One of my favorite little sects out there is the Restored Church of God. It’s leader, David Pack is The spokesman for god — by his own humble admission, an apostle, with the same authority as the Apostle Paul. Yes, that Paul, of New Testament fame.
After Katrina hit the Gulf coast, he, like many other ministers, gave a sermon about what True Christians© should do to help.
True Christians© should, in short, continue preaching the gospel and warning the people — synonymous in his group. The gospel — the True Gospel© — is simply that Germany is going to rise again and this time beat America, take it into captivity, and basically make the Nazis look like daycare playmates.
(Confused? It all goes back to ancient simmering hatreds. America, of course, comprises the real Israelites, along with the French, the Dutch, the British — the Lost Ten Tribes. Germany is Assyria. History — ancient or otherwise — is not a strength of this group’s theology. )
False Christians (the vast majority of the 2 billion Christians in the world world, who are deceived and actually worship Satan) give to relief organizations. True Christians© (David Pack’s group — representing at most 0.00005% of the world Christian population) don’t.
His reasoning, though, is stunning biblical hermeneutics. I clipped the relevant portion from the sermon.
In this sermon, Mr. Pack basically informed his followers, ie “the true Christians” that God was punishing these worldy people by sending Katrina and if his followers tried to help they would be going against what God was trying to teach them.