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1920-2005
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1892-1986
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| Loved, honored and respected by over a
billion people all over the world. |
Loved, honored and respected by over
100,000 people, mostly in the United States, at one time. |
| Born in 1920. |
Born at the end of the 1800s. |
| Mother and brother died when he was young. |
Mother lived to over 90 years old and
brother bought clothes for him. |
| Was born in Poland. |
Was born in United States. |
| Had intensive contacts with the Jewish
community growing up. |
Had extensive contacts with mostly white
male children growing up. |
| Was a serious intensive student who
attended Jagiellonian University where he studied Philology, Polish
language and literature, introductory Russian, and Old Church Slavonic. He
also took private lessons in French. He worked as a volunteer librarian. |
Maybe he graduated from high school or
maybe he didn't--the jury is still out on that one! [Hey, given how vain
he was, wouldn't you think that he would have paraded his high school
diploma around?] Anyway, he got the honorary Doctorate he paid for by
giving bribes to university. |
| At the end of the 1938-39 academic year, he
played Sagittarius in a fantasy-fable, The Moonlight Cavalier,
produced by an experimental theatre troupe. |
Was a bad actor. |
| In his youth he was an athlete, actor and playwright
and learned as many as eleven languages. |
In his youth, fancied himself a wrestler,
acted to be something he was not a lot, hired himself out as an
advertising copy writer and learned one language: English. |
| Did compulsory military training in the
Academic Legion. |
Managed to miss the draft. |
| From the autumn of 1940, worked for almost
four years as a manual labourer in a limestone quarry, and was well paid. |
Managed to avoid manual labor because it
was demeaning an beneath him but was well paid as an advertising copy
writer. |
| Learned about the evils of Communism first
hand and became protector for Catholics in Communist countries. |
Learned all he knew about communism from
books and articles and protected no one from oppressive governments, not
even WCG members in poor countries where he met the leaders for photo ops,
giving Steuben Crystal from Tithe money and having tea. |
| Was ordained a priest in 1946 by a Catholic
Cardinal. |
Was ordained a minister by the Church of
God, Seventh Day in the 1930s but they later revoked the credentials. |
| Wrote his doctoral thesis in a seminary at
Rome, which examined
St John of the Cross's understanding of faith, emphasized the personal
nature of the human encounter with God. |
Plagiarized his booklets on faith from
various sources and emphasized that humans were lower than dirt to God,
unless they were end time apostles. |
| Taught ethics at the Jagiellonian
University in Kraków and subsequently at the Catholic University of Lublin. |
Had questionable ethics and never taught at
a credentialed college or university. |
| Life under communism tempered his poems and
plays he published. |
Life of opulence fueled his passion for
plagiarizing what he published. |
| Was the youngest bishop of Poland. |
Was the youngest end time apostle. |
| Pope John Paul VI made him a cardinal in
1967. |
Herman Hoeh made him an apostle in 1952. |
| Elected the 264th pope in 1978. |
Appointed himself the first end time
apostle in 1952. |
| Lived a Spartan life as Pope, preferring to
live his life in humility and service to all peoples. |
Lived an opulent life preferring to live
life with luxurious things he bought on a whim, preferring top world
leaders of accomplishment to the lowly people even in his own church. |
| Had an assassination attempt on his life on
May 18, 1981 by
Mehmet Ali Ağca, a Turkish gunman, as he entered St Peter's Square to
address an audience. Almost all the blood in his body had to be
transfused. |
OK, let's face it, some of you thought
about it. |
| Went to the prison and forgave his would be
assassin. |
We all wonder WWHAD? |
| Listened to everyone and took wise counsel
from people of many viewpoints before rendering a decision. |
Listened to his own counsel and didn't take
counsel from anyone, wise or not, didn't listen and made snap judgments
and decisions. |
| Lived an entire life and set an example of
discipline. |
Lived an entire life and set a terrible
example of narcissistic self-indulgence. |
| Died at age 84. |
Died at age 94. Or was he 93 and it was his
94th year? He like to position himself as being older than he was by
claiming he was in his 94th year when he was really 93. |
| Died with a process to elect a new pope in
an orderly defined fashion. |
Picked a successor and appointed him at the
last minute without consulting anybody. |
| Left a legacy with a stable church behind,
improved by his life and left with a future. |
Left a legacy of chaos with no stability,
disintegrated and divided by the practices of his life and left the church
of gods with no real future. |
| Visited Mother Theresa in 1986. |
Wouldn't think of it. |
| Believed and taught about the triune God. |
Taught about the binary God. |
| Kept Christmas and Easter. |
Preached during the Days of Unleavened
Bread, Pentecost and the Days of Unleavened Bread. |
| Washed the feet of his Cardinals during
Passover Season. |
Washed top evangelist's feet during
Passover, we guess. |
| Talked about the dignity of women and the
importance of the family for the future of mankind. |
Pretty much ignored women except for his
mother, Loma, the women with whom he had affairs and stressed the
importance of men sacrificing their families for the sake of "The Work". |
| Made over 100 pastoral trips to countries
outside the Vatican City in order to encourage world leaders to treat
their people with respect and dignity. |
Made who knows how many trips for photo ops
and encouraged world leaders to treat him with respect and dignity. |
| Actually met Queen Elizabeth in person. |
Wanted to be seen with Prince Charles and
never made it to his distant cousin, the queen. |
| Granted President Reagan a private audience
where the President promptly fell asleep. |
Never met a US President during the time he
was an end time apostle and usually never put his congregations to sleep
because he was yelling too much. |
| Traveled extensively and came into contact
with many divergent faiths--ceaselessly attempting to find common ground,
whether it be doctrinal or dogmatic. |
Made it a point not to come in contact with
anyone not of his faith--unless it was the Jews in Israel or a photo op,
never attempted to find common ground and stood apart "holier than thou"
castigating any other religion. |
| Made every attempt to reconcile with the
Eastern Orthodox Church. |
Ignored other Sabbath / Holyday keeping
churches, except to absorb them when the opportunity arose. |
Apologies
 | Apologized for the persecution of the Italian
philosopher Galileo Galilei in the trial by the Roman Catholic Church in
1633; |
| Apologized for Catholic involvement with the African
slave trade; |
| In the Czech Republic, begged forgiveness for the
Church's role in stake burnings and the religious wars that followed the
Protestant Reformation; |
| Released a letter to "every woman" to apologize for
the Church's stance against women's rights and for the historical
denigration of women; |
| Apologized for the inactivity and silence of Roman
Catholics during the Holocaust; |
| Apologized for the execution of
Jan Hus
in 1415. |
| Asked forgiveness for the sins of Catholics
throughout the ages for violating "the rights of ethnic groups and
peoples, and shown contempt for their cultures and religious
traditions."; |
| Apologized to the Patriarch of Constantinople for the
sins of the Crusader conquest of Constantinople in 1204; |
| Apologized, via the Internet, for missionary abuses
in the past against indigenous peoples of the South Pacific.
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Let's Face it: Herbert Armstrong wasn't
prone to apologize for anything, not even for ruining hundreds of
thousands of lives or more. Pentecost? Ooops,
let's move it to Sunday: And hey, God revealed new truth to me as the end
time apostle! Never mind about your divorce and your dead family members! |
