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Subject: Re: Letter
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 21:34:31 EST
From: AKDean@aol.com
To: norbert.link@gcg.org
I have nothing to hide and don't mind if people ask what HWA thought. Some
have asked and
I have answered these same questions before. People should not be allowed to
rewrite their
own histories to their own ends.
What happened in GCG is precisely why I couldn't join Global. I wish I had
been wrong. If
it will help people find God and Christ instead of men, feel free to use my
post. It will
probably bring some hate mail, but I have gotten use to it as I am sure some
of you are. I
wish people could become zealous instead of zealots. I have found you can
become zealous
for God, but
only zealots for men.
Regards,
Aaron
ps. I edited my note a bit for clarity. It is below.
AKDean@aol.com wrote:
Hi,
That is the
letter that was in Mr. Armstrong's files. HWA did talk to not only RCM,
but
others about how he was wrong about Stan. Mr. A didn't apologize to people,
and had other
ways of apologizing - some of which could be misinterpreted. His discussion
with Rod about
SRR, I imagine Rod took to be an apology. Of course he wanted to see it this
way. To RCM
it seemed either he was right or SRR was right. Since SRR turned out to be a
'bad guy' RCM
assumed he was vindicated. This helps to justify why he maintains he should be
in charge.
He never understood the issue was not about him and SRR, but him seeing
himself as next in
line.
It did not change RCM's problem, as you can see from the letter RCM's problems
stemmed
from well before SRR. The fact that HWA never reappointed RCM to a position of
power shows
that he knew RCM still had the problem. THe COE was
never a power body, although many seemed to see it as that.
RCM took the fact that those he disliked (and it is interesting to note
they were
always the ones between him and the top) turned out to have problems, so it
seemed a
vindication of his problem. Mr. Armstrong still felt the same way about RCM up
until his
death.
One thing HWA did say, was that "Rod will be personally loyal to me"
(HWA). Of
course RCM wanted that same loyalty to himself, never realizing that what HWA
really
wanted was loyalty to GOD. That is why HWA, amid the confusion of the
receivership did appoint RCM over Church Administration in '79.
Unfortunately RCM began immediately to try to solidify his position as heir to
the church,
and had to be removed within the year, and was never reappointed to a high
administrative
position. It was RCM's own words that caused him to be sent to Hawaii, not
anyone else. I
pray that he eventually can come to see himself, just as I pray for so many
other self
appointed leaders.
Aaron Dean