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Roderick C. Meredith - A Biographical Sketch

By Redfox

discusses the shooting in his March 17 Co-worker letter and in
the March 31 update (this update also contains a commentary by
Richard Ames on the shootings and peoples' response to them
which I find quite illuminating, though not in the way intended)
and April 7 update. Also relevant is the March 24 update. The
shooting is also discussed in Living Church News May-June 2005
in the obituary section (p. 23).
One motivating factor often cited to explain why Terry Ratzmann
did what he did was his severe frustration in finding a wife. In
observing how Meredith wrote about this unprecedented crisis I
was concerned by his lack of focus on the plight of singles in
LCG, who are forbidden to marry anyone outside of the church or
even those of a different race within LCG. I am not aware of
anything new he and the LCG leadership have done on this issue.
These factors do not justify Ratzmann in any way but his life story
does expose a severe problem facing LCG members. This article
discusses the unique problems that singles faced in the old WCG.
LCG is far smaller, it is not an expanding church, and there are
only 7000 members worldwide, and most of them are getting
older. Meredith desperately needs to address this issue and loosen
this tradition. Instead of confronting this issue he chooses to focus
on the old Armstrongite teachings that 'Satan is getting ready to
pour his wrath upon us, that's why this happened.

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