An Election
Few serious thinking people I know who have looked at the facts, litigation files, and discovery surrounding the Ohio election numbers of 2004 do not think there was profound foul play that smacks of election fraud.
It appears that the Bush White House rigged it's reelection with the assistance of an obscure software company called Smart-tech which had datalink sites from the Ohio Secretary of State's office (Republican Blackwell) to its base in Tennessee then back up to the White House.
Mysterious death surrounds a key deponent. His deposition is something that the Justice Department should get- if for no other reason than that there is no statute of limitations on murder. See the article in the Free Press that discusses the significance of the deponent and why the deposition should be made public-if not entered into the Congressional Record.
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2011/4046
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
All Democrats Welcome
Should Not Be A Partisan Issue
But it is-and that is a shame. Georgetown University thoughtfully provokes intelligent discussion on the Life Question because people, we do have a crisis now in this country in the wake of 'legalized' abortion-and we have to take the issue above partisan wrangling and posturing and hedging wedge issues for political advantage. We have to SOLVE the crisis.
It is irresponsible for government not to recognize that this is a crisis- and not just a personal crisis but a social larger societal crisis that government has to address better than it has.
Georgetown University is holding a Symposium on the Life Question- why are nearly half the people who conceive children in New York not taking pregancy to term? What the Hell (literally.)
A full discussion of the conference speakers appears here:
http://theblogofthecourtier.blogspot.com/
But it is-and that is a shame. Georgetown University thoughtfully provokes intelligent discussion on the Life Question because people, we do have a crisis now in this country in the wake of 'legalized' abortion-and we have to take the issue above partisan wrangling and posturing and hedging wedge issues for political advantage. We have to SOLVE the crisis.
It is irresponsible for government not to recognize that this is a crisis- and not just a personal crisis but a social larger societal crisis that government has to address better than it has.
Georgetown University is holding a Symposium on the Life Question- why are nearly half the people who conceive children in New York not taking pregancy to term? What the Hell (literally.)
A full discussion of the conference speakers appears here:
http://theblogofthecourtier.blogspot.com/
Good Stewardship
Another Archdiocese bites the dust
In the wake of the sex scandals, Milwaukee, Wisconsin is the latest to go bankrupt.
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2011/01/04/clergy-sex-abuse-claims-lead-milwaukee-archdiocese-to-file-bankr/
And this is all better than allowing an order of married priests to serve?
If nothing else (like common sense and decency) good stewardship compels looking at this.
Whose money goes into settlement funds?
Do you think that the parable of the ten talents goes like this:
Jesus gave ten talents out to three people. One made a significant profit-well done. One made a modest profit-well done. One had to pay it all in fines, court costs, owes more for molesting hoards of children so filed Chapter 11 and had his insurance cancelled?
RIDICULOUS misappropriation of funds given for Kingdom work- squandered for sin.
I am 50 years old now. When you are 50 years old you get to say what you think.
In the wake of the sex scandals, Milwaukee, Wisconsin is the latest to go bankrupt.
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2011/01/04/clergy-sex-abuse-claims-lead-milwaukee-archdiocese-to-file-bankr/
And this is all better than allowing an order of married priests to serve?
If nothing else (like common sense and decency) good stewardship compels looking at this.
Whose money goes into settlement funds?
Do you think that the parable of the ten talents goes like this:
Jesus gave ten talents out to three people. One made a significant profit-well done. One made a modest profit-well done. One had to pay it all in fines, court costs, owes more for molesting hoards of children so filed Chapter 11 and had his insurance cancelled?
RIDICULOUS misappropriation of funds given for Kingdom work- squandered for sin.
I am 50 years old now. When you are 50 years old you get to say what you think.
Religious Liberty
The letter from Moses Seixas (Touro Synagogue, the oldest in the US) to President George Washington
Sir:
Permit the children of the stock of Abraham to approach you with the most cordial affection and esteem for your person and merits — and to join with our fellow citizens in welcoming you to NewPort.
With pleasure we reflect on those days — those days of difficulty, and danger, when the God of Israel, who delivered David from the peril of the sword, — shielded Your head in the day of battle: — and we rejoice to think, that the same Spirit, who rested in the Bosom of the greatly beloved Daniel enabling him to preside over the Provinces of the Babylonish Empire, rests and ever will rest, upon you, enabling you to discharge the arduous duties of Chief Magistrate in these States.
Deprived as we heretofore have been of the invaluable rights of free Citizens, we now with a deep sense of gratitude to the Almighty disposer of all events behold a Government, erected by the Majesty of the People — a Government, which to bigotry gives no sanction, to persecution no assistance — but generously affording to all Liberty of conscience, and immunities of Citizenship: — deeming every one, of whatever Nation, tongue, or language equal parts of the great governmental Machine: — This so ample and extensive Federal Union whose basis is Philanthropy, Mutual confidence and Public Virtue, we cannot but acknowledge to be the work of the Great God, who ruleth in the Armies of Heaven, and among the Inhabitants of the Earth, doing whatever seemeth him good.
For all these Blessings of civil and religious liberty which we enjoy under an equal benign administration, we desire to send up our thanks to the Ancient of Days, the great preserver of Men — beseeching him, that the Angel who conducted our forefathers through the wilderness into the promised Land, may graciously conduct you through all the difficulties and dangers of this mortal life: — And, when, like Joshua full of days and full of honour, you are gathered to your Fathers, may you be admitted into the Heavenly Paradise to partake of the water of life, and the tree of immortality.
Done and Signed by order of the Hebrew Congregation in NewPort, Rhode Island August 17th 1790.
Moses Seixas, Warden
Sir:
Permit the children of the stock of Abraham to approach you with the most cordial affection and esteem for your person and merits — and to join with our fellow citizens in welcoming you to NewPort.
With pleasure we reflect on those days — those days of difficulty, and danger, when the God of Israel, who delivered David from the peril of the sword, — shielded Your head in the day of battle: — and we rejoice to think, that the same Spirit, who rested in the Bosom of the greatly beloved Daniel enabling him to preside over the Provinces of the Babylonish Empire, rests and ever will rest, upon you, enabling you to discharge the arduous duties of Chief Magistrate in these States.
Deprived as we heretofore have been of the invaluable rights of free Citizens, we now with a deep sense of gratitude to the Almighty disposer of all events behold a Government, erected by the Majesty of the People — a Government, which to bigotry gives no sanction, to persecution no assistance — but generously affording to all Liberty of conscience, and immunities of Citizenship: — deeming every one, of whatever Nation, tongue, or language equal parts of the great governmental Machine: — This so ample and extensive Federal Union whose basis is Philanthropy, Mutual confidence and Public Virtue, we cannot but acknowledge to be the work of the Great God, who ruleth in the Armies of Heaven, and among the Inhabitants of the Earth, doing whatever seemeth him good.
For all these Blessings of civil and religious liberty which we enjoy under an equal benign administration, we desire to send up our thanks to the Ancient of Days, the great preserver of Men — beseeching him, that the Angel who conducted our forefathers through the wilderness into the promised Land, may graciously conduct you through all the difficulties and dangers of this mortal life: — And, when, like Joshua full of days and full of honour, you are gathered to your Fathers, may you be admitted into the Heavenly Paradise to partake of the water of life, and the tree of immortality.
Done and Signed by order of the Hebrew Congregation in NewPort, Rhode Island August 17th 1790.
Moses Seixas, Warden
And WASHINGTON'S REPLY
Gentleman.
While I receive, with much satisfaction, your Address replete with expressions of affection and esteem; I rejoice in the opportunity of assuring you, that I shall always retain a grateful remembrance of the cordial welcome I experienced in my visit to Newport, from all classes of Citizens.
The reflection on the days of difficulty and danger which are past is rendered the more sweet, from a consciousness that they are succeeded by days of uncommon prosperity and security. If we have wisdom to make the best use of the advantages with which we are now favored, we cannot fail, under the just administration of a good Government, to become a great and happy people.The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for having given to mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy: a policy worthy of imitation.
All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship. It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens, in giving it on all occasions their effectual support.It would be inconsistent with the frankness of my character not to avow that I am pleased with your favorable opinion of my Administration, and fervent wishes for my felicity.
May the children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other Inhabitants; while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and figtree, and there shall be none to make him afraid. May the father of all mercies scatter light and not darkness in our paths, and make us all in our several vocations useful here, and in his own due time and way everlastingly happy.
G. Washington
Monday, January 10, 2011
Shocking
And Indefensible
That Tomfoolery like that Tom Punkiedoodle Papist is blasting the truth-tellers for saying Tone it Down because the rhetoric, of which he has in past been wildly responsible contributes to the bully mentality tone that sets the Zeitgeist fabric that sends people off like this.
Even the Head of Fox News is telling hosts to tone it down. Quite clearly the only responsible course. So where does "Catholic Vote" get off telling people to not act responsibly?
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2011/01/10/fox-news-head-tells-hosts-shut-up-tone-it-down-after-giffords/?icid=main%7Chtmlws-sb-n%7Cdl1%7Csec3_lnk2%7C194667
That Tomfoolery like that Tom Punkiedoodle Papist is blasting the truth-tellers for saying Tone it Down because the rhetoric, of which he has in past been wildly responsible contributes to the bully mentality tone that sets the Zeitgeist fabric that sends people off like this.
Even the Head of Fox News is telling hosts to tone it down. Quite clearly the only responsible course. So where does "Catholic Vote" get off telling people to not act responsibly?
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2011/01/10/fox-news-head-tells-hosts-shut-up-tone-it-down-after-giffords/?icid=main%7Chtmlws-sb-n%7Cdl1%7Csec3_lnk2%7C194667
The image above is of Tomas de Torquemada- Dominican Cardinal and Chief Inquisitioner during the Spanish Inquisition, said to define "Dominican Fanaticism" and responsible for
mass murdering many many people who called themselves Christians but weren't good enough for him not to call them 'heretics.' Many were converts from other faiths-Jewish or Muslim. He is responsible for expelling Jews from Spain. Dominicans like to do that sort of thing.
Power trippy.
Philosophical
Fabrications and Other Things that Serve Our Institutional Purposes
Sometimes when those little faith snippets appear in some parish bulletins on their educational feature I laugh out loud because they are so obviously just made up. You just made that up! But how well it serves the conclusion.
It's hysterical how much of the extra-biblical doctrine makes its way as assumed truth.
The entire construct of priests 'dying to themselves' as celibates when this was the furthest
thing from Jesus' thought or words is hysterical. It would be laugh out loud more hysterical were there not such a strong prohibition IN SCRIPTURE against doing that. Do not add a word. It is a firm admonition. Half of the Vatican library has to be added words on conjectural commentary of what they want it to mean. And it is often meant in the most demeaning way to women you could invent.
Sometimes the church is just wrong. Persecution of people for reading the bible in the vernacular, which it did for centuries because they wanted to give priests more control over the people, is just wrong. Now after the Gutenberg Press, everyone gets their own bible and now after public financed education in the western world we all can read it.
So these little educational blurbs, meant to indoctrinate in their world are often silly creations that serve their mindset- and no, it's not that we don't know our faith- we reject your interpretation of our faith.
Sometimes I am just shocked at how dumb sheep can be. Can't you read?
Not that some of the institutional purposes aren't worthy or noble- it's great to give free social services to people, free medical and legal help. But wrong, deceptive and contrary to scripture to enforce rules that are contra-deo.
Clearly, the church is in need of serious reform. Clearly. Or do you always walk around with your neck in the quicksand?
Sometimes when those little faith snippets appear in some parish bulletins on their educational feature I laugh out loud because they are so obviously just made up. You just made that up! But how well it serves the conclusion.
It's hysterical how much of the extra-biblical doctrine makes its way as assumed truth.
The entire construct of priests 'dying to themselves' as celibates when this was the furthest
thing from Jesus' thought or words is hysterical. It would be laugh out loud more hysterical were there not such a strong prohibition IN SCRIPTURE against doing that. Do not add a word. It is a firm admonition. Half of the Vatican library has to be added words on conjectural commentary of what they want it to mean. And it is often meant in the most demeaning way to women you could invent.
Sometimes the church is just wrong. Persecution of people for reading the bible in the vernacular, which it did for centuries because they wanted to give priests more control over the people, is just wrong. Now after the Gutenberg Press, everyone gets their own bible and now after public financed education in the western world we all can read it.
So these little educational blurbs, meant to indoctrinate in their world are often silly creations that serve their mindset- and no, it's not that we don't know our faith- we reject your interpretation of our faith.
Sometimes I am just shocked at how dumb sheep can be. Can't you read?
Not that some of the institutional purposes aren't worthy or noble- it's great to give free social services to people, free medical and legal help. But wrong, deceptive and contrary to scripture to enforce rules that are contra-deo.
Clearly, the church is in need of serious reform. Clearly. Or do you always walk around with your neck in the quicksand?
WANTED
HATE SPEECH CRIMINALS AND NUTJOB FIREARMS POLITICOS
Imagine this person in charge of ATF. Arrest Palin before someone else gets caught in her cross-hairs.
Imagine this person in charge of ATF. Arrest Palin before someone else gets caught in her cross-hairs.EVE
The Fall Guy
In the biblical allegory of Eve and Adam, it is Eve who is tempted and she has Adam take a bite of the forbidden fruit. Wasn't Adam also then responsible for eating of the tree of good and evil? Eve has historically been viewed as the temptress rather than the reporter of what the snake told her and the forbidden fruit of temptation all too easily construed as her being a sexual seductress. The knowledge of good and evil is something rather different meaning a loss of innocent trust in the creator. Adam could have said with the authority of the male of the house- go tell that devil we don't eat the fruit from that tree and she may have throw it in the snakes face. Here historically the male church lets Adam take no responsibility for eating the fruit. It's all her fault. And it has been ever since.
This twisted interpretation is but one expression of what has become of the women demeaning misogyny of the catholic world, and Neanderthal Christian world in some parts.
It has inspired violence against women. It has inspired sexism deeply in corners and rooftops. It has castrated its clergy for fear it gets too close to womankind, it has quashed the voice of the Holy Spirit through women preachers, it has killed off potential progeny in the biggest prophylactic more effective than condoms- just lock up all threatening women for something or other who threaten the order. They are not good enough to consecrate a Eucharist, they are not good enough to preach, they are not good enough to marry any preacher. According to Doctrine-and if you disagree and try to do anything otherwise, apparently you are worse than a child rapist. SICK SICK SICK SICK SICK.
You blame 'feminazi liberals' --you want to criminalize only women in abortion criminal statutes (as if they got pregnant by themselves!) you blame women for all the abortions as if men didn't coerce them or insist upon them to avoid two decades of child support after fraudulently professing commitment then committing violence against their vows.
Now some nutjob assassin inspired by our overly militant culture that glorifies war has attempted to murder and nearly fatally did, a Jewish congresswoman and killed a sitting Federal Judge in the process and several other people including a child.
If you don't think your doctrine is insanely evil I don't have any words for you any more.
You are in for a rude awakening when your time comes.
.............................
If they are good enough to be the Mother of God- they are good enough to be anything. Preacher or President.
In the biblical allegory of Eve and Adam, it is Eve who is tempted and she has Adam take a bite of the forbidden fruit. Wasn't Adam also then responsible for eating of the tree of good and evil? Eve has historically been viewed as the temptress rather than the reporter of what the snake told her and the forbidden fruit of temptation all too easily construed as her being a sexual seductress. The knowledge of good and evil is something rather different meaning a loss of innocent trust in the creator. Adam could have said with the authority of the male of the house- go tell that devil we don't eat the fruit from that tree and she may have throw it in the snakes face. Here historically the male church lets Adam take no responsibility for eating the fruit. It's all her fault. And it has been ever since.
This twisted interpretation is but one expression of what has become of the women demeaning misogyny of the catholic world, and Neanderthal Christian world in some parts.
It has inspired violence against women. It has inspired sexism deeply in corners and rooftops. It has castrated its clergy for fear it gets too close to womankind, it has quashed the voice of the Holy Spirit through women preachers, it has killed off potential progeny in the biggest prophylactic more effective than condoms- just lock up all threatening women for something or other who threaten the order. They are not good enough to consecrate a Eucharist, they are not good enough to preach, they are not good enough to marry any preacher. According to Doctrine-and if you disagree and try to do anything otherwise, apparently you are worse than a child rapist. SICK SICK SICK SICK SICK.
You blame 'feminazi liberals' --you want to criminalize only women in abortion criminal statutes (as if they got pregnant by themselves!) you blame women for all the abortions as if men didn't coerce them or insist upon them to avoid two decades of child support after fraudulently professing commitment then committing violence against their vows.
Now some nutjob assassin inspired by our overly militant culture that glorifies war has attempted to murder and nearly fatally did, a Jewish congresswoman and killed a sitting Federal Judge in the process and several other people including a child.
If you don't think your doctrine is insanely evil I don't have any words for you any more.
You are in for a rude awakening when your time comes.
.............................
If they are good enough to be the Mother of God- they are good enough to be anything. Preacher or President.
Holy Holy Holy
Was the Lamb Who Was Slain
Holiness doesn't mean chastity. Married conjugally sexual even sensual people can be and are Holy. Saint Peter. Holy. Married.
Holiness connotes a Wholeness- a completion, such as is found in married life.
Like the HOLY FAMILY. Holy. A Family.
There may be a thrill in Chastity. There is Profound deep Joy in Holiness.
Chastity can be cheap when it is selfish and self-aggrandizing. Cheap Thrills. More ego vanity.
Cheap Chastity can be as self-centered as sexual exploitation.
Holiness entails self-less LOVE. And God is Love.
Who came that your JOY may be Complete?
Holy Holy Holy is the Lamb that was slain.
Holiness doesn't mean chastity. Married conjugally sexual even sensual people can be and are Holy. Saint Peter. Holy. Married.
Holiness connotes a Wholeness- a completion, such as is found in married life.
Like the HOLY FAMILY. Holy. A Family.
There may be a thrill in Chastity. There is Profound deep Joy in Holiness.
Chastity can be cheap when it is selfish and self-aggrandizing. Cheap Thrills. More ego vanity.
Cheap Chastity can be as self-centered as sexual exploitation.
Holiness entails self-less LOVE. And God is Love.
Who came that your JOY may be Complete?
Holy Holy Holy is the Lamb that was slain.
Defendant's Answer Filed
IN THE SUPREME COURT
OF THE STATE OF GRACE
____________________
Satan, Lucifer, the Devil,
Plaintiff/Complainant
vs.
CHRISTIAN,
Defendant
___________________) before Judge: God
ANSWER AND AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSES
I generally deny all condemnation charges.
1. The Blood of the Lamb
2. The Resurrection.
3. The Lordship of Jesus the Savior.
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Case disposition: Dismissed. You are Free to Go to Heaven.
Get your papers at Peter the clerk's desk.
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OF THE STATE OF GRACE
____________________
Satan, Lucifer, the Devil,
Plaintiff/Complainant
vs.
CHRISTIAN,
Defendant
___________________) before Judge: God
ANSWER AND AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSES
I generally deny all condemnation charges.
1. The Blood of the Lamb
2. The Resurrection.
3. The Lordship of Jesus the Savior.
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Case disposition: Dismissed. You are Free to Go to Heaven.
Get your papers at Peter the clerk's desk.
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Sunday, January 09, 2011
The Catholic
"Standard"
Praise be to God I don't go to a Catholic Standard church- I go to a Jesuit one. They are really smart guys.
In today's homily I had an Epiphany- perhaps part of the Clerical world does get it.
The Wedding of Cana is part of the tripartite Epiphany which ties the Christmas season into then Easter. First we have a baby born- fast forward- now we are at the Baptism of the Lord then a wedding. Why is not much there in between? Because a man was not a man fully until married in Jewish Tradition and before any man could get married he underwent a water purification ritual.
So we don't have in scripture recorded much of what Jesus did before his wedding at Cana. You heard me right, his wedding at Cana. He pops up at John the Baptist's Mikvah, then he is at a Wedding. His wedding.
Your 'ministry' publicly if you hoped to be a Rabbi listened to by anyone significant did not really start until you were married. If you were one of those exceedingly rare creatures that had a ministry as such and were not married you were like a Jeremiah, or an Elijah prophet-John the Baptist-someone a bit touched- someone wearing camel skins literally crying in the wilderness hailing something to come- You are not the "IT" man, you are the crazyman in the desert that people hear, half think are mad and the others are so intrigued they will listen. You don't get the respect of Pharisees and higher authorities as a spiritual superior unless you are a married man.
No Pharisee is going to go to a kid for spiritual advice. Nicodemus is not going to sit at the feet of some kid who hasn't been married even to learn about what he means when he says a man must be born again to enter into the kingdom of spirit- because Nicodemus is not going to listen to a kid to tell him anything about being a superior man when he isn't even one yet himself.
But the masses of Jews are not going to follow in the hundreds or thousands or five thousand some self proclaimed Rabbi who is not married-because he is a child if he is not yet married. That is how significant marriage is considered was considered in the first century Jewish world. Marriage was a sacred part of fulfilling the covenant plan and commandment to be fruitful and multiply. This is the world that Jesus came into. He chose it-at that time. The top ten commandment against adultery and the capital punishment for adultery speak to the serious significance that marriage held in the law of that world at that time.
[Let the marriage bed be undefiled]
And so from the three wise men visiting a baby we fast forward-to the ritual cleansing of Jesus where his father from heaven says "this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased" then the wedding at Cana. Jesus' wedding.
And what is Myrrh. That third gift we always associate with the burial anointing herbs and oils. Myrrh is an exotic herb also given at Jewish weddings- as a love enhancing aid. It is used as a burial herb so God will find the dead body appealing enough to embrace it.
So it had two symbolic and useful meanings when the wise men-the Magi gave it as a wedding gift.
And this is not some fanciful deluded speculation. This is scripturally, historically sound interpretation-because it is true.
Jesus did not need a baptism because he needed spiritually cleansing from original sin. He had no original sin. That was the point-blemishless atoning lamb. He needed one as a man under the law to take a bride.
Now the Catholic Church hierarchy would have the world believe-a billion people believe- that marriage is some lesser sacrament than "orders" or "consecrated life" or celibate clerical state. Some in the catholic world reject that- but that appears to be the party line. Because anyone who takes a wife as a man is out of a job. It is called Matrimonial Discrimination in some Human Rights statutes. They literally fire you from your post if you 'scandalize' them for falling in love with a woman and marrying her. The catholic world starts a vicious rumor mill in some cases-they demonize Love.
There are few things more perniciously of the devil than this infested in the church. Don't think that all these pederasty scandals are anything other than purely demonic. From the pit of hell itself. In the center of the authority structure over a billion people.
There are few things that inspire more perversity, more twisting of the heart of Jesus than to demonize Love. It is so profoundly missing the message you wonder why they are even there.
It is such a misplaced prioritization.
BECAUSE GOD IS LOVE
The hierarchy cannot exist for itself or it exists for it's own ego and empire and not for Jesus. It is claptrap lip service to the Lord rather than manifesting his Kingdom. In persecuting women who are in Love with priests they are nothing more than spiritual wife-beaters, drunk on their own empire and ego. It is demonic at its core of the church.
The Catholic Standard, which is the Washington DC Archdiocese paper ran a 'special' this issue in which 50 photographs of the Cardinal are in a paper of thirty-some pages. I counted no less than four photos of the Archbishop -now Cardinal - of Washington, DC essentially his paper on one page alone. It is his 25 year being ordained I believe so it is all about him as a 'special.' My question is- is he running for Pope or something? It is the saddest piece of self-aggrandisement for a "servant-leader" if ever there was one. It makes it clear that the church views its hierarchy as political people rather than spiritual religious ones.
The Jesuit paper on the other hand ran a beautiful long central piece on the mission trip to Haiti quoting the spiritual benefits of the parishioners in going and what blessings they hoped to impart to such an impoverished place.
You could see the White House doing -putting out such an issue if Obama had 25 years of practicing law yet maybe. Naawww- he wouldn't even do that. It's a service profession.
Jesus never wrote an autobiography. There is not one "Gospel of Jesus according to Jesus" in the entire Bible. He was self effacing- didn't operate like a politician- hid in the hills to pray often. And he was a rock star- THE ROCK STAR of all ages. He didn't make one scribe an Apostle. We don't know of "the Apostle Simon the Scribe"- no we know of a bunch of fishermen, a tax collector and a doctor named Luke. He didn't have a journalist follow him around to catch his quote. No, sometimes we hear of him saying things like- don't tell anyone yet I did that.
Click your heels three times and say...
There is no male nor female in Christ Jesus
There is no male nor female in Christ Jesus.
There is no male nor female in Christ Jesus.
You are not in Pittsburgh anymore.
The church is at a cross-roads and has a choice. It can continue to operate like spiritual wife-beaters. Or it can follow Jesus the Lord, giver of all Life.
More thoughts
You know who his wife is. There was one woman standing next to his mother at the foot of the cross who was also at his Tomb with burial herbs and oils. Only a family member can touch a dead body without being ritually unclean under Jewish law. Jesus after the resurrection came to life on earth again and the FIRST person we are told he spoke to was this same woman whose instinct was immediately to run and hug him-and he has to tell her to stop because he hasn't yet ascended-his body wasn't huggable apparently in that stage-it was a body that could and did walk through walls-such as at the room where the last supper was held when he later met the apostles there.
You know who his wife was.
You also know why her identity was so obscured - because they would have killed her too, just like the wife of Peter. He would have wanted to save his wife. He battled seven demons to get her (you know that the devil goes full force after people who are really significant in the Kingdom) so he wasn't going to lose her to a bunch of Romans.
If your husband were killed in that manner, hung out to dry for all the town to see in such a humiliating way- how do you think that they looked at her? What vicious gossip mill hung around Jerusalem everywhere she stepped thereafter? Can you imagine the wives of the Pharisees- ?? She thought she was something didn't she. We showed her!
She would have left town for good after that- because she would have been told that his body wasn't in Jerusalem any more- by him. And he was going to be with her wherever she went.
She went Far Far away- all the way to France.
Bishops must be the husband of one wife.
Because if you are going to represent something-represent it.
Praise be to God I don't go to a Catholic Standard church- I go to a Jesuit one. They are really smart guys.
In today's homily I had an Epiphany- perhaps part of the Clerical world does get it.
The Wedding of Cana is part of the tripartite Epiphany which ties the Christmas season into then Easter. First we have a baby born- fast forward- now we are at the Baptism of the Lord then a wedding. Why is not much there in between? Because a man was not a man fully until married in Jewish Tradition and before any man could get married he underwent a water purification ritual.
So we don't have in scripture recorded much of what Jesus did before his wedding at Cana. You heard me right, his wedding at Cana. He pops up at John the Baptist's Mikvah, then he is at a Wedding. His wedding.
Your 'ministry' publicly if you hoped to be a Rabbi listened to by anyone significant did not really start until you were married. If you were one of those exceedingly rare creatures that had a ministry as such and were not married you were like a Jeremiah, or an Elijah prophet-John the Baptist-someone a bit touched- someone wearing camel skins literally crying in the wilderness hailing something to come- You are not the "IT" man, you are the crazyman in the desert that people hear, half think are mad and the others are so intrigued they will listen. You don't get the respect of Pharisees and higher authorities as a spiritual superior unless you are a married man.
No Pharisee is going to go to a kid for spiritual advice. Nicodemus is not going to sit at the feet of some kid who hasn't been married even to learn about what he means when he says a man must be born again to enter into the kingdom of spirit- because Nicodemus is not going to listen to a kid to tell him anything about being a superior man when he isn't even one yet himself.
But the masses of Jews are not going to follow in the hundreds or thousands or five thousand some self proclaimed Rabbi who is not married-because he is a child if he is not yet married. That is how significant marriage is considered was considered in the first century Jewish world. Marriage was a sacred part of fulfilling the covenant plan and commandment to be fruitful and multiply. This is the world that Jesus came into. He chose it-at that time. The top ten commandment against adultery and the capital punishment for adultery speak to the serious significance that marriage held in the law of that world at that time.
[Let the marriage bed be undefiled]
And so from the three wise men visiting a baby we fast forward-to the ritual cleansing of Jesus where his father from heaven says "this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased" then the wedding at Cana. Jesus' wedding.
And what is Myrrh. That third gift we always associate with the burial anointing herbs and oils. Myrrh is an exotic herb also given at Jewish weddings- as a love enhancing aid. It is used as a burial herb so God will find the dead body appealing enough to embrace it.
So it had two symbolic and useful meanings when the wise men-the Magi gave it as a wedding gift.
And this is not some fanciful deluded speculation. This is scripturally, historically sound interpretation-because it is true.
Jesus did not need a baptism because he needed spiritually cleansing from original sin. He had no original sin. That was the point-blemishless atoning lamb. He needed one as a man under the law to take a bride.
Now the Catholic Church hierarchy would have the world believe-a billion people believe- that marriage is some lesser sacrament than "orders" or "consecrated life" or celibate clerical state. Some in the catholic world reject that- but that appears to be the party line. Because anyone who takes a wife as a man is out of a job. It is called Matrimonial Discrimination in some Human Rights statutes. They literally fire you from your post if you 'scandalize' them for falling in love with a woman and marrying her. The catholic world starts a vicious rumor mill in some cases-they demonize Love.
There are few things more perniciously of the devil than this infested in the church. Don't think that all these pederasty scandals are anything other than purely demonic. From the pit of hell itself. In the center of the authority structure over a billion people.
There are few things that inspire more perversity, more twisting of the heart of Jesus than to demonize Love. It is so profoundly missing the message you wonder why they are even there.
It is such a misplaced prioritization.
BECAUSE GOD IS LOVE
The hierarchy cannot exist for itself or it exists for it's own ego and empire and not for Jesus. It is claptrap lip service to the Lord rather than manifesting his Kingdom. In persecuting women who are in Love with priests they are nothing more than spiritual wife-beaters, drunk on their own empire and ego. It is demonic at its core of the church.
The Catholic Standard, which is the Washington DC Archdiocese paper ran a 'special' this issue in which 50 photographs of the Cardinal are in a paper of thirty-some pages. I counted no less than four photos of the Archbishop -now Cardinal - of Washington, DC essentially his paper on one page alone. It is his 25 year being ordained I believe so it is all about him as a 'special.' My question is- is he running for Pope or something? It is the saddest piece of self-aggrandisement for a "servant-leader" if ever there was one. It makes it clear that the church views its hierarchy as political people rather than spiritual religious ones.
The Jesuit paper on the other hand ran a beautiful long central piece on the mission trip to Haiti quoting the spiritual benefits of the parishioners in going and what blessings they hoped to impart to such an impoverished place.
You could see the White House doing -putting out such an issue if Obama had 25 years of practicing law yet maybe. Naawww- he wouldn't even do that. It's a service profession.
Jesus never wrote an autobiography. There is not one "Gospel of Jesus according to Jesus" in the entire Bible. He was self effacing- didn't operate like a politician- hid in the hills to pray often. And he was a rock star- THE ROCK STAR of all ages. He didn't make one scribe an Apostle. We don't know of "the Apostle Simon the Scribe"- no we know of a bunch of fishermen, a tax collector and a doctor named Luke. He didn't have a journalist follow him around to catch his quote. No, sometimes we hear of him saying things like- don't tell anyone yet I did that.
Click your heels three times and say...
There is no male nor female in Christ Jesus
There is no male nor female in Christ Jesus.
There is no male nor female in Christ Jesus.
You are not in Pittsburgh anymore.
The church is at a cross-roads and has a choice. It can continue to operate like spiritual wife-beaters. Or it can follow Jesus the Lord, giver of all Life.
More thoughts
You know who his wife is. There was one woman standing next to his mother at the foot of the cross who was also at his Tomb with burial herbs and oils. Only a family member can touch a dead body without being ritually unclean under Jewish law. Jesus after the resurrection came to life on earth again and the FIRST person we are told he spoke to was this same woman whose instinct was immediately to run and hug him-and he has to tell her to stop because he hasn't yet ascended-his body wasn't huggable apparently in that stage-it was a body that could and did walk through walls-such as at the room where the last supper was held when he later met the apostles there.
You know who his wife was.
You also know why her identity was so obscured - because they would have killed her too, just like the wife of Peter. He would have wanted to save his wife. He battled seven demons to get her (you know that the devil goes full force after people who are really significant in the Kingdom) so he wasn't going to lose her to a bunch of Romans.
If your husband were killed in that manner, hung out to dry for all the town to see in such a humiliating way- how do you think that they looked at her? What vicious gossip mill hung around Jerusalem everywhere she stepped thereafter? Can you imagine the wives of the Pharisees- ?? She thought she was something didn't she. We showed her!
She would have left town for good after that- because she would have been told that his body wasn't in Jerusalem any more- by him. And he was going to be with her wherever she went.
She went Far Far away- all the way to France.
Bishops must be the husband of one wife.
Because if you are going to represent something-represent it.
A Wake Up
PUNCH IN THE FACE
A FEDERAL JUDGE WAS ASSASSINATED. What is it going to take for you Republican
Neo-Fascist mukraking spite-stirring demagogue creating wingnuts to tone down the rhetoric?
Hate Speech is Hate Speech. It incites murder. It is evil. Get a grip. And Shut Up in the Blessed Name of Jesus. That means YOU Beck, Palin and anyone else of your ilk.
A FEDERAL JUDGE WAS ASSASSINATED. What is it going to take for you Republican
Neo-Fascist mukraking spite-stirring demagogue creating wingnuts to tone down the rhetoric?
Hate Speech is Hate Speech. It incites murder. It is evil. Get a grip. And Shut Up in the Blessed Name of Jesus. That means YOU Beck, Palin and anyone else of your ilk.
Moore Wisdom
Can't Say We Didn't Warn You
Michael Moore who has been keeping a vigilant watchful eye over the wingnut hatemongers with lots of other groups warned that the overtly militaristic vigilanteeism inspired by irresponsible rhetoric of people like Palin was a tinderbox waiting to explode. And here it is:
Dem Rep Giffords shot in head in Az. Sarah Palin had put CROSSHAIRS/ BULLSEYE on Giffords on her website! OUTRAGE! http://mmflint.me/fcHmJf When Rep Giffords voted in favor of health care bill, her office in Tucson was attacked & vandalized. http://mmflint.me/hKYtR7 Palin "set gun sights on 20 Dems (including Giffords)." http://mmflint.me/fcHmJf Palin site now seems 2 b 2 taking down crosshairs map! In 2009, another gun nut showed up where Rep Giffords was speaking (at another Safeway) & dropped his gun http://mmflint.me/gPnApk Giffords opponent held June event 2 "Shoot a Fully Automatic M16" to "Get on Target" & "Remove Gabrielle Giffords" http://mmflint.me/hF1BN5 When Palin put crosshairs on a map w/ Rep. Giffords & 19 other Dem congressmen/women, she urged followers to "reload" & "aim" for Democrats. RT @RichardKimNYC Giffords was impt brave ally in fight to defeat 2006 AZ anti-gay marriage initiative. i covered in brief http://tinyurl.com/285hk92 Past photo of alleged Tucson shooter (in background) http://yfrog.com/h5oq9gj Stunning admission by Tucson sheriff: Arizona "a mecca" of hate & bigotry which unhinges the unbalanced http://mmflint.me/hOlRG8 Wow. Thanks, Keith, 4 ur powerful Special Comment just now & 4 mentioning Glenn Beck's violent fantasies: http://mmflint.me/eTc1LC Christina Green was the 9yr old killed. She was born on 9/11. Was on student council & only girl on baseball team. http://mmflint.me/dOs1oY If a Detroit Muslim put a map on the web w/crosshairs on 20 pols, then 1 of them got shot, where would he b sitting right now? Just asking.
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Michael Moore who has been keeping a vigilant watchful eye over the wingnut hatemongers with lots of other groups warned that the overtly militaristic vigilanteeism inspired by irresponsible rhetoric of people like Palin was a tinderbox waiting to explode. And here it is:
Dem Rep Giffords shot in head in Az. Sarah Palin had put CROSSHAIRS/ BULLSEYE on Giffords on her website! OUTRAGE! http://mmflint.me/fcHmJf When Rep Giffords voted in favor of health care bill, her office in Tucson was attacked & vandalized. http://mmflint.me/hKYtR7 Palin "set gun sights on 20 Dems (including Giffords)." http://mmflint.me/fcHmJf Palin site now seems 2 b 2 taking down crosshairs map! In 2009, another gun nut showed up where Rep Giffords was speaking (at another Safeway) & dropped his gun http://mmflint.me/gPnApk Giffords opponent held June event 2 "Shoot a Fully Automatic M16" to "Get on Target" & "Remove Gabrielle Giffords" http://mmflint.me/hF1BN5 When Palin put crosshairs on a map w/ Rep. Giffords & 19 other Dem congressmen/women, she urged followers to "reload" & "aim" for Democrats. RT @RichardKimNYC Giffords was impt brave ally in fight to defeat 2006 AZ anti-gay marriage initiative. i covered in brief http://tinyurl.com/285hk92 Past photo of alleged Tucson shooter (in background) http://yfrog.com/h5oq9gj Stunning admission by Tucson sheriff: Arizona "a mecca" of hate & bigotry which unhinges the unbalanced http://mmflint.me/hOlRG8 Wow. Thanks, Keith, 4 ur powerful Special Comment just now & 4 mentioning Glenn Beck's violent fantasies: http://mmflint.me/eTc1LC Christina Green was the 9yr old killed. She was born on 9/11. Was on student council & only girl on baseball team. http://mmflint.me/dOs1oY If a Detroit Muslim put a map on the web w/crosshairs on 20 pols, then 1 of them got shot, where would he b sitting right now? Just asking.
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Friday, January 07, 2011
Ask Anything in My Name
This is a great picture. It looks like an elderly woman with age spots and/or freckles wearing a Navajo turquoise bracelet praying at the Western Wall. An American woman at the Western Wailing Wall.
Prayer works. Rabbi Eckstein at the Fellowship of Christians and Jews will take your prayers to the Western Wall and pray for you and with you there.
ASK ANYTHING.
Go Sister
Soul Sister
Aretha on the Mend. Prayers Answered.
http://www.bvnewswire.com/2011/01/07/aretha-franklin-health-problems-resolved/?icid=maing%7Cmain5%7Cdl2%7Csec2_lnk1%7C35155
Aretha on the Mend. Prayers Answered.
http://www.bvnewswire.com/2011/01/07/aretha-franklin-health-problems-resolved/?icid=maing%7Cmain5%7Cdl2%7Csec2_lnk1%7C35155
Trade- Ya
Obleisk for Pyramids
This article appeared after Egypt failed to protect a bunch of Christian martyr Egyptian citizens then acted like it was a big WHOOPS!!! http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20110107/sc_livescience/egyptthreatensremovalofancientcentralparkobelisk
To which I offer to write Mayor Bloombie's retort:
Dear Egyptian Antiquities Dude:
We have been taking marvelous care of your Obelisk but if you really want it back I propose that you give us something we built in return. New York has the largest population of Jewish people outside Israel and we built the Pyramids -with our bare hands in back-breaking heat. Our Ancestors actually formed the bricks with sand and straw, with our bare hands. You guys were apparently not too nice to us in the process, hence we bolted out when a pillar of fire appeared by night and a cloud in the day and an old guy named Moses convinced us all we could walk through water. If you think that is strange, wait till we tell you about the guy who hid out in your country for a time as a child, could actually walk on water, and later was raised from the dead that about two billion people now follow.
I am sure that we can suitably accommodate a spot for all the pyramids that we made. I am thinking the Adirondacks. They would make nice ski slopes if we pound some artificial snow in them. Or- we could use them to ground bridges in our next infrastructure project. Or- we could put one in ground Zero just to remind us of how much you love us.
So, let me know if you are game and we can do a swap.
Peace Out.
http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2011/01/07/egypts-muslims-serve-as-human-shields-for-coptic-christmas-mass/
This article appeared after Egypt failed to protect a bunch of Christian martyr Egyptian citizens then acted like it was a big WHOOPS!!! http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20110107/sc_livescience/egyptthreatensremovalofancientcentralparkobelisk
To which I offer to write Mayor Bloombie's retort:
Dear Egyptian Antiquities Dude:
We have been taking marvelous care of your Obelisk but if you really want it back I propose that you give us something we built in return. New York has the largest population of Jewish people outside Israel and we built the Pyramids -with our bare hands in back-breaking heat. Our Ancestors actually formed the bricks with sand and straw, with our bare hands. You guys were apparently not too nice to us in the process, hence we bolted out when a pillar of fire appeared by night and a cloud in the day and an old guy named Moses convinced us all we could walk through water. If you think that is strange, wait till we tell you about the guy who hid out in your country for a time as a child, could actually walk on water, and later was raised from the dead that about two billion people now follow.
I am sure that we can suitably accommodate a spot for all the pyramids that we made. I am thinking the Adirondacks. They would make nice ski slopes if we pound some artificial snow in them. Or- we could use them to ground bridges in our next infrastructure project. Or- we could put one in ground Zero just to remind us of how much you love us.
So, let me know if you are game and we can do a swap.
Peace Out.
http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2011/01/07/egypts-muslims-serve-as-human-shields-for-coptic-christmas-mass/
The Banality
of Evil
If you scan the news you can sometimes get a sense of the 'so what'- what are the big stories? John Edwards was excluded from his not quite-x but definately late wife's will and is engaged to his bimbette, yawn (jerk), Cza Cza Gabor may have an amputation on a blood clot at age 90-something, yawn, some homeless guy found his voice and his mother in the process, thaaat's niiice, 87 thousand abortions in New York. Wait-What?????
You heard me, 87 THOUSAND last year abortions in New York, the CITY ALONE PEOPLE!
Unless your brain is permenantly anesthetized on dental drugs, that should shock your conscience.
Something really really perverse about that. Really Really Really.
About almost half as many times as women are conceiving children they are dumping them- where?? What happened to motherhood?
When I was hanging out with my married sister's married friends, one charming woman watched me in my love of cooking Martha Stewart mode and kept complimenting me in her gracious british accent saying things like 'smells grand Mrs!' I was the only unmarried one at the party I think and she kept calling me Missus. It struck me that I found it so unusual because it is a briticism we seldom ever now hear here. I never hear it. And I found it oddly nice.
Have we totally demeaned motherhood to a place where women are not happy or proud to be pregnant at all?
That is just a ridiculous statistic-and as Dolan says, we have to do more than shiver at it.
If you scan the news you can sometimes get a sense of the 'so what'- what are the big stories? John Edwards was excluded from his not quite-x but definately late wife's will and is engaged to his bimbette, yawn (jerk), Cza Cza Gabor may have an amputation on a blood clot at age 90-something, yawn, some homeless guy found his voice and his mother in the process, thaaat's niiice, 87 thousand abortions in New York. Wait-What?????
You heard me, 87 THOUSAND last year abortions in New York, the CITY ALONE PEOPLE!
Unless your brain is permenantly anesthetized on dental drugs, that should shock your conscience.
Something really really perverse about that. Really Really Really.
About almost half as many times as women are conceiving children they are dumping them- where?? What happened to motherhood?
When I was hanging out with my married sister's married friends, one charming woman watched me in my love of cooking Martha Stewart mode and kept complimenting me in her gracious british accent saying things like 'smells grand Mrs!' I was the only unmarried one at the party I think and she kept calling me Missus. It struck me that I found it so unusual because it is a briticism we seldom ever now hear here. I never hear it. And I found it oddly nice.
Have we totally demeaned motherhood to a place where women are not happy or proud to be pregnant at all?
That is just a ridiculous statistic-and as Dolan says, we have to do more than shiver at it.
Frightening!
Nearly every other kid conceived in New York is Nuked. I don't care what religion you are, if you are an American that is FRIGHTENING.
http://www.aolnews.com/2011/01/07/41-percent-of-pregnancies-in-nyc-are-aborted/
http://www.aolnews.com/2011/01/07/41-percent-of-pregnancies-in-nyc-are-aborted/
Where did all the dead fetal matter go?? Dead kids. Dead babies. Tissue. Check the pharma labs in New Jersey. You don't see any graveyards for aborted fetuses anywhere in Manhattan do you? That is A LOT of dead fetal matter floating around somewhere people. SCARY STUFF.
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