Tuesday, December 18, 2007
The Angels Did Say
The Movie that they Don't Want you to See
-and you can't even see it now in DC or NY. It isn't here yet.
NOELLE
http://www.noellethemovie.com/
Apparently it is so controversial that the Catholic Tube people have trash talked it down. Why? Because it features a Priest who has a "thing" for a Parishioner- like that never happens.
I love that the Priest and Parisioner are played by people who are married in real life. A couple of their kids are in the movie too.
Why isn't this in DC and NY?
See the trailer here above and the catholic-tube reaction below.
"A new movie was released a few weeks ago with the claim of being a “Christian” movie that also has a “pro life” message. But the movie revolves around 2 priests, one of whom is an acoholic who is contemplating marrying a woman, and another priest who is portrayed as void of faith and is in love with the same woman.
The movie mocks all that is Catholic and is produced by a Protestant organization. Here is a preview of the movie, which can raise some of the red flags, but does not go into detail about the anti-catholic tones in the movie."
-and you can't even see it now in DC or NY. It isn't here yet.
NOELLE
http://www.noellethemovie.com/
Apparently it is so controversial that the Catholic Tube people have trash talked it down. Why? Because it features a Priest who has a "thing" for a Parishioner- like that never happens.
I love that the Priest and Parisioner are played by people who are married in real life. A couple of their kids are in the movie too.
Why isn't this in DC and NY?
See the trailer here above and the catholic-tube reaction below.
"A new movie was released a few weeks ago with the claim of being a “Christian” movie that also has a “pro life” message. But the movie revolves around 2 priests, one of whom is an acoholic who is contemplating marrying a woman, and another priest who is portrayed as void of faith and is in love with the same woman.
The movie mocks all that is Catholic and is produced by a Protestant organization. Here is a preview of the movie, which can raise some of the red flags, but does not go into detail about the anti-catholic tones in the movie."
Monday, December 17, 2007
Cynthia Butler Answers Cynthia Tucker
How Bought Can You Be?
Cynthia Tucker in a recent editorial headliner for a major Atlanta paper argues against the Christian "right" coming down against MIT Romney because of his religion. Here's the news: the Christian "left" and the Christian "wrong" don't like that he is a Mormon either. Count a few Catholics into that equation as well. Thus, he is unelectable in a General Election. Now, unless Ms. Tucker is playing the backhanded compliment game of jockey propping someone up whom the Democrats know is unelectable, her editorial is a joke.
First, the snide derision of those who think Mormonism is some satanic worship is the kind of mockery that mocks its mocker. In fact, Mormons themselves maintain quite openly that the one we know as Jesus was the "spirit brother of Lucifer" according to their extra-biblical writings. http://en.fairmormon.org/Jesus_Christ_is_the_brother_of_Satan
Christians base their beliefs on Christian and Hebraic Scripture. Mormons base their beliefs on the Book of Mormon which contains the teachings of a False Prophet- the kind that were automatically stoned to death in the days of the First Hebrew Testament. We do not worship the same things as Mormons. Our belief systems contradict each other. For starters Mormons do not hold that Jesus Christ was Divine and refute the seminal foundational first chapter of John which maintains that in the Beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word Was God and the Word became Flesh and Dwelled among us. Mormons place Jesus on the level of all God's children-namely, us. It is the Supreme Hubris and heresy against Jesus' nature. Like all heresy it spawns manifestations of evil outcome- some of which the Justice Department has volumes of files on.
In the current church-state Establishment Clause debate context, we do not permit the establishment of any religion. But neither do we constitutionally prohibit a person's faith from informing their decision-making processes. That would be as humanly impossible to do as asking them to divorce themselves from the perspectives that living in their skin color conditioned them.
So it is entirely fair game to wonder about the foundational beliefs of any candidate- and entirely appropriate to reject that candidate if one finds their foundational belief system objectionable.
The question is not whether he can lead. The question is to where he will lead. Assume they all can lead to somewhere.
That is why it is the DUTY of everyone to investigate DEEPLY the tenents of Mormonism before voting for Romney, and before penning editorials that attempt to legitimate the view
with a few scripture quotes. You are going to see distortions in this area because the man is a filthy rich business superstar who has an organization that is paying people- paying Media- and we have just begun to see this sort of invidious indoctrination which will be magnified by lightyears if the man is President.
Cynthia L. Butler, Esq.
a graduate of Georgetown Law Center is an attorney
practicing in Washington, DC with twenty years of
litigation experience nationally; a past election
reform activist and volunteer with three past
Presidential campaigns.
Cynthia Tucker in a recent editorial headliner for a major Atlanta paper argues against the Christian "right" coming down against MIT Romney because of his religion. Here's the news: the Christian "left" and the Christian "wrong" don't like that he is a Mormon either. Count a few Catholics into that equation as well. Thus, he is unelectable in a General Election. Now, unless Ms. Tucker is playing the backhanded compliment game of jockey propping someone up whom the Democrats know is unelectable, her editorial is a joke.
First, the snide derision of those who think Mormonism is some satanic worship is the kind of mockery that mocks its mocker. In fact, Mormons themselves maintain quite openly that the one we know as Jesus was the "spirit brother of Lucifer" according to their extra-biblical writings. http://en.fairmormon.org/Jesus_Christ_is_the_brother_of_Satan
Christians base their beliefs on Christian and Hebraic Scripture. Mormons base their beliefs on the Book of Mormon which contains the teachings of a False Prophet- the kind that were automatically stoned to death in the days of the First Hebrew Testament. We do not worship the same things as Mormons. Our belief systems contradict each other. For starters Mormons do not hold that Jesus Christ was Divine and refute the seminal foundational first chapter of John which maintains that in the Beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word Was God and the Word became Flesh and Dwelled among us. Mormons place Jesus on the level of all God's children-namely, us. It is the Supreme Hubris and heresy against Jesus' nature. Like all heresy it spawns manifestations of evil outcome- some of which the Justice Department has volumes of files on.
In the current church-state Establishment Clause debate context, we do not permit the establishment of any religion. But neither do we constitutionally prohibit a person's faith from informing their decision-making processes. That would be as humanly impossible to do as asking them to divorce themselves from the perspectives that living in their skin color conditioned them.
So it is entirely fair game to wonder about the foundational beliefs of any candidate- and entirely appropriate to reject that candidate if one finds their foundational belief system objectionable.
The question is not whether he can lead. The question is to where he will lead. Assume they all can lead to somewhere.
That is why it is the DUTY of everyone to investigate DEEPLY the tenents of Mormonism before voting for Romney, and before penning editorials that attempt to legitimate the view
with a few scripture quotes. You are going to see distortions in this area because the man is a filthy rich business superstar who has an organization that is paying people- paying Media- and we have just begun to see this sort of invidious indoctrination which will be magnified by lightyears if the man is President.
Cynthia L. Butler, Esq.
a graduate of Georgetown Law Center is an attorney
practicing in Washington, DC with twenty years of
litigation experience nationally; a past election
reform activist and volunteer with three past
Presidential campaigns.
The Warped Trivialization of War
Here we Go Again Folks- ARE YOU KIDDING ME Bishop's Conference!
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/12/16/nh_catholic_diocese_issues_voting_guide/
New Hampshire official Catholic Archdiocese/hierarchy has come out with the good Catholic Voter Guide. It doesn't say the only issue this election is Abortion, but close. It says the pre-eminent issue is doing the least harm to human life in the areas of Abortion, cloning, euthenasia and embryonic stem cell research.
(Nevermind that the science has already much mooted the debate on the stem cell research in that they have discovered ways to generate new "embryonic" stem cells from adult)
War it puts in the class of social issues like economic justice.
HAVE YOU LEARNED NOTHING IN 6 YEARS OF THIS ENDLESS WAR GOOD PEOPLE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE?
At this point, you just have to ignore whatever the Catholic Archdiocese in New Hampshire thinks because their official position is off its rocker.
WHAT IMPACT ON LIFE DO YOU THINK WAR HAS? WAR BY DEFINITION INTENDS TO KILL LIFE. And it doesn't care what innocent collateral life gets in the way in this case.
How about 4,000 DEAD US SOLDIERS? (Surpassing the numbers killed in 9-11)
How about the destroyed lives of 40,000 severely mentally traumatically brain injured post traumatized kids who will never work real jobs. How about the dead, murdered, suicided and tortured prisoners in CIA interrogation centers, Abu Ghraib, Bagram and Guantanamo?
What do you think that they are doing in a "WAR?" Playing ultimate Frizbee?
That this registered as a little trivialized minimized social problem to the Archdiocese in New Hampshire demonstrates how completely irrelevant the Catholics in New Hampshire should be. Fortunately the ones in the rest of the country read a paper and a few blogs so have a realistic view of how demonically eclipsed reality has become under the Bush Doctrine.
ARE YOU EVEN COUNTING THE DEAD IRAQIs? OF COURSE NOT- WHY COUNT THEM WHEN THEY DON' T COUNT.
WAR- a totally unnecessary profiteering morally bankrupt waste of 9 Billion US dollars.
Good People of New Hampshire- YOU ARE CRAZY if you follow this formula and elect anyone who maintains the status quo on the War Angle. Too crazy to vote in fact. Stay home and watch EWTN reruns.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/12/16/nh_catholic_diocese_issues_voting_guide/
New Hampshire official Catholic Archdiocese/hierarchy has come out with the good Catholic Voter Guide. It doesn't say the only issue this election is Abortion, but close. It says the pre-eminent issue is doing the least harm to human life in the areas of Abortion, cloning, euthenasia and embryonic stem cell research.
(Nevermind that the science has already much mooted the debate on the stem cell research in that they have discovered ways to generate new "embryonic" stem cells from adult)
War it puts in the class of social issues like economic justice.
HAVE YOU LEARNED NOTHING IN 6 YEARS OF THIS ENDLESS WAR GOOD PEOPLE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE?
At this point, you just have to ignore whatever the Catholic Archdiocese in New Hampshire thinks because their official position is off its rocker.
WHAT IMPACT ON LIFE DO YOU THINK WAR HAS? WAR BY DEFINITION INTENDS TO KILL LIFE. And it doesn't care what innocent collateral life gets in the way in this case.
How about 4,000 DEAD US SOLDIERS? (Surpassing the numbers killed in 9-11)
How about the destroyed lives of 40,000 severely mentally traumatically brain injured post traumatized kids who will never work real jobs. How about the dead, murdered, suicided and tortured prisoners in CIA interrogation centers, Abu Ghraib, Bagram and Guantanamo?
What do you think that they are doing in a "WAR?" Playing ultimate Frizbee?
That this registered as a little trivialized minimized social problem to the Archdiocese in New Hampshire demonstrates how completely irrelevant the Catholics in New Hampshire should be. Fortunately the ones in the rest of the country read a paper and a few blogs so have a realistic view of how demonically eclipsed reality has become under the Bush Doctrine.
ARE YOU EVEN COUNTING THE DEAD IRAQIs? OF COURSE NOT- WHY COUNT THEM WHEN THEY DON' T COUNT.
WAR- a totally unnecessary profiteering morally bankrupt waste of 9 Billion US dollars.
Good People of New Hampshire- YOU ARE CRAZY if you follow this formula and elect anyone who maintains the status quo on the War Angle. Too crazy to vote in fact. Stay home and watch EWTN reruns.
Prayer Request
Please pray with me that church that considers itself the only true Church, that worships a trinitarian Holy Family of Father, Son, Holy Ghost as made incarnately manifest through the human birth of an infant in human form, Jesus, to the Holy Family of Mary and Joseph, would not remain so off the tracks as to believe that the holiest noblest of people are only those who eschew having their own families.
Because be assured, God thinks it is more precious that a man read bedtime stories to his child, kiss him goodnight and tuck him in bed than watching late night TV with the Pope.
Because be assured, God thinks it is more precious that a man read bedtime stories to his child, kiss him goodnight and tuck him in bed than watching late night TV with the Pope.
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Mendelssohn - Elijah - O rest in the Lord - Dorothea Fayne
"Oh Rest in the Lord, Wait Patiently for him."
Patience is a Prayer
"Lord give me Patience, and I want it right now!"
Darkest Before the Storm
Do They Know Its Christmas in Guantanamo
(Because boys and girls, the best way to Evangelize someone is to shackle them to a cage)
I keep plugging this movie TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE that everyone should see (opening January 11 nationally), because I think it wrong that we close our eyes to what is being done in our name. I should note it is likely not PG rated. It has scenes of the real down and dirty- and I mean filthy dirty.
I found a review in the Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-tomorrow/taxi-to-the-dark-side_b_46059.html
(Because boys and girls, the best way to Evangelize someone is to shackle them to a cage)
I keep plugging this movie TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE that everyone should see (opening January 11 nationally), because I think it wrong that we close our eyes to what is being done in our name. I should note it is likely not PG rated. It has scenes of the real down and dirty- and I mean filthy dirty.
I found a review in the Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-tomorrow/taxi-to-the-dark-side_b_46059.html
FISA- Free Intrusion To Spy Anonymously
Houston we have a problem.
Get out of our phone receivers!!! The government is getting too creepy. Everyone knows that they have been under cover of the NSA security excuses spying on Americans, reading their emails diverted off to special screening servers and tapping wires, phone lines and cell phones- especially rebel rousing peace loving Quakers, anyone who fights for election reform (i.e. not electronically wirelessly rigged republican owned election direct recording devices), democratic activists, those pink power ladies, All Sharpton, and a host of guitar wielding Greens. But now Creepy rises to a new level of Gall. They want to make sure that no one can sue the phone companies for it. Here is an email I got from John Conyers. Apparently they want to tack onto a bill a provision creating immunity for the phone companies, retroactively of the bill- so you can NEVER sue the phone companies for their illegal activities-- even if you can prove they did it and it was illegal at the time.
I am very proud that John Conyers' auto-email blastserve calls me a friend. So I hope he doesn't mind that I reprint his email to me- and I encourage EVERYONE to help in this- Chris Dodd is saying he will Filibuster if there is such a crazy retroactive provision in FISA legislation. Hillary says she supports him. I support him. Call anyone you know on the hill and tell them to not let this pass.
Because you can't have phone companies or anyone else spying on you breaking the law and getting away with it. We join the Dodd Squad on this one-
Please read below and call your Senator NOW
A FISA Call to Action
Dear Cynthia:The Senate will soon consider legislation addressing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). I emailed you about this issue recently responding to inaccuracies in the press about Democratic efforts to improve protection of civil liberties. I am writing you today to update you on the current state of the bill and to ask for your help.One critical question being considered in the Senate's FISA bill is whether to offer telecom companies retroactive immunity for any actions they undertook in the wireless surveillance program. The Bush Administration has claimed that this is necessary for national security reasons, but I am skeptical.If the Administration was serious about arguing for this immunity, I suspect they would take steps to demonstrate to Congress the extent of this surveillance program and what role the phone companies played. Yet they have refused to share even this information with the House. Clearly, it is a bit much to ask for immunity from prosecution without explaining why it is necessary.Because of these reservations, the House-passed FISA bill did not include the immunity the president sought. In the Senate, however, it is becoming clear that a tough battle will now ensue over this provision. Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut has been a vocal opponent of telecom immunity and has promised to filibuster any FISA legislation that includes this provision.Senator Dodd needs your help right now. Please visit his site and lend your support to the filibuster now. Your help can make a difference at this important juncture.Thank you again for your continued support for a better democracy.
Your Friend, John Conyers, Jr.
A Very Merry New England Christmas to Chris Dodd- I will be in his home state for Christmas with my sister's family in Greenwhich so I will raise a special glass of egg nog to him for this.
Get out of our phone receivers!!! The government is getting too creepy. Everyone knows that they have been under cover of the NSA security excuses spying on Americans, reading their emails diverted off to special screening servers and tapping wires, phone lines and cell phones- especially rebel rousing peace loving Quakers, anyone who fights for election reform (i.e. not electronically wirelessly rigged republican owned election direct recording devices), democratic activists, those pink power ladies, All Sharpton, and a host of guitar wielding Greens. But now Creepy rises to a new level of Gall. They want to make sure that no one can sue the phone companies for it. Here is an email I got from John Conyers. Apparently they want to tack onto a bill a provision creating immunity for the phone companies, retroactively of the bill- so you can NEVER sue the phone companies for their illegal activities-- even if you can prove they did it and it was illegal at the time.
I am very proud that John Conyers' auto-email blastserve calls me a friend. So I hope he doesn't mind that I reprint his email to me- and I encourage EVERYONE to help in this- Chris Dodd is saying he will Filibuster if there is such a crazy retroactive provision in FISA legislation. Hillary says she supports him. I support him. Call anyone you know on the hill and tell them to not let this pass.
Because you can't have phone companies or anyone else spying on you breaking the law and getting away with it. We join the Dodd Squad on this one-
Please read below and call your Senator NOW
A FISA Call to Action
Dear Cynthia:The Senate will soon consider legislation addressing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). I emailed you about this issue recently responding to inaccuracies in the press about Democratic efforts to improve protection of civil liberties. I am writing you today to update you on the current state of the bill and to ask for your help.One critical question being considered in the Senate's FISA bill is whether to offer telecom companies retroactive immunity for any actions they undertook in the wireless surveillance program. The Bush Administration has claimed that this is necessary for national security reasons, but I am skeptical.If the Administration was serious about arguing for this immunity, I suspect they would take steps to demonstrate to Congress the extent of this surveillance program and what role the phone companies played. Yet they have refused to share even this information with the House. Clearly, it is a bit much to ask for immunity from prosecution without explaining why it is necessary.Because of these reservations, the House-passed FISA bill did not include the immunity the president sought. In the Senate, however, it is becoming clear that a tough battle will now ensue over this provision. Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut has been a vocal opponent of telecom immunity and has promised to filibuster any FISA legislation that includes this provision.Senator Dodd needs your help right now. Please visit his site and lend your support to the filibuster now. Your help can make a difference at this important juncture.Thank you again for your continued support for a better democracy.
Your Friend, John Conyers, Jr.
A Very Merry New England Christmas to Chris Dodd- I will be in his home state for Christmas with my sister's family in Greenwhich so I will raise a special glass of egg nog to him for this.
Proud To Be An American
Did you know that the First Woman Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi delivered the Saturday radio address this week. Go Nancy, Go Nancy, ...
She has her own blog (so cool---not your Grandfather's Speaker!!)-It's called THE GAVEL (I love it) check out what she is doing to push the envelope on children's health care, energy independence, housing in New Orleans, and a host of other important issues:
www.Speaker.gov/blog
She has her own blog (so cool---not your Grandfather's Speaker!!)-It's called THE GAVEL (I love it) check out what she is doing to push the envelope on children's health care, energy independence, housing in New Orleans, and a host of other important issues:
www.Speaker.gov/blog
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Who is that Angry Wexler guy?
High Crimes and High Time
Wexler, not to be confused with Waxman, the head of the Congressional Committee charged with investigating government waste, fraud, abuse, corruption, etc. wants to investigate something- [because it's too demonic to look away and let it go unaddressed]-
See what Robert Wexler the Congressman is Constitutionally ticked off about here:
http://wexlerwantshearings.com/ - where you can also watch a powerful video by Wexler.
Wexler, not to be confused with Waxman, the head of the Congressional Committee charged with investigating government waste, fraud, abuse, corruption, etc. wants to investigate something- [because it's too demonic to look away and let it go unaddressed]-
See what Robert Wexler the Congressman is Constitutionally ticked off about here:
http://wexlerwantshearings.com/ - where you can also watch a powerful video by Wexler.
Elegant Engineering-Only in Women
You have to love this:
Why Pregnant Women Don't Topple Over- it seems that we are designed [by God of course] with genius for the express purpose of bearing children- you don't say!
http://news.aol.com/health/story/_a/why-dont-pregnant-women-topple-over/20071212165109990002
Why Pregnant Women Don't Topple Over- it seems that we are designed [by God of course] with genius for the express purpose of bearing children- you don't say!
http://news.aol.com/health/story/_a/why-dont-pregnant-women-topple-over/20071212165109990002
Confession
Father forgive you, for you have sinned
I barely know where first to begin
Good Priest why is it you cannot see truly
the Demons in the Pews in front of you daily
The one with bone broken hanging her arm
is on vicadin, percoset, and a host of pharmaceuticals
that would make your head spin to allieviate pain and spells
of the hormonal drift from a hysterectomy, a junkee
distorts her vision, truth and judgment but not as bad as another one
She is less out of her vile mind than the tortured one
Let's see what else your innocent eyes cannot see
The one with the fixed glazed glare has possessed you
with a demonic co-dependency which glues you to her side endlessly
and drives off anyone close to you which threatens her paradise
She has a host of lust demons named legion too many to thrust
into a herd of swine, while she entertains you just fine
and your soul is bartered like a living Martyr-only to the devil.
Your love lost like an island buried under volcanic ash
You trust in rumor instead of love from above
and let her run your entire social universe
You doubt your own heart and run from it fast
pursued by the demons of your past
and those sitting right in front of you
Front and center pew.
For the one who couldn't buy a date
will suffocate a Priest with her demanding attentions
until the life force is sucked dry and he dies in her arms
so she can latch on to the next one like leeches
Helpless to her hideous ugly charms, like leeches
on a floating dead fish. Fair Warning. Do what you wish.
Do what you want to.
Your penance Sir, is quite up to you.
I barely know where first to begin
Good Priest why is it you cannot see truly
the Demons in the Pews in front of you daily
The one with bone broken hanging her arm
is on vicadin, percoset, and a host of pharmaceuticals
that would make your head spin to allieviate pain and spells
of the hormonal drift from a hysterectomy, a junkee
distorts her vision, truth and judgment but not as bad as another one
She is less out of her vile mind than the tortured one
Let's see what else your innocent eyes cannot see
The one with the fixed glazed glare has possessed you
with a demonic co-dependency which glues you to her side endlessly
and drives off anyone close to you which threatens her paradise
She has a host of lust demons named legion too many to thrust
into a herd of swine, while she entertains you just fine
and your soul is bartered like a living Martyr-only to the devil.
Your love lost like an island buried under volcanic ash
You trust in rumor instead of love from above
and let her run your entire social universe
You doubt your own heart and run from it fast
pursued by the demons of your past
and those sitting right in front of you
Front and center pew.
For the one who couldn't buy a date
will suffocate a Priest with her demanding attentions
until the life force is sucked dry and he dies in her arms
so she can latch on to the next one like leeches
Helpless to her hideous ugly charms, like leeches
on a floating dead fish. Fair Warning. Do what you wish.
Do what you want to.
Your penance Sir, is quite up to you.
Friday, December 14, 2007
How Smart Is God
So Much Smarter than You, Thank God
See, http://www.inspirationalfilms.com/
Ever wonder why there was no Room in the Inn? Why did God make Joseph and the very pregnant Mary ride a donkey (try doing that while almost 9 months pregnant on bumpy dirt roads!) go to a very crowded Bethlehem at the time of the census to have Jesus be born in a barn/shed/stable? That doesn't sound very nice to Mary. Why would he make them have to go to Bethlehem when she was that pregnant? Why couldn't Mary deliver in the comfort of her mother's home with her mother helping?
He's God- why wouldn't he want the King of the World to be born at the Bethlehem Ritz? OK, we'll settle for the Bethlehem Hyatt or Marriott. But a Barn? A Shed? Amidst the smell of animal excrement with Mary lying on a pile of hay- a trough for a cradle? There was literally no place else in the entire city they could go? Why didn't God make sure Joseph had more money for better accommodations? Was there really no vacancy anywhere because of the census. Were there that many more people flooding Bethlehem than the usual hotel accommodations? Yup-and God had that all perfectly planned. They were to go all the way on a long donkey ride to Bethlehem but not officially check in anywhere. They were official guests nowhere-they could hide in a stable.
Most people pick up on the fact that he was born into poverty as inspiration telling of the fact that Jesus was born essentially homeless so he loves the poor. Other people use it as a metaphor to help people overcome their circumstances. Other people speak of his humility.
That all may be true, But God is smarter than all that. God was hiding him and had a plan. God's timing is not our timing. His timing is perfect timing. It may look like lousy timing from our perspective- I am sure Mary didn't appreciate it- and the ride could very well have induced labor. But that was the point- the ride induced labor- because Jesus had to be born exactly when he was born. It aligned with the Northern Star perfectly. (Now you know why there is a Star on top of every Christmas Tree)
Jesus was born on the road. He was born while on Travel. Because if he stayed too long in one place, he would be dead in a week.
Remember that Herod was after him. Everyone knew the Messiah as foretold was coming imminently. There was this phenomenal brilliant North Star phenomenon that the astrologers all followed (which actually led shepherds in the hills to the spot of his birth)
Herod sent the Wise Men (one or more of whom could read these stars) to track down the birth of this so called King of the Jews- because Herod was insanely Jealous and wanted to be hailed as the only King of the Jews. The Wise Men actually found Jesus following the Northern Star. God knew that Jesus was not going to be born without a Jealous rageful storm of demonic proportion surrounding his birth- because God knew that the Devil knew he was done.
Herod commissioned the wise men to report on his location - but the Wise Men, after they found him, didn't go back the same way they came to report back to Herod- they left him clueless.
Mary had just given birth. God knows that the last thing someone who just delivered a baby wants to do is get up and travel, move after delivering a baby.--Except if it were so bloody uncomfortable lying there without a bed of any kind on hay sticking in her back and she wanted to see her baby in real blankets in a more protected place. God made it just uncomfortable enough that Mary willingly, eagerly would quickly go-even after just giving birth (without an epidural people). They didn't circumcize Jesus in Bethlehem. They were not there for even a full week. They had to circumcize him within the week according to custom, and they made their way to Jerusalem, a much larger city bound to have better accommodation, used to many travelers because the Temple was there. They circumcized him in Jerusalem and presented him at the Temple.
God knew they didn't have much time. They bought time by the Wise Men outsmarting Herod. But Herod was on a jealous revenge rampage binge. He was out to KILL EVERY MALE CHILD under the age of 2 in Bethlehem to make sure he got Jesus. Joseph, Mary and Jesus registered for the census there in Bethlehem because that is where Joseph was born, but they really were not from there. Neither of them were really from there. Herod assumed that they lived there. In fact the Jewish prophesy of the Messiah was that he would come out of Bethlehem and Herod knew this. But this tricked Herod.
Jesus could not be found by Herod's people in Bethlehem- because he had no permenant address at the time he was born, and they got out of dodge in time. If Joseph and Mary and Jesus lived permenantly at 123 Main Street, Bethlehem, with a sign on the door and neighbors who knew where they were all the time, throwing a baby shower and bringing food over to see the baby, Herod would have no trouble finding them in a heartbeat. And Jesus would have been dead in a week. As it was, the only people we know for sure that knew Jesus was where he was were the random shepherders who hung in the hills, pretty much removed from city/town society, and Wise Men from afar who were wise enough to keep their mouth shut and not report back to Herod. Neither could Herod's people find him in Jerusalem- because they quickly went to Egypt.
The Angel Gabriel came to Joseph in a dream and said to him after Jesus' birth- listen-you don't have much time, get out of here now- Herod's people are coming....so they went to Jerusalem then Egypt. God had a plan to hide the infant Jesus in Egypt just as he previously hid the infant Moses in Egypt. And so they got out of dodge in a hurry, carried what they carried with them already packed for travel and they missed the Holocaust slaughter of the male children under 2. They stayed there until that Herod died. {The Jesus movie above skips the Egypt part when in fact they only went to live in Nazareth after that Herod died-there were several Kings named Herod, this was not the one who beheaded John the Baptist}
When you look at a cresche sceen, the manger, the hut-like barn, this Christmas remember how smart God is- that God is so much smarter than you. Remember that God's timing is perfect timing- even when you wished things happened on your schedule. You may rather not be living in a hole in the wall temporarily, you may be someplace you don't like all that well, some place that is beneath your dignity- but God may want you packed for travel because God is sending you someplace you really need to go. God is really smarter than you.
And his plan has always been for your Salvation.
See, http://www.inspirationalfilms.com/
Ever wonder why there was no Room in the Inn? Why did God make Joseph and the very pregnant Mary ride a donkey (try doing that while almost 9 months pregnant on bumpy dirt roads!) go to a very crowded Bethlehem at the time of the census to have Jesus be born in a barn/shed/stable? That doesn't sound very nice to Mary. Why would he make them have to go to Bethlehem when she was that pregnant? Why couldn't Mary deliver in the comfort of her mother's home with her mother helping?
He's God- why wouldn't he want the King of the World to be born at the Bethlehem Ritz? OK, we'll settle for the Bethlehem Hyatt or Marriott. But a Barn? A Shed? Amidst the smell of animal excrement with Mary lying on a pile of hay- a trough for a cradle? There was literally no place else in the entire city they could go? Why didn't God make sure Joseph had more money for better accommodations? Was there really no vacancy anywhere because of the census. Were there that many more people flooding Bethlehem than the usual hotel accommodations? Yup-and God had that all perfectly planned. They were to go all the way on a long donkey ride to Bethlehem but not officially check in anywhere. They were official guests nowhere-they could hide in a stable.
Most people pick up on the fact that he was born into poverty as inspiration telling of the fact that Jesus was born essentially homeless so he loves the poor. Other people use it as a metaphor to help people overcome their circumstances. Other people speak of his humility.
That all may be true, But God is smarter than all that. God was hiding him and had a plan. God's timing is not our timing. His timing is perfect timing. It may look like lousy timing from our perspective- I am sure Mary didn't appreciate it- and the ride could very well have induced labor. But that was the point- the ride induced labor- because Jesus had to be born exactly when he was born. It aligned with the Northern Star perfectly. (Now you know why there is a Star on top of every Christmas Tree)
Jesus was born on the road. He was born while on Travel. Because if he stayed too long in one place, he would be dead in a week.
Remember that Herod was after him. Everyone knew the Messiah as foretold was coming imminently. There was this phenomenal brilliant North Star phenomenon that the astrologers all followed (which actually led shepherds in the hills to the spot of his birth)
Herod sent the Wise Men (one or more of whom could read these stars) to track down the birth of this so called King of the Jews- because Herod was insanely Jealous and wanted to be hailed as the only King of the Jews. The Wise Men actually found Jesus following the Northern Star. God knew that Jesus was not going to be born without a Jealous rageful storm of demonic proportion surrounding his birth- because God knew that the Devil knew he was done.
Herod commissioned the wise men to report on his location - but the Wise Men, after they found him, didn't go back the same way they came to report back to Herod- they left him clueless.
Mary had just given birth. God knows that the last thing someone who just delivered a baby wants to do is get up and travel, move after delivering a baby.--Except if it were so bloody uncomfortable lying there without a bed of any kind on hay sticking in her back and she wanted to see her baby in real blankets in a more protected place. God made it just uncomfortable enough that Mary willingly, eagerly would quickly go-even after just giving birth (without an epidural people). They didn't circumcize Jesus in Bethlehem. They were not there for even a full week. They had to circumcize him within the week according to custom, and they made their way to Jerusalem, a much larger city bound to have better accommodation, used to many travelers because the Temple was there. They circumcized him in Jerusalem and presented him at the Temple.
God knew they didn't have much time. They bought time by the Wise Men outsmarting Herod. But Herod was on a jealous revenge rampage binge. He was out to KILL EVERY MALE CHILD under the age of 2 in Bethlehem to make sure he got Jesus. Joseph, Mary and Jesus registered for the census there in Bethlehem because that is where Joseph was born, but they really were not from there. Neither of them were really from there. Herod assumed that they lived there. In fact the Jewish prophesy of the Messiah was that he would come out of Bethlehem and Herod knew this. But this tricked Herod.
Jesus could not be found by Herod's people in Bethlehem- because he had no permenant address at the time he was born, and they got out of dodge in time. If Joseph and Mary and Jesus lived permenantly at 123 Main Street, Bethlehem, with a sign on the door and neighbors who knew where they were all the time, throwing a baby shower and bringing food over to see the baby, Herod would have no trouble finding them in a heartbeat. And Jesus would have been dead in a week. As it was, the only people we know for sure that knew Jesus was where he was were the random shepherders who hung in the hills, pretty much removed from city/town society, and Wise Men from afar who were wise enough to keep their mouth shut and not report back to Herod. Neither could Herod's people find him in Jerusalem- because they quickly went to Egypt.
The Angel Gabriel came to Joseph in a dream and said to him after Jesus' birth- listen-you don't have much time, get out of here now- Herod's people are coming....so they went to Jerusalem then Egypt. God had a plan to hide the infant Jesus in Egypt just as he previously hid the infant Moses in Egypt. And so they got out of dodge in a hurry, carried what they carried with them already packed for travel and they missed the Holocaust slaughter of the male children under 2. They stayed there until that Herod died. {The Jesus movie above skips the Egypt part when in fact they only went to live in Nazareth after that Herod died-there were several Kings named Herod, this was not the one who beheaded John the Baptist}
When you look at a cresche sceen, the manger, the hut-like barn, this Christmas remember how smart God is- that God is so much smarter than you. Remember that God's timing is perfect timing- even when you wished things happened on your schedule. You may rather not be living in a hole in the wall temporarily, you may be someplace you don't like all that well, some place that is beneath your dignity- but God may want you packed for travel because God is sending you someplace you really need to go. God is really smarter than you.
And his plan has always been for your Salvation.
Feed the World
This group based in Rome is also very deserving of your Christmas contributions.
http://www.wfp.org/english/
They are actually keeping people alive feeding them.
The UN WORLD FOOD PROGRAM.
Get creative with your church alternative gift market this year.
http://www.wfp.org/english/
They are actually keeping people alive feeding them.
The UN WORLD FOOD PROGRAM.
Get creative with your church alternative gift market this year.
International Fellowship of Christians and Jews
Peace on Earth, Goodwill Toward ALL Men
Think of a new way to give this Christmas Season- it could really impact a life:
The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews does remarkable things for particularly Russian Jews who wish to relocate to Israel. Check out their gift catalogue. Consider it for your alternative Christmas Market at your church.
Did you know that there are still Holocaust Survivors living in the former Soviet Union?
http://www.ifcj.org/site/PageNavigator/eng/homenew/?JServSessionIdr012=0htrpx7hk2.app13a
Think of a new way to give this Christmas Season- it could really impact a life:
The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews does remarkable things for particularly Russian Jews who wish to relocate to Israel. Check out their gift catalogue. Consider it for your alternative Christmas Market at your church.
Did you know that there are still Holocaust Survivors living in the former Soviet Union?
http://www.ifcj.org/site/PageNavigator/eng/homenew/?JServSessionIdr012=0htrpx7hk2.app13a
Time Person of the Year- HABEUS HUH? WHO?
DO THEY KNOW ITS CHRISTMAS IN GUANTANAMO
Steve Clemons thinks the Time Person of the Year should be the Guantanamo Detainee. See his video at http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/002583.php
Do you agree?
Big Thank you to Steve for hosting the pre-screening of the movie TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE
which everyone must see- opening January 11 nationally.
Do you realize these guys are rotting, untried for the most part- and stuck in Guantanamo, off US soil so as not to be under US law (while we dance around and on top of International Human Rights Law) indefinately. Do you realize that we put out bounties on capturing Afghanis so people just sold their neighbors (especially ones whose poppy fields they wanted) to the US who rounded up completely innocent people? Do you realize that even US military prison guards -the "interrogators" think only about 2-3% of the people we held in places like Abu Ghraib, Bagram and Guantanamo are guilty of anything? No wonder they are going on hunger strike to starve themselves to death. Do you know how many people have killed themselves already at Guantanamo?
Sorry to put a kabbash on the Christmas merriment but folks----your tax dollars pay for this crap.
I think that the Time Man of the Year either this year or next should be the Director/Producer of TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE.
Steve Clemons thinks the Time Person of the Year should be the Guantanamo Detainee. See his video at http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/002583.php
Do you agree?
Big Thank you to Steve for hosting the pre-screening of the movie TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE
which everyone must see- opening January 11 nationally.
Do you realize these guys are rotting, untried for the most part- and stuck in Guantanamo, off US soil so as not to be under US law (while we dance around and on top of International Human Rights Law) indefinately. Do you realize that we put out bounties on capturing Afghanis so people just sold their neighbors (especially ones whose poppy fields they wanted) to the US who rounded up completely innocent people? Do you realize that even US military prison guards -the "interrogators" think only about 2-3% of the people we held in places like Abu Ghraib, Bagram and Guantanamo are guilty of anything? No wonder they are going on hunger strike to starve themselves to death. Do you know how many people have killed themselves already at Guantanamo?
Sorry to put a kabbash on the Christmas merriment but folks----your tax dollars pay for this crap.
I think that the Time Man of the Year either this year or next should be the Director/Producer of TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE.
Political Correctness on It's Ass-Part II
Stop Apologizing!
This time it comes from the Democratic camp. Some rather senior Hillary staffer commented that Obama's confessed drug use (which was more extensive than the typical teen age experimentations involving both cocaine and marijuana discussed in his own book) would make it harder to win a general election. That person was right. Most people don't want a President who whines on about how hard it was to find his identity so he hid himself on a Hawaiian beach with a bong and snorted coke. Cry me a volcanic river people. Believe it or not, there exist people even of his generation who really never did drugs of any kind. Really. We view the ones who did less favorably. Fact. It's Not PC to comment on it?
Obama's drug use was ILLEGAL and he is running for President. It is a standard question every President got. Even Bill had to fess up about the inhaling thing. Apparently Obama's peeps have turned this into another race card that they are playing- white folk can't comment on the negative appeal of drug use of a black guy (half black guy) because that conjures up images of drug use of black guys. You don't say! They put so much pressure on the opposing campaign that Hillary bought into it?
GROW UP! That campaign advisor's job is to assess which qualities are more endearing to a General election audience. He did his job. He was right. Now he apparently feels he has to resign? RIDICULOUS.
I hope Obama realizes that this is exactly the sort of stuff that divides the country in half and makes half the country go- we can't have even a half black President. Not because he did drugs-while that was sleazy it was forgiveable, but because no one can mention that it was sleazy!
EVERY teenager has an identity issue they have to resolve. Obama didn't have his real father around, like tons of people. Some people were mixed race and confused about it and did not do drugs at all. Some people had real problems like a face full of acne socially isolating them. Some kids were fat. They don't all do drugs. Some resolve their identity in throwing themselves in things like sports, bury themselves in academic achievement and honors, get really into making remote controlled balsa wood airplanes, take up horseback riding or become expert surfers. Some kids his age in America were winning science contests making rockets to the moon, other kids were volunteering at the animal shelter playing veterinarian, other kids were learning their Hebrew, other kids were candy stripers in nursing homes dreaming of becoming a doctor or nurse, other kids were winning basketball or soccer trophies, --Obama was snorting coke and paid good money that his single mother probably couldn't afford for cocaine and marijuana and whatever else that got edited out of the book.
It's totally fair comment on the character development issue and I don't care what color he is.
Parents and anyone involved in child rearing try despirately to steer their kids away from drugs and drug crowds. What kind of message does Obama send? Do what you have to, so long as you don't get caught, make it to a good college write a book about it and you too can someday be President!
It is plainly stupid of Hillary's people to let themselves get hammered by the race card- they need more backbone to stand up to this crap. I have met Obama this campaign season. If I met him at Columbia I wouldn't date him. He strikes me as someone who in his teens was a bit on the spoiled side and thought he was too cool for his pants. And I wouldn't care how ambitious he was or if he would some day run for President. I don't like that he "confessed" or bragged on his drug use to give him "street cred". I like even less that anyone was ignorant enough to pull the race card on that one.
Hillary should not have either forced the guy to resign or accepted his resignation. She got Played Big there. Who should you like more-the player or the played? It's epox on both their houses for that one.
This time it comes from the Democratic camp. Some rather senior Hillary staffer commented that Obama's confessed drug use (which was more extensive than the typical teen age experimentations involving both cocaine and marijuana discussed in his own book) would make it harder to win a general election. That person was right. Most people don't want a President who whines on about how hard it was to find his identity so he hid himself on a Hawaiian beach with a bong and snorted coke. Cry me a volcanic river people. Believe it or not, there exist people even of his generation who really never did drugs of any kind. Really. We view the ones who did less favorably. Fact. It's Not PC to comment on it?
Obama's drug use was ILLEGAL and he is running for President. It is a standard question every President got. Even Bill had to fess up about the inhaling thing. Apparently Obama's peeps have turned this into another race card that they are playing- white folk can't comment on the negative appeal of drug use of a black guy (half black guy) because that conjures up images of drug use of black guys. You don't say! They put so much pressure on the opposing campaign that Hillary bought into it?
GROW UP! That campaign advisor's job is to assess which qualities are more endearing to a General election audience. He did his job. He was right. Now he apparently feels he has to resign? RIDICULOUS.
I hope Obama realizes that this is exactly the sort of stuff that divides the country in half and makes half the country go- we can't have even a half black President. Not because he did drugs-while that was sleazy it was forgiveable, but because no one can mention that it was sleazy!
EVERY teenager has an identity issue they have to resolve. Obama didn't have his real father around, like tons of people. Some people were mixed race and confused about it and did not do drugs at all. Some people had real problems like a face full of acne socially isolating them. Some kids were fat. They don't all do drugs. Some resolve their identity in throwing themselves in things like sports, bury themselves in academic achievement and honors, get really into making remote controlled balsa wood airplanes, take up horseback riding or become expert surfers. Some kids his age in America were winning science contests making rockets to the moon, other kids were volunteering at the animal shelter playing veterinarian, other kids were learning their Hebrew, other kids were candy stripers in nursing homes dreaming of becoming a doctor or nurse, other kids were winning basketball or soccer trophies, --Obama was snorting coke and paid good money that his single mother probably couldn't afford for cocaine and marijuana and whatever else that got edited out of the book.
It's totally fair comment on the character development issue and I don't care what color he is.
Parents and anyone involved in child rearing try despirately to steer their kids away from drugs and drug crowds. What kind of message does Obama send? Do what you have to, so long as you don't get caught, make it to a good college write a book about it and you too can someday be President!
It is plainly stupid of Hillary's people to let themselves get hammered by the race card- they need more backbone to stand up to this crap. I have met Obama this campaign season. If I met him at Columbia I wouldn't date him. He strikes me as someone who in his teens was a bit on the spoiled side and thought he was too cool for his pants. And I wouldn't care how ambitious he was or if he would some day run for President. I don't like that he "confessed" or bragged on his drug use to give him "street cred". I like even less that anyone was ignorant enough to pull the race card on that one.
Hillary should not have either forced the guy to resign or accepted his resignation. She got Played Big there. Who should you like more-the player or the played? It's epox on both their houses for that one.
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Joyful Mysteries; God Inhabits the Praise of his People
Praise comes in two parts: Song and Prayer. Singing is praying twice. God inhabits the Praise of his People. Where two or more are gathered in his Name, he is there- listening.
The Rosary, known to some billion Catholics worldwide is a Praise to the mystery of incarnation of God made man through whom redemption and salvation come to the World. For the stalward Presbyterian, it is composed of things routinely said in Presbyterian churches everywhere; the Glory Be To the Father and To The Son And To the Holy Ghost that is sung in services, with the Our Father everyone knows as the prayer that Jesus himself gave us. Added to it is a verse said by the ArchAngel Gabriel who told Mary that she was full of Grace (indeed "full of" the very definition of Grace; full, with the Christ Child) and Elizabeth her cousin's greeting that she is very blessed among women because she is carrying the savior, Messiah, of her people, and indeed the World.
Blessed are you among women, blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus (Yeshua). Hail Mary- said Gabriel- in the vernacular - Hey There Mary- you are full of Grace- unbelievably blessed are you among all the women the world. You're not going to believe this honey but hear me out ( I made up that part, what Gabriel really said was "Do Not Be Afraid."- there was a lot for anyone to be scared about-she was pregnant out of the blue, having slept with no one and her fiance was going to give her the What For like Nobody's business and probably dump her.)
Angels talk to people- they have throughout history. Elijah was fed by one in the desert, Job was visited by a few as were Abraham and Sarah. When they come to talk to you they don't mess around- they have something important to say. And they need your co-operation.
Mary's response, and the reason we have Christmas at all is "let it be done to me according to your Will." It wasn't exactly "Whatever Angel!" It wasn't "Gabriel who the hell are you!" it wasn't "Do I have a choice?" It wasn't "Talk to the Hand!" It wasn't "meet me in the confessional and tell me my sins first because I am so unworthy." It was simply -
I am going to do what you want. I am here to do what God wants. I exist to do what God wants. Note first she had to know what God wanted- he had to tell her, somehow- through an Angel. He told her in clear terms after doing something unmistakable- God knocked her up.
Today, the Angel might have to say something like "In our overly litigious paranoid society I am going to have to test you first to make sure you won't tell the Pharisees but I am here to tell you God really loves you and wants you girl. He wants you to be his so bad he is just going to knock you up." The Angel, and God apparently trusted Mary enough that she did not and wouldn't tell the Pharisees about God's plan. She hid it in her heart. She didn't sue Gabriel. She didn't sue God for hitting on her in a big way.
The opening preface to the various mysteries is a scriptural recitation from the birth, life and death of Christ. These are to be said thoughtfully and reverently. Saying the Rosary carries with it and conveys certain graces as does all sincere prayer-but this in a special way.
You can look up sites on how to say the Rosary just by googling "How To Say The Rosary." Could it be any easier? Here is one;
http://www.rosary-center.org/joyful.htm
The Christmas Season focuses on the joyful mysteries surrounding the Annunciation and the Birth of Christ.
Try it, you'll like it. I dare you. Sit still enough to recite the entire thing. And listen to your heart.
We are supposed to respond in our hearts- Let it be done to me according to your will. I exist to do what you want. Understanding His Will is more difficult if you can't or won't hear the Angels around you.
The Rosary, known to some billion Catholics worldwide is a Praise to the mystery of incarnation of God made man through whom redemption and salvation come to the World. For the stalward Presbyterian, it is composed of things routinely said in Presbyterian churches everywhere; the Glory Be To the Father and To The Son And To the Holy Ghost that is sung in services, with the Our Father everyone knows as the prayer that Jesus himself gave us. Added to it is a verse said by the ArchAngel Gabriel who told Mary that she was full of Grace (indeed "full of" the very definition of Grace; full, with the Christ Child) and Elizabeth her cousin's greeting that she is very blessed among women because she is carrying the savior, Messiah, of her people, and indeed the World.
Blessed are you among women, blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus (Yeshua). Hail Mary- said Gabriel- in the vernacular - Hey There Mary- you are full of Grace- unbelievably blessed are you among all the women the world. You're not going to believe this honey but hear me out ( I made up that part, what Gabriel really said was "Do Not Be Afraid."- there was a lot for anyone to be scared about-she was pregnant out of the blue, having slept with no one and her fiance was going to give her the What For like Nobody's business and probably dump her.)
Angels talk to people- they have throughout history. Elijah was fed by one in the desert, Job was visited by a few as were Abraham and Sarah. When they come to talk to you they don't mess around- they have something important to say. And they need your co-operation.
Mary's response, and the reason we have Christmas at all is "let it be done to me according to your Will." It wasn't exactly "Whatever Angel!" It wasn't "Gabriel who the hell are you!" it wasn't "Do I have a choice?" It wasn't "Talk to the Hand!" It wasn't "meet me in the confessional and tell me my sins first because I am so unworthy." It was simply -
I am going to do what you want. I am here to do what God wants. I exist to do what God wants. Note first she had to know what God wanted- he had to tell her, somehow- through an Angel. He told her in clear terms after doing something unmistakable- God knocked her up.
Today, the Angel might have to say something like "In our overly litigious paranoid society I am going to have to test you first to make sure you won't tell the Pharisees but I am here to tell you God really loves you and wants you girl. He wants you to be his so bad he is just going to knock you up." The Angel, and God apparently trusted Mary enough that she did not and wouldn't tell the Pharisees about God's plan. She hid it in her heart. She didn't sue Gabriel. She didn't sue God for hitting on her in a big way.
The opening preface to the various mysteries is a scriptural recitation from the birth, life and death of Christ. These are to be said thoughtfully and reverently. Saying the Rosary carries with it and conveys certain graces as does all sincere prayer-but this in a special way.
You can look up sites on how to say the Rosary just by googling "How To Say The Rosary." Could it be any easier? Here is one;
http://www.rosary-center.org/joyful.htm
The Christmas Season focuses on the joyful mysteries surrounding the Annunciation and the Birth of Christ.
Try it, you'll like it. I dare you. Sit still enough to recite the entire thing. And listen to your heart.
We are supposed to respond in our hearts- Let it be done to me according to your will. I exist to do what you want. Understanding His Will is more difficult if you can't or won't hear the Angels around you.
Political Correctness on It's Ass
Mormonism is a Cult- I do not Apologize
Now we are going to witness the most bizarre loopy ass-kissing bend over and take it re-writing of the Political Correctness manual American Presidential Politics has ever seen.
Pastor Huckabee, a Baptist preacher is apparently apologizing for ambigious remarks about Mormonism. This apparently is being taken "graciously" by Mr. Romney. In the words of the "church lady"- Well, isn't that special.
Let's be clear.
Mormonism is a Cult.
It is based on the alleged teaching and writings of a FALSE PROPHET
http://www.irr.org/mit/jsfalpro.html, http://www.saintsalive.com/mormonism/falseprophetjs.htm http://www.contenderministries.org/mormonism/falseprophet.php
which wildly contradict scripture-both Hebrew First Testament and New Testament Christian scripture. It contains some rather bizarre, completely ridiculous aspects and teachings. They are too lengthy here to detail. I dare anyone to google or even visit a Mormon "Temple" and hear a "sermon." There are entire ministries of X-Mormons who escaped their church fathers devoted to exposing the falsity of the religion.
If Mr. Romney is President, any fair comment about how truly whacked Mormon doctrine is will be off the table- will it be prosecutable as hate crime stuff? Will the Justice Department under Mit Romney prosecute people like Warren Jeffs whose religion it was entailed the serial statutory rape of multiple child brides? Will he care about the abuses of women and children that spread through his faith throughout Utah and Colorado-the glassy-eyed brain washing of polygamous communities?
Mormon men can be very good at business. (you never heard of a really successful Mormon businesswoman did you?) They can be phenomenally wealthy. They can blend into the larger community, they can be very "virtuous" in the sense of personal vices (drinking, smoking, etc.) That all looks appealing.
Mit Romney looks like a main line main stream Protestant-he has Rock Hudson chiseled good looks and is easily mistaken for a Presbyterian. He delivered a speech that prompted people to liken him to maybe-JFK in saying his religion doesn't own him and he can be independent of it, or even better Jimmy Carter.
The problem with both those analogies is that both JFK and Jimmy Carter are really Christians, members of truly Christian religions- JFK the first and original one-Catholicism, and Jimmy Carter, Baptist main stream Protestantism who taught scripture in Sunday school and still does.
Mormonism holds some truly damaging doctrines that subvert the dignity of women.
Mit Romney may be better than his religion. JFK with all his mistresses may have been worse than his. Guiliani with his divorces and kids not speaking to him may be a lot worse than his religion- he doesn't even know if his priest would call him a "good catholic."
But Romney still calls himself and identifies himself with Mormon teachings and aspirations.
Mit Romney, make no mistake, is FILTHY RICH. Mormons can be stupifyingly wealthy. It's quiet non-ostentatious money, but it's insanely huge money. People applaud Mit Romney's business sense and for waiting until he was "independently wealthy" to run for office. It's public record that he has an interest in huge large private equity funds , he founded BAIN http://www.nndb.com/people/373/000044241/and that he built a huge fortune for himself.
But should we allow someone who can buy public office (and media) because they are so incredibly rich be allowed to so redefine our culture to a point where truth is suppressed and we cow-tow to Cults? Are we going to get touchy about polygamy?
I think that a lot of people would say "I don't want a Mormon as President" in the same bigotted way that they said of JFK "I don't want a Catholic as President." But in this case, with respect to Mormonism those people have good reason. Romney is still an avowed Mormon. He is not someone raised out of his control as a Mormon and converted to Presbyterianism or Episcopalianism or Catholicism. He is a practicing avowed Mormon. If anyone votes for him and does not investigate what the tenents of Mormonism are-SHAME on them.
The next Time Magazine article should be a lengthy expose on really what it is all about, who their false prophet is, how many people have left it, and what they go around the world missionizing.
Good for Mr. Romney, he has a Harvard MBA. Doesn't Bush? Does that say anything about political judgment? Good for Mr. Romney he owns a hundred companies through BAIN CAPITAL. Good for him. He could be as rich as Ross Perot. Doesn't make him Presidential. Makes him a billionaire. His God may be more Mammon than the true God, but make no mistake- his religion is false.
If someone who was a member of the Branch Davidians or Bob Jones Guyana crowd ran for office saying that they were still Branch Davidians or respected Bob Jones, it's perfectly allright for Pastor Huckabee to comment on it- AND NOT APOLOGIZE.
Now we are going to witness the most bizarre loopy ass-kissing bend over and take it re-writing of the Political Correctness manual American Presidential Politics has ever seen.
Pastor Huckabee, a Baptist preacher is apparently apologizing for ambigious remarks about Mormonism. This apparently is being taken "graciously" by Mr. Romney. In the words of the "church lady"- Well, isn't that special.
Let's be clear.
Mormonism is a Cult.
It is based on the alleged teaching and writings of a FALSE PROPHET
http://www.irr.org/mit/jsfalpro.html, http://www.saintsalive.com/mormonism/falseprophetjs.htm http://www.contenderministries.org/mormonism/falseprophet.php
which wildly contradict scripture-both Hebrew First Testament and New Testament Christian scripture. It contains some rather bizarre, completely ridiculous aspects and teachings. They are too lengthy here to detail. I dare anyone to google or even visit a Mormon "Temple" and hear a "sermon." There are entire ministries of X-Mormons who escaped their church fathers devoted to exposing the falsity of the religion.
If Mr. Romney is President, any fair comment about how truly whacked Mormon doctrine is will be off the table- will it be prosecutable as hate crime stuff? Will the Justice Department under Mit Romney prosecute people like Warren Jeffs whose religion it was entailed the serial statutory rape of multiple child brides? Will he care about the abuses of women and children that spread through his faith throughout Utah and Colorado-the glassy-eyed brain washing of polygamous communities?
Mormon men can be very good at business. (you never heard of a really successful Mormon businesswoman did you?) They can be phenomenally wealthy. They can blend into the larger community, they can be very "virtuous" in the sense of personal vices (drinking, smoking, etc.) That all looks appealing.
Mit Romney looks like a main line main stream Protestant-he has Rock Hudson chiseled good looks and is easily mistaken for a Presbyterian. He delivered a speech that prompted people to liken him to maybe-JFK in saying his religion doesn't own him and he can be independent of it, or even better Jimmy Carter.
The problem with both those analogies is that both JFK and Jimmy Carter are really Christians, members of truly Christian religions- JFK the first and original one-Catholicism, and Jimmy Carter, Baptist main stream Protestantism who taught scripture in Sunday school and still does.
Mormonism holds some truly damaging doctrines that subvert the dignity of women.
Mit Romney may be better than his religion. JFK with all his mistresses may have been worse than his. Guiliani with his divorces and kids not speaking to him may be a lot worse than his religion- he doesn't even know if his priest would call him a "good catholic."
But Romney still calls himself and identifies himself with Mormon teachings and aspirations.
Mit Romney, make no mistake, is FILTHY RICH. Mormons can be stupifyingly wealthy. It's quiet non-ostentatious money, but it's insanely huge money. People applaud Mit Romney's business sense and for waiting until he was "independently wealthy" to run for office. It's public record that he has an interest in huge large private equity funds , he founded BAIN http://www.nndb.com/people/373/000044241/and that he built a huge fortune for himself.
But should we allow someone who can buy public office (and media) because they are so incredibly rich be allowed to so redefine our culture to a point where truth is suppressed and we cow-tow to Cults? Are we going to get touchy about polygamy?
I think that a lot of people would say "I don't want a Mormon as President" in the same bigotted way that they said of JFK "I don't want a Catholic as President." But in this case, with respect to Mormonism those people have good reason. Romney is still an avowed Mormon. He is not someone raised out of his control as a Mormon and converted to Presbyterianism or Episcopalianism or Catholicism. He is a practicing avowed Mormon. If anyone votes for him and does not investigate what the tenents of Mormonism are-SHAME on them.
The next Time Magazine article should be a lengthy expose on really what it is all about, who their false prophet is, how many people have left it, and what they go around the world missionizing.
Good for Mr. Romney, he has a Harvard MBA. Doesn't Bush? Does that say anything about political judgment? Good for Mr. Romney he owns a hundred companies through BAIN CAPITAL. Good for him. He could be as rich as Ross Perot. Doesn't make him Presidential. Makes him a billionaire. His God may be more Mammon than the true God, but make no mistake- his religion is false.
If someone who was a member of the Branch Davidians or Bob Jones Guyana crowd ran for office saying that they were still Branch Davidians or respected Bob Jones, it's perfectly allright for Pastor Huckabee to comment on it- AND NOT APOLOGIZE.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Monday, December 10, 2007
Who Are You Anyway
Some people really know how to love
Other people write about it
Some people really know how to live
Other people shout about it
Some people know how to give
Other people make bold proclamations
Some people really know Who Love Is
Other people speculate broadly about Him
Some people have the purest of hearts
Other people write their names on all their donations
Some people really know how to love fiercely every day
Other people judge others as less than they
While the log in their eye is never displaced
Some people really know how to love
Other people think they are holier than thou, thee and you
and it's their job to say so because someone gave them a collar
and bought them a podium or a pew
Some people always help those they see in need
Other people stampede to the other side of the street
right by them in unsurpassed greed
Some people really know how to love till it hurts
Other people write about it for profit and credits
Some people do the kindest things in the quietest obscurity
Other people would be lost if they couldn't lecture you on their purity and piety
and demand that you inspect yourself-
while they leave their honor on the shelf
and couldn't really tell the difference between a louse, a jigalo and a saint
if they were jumping off the walls in freshly painted fresco.
They have rescued no one.
Their faith has cost them nothing.
They are fair weather followers who suffer the fool in themselves lightly.
Which kind are you this holiday season
There is still time for you to discover its reason.
Other people write about it
Some people really know how to live
Other people shout about it
Some people know how to give
Other people make bold proclamations
Some people really know Who Love Is
Other people speculate broadly about Him
Some people have the purest of hearts
Other people write their names on all their donations
Some people really know how to love fiercely every day
Other people judge others as less than they
While the log in their eye is never displaced
Some people really know how to love
Other people think they are holier than thou, thee and you
and it's their job to say so because someone gave them a collar
and bought them a podium or a pew
Some people always help those they see in need
Other people stampede to the other side of the street
right by them in unsurpassed greed
Some people really know how to love till it hurts
Other people write about it for profit and credits
Some people do the kindest things in the quietest obscurity
Other people would be lost if they couldn't lecture you on their purity and piety
and demand that you inspect yourself-
while they leave their honor on the shelf
and couldn't really tell the difference between a louse, a jigalo and a saint
if they were jumping off the walls in freshly painted fresco.
They have rescued no one.
Their faith has cost them nothing.
They are fair weather followers who suffer the fool in themselves lightly.
Which kind are you this holiday season
There is still time for you to discover its reason.
Preacher
Eat Your
Words and Weep
For You are more guilty than your Sheep
your sins against Love
Run too deep to mention
Your view of heaven
is a puny dimension of self-glorification
The King of Kings
reigns above you too
and every Vicar and Bishop that ever was
get thee to confession at once
before He's through with you, my love
The Prince of Love my Shepherd is
A bulwark never failing
I nothing lack if I am his
and he is mine forever
My protection and avenger is none other than
the ruler of the World
My advocate, none stronger,
is the creator of your soul
I call only one Father, and he is Love
and Love's Incarnation
Those who insult, mistreat or cause Love humiliation
Are but a pathetically poor immitation
not deserving of his pity
beg for mercy, beg for Grace
For your fear, pride and cruelty he has no place
Eat Your
Words and Weep
For You are more guilty than your Sheep
your sins against Love
Run too deep to mention
Your view of heaven
is a puny dimension of self-glorification
The King of Kings
reigns above you too
and every Vicar and Bishop that ever was
get thee to confession at once
before He's through with you, my love
The Prince of Love my Shepherd is
A bulwark never failing
I nothing lack if I am his
and he is mine forever
My protection and avenger is none other than
the ruler of the World
My advocate, none stronger,
is the creator of your soul
I call only one Father, and he is Love
and Love's Incarnation
Those who insult, mistreat or cause Love humiliation
Are but a pathetically poor immitation
not deserving of his pity
beg for mercy, beg for Grace
For your fear, pride and cruelty he has no place
Sunday, December 09, 2007
people get ready
[Voix d'une Ange; Eva Marie Cassidy-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Cassidy]
Advent;
Light the Second Candle on the Advent Wreath.
Sing the song of repentance to the King of Kings
Let his Love forgive you
of all your evil whispers and deeds
God knows what you were thinking
God knows what you need
He knows you when you're sleeping
He knows when you are awake
He knows when you've been bad or good
So make it up to him before its too late.
Saturday, December 08, 2007
Woman Bleed
SORRY TO SHOCK YOU
The problem with Bright Line rules as any attorney or Judge will tell you (hopefully) is that there are always exceptions which beg for better Justice than the bright line provides. That is the obvious problem with the mandatory sentencing paradigm.
When the presumption underlying the premise is belied by the outcome, the premise has to be challenged-and in some cases overturned.
For example, a guy gets busted for carrying marijuana- he’s never used the stuff himself but he is on the way to his uncle’s with it who used him as a mule to get it because he has leukemia in a non-medical marijuana State (the kid's clean, the uncle is a stoner)- and the uncle pays for the kid’s tuition. The kid should get how many years in jail under mandatory sentencing guidelines? If there is any medical benefit to marijuana, and if the kid was performing a medical service for his uncle that benefited the health of his uncle, then clearly the presumption that all marijuana use is damaging to health and thus deserving of jail time in every case deserves a second look. The presumption is belied by the outcome. Punishing the kid does nothing for him.
Now look at the church’s position on birth control. It’s premise in opposing it is that in fact birth control hinders or blocks the creation of life that God is trying to bring to earth. The theory is thus, Pro-Life mandates opposition to any birth control or effort by humans to themselves manipulate the pro-creative process. People should not be blocking God’s stated intention that man be fruitful and multiply and open to as many children as they can possibly make. Moreover, the use of it promotes promiscuity in that people think that they are ‘safe’ using so called safe sex methods like condoms which promotes more illicit sexual behavior. That is the multifold premise behind the catholic birth control ban. Fair enough. Makes sense. Sounds like a good "pro-Life" policy-right?
But lets look at outcome. In Africa you have the church official position in denying condoms to people who are engaging in licit married and illicit sex with the obvious unintended but nevertheless entirely foreseeable and indeed statistically calculable consequences of exactly the opposite of what the church’s premise promotes; the policy in fact in Africa promotes death by AIDS, and millions of orphans. Justice is scripturally defined in part as the proper care of “widows and orphans” and the no-condom policy in light of the AIDS epidemic is creating massive numbers of widows and orphans, the exact opposite of biblical justice. The policy causes death not life. Thus, the outcome belies the presumption. The policy must be re-evaluated.
Now look at Priestly celibacy. In some cases, where the Holy Spirit has specifically gifted people to be celibate, it clearly is a calling. Don't assume just because someone wants to be a priest or is called to be one that the Holy Spirit agrees that they should be celibate. When Priestly celibacy is a cover to allow a Priest license to emotionally engage with women as emotionally entirely as if they were married but without sex, and yet without a full church blessing and without promoting children, then the church is in some, certainly not all cases, just promoting their priests to be essentially teases, or triflers with hearts- all deep character flaws and deep sins against the Sacred Heart of Christ, instead of honorable men. In such cases, the church is promoting death- death of the unborn prospective children that could have been born of a real union, and death of the women involved who lose their broken hearts, lose their husband, and lose all their children to the pints of blood they hemorrage in mensus if God in fact intended them to be with a man that is also called to serve the church as a priest (certainly not biblically inconsistent callings). So what is honorably intended as a Life promoting policy for a priest to serve and feed the community, being life to everyone in the church, they are in some cases instead causing death by the policy of celibacy. Again, the outcome in those cases belies the presumption . The policy must be re-evaluated.
Priests don’t bleed like Jesus did unless they are Padre Pio or Saint Francis from the stigmatic wounds. Women Bleed. Pints. Every Month. Every Month that they bleed, they are reminded that they are not giving that blood to create life, they are flushing it away as if it was nothing. Their blood. Down the toilet. Literally.
Women who have born children understand the blood covenant connection; probably intuitively better than Priests because their blood sustained the life within them to create, feed, and sustain human life. Women get blood. Women bleed. They get the blood covenant. They see their own blood every month.
When the church denies a Priest the ability to be a father, or watch the blood that pours from their wife as their child is born, the church is really imposing an under-education of the blood covenant on the priesthood. A fruit of the Spirit is human life born of a blood covenant.
When a Priest falls in love with a woman- and don't lie- they do all the time- and the church forbids them from being fathers- it is a grave moral sin. A GRAVE MORAL SIN.
JESUS, the Lamb of God, who takes away the Sins of the World, is the Sacrifical Blood Covenant Atoning Redemption of mankind. A Priest is his mere Funnel. His Sieve through which he pours himself. The Priest is NOT the blood covenant, he merely serves it as the vessel through which it pours. He is human, not Jesus, not born of a Virgin, not the son of the Creator through whom redemption, resurrection and atonement come- only JESUS is that because JESUS IS LORD.
Thus to make a Priest in every case vow to celibacy is against God because it stifles the creation of Life more than birth control policy ever did.
One third of all Priests in the US have had to leave the sacramental service of the church because they fell in love with a woman and decided to marry. There is no reason they should be forced to leave the church. They are in fact following more purely the biblical model of priesthood fashioned after the Jewish priesthood. They in fact have a much better intuitive understanding of the blood covenant.
Jesus cares deeply that women can procreate. When he healed the woman who bled for 12 years, hemorraged without relief, spending all her money on doctors who could not cure her, he healed her instantaneously. That woman was infertile for 12 years. She could not become pregnant because she bled for 12 years. At the time women only lived into their 40s. This woman was all but done and doomed to die childless. 12 years bleeding.
The church is forcing some women to bleed until they die. The church in enforcing a celibate priesthood, and forcing out any priest who marries is against Jesus, against Scripture and is in Grave Moral Sin in this.
ADDENDUM-
Thank you John Roberts and the gang for this:
http://www.catholicmediareport.org/story.php?story_id=5868
The problem with Bright Line rules as any attorney or Judge will tell you (hopefully) is that there are always exceptions which beg for better Justice than the bright line provides. That is the obvious problem with the mandatory sentencing paradigm.
When the presumption underlying the premise is belied by the outcome, the premise has to be challenged-and in some cases overturned.
For example, a guy gets busted for carrying marijuana- he’s never used the stuff himself but he is on the way to his uncle’s with it who used him as a mule to get it because he has leukemia in a non-medical marijuana State (the kid's clean, the uncle is a stoner)- and the uncle pays for the kid’s tuition. The kid should get how many years in jail under mandatory sentencing guidelines? If there is any medical benefit to marijuana, and if the kid was performing a medical service for his uncle that benefited the health of his uncle, then clearly the presumption that all marijuana use is damaging to health and thus deserving of jail time in every case deserves a second look. The presumption is belied by the outcome. Punishing the kid does nothing for him.
Now look at the church’s position on birth control. It’s premise in opposing it is that in fact birth control hinders or blocks the creation of life that God is trying to bring to earth. The theory is thus, Pro-Life mandates opposition to any birth control or effort by humans to themselves manipulate the pro-creative process. People should not be blocking God’s stated intention that man be fruitful and multiply and open to as many children as they can possibly make. Moreover, the use of it promotes promiscuity in that people think that they are ‘safe’ using so called safe sex methods like condoms which promotes more illicit sexual behavior. That is the multifold premise behind the catholic birth control ban. Fair enough. Makes sense. Sounds like a good "pro-Life" policy-right?
But lets look at outcome. In Africa you have the church official position in denying condoms to people who are engaging in licit married and illicit sex with the obvious unintended but nevertheless entirely foreseeable and indeed statistically calculable consequences of exactly the opposite of what the church’s premise promotes; the policy in fact in Africa promotes death by AIDS, and millions of orphans. Justice is scripturally defined in part as the proper care of “widows and orphans” and the no-condom policy in light of the AIDS epidemic is creating massive numbers of widows and orphans, the exact opposite of biblical justice. The policy causes death not life. Thus, the outcome belies the presumption. The policy must be re-evaluated.
Now look at Priestly celibacy. In some cases, where the Holy Spirit has specifically gifted people to be celibate, it clearly is a calling. Don't assume just because someone wants to be a priest or is called to be one that the Holy Spirit agrees that they should be celibate. When Priestly celibacy is a cover to allow a Priest license to emotionally engage with women as emotionally entirely as if they were married but without sex, and yet without a full church blessing and without promoting children, then the church is in some, certainly not all cases, just promoting their priests to be essentially teases, or triflers with hearts- all deep character flaws and deep sins against the Sacred Heart of Christ, instead of honorable men. In such cases, the church is promoting death- death of the unborn prospective children that could have been born of a real union, and death of the women involved who lose their broken hearts, lose their husband, and lose all their children to the pints of blood they hemorrage in mensus if God in fact intended them to be with a man that is also called to serve the church as a priest (certainly not biblically inconsistent callings). So what is honorably intended as a Life promoting policy for a priest to serve and feed the community, being life to everyone in the church, they are in some cases instead causing death by the policy of celibacy. Again, the outcome in those cases belies the presumption . The policy must be re-evaluated.
Priests don’t bleed like Jesus did unless they are Padre Pio or Saint Francis from the stigmatic wounds. Women Bleed. Pints. Every Month. Every Month that they bleed, they are reminded that they are not giving that blood to create life, they are flushing it away as if it was nothing. Their blood. Down the toilet. Literally.
Women who have born children understand the blood covenant connection; probably intuitively better than Priests because their blood sustained the life within them to create, feed, and sustain human life. Women get blood. Women bleed. They get the blood covenant. They see their own blood every month.
When the church denies a Priest the ability to be a father, or watch the blood that pours from their wife as their child is born, the church is really imposing an under-education of the blood covenant on the priesthood. A fruit of the Spirit is human life born of a blood covenant.
When a Priest falls in love with a woman- and don't lie- they do all the time- and the church forbids them from being fathers- it is a grave moral sin. A GRAVE MORAL SIN.
JESUS, the Lamb of God, who takes away the Sins of the World, is the Sacrifical Blood Covenant Atoning Redemption of mankind. A Priest is his mere Funnel. His Sieve through which he pours himself. The Priest is NOT the blood covenant, he merely serves it as the vessel through which it pours. He is human, not Jesus, not born of a Virgin, not the son of the Creator through whom redemption, resurrection and atonement come- only JESUS is that because JESUS IS LORD.
Thus to make a Priest in every case vow to celibacy is against God because it stifles the creation of Life more than birth control policy ever did.
One third of all Priests in the US have had to leave the sacramental service of the church because they fell in love with a woman and decided to marry. There is no reason they should be forced to leave the church. They are in fact following more purely the biblical model of priesthood fashioned after the Jewish priesthood. They in fact have a much better intuitive understanding of the blood covenant.
Jesus cares deeply that women can procreate. When he healed the woman who bled for 12 years, hemorraged without relief, spending all her money on doctors who could not cure her, he healed her instantaneously. That woman was infertile for 12 years. She could not become pregnant because she bled for 12 years. At the time women only lived into their 40s. This woman was all but done and doomed to die childless. 12 years bleeding.
The church is forcing some women to bleed until they die. The church in enforcing a celibate priesthood, and forcing out any priest who marries is against Jesus, against Scripture and is in Grave Moral Sin in this.
ADDENDUM-
Thank you John Roberts and the gang for this:
http://www.catholicmediareport.org/story.php?story_id=5868
Friday, December 07, 2007
Keep Talking Till They Get It
Note to Bill: How Dare YOU
Ms. Butler,
I'm writing to let you know that my recent article has been revised to include an eighth Senior Republican Appointee who challenges the official account of 9/11; Barbara Honegger.
Ms. Honegger served in the Reagan Administration as Special Assistant to the Chief Domestic Policy Adviser to President Reagan, as a White House Policy Analyst, and as Project Director, Anti-Discrimination Federal Law Review, U.S. Department of Justice.
Please see her stunning quotes. Link to article.
A list of all the articles in this series appears below. Please help disseminate this critically important information.
Best regards, Alan
Articles About 9/11 Skeptics
Dec. 4, 2007 - Eight Senior Republican Administration Appointees Challenge Official Account of 9/11 appeared on OpEdNews. It features:
Paul Craig Roberts, PhD, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under President Ronald Reagan
Catherine Austin Fitts, Assistant Secretary of Housing under President George H.W. Bush
Morgan Reynolds, PhD, former Chief Economist of the U.S. Department of Labor under current President George W. Bush
Col. Ronald D. Ray, U.S. Marine Corps (ret), Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan
Mary Schiavo, JD, Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Transportation under Presidents George H.W. Bush and William Clinton
Barbara Honegger, Special Assistant to the Chief Domestic Policy Adviser to President Ronald Reagan. White House Policy Analyst. Project Director, Anti-Discrimination Federal Law Review, U.S. Department of Justice
Edward Peck, Deputy Director of the White House Task Force on Terrorism under President Ronald Reagan. Former Deputy Coordinator, Covert Intelligence Programs at the U.S. State Department. Former U.S. Ambassador and Chief of Mission in Iraq
Morton Goulder, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Warning under Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter
Sept. 23, 2007 - Seven CIA Veterans Challenge 9/11 Commission Report - Official Account of 9/11 a “Joke” and a “Cover-up”. It features statements by CIA veterans Raymond McGovern, William Christison, Melvin Goodman, Robert Baer, Robert David Steele, Lynne Larkin, and David MacMichael.
Sept. 5, 2007 - U.S. Navy 'Top Gun' Pilot Questions 9/11 features the statement of Commander Ralph Kolstad, U.S. Navy 'Top Gun' pilot.
Sept. 4, 2007 - Former Congressional Office of Technology Assessment Senior Staff Member Calls for New Investigation of 9/11 features the statement of Joel S. Hirschhorn, Ph.D., who served for 12 years as a Senior Staff Member of the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment and later as Director of Environment, Energy and Natural Resources for the National Governors Association.
Aug. 27, 2007 - National Academy of Sciences Member Calls for New 9/11 Investigation features the statement of Lynn Margulis, Ph.D., world renowned scientist.
Aug. 21, 2007 - Former Chief of NIST's Fire Science Division Calls for Independent Review of World Trade Center Investigation features the statement of James Quintiere, Ph.D., one of the world's leading fire science researchers.
July 16, 2007 - Former California Seismic Safety Commissioner Endorses 9/11 Truth Movement features the statement of J. Marx Ayres, former member of the National Institute of Sciences Building Safety Council and former member of the California Seismic Safety Commission.
Note to Hillary: Say You Will Investigate FULLY and Call for a New 9-11 Commission Panel
BECAUSE NOTHING PREMISED ON A DECEPTION CAN ULTIMATELY SUCCEED
There is a movie coming out January 11 that will make you sick.
TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE.
You heard it first here- see it. EVERYONE.
Ms. Butler,
I'm writing to let you know that my recent article has been revised to include an eighth Senior Republican Appointee who challenges the official account of 9/11; Barbara Honegger.
Ms. Honegger served in the Reagan Administration as Special Assistant to the Chief Domestic Policy Adviser to President Reagan, as a White House Policy Analyst, and as Project Director, Anti-Discrimination Federal Law Review, U.S. Department of Justice.
Please see her stunning quotes. Link to article.
A list of all the articles in this series appears below. Please help disseminate this critically important information.
Best regards, Alan
Articles About 9/11 Skeptics
Dec. 4, 2007 - Eight Senior Republican Administration Appointees Challenge Official Account of 9/11 appeared on OpEdNews. It features:
Paul Craig Roberts, PhD, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under President Ronald Reagan
Catherine Austin Fitts, Assistant Secretary of Housing under President George H.W. Bush
Morgan Reynolds, PhD, former Chief Economist of the U.S. Department of Labor under current President George W. Bush
Col. Ronald D. Ray, U.S. Marine Corps (ret), Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan
Mary Schiavo, JD, Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Transportation under Presidents George H.W. Bush and William Clinton
Barbara Honegger, Special Assistant to the Chief Domestic Policy Adviser to President Ronald Reagan. White House Policy Analyst. Project Director, Anti-Discrimination Federal Law Review, U.S. Department of Justice
Edward Peck, Deputy Director of the White House Task Force on Terrorism under President Ronald Reagan. Former Deputy Coordinator, Covert Intelligence Programs at the U.S. State Department. Former U.S. Ambassador and Chief of Mission in Iraq
Morton Goulder, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Warning under Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter
Sept. 23, 2007 - Seven CIA Veterans Challenge 9/11 Commission Report - Official Account of 9/11 a “Joke” and a “Cover-up”. It features statements by CIA veterans Raymond McGovern, William Christison, Melvin Goodman, Robert Baer, Robert David Steele, Lynne Larkin, and David MacMichael.
Sept. 5, 2007 - U.S. Navy 'Top Gun' Pilot Questions 9/11 features the statement of Commander Ralph Kolstad, U.S. Navy 'Top Gun' pilot.
Sept. 4, 2007 - Former Congressional Office of Technology Assessment Senior Staff Member Calls for New Investigation of 9/11 features the statement of Joel S. Hirschhorn, Ph.D., who served for 12 years as a Senior Staff Member of the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment and later as Director of Environment, Energy and Natural Resources for the National Governors Association.
Aug. 27, 2007 - National Academy of Sciences Member Calls for New 9/11 Investigation features the statement of Lynn Margulis, Ph.D., world renowned scientist.
Aug. 21, 2007 - Former Chief of NIST's Fire Science Division Calls for Independent Review of World Trade Center Investigation features the statement of James Quintiere, Ph.D., one of the world's leading fire science researchers.
July 16, 2007 - Former California Seismic Safety Commissioner Endorses 9/11 Truth Movement features the statement of J. Marx Ayres, former member of the National Institute of Sciences Building Safety Council and former member of the California Seismic Safety Commission.
Note to Hillary: Say You Will Investigate FULLY and Call for a New 9-11 Commission Panel
BECAUSE NOTHING PREMISED ON A DECEPTION CAN ULTIMATELY SUCCEED
There is a movie coming out January 11 that will make you sick.
TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE.
You heard it first here- see it. EVERYONE.
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Happy Hanukkah
And Let Your Light Shine -
Click here for a good summary of why we all should light nine candles.
http://maoz.convio.net/site/News2?abbr=maoz_&page=NewsArticle&id=6523&JServSessionIdr012=chciarzju1.app1a
http://www.istandwithisrael.com/
HISTORY BY HOMER
Homer is a real guy who is about "Peace Through Golf"- he is a guy from Texas who started a mini-golf course around Ariel, a town in Israel where Palestinians and Jews play mini-golf together. I got his email newsletter today and it reads:
Chanukah - A Concise History
The story of Chanukah begins more than 2000 years ago. Thirty years after the death of Alexander the Great, the Greek Empire had disintegrated into three kingdoms:Macedonia, Syria and Egypt. Syria conquered Judea and in 175 B.C.E., Antiochus Epiphanes became ruler. Hungry for fame and power, he declared himself the living incarnation of the Greek god Zeus and demanded that all his subjects worship him. He insisted that to prove their loyalty, they give up their own religious beliefs. Most Jews, however, would not abandon their faith in one G-d. That one small stubborn people could stand in his way infuriated Antiochus. To punish them, he had hundreds of Jews murdered and the Temple desecrated and turned into a shrine of Zeus. Jews were forbidden to study their holy books or observe their laws. In the village of Modi'in, there lived an old priest named Mattathias and his five sons. Mattathias, declared publicly that the Jews would not abandon their G-d. Now in great danger, he and his sons were forced to flee to the Judean hills where they formed an army to resist Antiochus' decree. Mattathias, an old man, soon died and his son Judah Maccabee became the new leader. Though Judah's army was not trained in warfare, it had courage and strong convictions. They attacked regularly and, before long, posed a serious threat to Antiochus. After long years of hard fighting, Judah and his army liberated Jerusalem and cleared Judea of Syrians. They cleansed the Temple of statues of Greek gods and rededicated it to the God of Israel.
Cause for Celebration
In honor of the day that the temple was ready, Chanukah became known as the Festival of Rededication. Legend says that on that first Chanukah, the priests of the Temple could not find sufficient oil to light the lamps. They found only one jar, containing enough olive oil to burn one day. By a miracle of G-d, the oil lasted eight days. To commemorate this miraculous event, we light candles on each of Chanukah's eight days. Chanukah is one of the most celebrated holidays of the Jewish calendar. Often referred to as 'the Festival of Lights, Chanukah has meaning for people of all faiths, for this is the story of a people's fight for freedom. By their unwillingness to take the path of least resistance and give in to Hellenization, the Maccabees became known as "extremists" and "enemies of peace" but they became the symbol of victory of the few over the many, right over wrong. Countless times have Jews been outnumbered and persecuted. Their passion for religious freedom and faith in G-d has enabled them to stand up against tremendous odds. We have seen this miracle repeated over and over in the history of Jewish people and again and again in the modern Land of Israel. Chanukah is the only Jewish holiday that commemorates a national liberation struggle and victory in the Land of Israel. It could serve as a lesson to modern-day Israelis leaders. Simon the Maccabee, who succeeded his brothers, thus responded to an ultimatum given by Antiochus: "We have not occupied a foreign land nor have we ruled a foreign land. We have liberated the land of our forefathers from foreign occupation."
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Click here for a good summary of why we all should light nine candles.
http://maoz.convio.net/site/News2?abbr=maoz_&page=NewsArticle&id=6523&JServSessionIdr012=chciarzju1.app1a
http://www.istandwithisrael.com/
HISTORY BY HOMER
Homer is a real guy who is about "Peace Through Golf"- he is a guy from Texas who started a mini-golf course around Ariel, a town in Israel where Palestinians and Jews play mini-golf together. I got his email newsletter today and it reads:
Chanukah - A Concise History
The story of Chanukah begins more than 2000 years ago. Thirty years after the death of Alexander the Great, the Greek Empire had disintegrated into three kingdoms:Macedonia, Syria and Egypt. Syria conquered Judea and in 175 B.C.E., Antiochus Epiphanes became ruler. Hungry for fame and power, he declared himself the living incarnation of the Greek god Zeus and demanded that all his subjects worship him. He insisted that to prove their loyalty, they give up their own religious beliefs. Most Jews, however, would not abandon their faith in one G-d. That one small stubborn people could stand in his way infuriated Antiochus. To punish them, he had hundreds of Jews murdered and the Temple desecrated and turned into a shrine of Zeus. Jews were forbidden to study their holy books or observe their laws. In the village of Modi'in, there lived an old priest named Mattathias and his five sons. Mattathias, declared publicly that the Jews would not abandon their G-d. Now in great danger, he and his sons were forced to flee to the Judean hills where they formed an army to resist Antiochus' decree. Mattathias, an old man, soon died and his son Judah Maccabee became the new leader. Though Judah's army was not trained in warfare, it had courage and strong convictions. They attacked regularly and, before long, posed a serious threat to Antiochus. After long years of hard fighting, Judah and his army liberated Jerusalem and cleared Judea of Syrians. They cleansed the Temple of statues of Greek gods and rededicated it to the God of Israel.
Cause for Celebration
In honor of the day that the temple was ready, Chanukah became known as the Festival of Rededication. Legend says that on that first Chanukah, the priests of the Temple could not find sufficient oil to light the lamps. They found only one jar, containing enough olive oil to burn one day. By a miracle of G-d, the oil lasted eight days. To commemorate this miraculous event, we light candles on each of Chanukah's eight days. Chanukah is one of the most celebrated holidays of the Jewish calendar. Often referred to as 'the Festival of Lights, Chanukah has meaning for people of all faiths, for this is the story of a people's fight for freedom. By their unwillingness to take the path of least resistance and give in to Hellenization, the Maccabees became known as "extremists" and "enemies of peace" but they became the symbol of victory of the few over the many, right over wrong. Countless times have Jews been outnumbered and persecuted. Their passion for religious freedom and faith in G-d has enabled them to stand up against tremendous odds. We have seen this miracle repeated over and over in the history of Jewish people and again and again in the modern Land of Israel. Chanukah is the only Jewish holiday that commemorates a national liberation struggle and victory in the Land of Israel. It could serve as a lesson to modern-day Israelis leaders. Simon the Maccabee, who succeeded his brothers, thus responded to an ultimatum given by Antiochus: "We have not occupied a foreign land nor have we ruled a foreign land. We have liberated the land of our forefathers from foreign occupation."
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Tuesday, December 04, 2007
Sunday, December 02, 2007
Perpetual Help All The Time
Looking For Something to do Next Time You Are In Brooklyn?
Real Life Miracles from our Real Life Jewish Mother- Really Not Kidding
OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP
http://www.themissionchurch.com/omph.htm
Real Life Miracles from our Real Life Jewish Mother- Really Not Kidding
OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP
http://www.themissionchurch.com/omph.htm
490 times
"Unforgiveness- It's like drinking poison and wishing someone else dead." Rev.Creflo Dollar.
Forgive Your Brother, Seventy times Seven Times. 70 x 7= 490. That is one and sometimes more than one a day. Thus, no reason to go to bed with unforgiveness in your heart even one day.
http://www.taize.fr/en_article681.html
(click and listen to Mon Ame Se Repose)
Forgive Your Brother, Seventy times Seven Times. 70 x 7= 490. That is one and sometimes more than one a day. Thus, no reason to go to bed with unforgiveness in your heart even one day.
http://www.taize.fr/en_article681.html
(click and listen to Mon Ame Se Repose)
Saturday, December 01, 2007
ADVENT BEGINS-Franciscan Friars of the Holy Land
http://www.myfranciscan.org/index.cgi/517
I received this email today:
With the coming of the New Year, the Franciscan Foundation for the Holy Land invites you and your loved ones to send your prayers in time for the Special Prayer Service to be held at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem by the Franciscan Fathers in the Holy Land.
Today is the day to send your prayer to the Church of the Nativity - the place where the Virgin Mary gave birth to our Lord Jesus!
To send your prayers please click here
www.nativityhall.com/prayers.aspx
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
Throughout the centuries, millions of Christian believers have made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. They have prayed for their loved ones at these Holy Sites and have literally walked in the 'Footsteps of Jesus'.
The pilgrimage experience of visiting and praying at the Holy Sites is one of the greatest spiritual experiences one can have. It leaves a mark on the soul of the believer till the day he dies.
We know how much you may wish to come and pray at these Holy Sites but we are equally aware of the expense of travel these days coupled with working schedule. This special service is in your honor and in honor of all the thousands whose prayers we receive daily; and for all those who are searching the Spiritual Light of this Holy Place.
We accept all requests with great respect and confidence. We know how important and efficacious the power of prayer is especially at this Holy Site. May God Bless You!
Fr. Peter F. Vasko OFM,
President, Franciscan Foundation for the Holy Land
Please make your friends aware of this momentous opportunity.
I received this email today:
With the coming of the New Year, the Franciscan Foundation for the Holy Land invites you and your loved ones to send your prayers in time for the Special Prayer Service to be held at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem by the Franciscan Fathers in the Holy Land.
Today is the day to send your prayer to the Church of the Nativity - the place where the Virgin Mary gave birth to our Lord Jesus!
To send your prayers please click here
www.nativityhall.com/prayers.aspx
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
Throughout the centuries, millions of Christian believers have made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. They have prayed for their loved ones at these Holy Sites and have literally walked in the 'Footsteps of Jesus'.
The pilgrimage experience of visiting and praying at the Holy Sites is one of the greatest spiritual experiences one can have. It leaves a mark on the soul of the believer till the day he dies.
We know how much you may wish to come and pray at these Holy Sites but we are equally aware of the expense of travel these days coupled with working schedule. This special service is in your honor and in honor of all the thousands whose prayers we receive daily; and for all those who are searching the Spiritual Light of this Holy Place.
We accept all requests with great respect and confidence. We know how important and efficacious the power of prayer is especially at this Holy Site. May God Bless You!
Fr. Peter F. Vasko OFM,
President, Franciscan Foundation for the Holy Land
Please make your friends aware of this momentous opportunity.
Thursday, November 29, 2007
For out of it flow the Issues of Life
STING -Not the Shape of my Heart
I dream of GOD in silver desert sand
YESHUA SUPERSTAR
http://www.caspari.com/
It matters less what you call yourself than Who You Call Upon.
Click on the link above on the "Yeshua Superstar" Media Spotlight video.
It matters less what you call yourself than Who You Call Upon.
Click on the link above on the "Yeshua Superstar" Media Spotlight video.
It's All Good
Living Heaven on Earth:
His Holy High Hatness Continues: I lay before you the Choice of Life and Death: CHOOSE LIFE
His Holy High Hatness Continues: I lay before you the Choice of Life and Death: CHOOSE LIFE
HUSSEIN OBAMA WHO?
The Foreign Policy Question
OBAMA wants us to believe that because he lived in Jakarta, Indonesia when he was 6 attending a local school and because he had a Kenyan father he is uniquely Foreign Policy qualified.
GET SERIOUS!! GIVE ME A BREAK PEOPLE!!
There are about 30 International Schools in Jakarta, a major international city, like the New York of Southeast Asia, a major financial hub. See, http://www.indoindians.com/education/inter_school.htm
He went to a local school because very likely his parents could not afford to send him to one of the international ones. Just a hunch. Plus, because his Step-Dad had a fascination with the Mosque culture, they probably thought it was cool.
I knew someone who went to an International School in Jakarta. I knew her at the American School in London, England where I went. She wasn't a foreign policy knowledgeable person. She ended up being a third rate fashion model. There are Americans living in every country in the world. There are huge numbers of ex-patriots (xpats) living in almost every major city of the world. They have English speaking schools for the British and American kids in almost EVERY major city. Jakarta has the added benefit of being close enough to Australia that it has tons of Aussies there- more English speaking schools. If you don't go to the English speaking schools, it's because your parents prefer that you learn the local culture or they can't afford the private schooling.
Your El Salvadoran maid had an El Salvadoran Father, does that make her a Foreign policy genious about the entire world? It may mean she knows a bit about El Salvador. She may even know a bit about the airport in Miami. It doesn't give her any astuteness about Foreign Policy strategy.
Kenya is nothing like Ethiopia, South Africa, Cape Verde, Cote D'Ivoire, Senegal, or many other African countries. Contrary to appearances from afar, they are not all alike. Kenya is nothing like the other countries Obama never lived in (probably hasn't visited either) and never had a relative hailing from- like Belgium, Luxembourg, France, England, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Chile, Venezuela, Finland, Russia, Croatia, Norway, Macedonia, China, Korea (North or South), Vietnam (North or South) Switzerland, Argentina, Benin, Togo, the Dominican Republic, or the Holy See. Just to name a few.
My Korean dry cleaner had a grandparent in the fields and rice patties of Korea. Doesn't make her a Foreign Policy guru. My favorite Italian grocer in New York had a grand parent who farmed in Southern Italy. Doesn't mean he knows squat about NATO. Doesn't even mean he knows much about Southern Italy.
PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE!!!!!!
What does he think-we are 12??
Next to Hillary's World Experience, OBAMA is 12.
THERE IS NO COMPARISON PEOPLE. She was involved in 8 years of foreign policy deliberations in the White House and has been in the Senate also. NO COMPARISON.
What does having a Kenyan father and going to elementary school in Indonesia have to do with strategic astuteness in matters of European Competition Law, trade deficits with China, Iranian nuclear threats, Venezuelas oil embargos, Bosnian reconstruction, Indian-Pakistani border issues, Kashmiri independence, Palestinian refugees, Israeli-Lebanese conflicts, Mexican border issues, humanitarian crisis of flooding in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Somali/Darfur genocide?
About as much as having a grandfather who farmed rice patties in Korea does.
He identifies with oppression living on a beach in Hawaii going to Harvard Law? Cry me a volcanic river. Your El Salvadoran maid's family fled a bloody civil war for their lives, the Italian grocer's family fled famine, my Irish roots fled famine and a sort of bloody civil war, the Ethiopian taxi driver fled an attack of Somalis, every person of German or Polish heritage here might have fled oppressive regimes whether Prussian, Nazi or Russian invasions, the local
Lebanese waiter fled a bloody civil war, and don't get me started on the women at the Vietnamese nail salon.
If he thinks that argument holds water, I think he inhaled too much.
OBAMA wants us to believe that because he lived in Jakarta, Indonesia when he was 6 attending a local school and because he had a Kenyan father he is uniquely Foreign Policy qualified.
GET SERIOUS!! GIVE ME A BREAK PEOPLE!!
There are about 30 International Schools in Jakarta, a major international city, like the New York of Southeast Asia, a major financial hub. See, http://www.indoindians.com/education/inter_school.htm
He went to a local school because very likely his parents could not afford to send him to one of the international ones. Just a hunch. Plus, because his Step-Dad had a fascination with the Mosque culture, they probably thought it was cool.
I knew someone who went to an International School in Jakarta. I knew her at the American School in London, England where I went. She wasn't a foreign policy knowledgeable person. She ended up being a third rate fashion model. There are Americans living in every country in the world. There are huge numbers of ex-patriots (xpats) living in almost every major city of the world. They have English speaking schools for the British and American kids in almost EVERY major city. Jakarta has the added benefit of being close enough to Australia that it has tons of Aussies there- more English speaking schools. If you don't go to the English speaking schools, it's because your parents prefer that you learn the local culture or they can't afford the private schooling.
Your El Salvadoran maid had an El Salvadoran Father, does that make her a Foreign policy genious about the entire world? It may mean she knows a bit about El Salvador. She may even know a bit about the airport in Miami. It doesn't give her any astuteness about Foreign Policy strategy.
Kenya is nothing like Ethiopia, South Africa, Cape Verde, Cote D'Ivoire, Senegal, or many other African countries. Contrary to appearances from afar, they are not all alike. Kenya is nothing like the other countries Obama never lived in (probably hasn't visited either) and never had a relative hailing from- like Belgium, Luxembourg, France, England, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Chile, Venezuela, Finland, Russia, Croatia, Norway, Macedonia, China, Korea (North or South), Vietnam (North or South) Switzerland, Argentina, Benin, Togo, the Dominican Republic, or the Holy See. Just to name a few.
My Korean dry cleaner had a grandparent in the fields and rice patties of Korea. Doesn't make her a Foreign Policy guru. My favorite Italian grocer in New York had a grand parent who farmed in Southern Italy. Doesn't mean he knows squat about NATO. Doesn't even mean he knows much about Southern Italy.
PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE!!!!!!
What does he think-we are 12??
Next to Hillary's World Experience, OBAMA is 12.
THERE IS NO COMPARISON PEOPLE. She was involved in 8 years of foreign policy deliberations in the White House and has been in the Senate also. NO COMPARISON.
What does having a Kenyan father and going to elementary school in Indonesia have to do with strategic astuteness in matters of European Competition Law, trade deficits with China, Iranian nuclear threats, Venezuelas oil embargos, Bosnian reconstruction, Indian-Pakistani border issues, Kashmiri independence, Palestinian refugees, Israeli-Lebanese conflicts, Mexican border issues, humanitarian crisis of flooding in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Somali/Darfur genocide?
About as much as having a grandfather who farmed rice patties in Korea does.
He identifies with oppression living on a beach in Hawaii going to Harvard Law? Cry me a volcanic river. Your El Salvadoran maid's family fled a bloody civil war for their lives, the Italian grocer's family fled famine, my Irish roots fled famine and a sort of bloody civil war, the Ethiopian taxi driver fled an attack of Somalis, every person of German or Polish heritage here might have fled oppressive regimes whether Prussian, Nazi or Russian invasions, the local
Lebanese waiter fled a bloody civil war, and don't get me started on the women at the Vietnamese nail salon.
If he thinks that argument holds water, I think he inhaled too much.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
POETRY CONTEST
Just in Time For Christmas
You could win a gift card for $100.00 (Starbucks, Target, Best Buy, etc.) to your favorite retailer by merely sending me a poem I like of a religious/spiritual or political nature. You keep the copyright but allow me the right to publish it on this site. There is no limit to how many I will give away, if I like it and publish it here you get a $100.00 gift card (looks like a credit card)-it's that easy. Just email your poem to HAVEMERCYONUS-at-aol.com with "Poetry Contest" in the Subject line or send in your poem to the following address:
Pilgrims, Patriots, Prophets, Poetry Contest
2020 Pennsylvania Avenue, PO Box 323, NW
Washington, DC 20006
(please be sure to include your return address and indicate whether you want publication anonymous or with name attribution)
I like this one:
Ten Commandments of the Priest's Wife
1. Do not guillotine my spirit on earth to call me blessed in heaven.
2 Do not build a basillica on my grave there to dance upon
3 Do not drink perfumed martini toasts to me at the wake with a holy whoredom of despirate women
as you shovel dirt on my coffin
4 Do not let your mother in
5 Do not look for my miracles when I am gone when you spat on their coming when I was here
6 Do not proclaim my arrival in Paradise in eulogy when you wouldn't even go back to Italy with me
7 Do not hail the second birth when you denied the first to all your hypothetical potential progeny
8 Do not look for me in heaven when you ran from me on this planet
9 Do not speak of grace, Damn it
and call me a Saint when I am gone
When you assumed me wrongly such a bold sinner all along.
10. Sing instead a very new song
And promise you will let love in as strong on earth as it is in heaven
And only then say Amen
You could win a gift card for $100.00 (Starbucks, Target, Best Buy, etc.) to your favorite retailer by merely sending me a poem I like of a religious/spiritual or political nature. You keep the copyright but allow me the right to publish it on this site. There is no limit to how many I will give away, if I like it and publish it here you get a $100.00 gift card (looks like a credit card)-it's that easy. Just email your poem to HAVEMERCYONUS-at-aol.com with "Poetry Contest" in the Subject line or send in your poem to the following address:
Pilgrims, Patriots, Prophets, Poetry Contest
2020 Pennsylvania Avenue, PO Box 323, NW
Washington, DC 20006
(please be sure to include your return address and indicate whether you want publication anonymous or with name attribution)
I like this one:
Ten Commandments of the Priest's Wife
1. Do not guillotine my spirit on earth to call me blessed in heaven.
2 Do not build a basillica on my grave there to dance upon
3 Do not drink perfumed martini toasts to me at the wake with a holy whoredom of despirate women
as you shovel dirt on my coffin
4 Do not let your mother in
5 Do not look for my miracles when I am gone when you spat on their coming when I was here
6 Do not proclaim my arrival in Paradise in eulogy when you wouldn't even go back to Italy with me
7 Do not hail the second birth when you denied the first to all your hypothetical potential progeny
8 Do not look for me in heaven when you ran from me on this planet
9 Do not speak of grace, Damn it
and call me a Saint when I am gone
When you assumed me wrongly such a bold sinner all along.
10. Sing instead a very new song
And promise you will let love in as strong on earth as it is in heaven
And only then say Amen
--------------------AND WHAT DOES THE POPE HAVE TO SAY TODAY?
ITS ABOUT A POET! SAINT EPHREM
From the Vatican Information Service.......
EPHREM THE SYRIAN: THE CULTURAL DIVERSITY OF CHRISTIANITY
VATICAN CITY, NOV 28, 2007 (VIS) - Continuing his series of catecheses on Fathers of the Church, Benedict XVI today dedicated his general audience to the figure of St. Ephrem the Syrian, "the most famous poet of the patristic age." The audience was held in the Paul VI Hall in the presence of 8,000 people.
Before discussing St. Ephrem, the Pope remarked how "it is widely believed today that Christianity is a European religion which subsequently exported that continent's culture to other countries. But the truth is much more complex."
"The roots of the Christian religion," the Pope explained, "are in the Old Testament, hence in Jerusalem and the Semitic world. And Christianity constantly draws nourishment from these Old Testament roots. The spread of Christianity in the early centuries was directed both westwards - to the Greco-Latin world where it later inspired European culture - and eastwards to Persia and India, where it contributed to the formation of a specific culture, in Semitic languages and with its own identity."
Benedict XVI indicated that "in order demonstrate the one Christian faith's multiplicity of cultural form ever since its inception" he had chosen to focus his audience on St. Ephrem, a theologian and a poet who was born in Nisibis around the year 306 and died in Edessa in 373.
"Poetry," the Holy Father explained, "enabled him to deepen his theological reflections through the use of paradox and images."
"Ephrem gave poetry and liturgical hymns a didactic and catechetical character, ... so as to use liturgical feasts as opportunities to spread the doctrine of the Church."
Benedict XVI dwelt briefly on Ephrem's ideas concerning God the Creator, saying: "Nothing in the Creation is isolated and the world is - alongside Scared Scripture - a Bible of God. Using his freedom wrongly, man overturns the order of the universe."
For Ephrem, "Jesus' presence in Mary's womb greatly raised the dignity of women ... about whom he always speaks with sensitivity and respect," said the Pope. "Just as there is no Redemption without Jesus, so there is no Incarnation without Mary. And the divine and human dimensions of the mystery of our Redemption are already to be found in the saint's writings."
Honored in Christian tradition with the title of "harp of the Holy Spirit," Ephrem remained a deacon of the Church throughout his life. "This was a decisive and emblematic choice," said the Holy Father. "He was a deacon, in other words a servant in liturgical ministry and, more radically, in the love of Christ ... as well as in charity towards his brethren who, with great skill, he introduced to a knowledge of the divine Revelation."
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Please Remember Me
When you Get There.
Today we heard the message of the Good Thief, Dimas, sometimes also referred to as Dumas or Dymas. (Dumas is a common french surname) http://saodimas.com.br/usa/quemera.htm
He was the guy who deserved to be hung by his toenails to a cross according to the laws of capital punishment Roman style 33 AD because he was a really bad actor. He was a serious Thief. So What's so Good about a Thief. Why is he possibly a Saint?
He recognized Jesus' innocence, and that he didn't deserve to be hung next to him. Moreover, he instinctively recognized that Jesus was going to be entering some sort of other Kingdom. He instinctively knew that there was a resurrection of some kind- that Jesus wasn't just going to die into oblivion-there wasn't "Nothing" after death-there was something Huge. There was a Kingdom waiting for him. "Jesus, remember me when you get into your Kingdom." Take me with you.
Jesus, who was mocked and scourged so his back resembled something like raw hamburger meat, was treated with utter contempt and subjected to brutal humiliation with a mock crown on his head made of thorns pressed into his bleeding forehead, with mocking taunting jeering crowds of Roman soldiers waiting for him to die, poking his side with a sword, didn't really look all that innocent strung up on the cross. (See the video below that breaks down his wounds from evidence on the Shroud of Turin.)
It kind of goes against the presumption to presume someone adjudicated to death by crucification (yeah, sure ,sure you are innocent, that's what they all say) is really totally completely innocent.
The fact that he was totally completely innocent makes him the only qualified true atonement for our sins. The Lamb Without Blemish.
He really did absolutely nothing deserving of death.
Looks are deceiving. Dimas knew instinctively he was innocent.
He told him- Please Remember Me, when you get there- to your Kingdom. Please don't forget me.
Jesus said- today you will be with me in Paradise.
It's another one of those Your Faith Saved you stories. But more than that- your faith has saved YOU- even though YOU are far from deserving of it- a thief, maybe not, but certainly a sinner. Mercy, for those who believe Jesus is who he said he was-Mercy, that saves you from yourself and the hard judgment you really deserve.
It's as though all Jesus wants is for us to acknowledge who he really is. Just BELIEVE ME. ACCEPT WHO I AM FOR YOU.
Say with me:
I believe You and I believe In You Totally.
I Know You are Innocent.
Please Remember Me when you get there.
Come Get Me and Take Me With You.
If you feel like adding -because life is meaningless without you-go ahead.
LIFE IS MEANINGLESS WITHOUT YOU.
The Shroud of Turin is what it says -a Shroud, a Jewish Burial Shroud that is now housed in a Basillica in Turin, Italy. There was clearly some high light phenomenon which blasted his image on this cloth after it was laid upon him-likely at his resurrection. The Shroud contains key clues about Jesus' death, particularly his bodily wounds at his death. You can see the trickles of blood from the crown of thorns, the blood marks on his wrists, the lash marks from his scourging. You can see that his nose clearly was broken.He was beaten across the Face. The very reflection of God, the Face of God. It always bothered me that his nose was broken in light of the prophetic passage stating that not one bone of his body would be broken (which is why the Romans did not club his legs at the crucification as they did to the others to hasten death on a cross) - until I remembered that a Nose is not Bone- think of a skeleton- the place where the nose is there is always a hole- it's cartiledge not bone. Not a bone in his body was broken as was prophesied.
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Today we heard the message of the Good Thief, Dimas, sometimes also referred to as Dumas or Dymas. (Dumas is a common french surname) http://saodimas.com.br/usa/quemera.htm
He was the guy who deserved to be hung by his toenails to a cross according to the laws of capital punishment Roman style 33 AD because he was a really bad actor. He was a serious Thief. So What's so Good about a Thief. Why is he possibly a Saint?
He recognized Jesus' innocence, and that he didn't deserve to be hung next to him. Moreover, he instinctively recognized that Jesus was going to be entering some sort of other Kingdom. He instinctively knew that there was a resurrection of some kind- that Jesus wasn't just going to die into oblivion-there wasn't "Nothing" after death-there was something Huge. There was a Kingdom waiting for him. "Jesus, remember me when you get into your Kingdom." Take me with you.
Jesus, who was mocked and scourged so his back resembled something like raw hamburger meat, was treated with utter contempt and subjected to brutal humiliation with a mock crown on his head made of thorns pressed into his bleeding forehead, with mocking taunting jeering crowds of Roman soldiers waiting for him to die, poking his side with a sword, didn't really look all that innocent strung up on the cross. (See the video below that breaks down his wounds from evidence on the Shroud of Turin.)
It kind of goes against the presumption to presume someone adjudicated to death by crucification (yeah, sure ,sure you are innocent, that's what they all say) is really totally completely innocent.
The fact that he was totally completely innocent makes him the only qualified true atonement for our sins. The Lamb Without Blemish.
He really did absolutely nothing deserving of death.
Looks are deceiving. Dimas knew instinctively he was innocent.
He told him- Please Remember Me, when you get there- to your Kingdom. Please don't forget me.
Jesus said- today you will be with me in Paradise.
It's another one of those Your Faith Saved you stories. But more than that- your faith has saved YOU- even though YOU are far from deserving of it- a thief, maybe not, but certainly a sinner. Mercy, for those who believe Jesus is who he said he was-Mercy, that saves you from yourself and the hard judgment you really deserve.
It's as though all Jesus wants is for us to acknowledge who he really is. Just BELIEVE ME. ACCEPT WHO I AM FOR YOU.
Say with me:
I believe You and I believe In You Totally.
I Know You are Innocent.
Please Remember Me when you get there.
Come Get Me and Take Me With You.
If you feel like adding -because life is meaningless without you-go ahead.
LIFE IS MEANINGLESS WITHOUT YOU.
The Shroud of Turin is what it says -a Shroud, a Jewish Burial Shroud that is now housed in a Basillica in Turin, Italy. There was clearly some high light phenomenon which blasted his image on this cloth after it was laid upon him-likely at his resurrection. The Shroud contains key clues about Jesus' death, particularly his bodily wounds at his death. You can see the trickles of blood from the crown of thorns, the blood marks on his wrists, the lash marks from his scourging. You can see that his nose clearly was broken.He was beaten across the Face. The very reflection of God, the Face of God. It always bothered me that his nose was broken in light of the prophetic passage stating that not one bone of his body would be broken (which is why the Romans did not club his legs at the crucification as they did to the others to hasten death on a cross) - until I remembered that a Nose is not Bone- think of a skeleton- the place where the nose is there is always a hole- it's cartiledge not bone. Not a bone in his body was broken as was prophesied.
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