OWW Update: PCG and COG-PKG

May 162012

The Wiki Wars wage on and now we’re starting in on the cult articles themselves. This may get heated when we tear into RCG and UCG’s pages. For now, we’re beginning with the smaller COG groups.

We’ve discarded the idea of creating a separate entry for Ron Weinland and instead created sections in the COG-PKG article, dedicating one to him. It’s hard to justify his significance beyond his cult. We were also certain to link his history to UCG, since that’s often overlooked and they like to pretend he wasn’t associated with them.

We’ve also tweaked the PCG entry… More

Profiling False Prophets

May 122012

There are a few COG-related entries in this series (Weinland and Armstrong). With Weinland’s prophecy at about the two-week warning is he about to become a triple or quadruple false prophet?

To some, it may seem shocking with all of the false and failed prophecies abounding throughout COG history that members don’t stop and reflect on the inaccuracies espoused by men they believe to be blessed with the Holy Spirit and a direct connection with God.

Then again, that sort of thing happens every day with COG ministers. Despite their “extra dose” of the Holy Spirit supposedly imbued upon them … More

Tick, Tock

Apr 282012

As a culture, Americans have become rather numb to the regularly-scheduled doomsday pronouncements that excite the fringe, especially in a year chop full of schadenfreude. For each prepper and Harold Camping who spring up in popular culture, it becomes increasingly difficult to take doomsayers seriously. Just watching the outpouring of mockery toward Camping’s ministry last year underscored how much people don’t care.

But there are often serious consequences for those who choose lives focused exclusively on the end. The first is that their lives don’t actually begin as all of their future plans are forsaken in exchange for canned goods and … More

Cults – Dangerous Devotion (Decoding the Past)

Apr 162012

Here’s hoping we don’t see similar deadly and insane behavior from COG-PKG as May 27 rapidly approaches.


Speak the Truth

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#Preppers and Dervaes Family

Mar 312012

Urban homesteaders the Dervaes family have finally popped up on NatGeo’s Doomsday Preppers in Episode 3: Back to the Stone Age. It’s interesting the network has decided, in many cases, to gloss over the religious roots many of these preppers obviously seem to hold. The fact that the show rates their preparedness and then gives them tips on how to be crazier is only encouraging them.

Obviously, lots of these people wouldn’t come onto a show overtly making fun of them, and the show does flash facts at the bottom of the screen whenever one of them utters something that’s … More

COG News Roundup #12

Mar 242012

Recent COG developments demonstrate a disconnect of logic. On the one hand, the Apocalypse has never been closer. On the other hand, it’s never been more important to build permanent earthly bases of operation. The only thing consistent between those two attitudes is the COG’s need for your money. Those scares won’t monger themselves without flashy new buildings and slick ad campaigns to instill the terror of the end times into paranoid Americans.

COG-PKG Members Already Selling Their Stuff?

NatGeo’s Doomsday Preppers should send a camera crew after the members of the legally-beleaguered COG-PKG. A comment left on the False … More

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