide experience through the songs of that purlpe hymn book that us former Worldwiders are familiar with. Give it a look at http://purplehymnal.wordpress.com/.
Posted in Pentecostal-charismatic church lingo, charismatic-Pentecostal cult-like groups, familiar cultic experiences on January 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I got this stuff from the wonderful EX-Pentecostal forum at http://p223.ezboard.com/Ex-Pentecostal-Forums/bexpentecostalforums.
Pentecostal Christianese Translator
The following is a list of Pentecostal terminology that I first came up with several years ago, and people on different spiritual abuse forums have added to it each time it was posted. It is somewhat sarcastic in nature because it takes many [...]
