Talk:Joseph Tkach Jr./Archive 1

Copyrights and Tkach

Under the direction of Tkach Jr.[1], the church litigated the copyright ownership of Mystery of the Ages with the Philadelphia Church of God, an Armstrong spinoff headed by Gerald Flurry headquartered in Olkahoma[2]. Worldwide was awarded $3,000,000 million dollars[3] in damages for violation of the MOA copyright and for selling the rights to promote other esoteric doctrinal materials authored by Herbert W. Armstrong. This lawsuit compensation obtained from releasing the old doctrinal materials to the public through Gerald Flurry did not escape the notice of some very concerned Evangelicals who wrote about this in Christianity today. [4]

Hi. If you read the link you included from the wcg.org site, you would notice that the $3,000,000 figure was a sale and not damages. There arent major damages for documents historically given away for free.

Mission America

Didnt Dan Rogers take over as the WCG liason to Mission America?

Biased

This entire article is biased against Tkach and the WCG. I call into question the impartiality of the author/s.

This section in particular is hardly neutral:

"The Worldwide Church of God membership, is now a fraction of its original size. One taploid in California showed a cartoon on its cover with Joseph Tkach saying: "Honey I shrunk the church!" Its magazine, The Plain Truth, that used to go to over 7 million people has a circulation of less than 100,000 now. The World Tomorrow broadcast that was seen aroung the world in the 1980's has become history. Ambassador University in Pasadena, California, once a thriving place of learning for young Christians, is now history. The assets of the church are being sold off piece by piece. There is a secrecy connected to most of the sales because of the fact that, in most cases, the assets were originally paid for by tithe money and building fund money from people (most of whom are still true to the principles of the Bible). It is ironic that the State of California attacked the church with an ex parte judgment for this same type of thing (selling off assets) at a time when almost none of this was happening. Now that it really is happening (big time), the State of California is complacent. The Ambassador Auditorium is now a pentecostal church. An Elder of the Church remarked to me that at Feast times there is not the same spirit. There is just a sense of going through the motions. Of course, the Feast times have degenerated into being social club get-togethers since the celebration days of God are no longer considered of any significance by the leadership of the Worldwide church of God."