Talk:Herbert W. Armstrong

message: "Armstrong taught that God only works through "one man at a time" and that he was God's man for his time. Consequently, his teachings are considered as unapproachable as are the apostle Paul's teachings."
What that has to do with "unapproachable", and whether Paul's teachings are unapproachable or not, are mysteries to me.  I suspect that "unassailable" might be the idea the author had in mind.  Addressing audiences of millions over the airwaves is hardly a way to put off approaches. Unfree (talk) 23:55, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Approachable

message: 9.2 Personality, personal conduct, and governance 
This subtitle content is unncessary and negatively biased given the already lengthy discussion on Herbert Armstrong's life, work and writings therefore ought to be deleted. 
It negates the fact that Armstrong:
1. Authored a free booklet "The Seven Laws of Success" and distributed a monthly magazine to enrich the public.
2. As Ambassador of World Peace though Ambassador International Cultural Foundation, the Second Tithe and Third Tithe fed, clothed, made comfortable or wealthy lives of the poor, widows and orphans.
ozark8—Preceding unsigned comment added by Manila davao ph (talk • contribs) 04:27, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copied from "Archive 7" 

message: I notice that this section has not been discussed for some time. I made an attempt to rewrite the section in a more neutral tone. I have also made an attempt to rewrite other sections of the article in a more neutral tone. I welcome any discussion or opinions about my edits.Russell Dent (talk) 12:42, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Personality, personal conduct and governance 

message: Why nothing about his end time's predictions of 1936? (talk) 14:46, 24 Mau 2011 (UTC)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.120.92.238 (talk)  
HWA mande numerous end-time predictions. Unfortunately, I do not have the sources handy to reference them or the time to look them up at the present. Interesting that these predictions are not referenced by others on this page.Mikeprescott (talk) 20:17, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  1936 

message: "Worldwide Church of God (WCG) members believed that Herbert W. Armstrong was Christ's apostle since the first century."
Jeremiah 17:9 (talk) 12:09, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Huh?

message: The Criticisms and controversy section seems mostly relying on self published sources from I suspect, personal webpages. Looking at some of the statements that are supposedly backed by a source, when I look at the source for some I do not see how they are even related. Parts of this section are more of a Coatrack. It should be rewritten or parts removed. Basileias (talk) 18:42, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticisms and controversy 

message: Herbert Armstrong's life story is highly controversial. His followers (who still exist in numerous offshoot churches) are extremely devote and defensive. On the other-hand, mainstream christianity took a hard-line against his teachings because of his unorthodoxy - i.e. anti-trinitarian, humans will become god-beings, keeping the sabbath and holy-days, clean and unclean meats, literal return of christ ruling a kingdom on earth, etc. As a result of these polar views there was a lot of difficulty getting a coherent and unbiased Wikipedia article going. 
If memory serves me correctly, the criticisms and controversies section was created because it was difficult to elaborate on some of Armstrong's more controversial aspects within the article without a fight erupting with Armstrong-adherents. The controversies are a legitimate and real part of his history, but were most easily addressed by separating this into a stand-alone section under the banner of controversy. Perhaps interest in this page by Armstrong-adherents has died-down sufficiently that these more controversial elements can be blended into the page, but I suspect that it would be just a matter of time until some kind of editing war ensues. I would recommend keeping it separate.
I browsed some of the references and they are still relevant. If you have trouble understanding them please post your questions and I can explain some of the religious context. Keep in mind that Armstrong's era was before the web-age, so his writings mainly exist in now defunct books and PDFs scanned-in by adherents that are trying to preserve and spread his writings, hence the links to these repository-type pages that are hosted on what are presumably personal websites of adherents. If other sources were available then one could use those, but this is not likely because Armstrong and Armstrongism, which had its hey-day between the 60s and 80s, is slowly fading from memory.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Waitingwatch (talk • contribs) 17:02, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: History

message: This is the last remaining POV-tagged article from August 2007. Does anyone have any particular complaints or wishes before I lock down that backlog? -- LWG talk 16:09, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I did not remove this article from the backlog because of the section above. - RoyBoy 05:21, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV Tag 

message: reading the HWA profile, you'll come across an accusation of pedophilia, the proof given is a newspaper article printed after divorce proceeding between Armstrong and his second wife. As a thing to observe, the Armstrong ministry was successful in a totally unprecedented capacity. It would be difficult not to have noticed it then.  Armstrong's children and grandchildren were not in any way required to bother. 
If you're going to be part of an organization, you tow the line. You respect authority. You are part of a body and you do your function to support that body as your function is = there is grease in the engine, things work. Some wouldn't.  That the David Robinson book (thought this was interesting) wasn't removed in a lawsuit isn't a surprise; that book was so far off into pulp fiction, it was the crazy bum on the street, self proclaiming; and that some would repeat it, hearing parts of it somewhere else or wanting to tabloid a sensationalist libel because they felt good doing it, is no unusual thing. Incredulity for some, justifies a drunken inept violence, ignorant no less, because it feels good; violating of someone else's property.  In society news, in the office world of affairs and promotions, not uncommon behavior.  So if in divorce court proceedings, a person with intentions goes eye-balls deep or uses libel blackmail; that's not evidence because it passed by an editor, but slanderous gossip; a shot at the knees. They know that readers normally won't exercise discernment but limply believe. People lie so when they steal from the lied about, no one will try to stop them, and then if they try to destroy, no one will protest. When Armstrong died, GCI famously spent that organization until there was nothing left, publishing slander for strangers to look at; who for refs and materials used, seem to be the strangers writing in order to write about the Armstrong ministry,..which we can do here in a free capitalist place(glad to be here).  Intent is visible in the written results.Cpriceecirpc 04:17, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Article talk pages should not be used by editors as platforms for their personal views on a subject. Article talk pages are for discussing improvements to the article, do you have any suggestions? Theroadislong (talk) 22:32, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Historic issues

message: I've checked through the talk page archives but could not find any earlier discussion of this, which is a bit weird.  
Externally, there's the reported testimony of Armstrong himself, who is said to have said it stood for nothing at all, it just sounded better that way. .
But then, a genealogy done by someone connected with the WCG "speculates" that it's Wright, in honour of his mother's maiden name.
Is there anything authoritative about this W and what it stands for, if anything?  --  Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 00:35, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Middle initial W

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message: 201.223.31.235 (talk) 06:17, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Sincerely, Deauthorized. (talk) 09:00, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
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message: It is claimed that HWA was "internationally recognized as Ambassador for World Peace". In addition to not saying when this supposed recognition was supposed to have been bestowed or describing the actual scope of the recognition (there are a lot of things that are supposedly international, doesn't mean they're actually so), the only two sources cited are a book written by Stephen Flurry and published by the Philadelphia Church of God (which Stephen's father Gerald Flurry founded in order to revive the practices of the Armstrongist-era Worldwide Church of God and with which Stephen is himself actively involved as a prominent member of the thetrumpet.com staff and as the Dean of Students at the PCG's Herbert W. Armstrong College), and another book written by Stanley R. Rader and published by the same Armstrongist-era WCG for whom Rader was an attorney, accountant, author, and evangelist; ergo, these two sources have every incentive to present Armstrong as something that he actually wasn't. Are there any non-Armstrongist sources that definitely say something along the lines of "HWA was recognised by so-and-so as Ambassador for World Peace between 19XX and 1986/earlier than 1986"?--Dvaderv2 (talk) 07:35, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Ambassador for World Peace"