Armstrongism has been filled with men over the decades who latched on to crazy ideas and then exploited them as fact. No group is better at this than the men at the Philadelphia Church of God. In their ongoing quest to ignore Jesus and what he taught, they are forever looking at Hebrew scriptures for some kind of a hero to come along and save them and to preserve the law that reigns more supremely than Jesus ever will in their lives.
Every year, the goateed self-appointed King and prophet of the PCG has commissioned oratorios on some hero or heroine out of the Old Testament.
PCG's most recent one was all about
Hezekiah. Their interest in him was sparked by the recent discovery of the seals of Isiah and Hezekiah that their students dug up in Israel. They see this as a sign from their god that it is using them to legitimize their standing as the one and only true church.
Besides the absolutely cheesy and sometimes pathetically sad music that is played and sung during these oratorios, every single one of the includes Irish dancers in the production. Irish dance apparently is the one true holy dance that David must have danced, therefore PCG will dance it too!
Of course, it also showcases the grandkids of Flurry who are Irish dancers that regularly compete for awards. The PCG is so infatuated with Irish dance that they now teach it to their kids and have them perform at various church functions through the year. They have even built a studio for this with members tithe money on the cult compound. After all, the elite kids of PCG deserve the best while all the dumb schmucks spend months peddling fruit to their neighbours in order to send Flurry a $100,000 check as the Pacific Northwest PCG members did recently. Gerald Flurry's grandkids thank you!
