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broadcasting crusades--though the
latter also operates a minor
university.
WHY did you not tell the No.1
TV-viewing audience in America that
we are a CHURCH of long standing? That
the No.1 allocation on our annual
budget is the ministerial payroll
supporting ordained ministers on all
continents of the earth? And that the
devoutness of our membership is
attested to by the fact that more
than 95 percent of all members of
our hundreds of local churches
faithfully attend services with their
children every week?
WHY did you falsely represent us as
having only a financial operation --
IGNORING our primary motivation, which
is SPIRITUAL, proclaiming the TRUE
Gospel message of Jesus Christ to the
world and to our baptized members? WHY
did you deliberately avoid mentioning
that our primary interest, purpose, and
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Armstrong's picture)
activity, is devoutly SPIRITUAL, and that
the financial area is only a minor means
to that end?
WHY did you not tell America that
this present nearly half-century-old
succession of the true Church of God was
raised up and has grown on living faith
in God and in Jesus Christ our Savior
alone--that we never solicit money
from the public?--that although our
members believe in the Christ-taught
doctrine of tithing, the second tithe
does not come to the Church, but is
saved by members for their own expenses
and spiritual enjoyment attending our
biblical annual festivals?--that the
third tithe is contributed only every
third year and goes not into Church
operations, but for the support of our
widows, orphans and poor, thus taking
that burden off the public tax rolls?
You know well that a half-truth, or a
partial truth, can be manipulated to
utterly MISLEAD your audience! Even
more than an outrageous direct lie. Our
attorneys have urged me to sue you for a
misleading, defaming and slanderous
attack on a sincere, devout, upstanding
Christian citizenry. But I prefer to