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  dyan progelia March 1st, 2012 at 00:00

  Felix, I get this all the time. Sometimes it has nothing to do with religion. Sometimes about passions about Information Technology Servers at work. While I understand it is upsetting, you just have to get used to people operating in a fact free environment, as if their stupid and nutty ideas should be given one bit of credence.

  The world is filled with nutty people. This is true of the world of Armstrongism, and often the world of the former Armstrongist. It tended to attract nutty extreme people in the first place, those who adopted it became less than sane even if they out with all their marbles and drove the families of the people involved with it to distraction.

  The tempest in a teapot began long ago in my opinion. Sabbatarians of the last few centuries in the Western World have a rather suspect background to say the least. Those wanting to pin their hopes on making John Traske some of Sabbatarian hero are seriously flawed. Dude, this man even stick with keeping the Sabbath. He gave up when the going got tough. It is also the case that if you read the account of him in the Religious Encyclopedia, he had something of a stentorian voice but a weak mind. Some young man appeared on the scene showed him a couple Scriptures in the Old Testament and disappeared, never to be seen from again. It just the Sabbath, but it was clean and unclean meats as well. It is pretty clear that he even understand the proposition well.

  Then there was William Miller. He was a false prophet. He went up into the hills assured that his prediction of when Christ would occur was sound. It is called “The Great Disappointment” in some circles.

  There is little need to mention any more about Ellen G. White than her name.

  But the centuries pass and the nut cases and false prophets are legitimatized over time to be heroes for the idolaters needing such things. Then they become the establishment. One person comes, looks, rebels and then his own flavor of religion having its own appeal to a very very narrowly defined audience. For those interested, Dick gave a fairly good picture of the problems of keeping up to date and appealing to the current generations in his sermon “Basic Principles for Spiritual Leaders” at:

  http://www.ucg.org/sermons/

  It should be noted that his aphorism of trying to build a 1960s one story rambler and sell it in this day and age is futile. His point is that the times change, people change and to make Hoeh while the sun shines is limited if you keep the mindset of putting new wine in old wine skins: expect to put the modern generation of Boomers into the old Armstrongism based on loyalty and commitment. It work. While the agenda and purpose change, the society, needs and tastes do. The preachments of the Sixties and Seventies will not attract current elements of society. It will, however, attract weirdos and nut cases still addicted to the idea that Jesus will return to clean up the mess created by the Germans and the Roman Catholic Church. The idea is moldy and so are the people it attracts. By the way, the video really outline any method to keep current with the times: It merely states the problem, which means that the UCG well positioned for growth no matter how modern and spiffy their website is. This generation still finds little relevance to the material there and will go on to Dr. website for some real solutions to their problems.

  Keeping the Sabbath as a delight never does grow old however. No one has answered the in “The Bible Advocate” concerning the Sabbath from a couple of years back at this season. It is probably because the Church of God Seventh Day does not concentrate on the legalism of Armstrongism. Their appeal is more up to date with the timelessness of the principles involved. It has appeal. It is difficult to gainsay.

  Today, the current generation has a lot of cynicism. They are skeptical. And why not? The traditionalist ultra conservative does not work. The days of the ministerial Republican Dog Owner is probably pretty much relegated to buggy whips and high buttoned shoes. They may come back in style briefly from time to time, but they have much staying power. Neither does the flaming swinging liberal. People are too connected by technology to buy into that any more.

  All I can say is that those who have been so settling down into their niche need to get up and keep up if they do not want to be left behind. If they all they can do is rave in their nutty lunacy.

  But the point it? People want to continuing living in a past that exist any longer and for some of us sufficiently suspicious, that past may never have existed.