by Stephen Flurry
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This is the most astonishing story in modern religion. What happened to the global humanitarian empire of Herbert W Armstrong, the world's leading televangelist and one of the most prominent religious leaders of the 20th century? Followed by millions world-wide, his legacy of Bible-based humanitarianism came under attack after he died. The leaders who took control of the church he founded, after pledging to 'follow in his footsteps', methodically destroyed all he had built. Those who would stop them were silenced or excommunicated. Had it happened in the corporate world, the CEOs and executives responsible for hijacking a corporation and robbing its investors would have been fired, if not prosecuted in a court of law.Here is the shocking, gripping untold story of the doctrinal hijacking and spiritual destruction of the Worldwide Church of God after the death of its founder. It is the story of the life-and-death, six-year court battle that ensued when a faith filled few held fast to his mission and sought to defend his legacy - by Raising the Ruins.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Hip Hip Hooray Philadelphia!, 2008-07-06
Reviews got me onto melee between
good guys for a good cause and those
that were very snakes for their cause.
I read reviews for all of them and
Raising the Ruins came tops and
I read the book.
Fine reading and print easy on eye,
it took me a day for the first run.
Herbert W Armstrong admirers
are as true to his memory as ever!
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
 Raising the Ruins . . . OF MORDOR!!!, 2008-04-02
Is it possible that people actually yearn for the return of such mind-control, and actually venerate the writings of such an ignorant scoundrel?
4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
Brave Men Move Cult to Christinanty , 2007-11-05
Make no mistake the only legacy of Herbert Armstrongs was to create one of the largest cults of the 20th century. This cult was based on his personalty and great media marketing he created. The thrust of this book needs to be reversed and the men that took over after Mr. Armstrongs death need to be lauded as heros for their stand for Christ. These men moved this cult from the darkness into the light. These earnest men recognized that the interpertations of Mr Armstrong concerning the bible did not stand up to the test of truth. This was the first time in the modern era that a cult was moved into the relm of Christianity and the church survived. This is a very good book for pastors and others to read and will assist you with dealing with cult leadership.
4 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
A good work on the subject, given the competition, 2007-08-28
A large and fairly well-documented work on the topic. Given that the author does have a vested interest in promoting his OWN splinter group, the reader does have to be very careful in separating the factual accounts from the glossed-over "spins". However, since the other two major works on the Armstrong group are Tkach's "Transformed by Truth" and Feazell's "Liberation of the Worldwide Church of God", both of which are just as compromised by agendas, this book is no less reliable. Good information here, and excellent footnotes - just like the previously mentioned books, don't check your brains at the door before reading.
14 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
 Raising the Ruins of Pervert W. Armstrong, 2007-08-13
"As a former PCG member, I remember the whole battle over Armstrong's writings and the rhetoric Gerald and Stephen Flurry used to tell their membership. Needless to say, when I started reading this book, I felt like I had already read it multiple times. I already knew everything it said.
The one thing that should be made perfectly clear to casual readers who do not subscribe to Armstrong's teachings after reading this book is that the PCG does not worship God, they worship Herbert Armstrong.
Raising the Ruins basically tells the story of the lenghts they were willing to go to in order to be able to print their lord and savior's literature which mostly consisted of spending millions of dollars from their membership, many of which live in poverty because of all the money they give to the church.
Victory indeed."
The only "ruins" Gerald and Stephen Flurry are interested in raising are the same propaganda tools Armstrong used to fool a smattering of poor, blindly devoted, uneducated followers into giving him money that should've gone to making a living and/or raising families that instead, went towards making Armstrong rich as he sipped champagne from crystal glasses, ate prime rib off of gold plates, and lived in complete and utter opulence.
Armstrong was nothing more than a salesman who plagarized cult propaganda from Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh Day Adventists and Mormons in order to conjur up a false gospel of his own to sell to people.
These "ruins" are best left dead. Thanks in large part to the internet that easily exposes this sort of obselete, bush league, chop shop style pshychological propoganda, it is largely seen for what it is.
Complete and utter nonsense.
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