It’s not for nothing they used to say Herbie was our Pope! All of the photos below have been taken from levels 7, 8, and 9, of the Youth Educational Services’ Youth Bible Lessons. Please bear in mind that the target audience of these lessons would have been between nine and fourteen years of age. And do remember, these are supposed to be bible lessons these pictures were in.
Can you say “pontiff without portfolio” boys and girls?
This one was a cover shot of one of the lessons.
Yet another one of those tithes-funded Steuben Crystal-purchased photo ops.
The poor Belgian king is looking at Herbie as though he has absolutely no idea why his PR people have arranged a photo-op with this little man.
Nice desk Herbie! Too bad you forgot to mention who paid for it!!
No, you’re not imagining things, the desk did get bigger. A sign “the work” was “growing”?
Actually, “Paul” never existed. But if he had, his excuse would have been the voices in his head. What was Herbie’s excuse? The money in his hand, that just kept coming in, hand over fist.
Another cover shot of our Pontiff Without Portfolio. Remember, these are youth bible lessons, or that’s what they called them, anyway. Check the caption: Fundamental Doctrines of God’s Church. Gawd’s Way is the Way of Give! As evidenced by the desk in this picture which, yes, has gotten bigger again.
Ah-HA, a picture from the early years. This actually came out of a lesson that’s going to get a thorough going-over, ISA-style, in a minute.
Count those tithes Herbie! The picture is black and white, so you can’t tell that they’re yellow envelopes.
I’m sorry, what was that about the bible again? Oh right, bible jigsaw, church ages, isn’t our Apostle just the very coolest, grooviest, bestest of the best?! /sarcasm
But don’t EVER say he’s our Pope. Those were fighting words. Literally! 
Saturday, 19. July 2008
I used to be impressed with the world trips that herbie took, I remember one picture where they showed him in a motorcade escorted by police on his way to see the president of Egypt.
Later a member told me that such shows of grandeur where paid for by Herbie out of our tithes, not paid for by the local country where he was going to spread the word and give out his pathetic steuben crystal presents.
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Saturday, 19. July 2008
Yeah I remember always feeling so proud, watching the Feast films, that Gawd’s Apawstle was spreading the Gawpsel. Barf. It never even occurred to me that all those prestigious trips were the reason we subsisted on Kraft Dinner and Hebrew National wieners for a year one time.
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Saturday, 19. July 2008
Ol’ Hubble Dubble looks like he’s gushing over those dignitaries! It certainly doesn’t appear as if he is assuming an Elijah or Moses like posture with the power of God behind him. I wonder precisely when the message about the strong hand from somewhere kicked in!
BB
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Sunday, 20. July 2008
When they did the voiceovers for the Feast films. That’s when it kicked in.
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Monday, 21. July 2008
Wasn’t the WCG-sanctioned prophesy that all the nations of the world would turn their back on God, go to war and worship the Beast or some such? In that case, what was Armstrong supposed to be doing when he met with these leaders? Certainly he didn’t think he could change the course of God’s plan?
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Monday, 21. July 2008
Armstrong was taking god’s message to all nations. There was some prophecy that quoted words to the effect that once the message went to all nations that the end would come.
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Monday, 21. July 2008
That’s what they told us Herbie was doing. In reality, all he was looking for was a photo op, to try and justify the fleecing of the sheeple.
I really don’t believe, knowing everything that I do, that Armstrong actively preached at the world leaders he got pictures with. Otherwise why were the expensive gifts of Steuben crystal necessary?
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Monday, 21. July 2008
I remember him saying once that he did preach to them but in much more general terms, stuff like “there is a way of give and way of get”. He was so narcisstic I don’t think he could have resisted preaching to them in one form or another.
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Monday, 21. July 2008
And what an original way of demonstrating the “way of give” to a world leader. Not by demonstrating your church’s commitment to humanitarian work such as feeding the hungry or sheltering the homeless, but by giving extravagant gifts to the privileged.
Brilliant!
Instead of “God’s Apostle” he should have been called “God’s [Crooked] Lobbyist.”
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Monday, 21. July 2008
herbie used to say “by their fruits you will know them”. And boy oh boy don’t we know him by his rotten fruits.
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Monday, 21. July 2008
Well some people still don’t have any sense of smell. But thankfully, their numbers are ever-dwindling.
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