“It it
weren't
for
Christians,
I'd be a
Christian.”
- Mahatma Ghandi
A Letter from the Author
It's tough to take a stand on complicated issues...
August 24, 2006
Yo Readers, Friends, and TruthSeekers in general!
It's just me, and what I think doesn't mean too much to too many people, but it's free, my thoughts, other than the time, that is, that you must spend in reading this letter. So if you've got ten minutes (or 20, if you read slowly), read on, I'll just share what I think about the question of whether or not Church and State should remain separated, what about abortion, the tragedy of Terri Schiavo and what it says very loudly about our society today, brainless book burning and thinking for yourself or handing it over to others in a fast-food-faster-thought kind of way and conspiracies and lies and polite mindless politically correct euphamisms and perhaps a few lions and tigers and bears and even a few oh my's. And the odd chuckle along the way.I think you would pretty much have to be in a "persistent vegetative state" (to coin an all-too-pop culture term of late) to not realize that SOMEthing is going on, that something big, and something bad, is going down, right now, all around us. Some people think it is bad, but very good, in considering the bigger picture, while others think it is bad but completely unfixable (so frankly, my dear, why give damn?), while others are more concerned on whether Nick and Jessica will get back together again. But everyone knows, on varying depths of knowing levels, that times are bad, and going to worse, money or no money, greenhouse effect or not.There are two minorities that have drawn up fiercely powerful political camps, in number to date they are very small minorities, and yet they are shaping the political mindset of the U.S. of America, they are both teaching and pounding that they have the reality, that they are the TRUTH, and that on the other side is insanity, lies, rewritten history and fabricated crippled logic (and BOTH sides are saying this about the other side.And the scary thing is, both sides are telling the truth about the other side. As Twilight Zone as that sounds, it is true. Both sides, scarrily, call to mind Nero sawing on a Hee Haw fiddle while Rome erupted in a ground-level fireworks display to bring down one of the longest lived world-dominating cultures in the history of the known world. In many ways, both sides are ga-ga nutzoid, freakishly weird, wacky, wild and wincingly wrong. But at least they are right about that, right? Um, I mean . . . wrong?
The Liberals
I quite admire many, many liberals. I think, at times, they can think very well (when they are not knee-jerk reacting to Republicans, unthinkingly saying the opposite to whatever comes out of a Republican's beak), and I recommend many of their books, to drop the names of a few Michelle Goldberg's "Kingdom Coming," and Kevin Phillips' "American Theocracy," and very highly Philip Gulley, James Mulholland, "If God is Love" and Randall Balmer's "Thy Kingdom Come." There is stuff in these books I applaud, and applaud wildly. And yet in each of these books by each of these authors I find that they stray into mainstream liberal mindlessness, not quite clear thinking, and sometimes, just sometimes outright "different reality" lies and fabricated "truth," mainly by the first two authors, Michelle Goldberg and Kevin Phillips, both present what I consider a somewhat Twilight Zone mentality when it comes to the case of Terri Schiavo.
And yet these authors, these liberals, are aware of the closeness of an "American Jihad," or even the American Terror Think that is actively rampant in the world today. Their eyes are open to what is coming, by far more so than their ultra conservative counterparts (unfortunately, those over the top into a conquering Christian view are actually imagining a "heaven on Earth" if they can only rid the world of the liberals, a bizarre belief not even hinted at in Scripture, in any Scripture or version thereof, thus by doing extreme evil they think they will be doing ultimate good).
Think about it. Seriously, consider that Andrea Yates is universally damned in the courts of common opinion, because she drowned her five beautiful children purposefully, in the tub in which they usually received their bedtime baths. Evil woman. Yet the same thinkers can call literally the same thing the uninspired euphamism of "a woman's choice." I have not heard anyone call what Andrea Yates did "a woman's choice." They call it murder. It WAS murder. And yet, if the child is inside the mother, then it is not a child, but a bit of flesh, and it is "a woman's choice" if she wishes to terminate this bit of flesh, this "non-child" that cannot be seen by the naked eye.
What Andrea Yates did, and what millions of women do every single day IS murder, and no juggling of sound bytes can change that. But, my caveat is that what Andrea Yates did was due to mental illness, she wasn't faking it, she wasn't thinking "right." Yes, it was conscious, it was skillful thinking, but it was disturbed, confused, and not in touch with reality. And that caveat extends to the millions of women that commit murder every single day by utilizing their universal "woman's choice," and ridding themselves of that troublesome bit of flesh that is growing tumorlike in their belly; these women are just not "thinking RIGHT." They are confused.
I'm not suggesting that very real monsters don't walk among us today. They do. Child-killers who kill with a will, and possibly even pleasure. There are more and more female serial killers, the FBI admits it is a mushroom-cloud phenomenon, it is real, it is happening, more and more women are habitually murdering people. But I'm not talking about these aberrations of nature. I'm talking about good people, good women.
I think women in general are the better people of the two genders, regardless of nationality or race or religion, more women tend to care than do men, about people, about children (I'm not saying that there are not caring men, because there are, I am merely saying that it is probably that if you were to split it into percentages for all the caring and loving people in the world, 80% would be women, and only 20% would be men; is this anecdotal? duh). I think women are horrified at the thought of bringing harm to an innocent child, and women realize better than men that all children are innocent. Women care for children, even the unseen ones, not just those that are outside of the womb.Abortion exists, to the extreme form it does (as a means of contraceptive) because our culture has twisted logic and slammed so deeply so many commercial justifications such as: "...need to finish my education so that my baby can have a better life" or "what kind of life can I give my baby" -- that all these problems can be answered, simply, by: "well, it's a woman's choice."This mental unbalance, a universal mental illness first came into being, of course, because so many men would not live up to their obligations, meet their responsibilities, so for years women have been shouldering far too much responsibility, and they reached a critical break down. They snapped.Good people have suffered serious damage in the capacity to think things through, and these good people have taught their mental illnesses to their children, and as a society we (everyone) loses the ability to judge between right and wrong, good and evil -- just as in Germany during and just prior to World War II, people lost their ability to discern between humanity and monstrosity (and America as a whole just didn't want to get involved, it was just all too icky, none of our business, who are we to judge the Nazis?). In a short period of time, a whole nation can become a monster, if not actively DOing the kiling, then actively supporting it verbally, or even through inaction. It is possible that there was a "silent majority" in Germany truly horrified by what was happening to good human beings.Today there is a silent majority that believes, flat-out, that abortion is wrong. And regardless of religion, or spin zones, sound bytes and bites, it is just a hard pill to swallow, to link up with people who say that not only is abortion GOOD, but they refuse to even call it what it is. In one sense, by their "logic," Andrea Yates was just exercising her rights as a woman, her five precious children were not people at all, not yet -- oh no not yet, because they have not become consumers, like Terri Schiavo, they are non-entities, not people, not until they start buying things, or accessing the welfare system -- Andrea Yates was just saying "no" as is her choice. But we don't buy that, and not many people really DO.I like Michelle Goldberg and Kevin Phillips, very much. They are smart, smart people, and have done excellent investigatory work, and they are aware enough to see trouble approaching while everyone else keeps their eyes clenched shut. But both these fabulous writers take the standard liberal knee-jerk platform on poor Terri Schiavo, they both maintain that she was brain dead, that she was in fact on "LIFE SUPPORT" (perpetuating the false fact that she was living via machine, that a machine was breathing for her, circulating her blood, pumping her heart), and they almost celebrate the "fact" that her "husband" had the right to "pull the plug," whereas with even rudimentary awareness, the man who "had the right" was in no sense her husband, he was someone who had moved on (he was living with another woman, having children with her), but for whatever reason had not divorced Terri Schiavo, and thus by technicality he was her "husband," and years and years and years after her tragic condition began, this "man" remembered that Terri wanted to die, and for whatever bizarre, extremely bizarre reasoning, the courts lined up to say yes to this "husband," this "man," this "remembrance" of "facts." Whereas the truth was that she was no living via machine -- she was being fed by tube.And through whatever extreme other version of reality, liberals line up and say, "Yeah, starving this vegetable is a good thing." And they stick by it. They swear by it. They say that it is TRUTH.It is difficult to stand by such reasoners, even if they are dead RIGHT in other areas. Given this kind of reasoning, this kind of reality, almost any feeling person would opt to vote for George Bush as opposed to John Kerry. There is absolutely no mind control involved, no forcing of votes, most of the people I know lined up and voted for Bush as opposed to Kerry because of these facts, because of these false versions of reality on abortion and the death by starvation fo Terri Schiavo.This is not something you are brainwashed for, it is a conscious choice to stand by THIS, or to stand by THAT . . . oddly enough, the standard "liberal thinking" draws THIS line in the sand: "Abortion is actually good, because it is the freedom of exercising a woman's right to choose, and capitol punishment is decidedly bad, because no human has the right to end the life of a human being."Is the bump in the logic road evident here, or is it more of a giant HOLE someone placed right in the middle of the freeway. An innocent life is good to end, but a guilty life must be protected. Babies must die, and criminals (even the most horrific of them) must live. Does this make SENSE?It was in my first year of college, around the time I was throwing in the proverbial towel on being a "religious" person, I walked consciously away from God (never doubting at all that there was a God), but in a Logics class we were given the assignment of deciding whether or not abortion is good or bad, employing formula to arrive at the conclusion. At that point, around the age of 20, my platform would have been this: "Abortion is bad, it is ending the life of a human being, but there are some incidents in which a bad thing must be done, to protect another life, or with mercy to terminate a malformed life in the making." So abortion is bad, it should be illegal, but that there are some special, unique cases where it ought to be allowed. That's pretty much how I would have stated my case back in them old days (and even then, I thought there was something very wrong, something very unbalanced, about the people screaming on television, resulting to violence and obscenity to stand against abortion).I was surprised by what LOGIC (adding a true expression to a true expression to arrive at a true conclusion) ultimately said, which was that ABORTION IS WRONG, any way you look at it. Regardless of the situation, the players, the money involved. Logic says that this new life, regardless of its supreme innocence, its value, that life is worthy of existence and no other criteria trumps its sacredness. I was a little shocked, as a 20-year-old, I would have thought it would have been just the opposite, that logic proved that abortion was good, but that there were some small criteria established to limit its application -- I mean, THAT is what the media presents, isn't it? Isn't that what liberals preach as if it were a religion all on its own?Today, at almost 45 years of age, I see abortion a little differently than I did when I was 20 years of age. Due to logic, I have shifted to see abortion as always wrong, but because of my feelings as a human being, my empathy and sympathy, I can still understand why people would consider abortion in the extreme dilemma of pregnancy due to incest, or rape (yes, even in those instances, it is not the child's fault, the child had nothing to do with the incest, or the rape, the child should not be punished for the sins of the parent, generally, probably 98% yes the sins of the FATHER, not the mother . . . but anyone can understand WHY a woman would just want to end all the nightmare, the problem, the conundrum, just get it over with and eradicate all traces fo the crime, which unfortunately IS an innocent child). I can understand this, as we ARE human, we are sloppily emotional, we hurt, we yearn for release, we want it to have never happened, we want the consequences to just go the hell away already -- we can all understand this. But the truth is, I know a very wonderful person who was the product of rape, and she is a deep human being, compassionate, she has gone on to mother several children, and even though she was ill-treated as a child due to the nature of her conception, she COULD have just as easily been exercised as a "woman's choice," in plain words to be completely and utterly dehumanized, a non-entity, and she would have never existed as a woman that would later give birth to many children.In the end it is NOT abortion that is the true issue, but the way people think of the act, what do they accept as a reality -- is this aborted "creature" a human being or a flabby bit of flesh? Are the ten fingers and ten toes real, or imagined? Anyone who has ever been pregnant, and thrilled, they know the reality, this is a very real human life, it is my child, it is a baby, it is a person, and this person might someday have children of their own, accomplish great things, and might even love me. Or is the reality that this is absolutely nothing inside me, nothing but a "choice," and someday if I let it get out of hand, it MIGHT become a person, but if I slay it before it sees the light of day, then it doesn't count, it ain't real.On abortion, people tend to fall one way or the other, not to suggest that it is random like an apple falling off a tree -- but people CAN go one way without thinking through the issue. To the best of my imagination, I cannot see anyone consciously WANTING to fall into the one camp, I think it happens because they have been manipulated by our culture or our lack of true culture. People SHOULD arrive at their conclusions because they have thought things through, but that is NOT how our culture tickles us to operate, our culture pushes us to think "go with the money," the heart of capitalism, commercialism, if it makes money, it's good, if it costs money it is bad, if it makes money ooh boy, if it doesn't make money it ain't a person. In short, greed.Abortion is a big issue, and it is very tough for most people to align themselves with those that champion it as if it is a GOOD thing, even if you might agree with them on everything else. Those that champion abortion, passionately argue against capitol punishment, they claim that nothing a person can DO deserves death as a consequence, and there is just a huge, huge short circuit of thought there, an amazing anomaly of distorted thinking. Which produces a portion of society that smiles when a woman is condemned to death by starvation, not because she committed any crime, but because she is broken and cannot speak for herself.What's this world coming to? It's a scary question, no matter which way you look at it.
Your money matters. It matters more than you. God is good and wants to gift His chosen ones with big, big moolah. And if you don't gotz that big big moolah, then obviously you ain't blessed by God, and if you ain't blessed by God, you obviously are not one of His chosen ones, His anointed.This isn't just a malformed product of false religion. It is alive and well, powerful, it is changing the world, and it has no conscience whatsoever, it is all about more, more and more, and profit, profit, and PROFIT, it is empowering both the Republicans and the Democrats, it is pushed as "The American Dream" (and increasingly, it is set up so aside from criminal activities, it is impossible to achieve). Big money pushes what is popular, is creates "superstars," it enthrones great and mighty "sports gods" and "movie stars," and it is building churches and temples and stadiums all over the world.And the thing is, it is not even REAL. It is not alive. It is more a machine, like a giant world-wide robot, it is fashioned somewhat in the image of man, and its cells are comprised of three-piece suit executives seated at boardrooms, nodding manicured heads, and it sends out its media.Is the media LIBERAL? You bet it is, and this does not just mean "the news." It is television, in general, as well as newspapers and movies. And this liberal portrayal of "reality," well, to say the least it infuriates Conservatives, it makes them more than just a tad crazy. It makes them gnash their teeth and call for a Christian take-over of Society, to fix things, to bring God back into the country. So in many respects, the present state of lunacy among Christian Conservatives can and does tie straight back to the way the TV blares its blue light.The TV shows what is cool, what is NEEDed, what you don't wanna be, and presently it is defining sexuality. Think of a show that hasn't jokingly had two of the male characters ooze, on the point of fainting: "Oh boy, who DOESN'T wanna see two babes kiss?!"It's a cultural phenomenon, slamming into a watcher, from every show, that men want, desire, are attracted to and turned on by lesbians. That a man watching lesbians is like, well, the ultimate.In reality, the natural reaction to lesbianism is: "What in the WORLD is that all about? Is it a joke?" Kind of like rap music. But the media knows the mantra, the law to live by:Repeat a lie often enough, it will be accepted as truth.
(unfortunately, Christianity itself is not immune to this powerful mantra)
“These true believers subscribe to a fantastical theology concocted in the 19th century by a couple of immigrant preachers who took disparate passages from the Bible and wove them into a narrative that has captivated the imagination of millions of Americans. Its outline is rather simple, if bizarre: Once Israel has occupied the rest of its 'biblical lands,' legions of the Antichrist will attack it, triggering a final showdown in the valley of Armageddon. As the Jews who have not been converted are burned, the messiah will return for the rapture. True believers will be lifted out of their clothes and transported to heaven, where, seated next to the right hand of God, they will watch their political and religious opponents suffer plagues of boils, sores, locusts and frogs during the several years of tribulation that follow.”
- Bill Moyers
“Many Christians are unaware of a strong undercurrent in conservative Christianity promoting an American jihad. This movement, often referred to as reconstructionism or dominion theology, argues the United States is a Christian nation with the need to purify itself and dominate the world. Originating with a theologian named Rousas John Rushdoony, this movement works to reconstruct a rigid and harsh religious culture based on 'biblical' principles. Once the United States is purified, it hopes to use military power to conquer the world.”
- Philip Gulley, James Mulholland
If God is Love
“Reconstructionism seeks to replace democracy with a theocratic elite that would govern by imposing their interpretation of 'Biblical Law.' Reconstructionism would eliminate not only democracy but many of its manifestations, such as labor unions, civil rights laws, and public schools. Women would be generally relegated to hearth and home. Insufficiently Christian men would be denied citizenship, perhaps executed. So severe is this theocracy that it would extend capital punishment beyond such crimes as kidnapping, rape, and murder to include, among other things, blasphemy, heresy, adultery, and homosexuality.”
- Frederrick Clarkson
It's really about that deadly thing, False Christianity, and it truly is a deadly thing. Liberals laugh at the idea, that these "Jesus Freaks" could ever harm them. They're wimpy, right? They say "turn the other cheek," these conservative Christians, don't they?
No, um, I'm sorry to tell you, they don't.
Is the idea of an American Theocracy a joke? No it is not. Is it possible? Probably not right now, not at the minute. But you must keep in mind, that this minute doesn't stick around all that long, in fact in a minute from now it'll be gone, and it'll never come back.
Rome became "Christian," and it happened in the next minute. No, it was not "Real Christianity," it had hardly to do with anything about Jesus or following the "Way of the Master," it was an awful lot like the circus troops in operation RIGHT NOW. America, right now, is very close to the Roman Sideshow Christianity.
Was this country built on Christianity? I'm sorry to tell you, NO, it was not. Was it built on the Ten Commandments? NO, it was not. Perhaps the founding fathers took a peek at the Big Ten, perhaps a few of them were actually "Christian."
But you have to remember, Christianity is not a political party.
It is not a political power. It is not the police department.
Judas Iscariot wanted all those things, he wanted a Batman Jesus but that's not who Jesus was. Christianity is not about going out and getting the bad guys, it is not about stopping crime, it is not about cleaning things up.
I know it is easy to forget this. And I know a lot of people "joined the party" and thus have never known what it is so very easy to forget. That Jesus wasn't a cop, He wasn't a soldier, He wasn't an elected politician. He never said anything remotely close to: "Get out the vote!"
Jesus' main message was: "Show them the way through love. Show them the way through forgiving them. Show them the way by bending over backwards to prove you are no threat to them, if need be go the extra mile when they unfairly force you to do something. Even if they hit you, forgive them, and if needs be, turn your face so that they can hit you again. God doesn't want anyone in His family that is forced to be there, and God doesn't hate a single person, not even the worst of us, as He created them (us), each and every one. Go loves you, and so you in turn may love others, even if you disagree with them, even if they don't like you. Even if they don't live their lives the way they really, really ought to."
This sounds wimpy, don't it? You ain't be likin' it, cuz you have heard that Jesus said: "I didn't come to bring peace, I came to swing a sword at these bad guys." But the teachers of such deadly nonsense are not Christian, they do not follow Christ, the Name of Jesus is like the taste of blood in their mouths, and they are nearing their time of ravening.
Christianity should be a LIGHT to show the way. It should illuminate. A light doesn't grab people, it enables their eyes to see. A light doesn't establish "times and laws," it chases away the darkness. And if you can't understand what I'm saying here, then at this time you will never understand me. Perhaps you don't want to understand me, perhaps you KNOW that I am wrong, while you, all this time, ARE RIGHT.
Christianity, not a light, but a club.
Christianity, not a seasoning, but a LAW.
Christianity, not a way, but the American Way.
Christianity, not free-will choice, but election by force.
Yes, millions of people believe it, want it, preach it.
That's what "Deceiving the Elect" is all about.
And ssshhhhhhhh, it's all real, and they're listening.
God bless you and your families!
Art et Amour Toujours
Douglas Christian Larsen
“The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an
engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial
constructions into a contrivance to filch wealth and power to
themselves... these clergy, in fact, constitute the real Anti-Christ.”
- Thomas Jefferson
“For having lived long, I have experienced many instances
of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration,
to change opinions, even on important subjects, which
I once thought right but found to be otherwise.”
- Benjamin Franklin
“Aim at
heaven
and you get
earth
thrown in.
Aim at
earth
and you get
neither.”
- C.S. Lewis
Think about it. Long and hard. Present-day "Christianity" is
drumming it into clapping followers that if they can take
over earth, remake it the way God likes it, then Jesus will
finally be happy, and come again.
AIM AT EARTH, they say. But you get neither.
“Despite their
putative claims
to the faith,
the leaders of the religious right are vicious toward
anyone who
refuses to
kowtow to their
version of
orthodoxy, and
their machinery
of vilification
strikes with
ruthless,
dispassionate efficiency.”
“Despite their
putative claims
to the faith,
the leaders of the religious right are vicious toward
anyone who
refuses to
kowtow to their
version of
orthodoxy, and
their machinery
of vilification
strikes with
ruthless,
dispassionate efficiency.”
- Randall Balmer
Before he played "The Governator" Arnold Schwarzenegger played a nasty robot with a bad-to-the-bone attitude; the robot had no empathy and you couldn't reason with it, you couldn't bargain with it, it had a job to do and it was going to do it no matter who got run over in the process.
The true ruler of the world at this moment of time ain't Reps or Dems or Jihadists or Imperialists or Fascists -- it is a scary, scary truth that Big Business is ruling right now, and the religion is profit (and that word is truly interchangeable with "prophet" in this new and improved religion), and Michael Douglas' character in the movie "Wall Street" spoke the new mantra in this brave new world: "Greed is GOOD." We have big business influence mandating morality, what is acceptable thought and speech, and very soon big business religion will link up with big business politics (it's been in the wings for quite some time). And the perception will be the accepted REALITY, that greed is good. Greed is good.The TV Religionists proclaim, over and over, "It ain't a money thang!" But they swear they have heard from God, and God wantsyou to send in your money, so it is an OBEDIENCE THANG. Listen to them, and OBEY.
Big Business Terminator Morality
The Conservatives
Then there are those "conservatives," um, and okay just saying that word can up-front and personal tend to be a very confusing topic and term, especially since in the current world and modern definition "conservatives" are not the ones who champion conserving the world and its resources, and since generally conservatives tend to champion DEBT as opposed to financial and fiscal responsibility, it has become rather a contradiction in terms (and then when you apply "conservative" to Christianity, it can get VERY scary). Anyone that tries to sell you the idea that one side is Wrong with a "big-letter" W and that the other side is Right with the capital R, is doing just that, they are selling something, and they are concerned more about Profit than Truth (with the respective capital P and T). From what I read, both extremes are so far over the top as to be completely into the Twilight Zone.The current media depiction of conservatives if of very angry, bitter, mean and mean-spirited people, people who are blatantly stupid, who have the facade of morality without of its deeper tennets that spring out of a person in kindness, caring, love, affection, tolerance, deep thinking and the spirit of "we're all in this together."Okay, so maybe that is not a media depiction. There really are a lot of loud people who seek and hog the television camera, who are bigoted, mean, cruel, and extremely haughty, who shout things like "God hates fags" (which is not true) and who disrupt the funeral ceremonies of heroic young people who were killed while serving in the military, all the while mindlessly babbling: "Yes, Jesus loves me! Yes, Jesus loves me!" (which, surprisingly, against all credibility, is TRUE). Sadly, there is a very visible element of the worst kind of idiocy, very vocal, sprouting and spouting the worst ever hate-laden fascist-leaning venom, and so sadly, it IS called Conservatism AND Christianity.But these loud people don't speak for everyone that is not liberal. There are those people scratching their heads and switching their glance back and forth between the extreme liberals and the extreme conservatives, and wondering: "Can I associate, politically OR spiritually with EITHER group?"The totally negative aspect of this group that calls itself the triple-threat "Christian" and "Conservative" AND "Republican," is that they are speaking more and more violently, while at the same time pushing to cross over from "speaking" this violence, to DOing this violence. Pat Robertson advocating holy hitmen to "take out" the enemies of Christendom, Jerry Falwell loudly proclaiming: "We are right, and everyone else is wrong!" (I actually heard him deliver this statement in a "sermon," proclaimed loudly, proudly, and without hiding his arrogance.) Rob Parsley mixing his semi-literate half-gibber half-rant "sermons" on "silent no more," working his circus audience into a literal sweat-frenzy, shouting that we are to be commandos and stab with our commando knives, take out the enemy -- in short the enemy is muslim, jew, or anyone that won't send in their "seed faith" monies; people will not realize how dangerous this is, how downright deadly this is, until Rod Parsley is elected President of the United States.In all the screaming and money scams and push for political power, LOVE has vanished from the mindset of Christianity; and that just ain't "Christianity" any more. Hate? Not Christian. Power hungry? Ditto.Media, Tool of Big Business,
along with Politics, of course.
A group of would-be terrorists are busted in Florida, a ragtag bunch with dreams of fire and the deaths of innocents, the screaming painful deaths of innocents, the more the better. Standard terrorist stuff, right? But what is the spin the media puts on it, knowing all along that you, their boob, is going to swallow it like your daily vitamin?
A sneering woman in business suit stands with the requisite mic in hand, literally sneering: "No money, no power, really not a threat at all." Turn the channel, a beefy guy with a red face with the identical mic: "Some say this is just the government, fluffing up another supposed terrorist cell. The ALLEGED terrorists..."Silly thing, really, you know, terrorists, raining death and destruction, when they don't gotz the POWUH, when they don't gotz the MONEH, when they don't gotz the CONNEXSHUN. You'd think a bunch of nobodies brought down the World Trade Center with cheapo Kmart 2-inch box cutters, retailing $3.99 a piece. Yeah, like THAT could happen. I mean, where these nobody guys gonna get the big bucks like that to wreac havoc and destruction.Michael Moore mentality, coat it with enough McDonalds grease, a couple of joints, and you have a new and improved reality, we're all brothers, man, even big fat stupid white men.Sean Penn so sincerely showing us, proving to us through the miracle of TEEVEE, that Iraquis are all sweety-pies, no matter that their King of Terrorists is chuckling wetly as innocent people that have somehow pissed him off are shoved through hamburger grinders, ALIVE. I mean, hamburgers are the new manna from heaven, right? Perry Stone can almost get behind that one, if it'll make him a few bucks. We can save the world with hamburgers.Afterall, don't terrorists have the right to express themselves? In a Bill Mahr intelligence way (oxymoron intended), terrorists are brave, heroic, while their button-pushing enemies are cowardly lions with a taste for oil. Crude, man, crude oil.The world, and reality is defined thorugh the TEEVEE set. One day there are nine planets, and the next day Pluto is executed. Science has saved the day, we MUST trust in science (it'll increase our bust, afterall, and bigger is best, especially in the chest). Science giveth, and Science taketh away.And the Media Christian, is either one of two things, 1. a big-haired creep with loads of dough, begging, begging and begging for bucks, in order to bless you, of cough, of cough; or 2. an idiotic loud-mouthed zombie chanting: "The world, the universe and everything is only 6,000 years old, the world, the universe and everything is only 6,000 years old. Join us. Join us. Or burn in hell forever."The reality is that only a very small group of people calling themselves "Christian" are making a chant anywhere close to that, that God's big bang happened 6,000 years ago, and you better buy it, or burn baby burn. God, eternal, exists in this black void, until one day, 6,000 years ago, He creates heaven and angels and all the stars and earth and Adam and Eve, and Adam and Eve are His only peeps. Yeah, 6,000 years ago, it happened, let's print the history books.The Bible makes it clear that a whole lot of stuff existed when He came here to this mud ball, and started working miracles upon it. Genesis 1 details how God began our history, that the earth was "without form and void." That God existed a whole long time before this day, and that He had created angels a whole long time before this day, that He had been in the act of creating for a very long, long time. But the height of egocentricity is that God thought long and hard, and created everything, literally EVERYthing, for mankind -- no wait, NOT for mankind, but for MAN (and woman can share, well, a little bit of it, but she better shut up if she knows what's good for her) and now He wants mankind to kick the crap out of the world, literally stomp it and rape it, and this is dominion, this is good, this is dominion, this is what Jesus wants, this is dominion, join us, join us, join us. That anyone who disagrees with this Secret Rapture mentality, is a long-haired tree-hugging vegetarian low-life scumbag pagan, and they're gonna burn in hell, like forever, anyway, so why not set them on fire, like today?Yes, there ARE those that firmly believe that when God said: "Let there be light..." He was doing so because He had just gotten the idea, that it had not existed before this time, that He held it in His hands like a glowstick (Creation, the ultimate laser and light show), and then a few seconds later God got the idea to roll this "light" into a ball and make the sun, and hang it in the sky.Almost everyone who reduces God's reality to such a simplistic notion, as well ignores the end process to this creation, that God blessed a specific day, and made it holy, ask them about it and they will begin a whole tap-dance routine to explain "Well yeah, the PRINCIPLE exists, uh, existed, but it just means we can pick ANY day, and transfer the holiness to THAT day, yeah, it sounds good, right?"It is a form of Christianity, a small group, a very loud and politically powerful group, that does not keep His laws, and they call themselves "Christian" for hidden reasons. And they are more frequently NOT calling themselves "Christian," but have taken the next step, and they have begun to openly admit that they are "little-g gods."And you're NOT terrified?Homosexuality -- Does God Hate'em?
Granted, it is only the most bizarre and hideous incarnations of Christianity that teach or scream that God hates homosexuals -- the Bible doesn't teach anything of the sort; in fact, homosexuality, though listed as a sin, is not defined anywhere as worse than the standard "normal guy" sins, such as lust, or lying, failure to keep the Sabbath, or just plain ole being inhospitable (in fact, if you do not have hospitality, it seems God views this worse than just about anything else). There are people that won't like me saying "it's a sin," but that's not my opinion, that's just one of the sins listed in the Bible.
Do you feel you have the right to storm into a man's house and steal the ham sandwich out of his hand, because God said it is abomination to eat ham sandwiches? Or is it only okay to break into a man's house to bring down "Old Testament Justice" upon his sorry head, if you think he might be in there doing strange things to another man? Because God calls such things abomination. In other words, their abomination is bad, bad, sicko bad, but your abomination is a-okay, because you belive Jesus died on the cross to give you the freedom to eat ham sandwiches?On the other hand, you would have to be blind to not notice that there is an extremely influential "influence" carrying on, just behind the scenes. The proverbial "conspiracy." This one a tad pink, or some would say purple. As stated earlier, the influence is proliferating every nook and cranny of the media, politics, and just mainstream humor. The push for "gay marriage," which is rather a contradiction in terms, don't you think (I just can't stop wondering why "gay people" would desire to emulate heterosexuals in their customs, pretend to be a bride and a groom, except, you know, with two men, or two women. Why marriage? Why WANT to be married, if you are gay?)I can understand, and most people can too, that gays desire to be treated equally. They should get the same benefits, the same health care (or lack thereof? sadly this is more the case), the same tax breaks. They are people.But marriage has always been a heterosexual thing, in all cultures, with homosexuality being the standard aberration of nature (in many cultures, an accepted aberration, a respected one). So WHY in the world push for something that in the long run is going to bring you terrible pain and suffering and great harm (I'm not referring to marriage as those things, but anyone who has ever been in a bad marriage COULD make those points, albeit chuckling).What I'm talking about is that a terrible beast, slumbering until now, is waking. And it is going to be an angry beast, an exceptionally self-defined "moral" beast, one that will establish times and laws, and will impose its authority and dominion (two of its favorite buzzwords) upon anything around it that breathes (and if it, the beast, meets with opposition, that opposition will soon cease to breathe). This slumbering beast ain't "Christianity" (but the beast has been hypnotized to BELIEVE that it IS Christianity, that it is superior Christianity, True Christianity, with a moral imperative to stomp on the unbeliever. And I am not using the word "STOMP" metaphorically, although I am, as the beast's stomp will surely be worse than any previously witnessed "stomp" in history.Does the beast have the right to impose its dominion and authority? Of course not. Christianity is about tolerance and forgiveness, mercy and grace, and witness. It is not and has never been about power, and force, and man-made laws (it is easily argued that "Christianity" has ALWAYS been about these things, but this is not the Christianity that Jesus revealed, this is the hijacking, throughout history, sometimes weak and ineffective, mewling like a kitten, othertimes wrathful and vengeful and furiously destructive, whereas a persecuted minority has ALWAYS existed, sometimes quite quietly, alongside the powerful, angry beast, and this humble, quiet "shadow minority" has always been about tolerance and forgiveness, mercy and grace, and witness).God does not hate fags, as is popularly shouted at rallies. God loves homosexuals every bit as much as he does heterosexuals. But the beast will post laws that say otherwise.Right now it might be amusing, to stand in front of the cage, laughing at the beast, pointing at it and lisping: "How droll!" Even poke it with a stick. But if you had the inkling that this beast -- a great and ugly animal lying passively on its side, watching you with scarlet eyes -- that this beast would soon stand up and shake its great body, undulate its containing bars to the four corners of the earth, and that this beast would soon smile and pounce from its bars. Would you prance in front of it? Or would you run and hide?Conclusion (finally, whew!)
Christianity should not try to CONTROL anyone, not society, not neighbors, not other people's children, and certainly not the world. The Kingdom of God is NOT something that we make, or force, or vote to bring into being. When we get down to the stainless steel tacks (I think they are much better than brass tacks, although they probably do cost more) Christianity is about suggesting a better world, it is about modeling that better world, personally, IN US. That WE have the better world, inside of us, because of WHO is inside of us, and that idea pretty much seems delusional, to the world, and today, to most of Christianity as well.
Christians in general have a tough time realizing that "Christianity" should be based, focused on, and watching at all times JESUS, and Jesus did not go around trying to stop the fornicators. Jesus loved the fornicators and forgave them, He showed them a better way. Period. He didn't go around kicking in doors like Batman; Jesus didn't do the superhero role.But, of course, this site ain't about Christianity.It's about Religion Gone Wild.
One of our primary
responsibilities, is to
think for ourselves.
Am I doing that?
Or am I trusting others?
I am,
therefore
I think.
