It has come to my attention that some people have shut down when
getting to this portion of the web-site; at the top of page 1 it
states that this site deals with
politics, religion, money and sex; this is the religion section.
I realize that some of you want absolutely nothing to do with
religion but if you wish to get some sort of understanding of the mess in
the Middle East you have to look at religion.
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Why won’t Religious Leaders Speak-up
On the
first Sunday in August I went to a morning service at a old and formal church about
30 miles outside Seattle. It was rather sad, for while the sermon was decent
there appeared to be only 1 man under 40 sitting in the pews, he was with the
only kids that I saw at the service. It bodes ill for any church when
I go and am one of the younger people in attendance.
That evening I dropped in to a church in the
Ballard neighborhood, services started after 7PM (Yes a late evening service), there had to be 1 thousand
people at the service, hundreds of young men and women.
I went from being one of the younger people
at a service to being one of the older people in attendance, as it should be.
There are a large number of churches that
have lost most of the 18 to 45 year old male members of society, getting those
men back into church should be high on the list of somebody’s priority. It was
good to see the younger people at the service in Ballard.
The internet can be an incredible tool.
Why on earth would anyone consider giving a child Ritalin or Prozac;
have you read the list of side effects. How is it that we have gotten
to the point that we trust the chemicals that scientists have concocted
over what has been provided in nature.
In
Feb. 2012 15 tons (30,000 pounds) of meth was seized in Mexico (google it). Who
got rich when pot was made illegal; google Hearst, Dupont, and marijuana.
To the Church crowd it might be time to wake up and follow the money. Let’s face a fact, people are going to self
medicate; does anybody really think that meth is better than marijuana.
If one believes that the Bible is from God,
and in the Bible God made the statement:
Then
God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land
that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it
was so. The land produced
vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed
in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
The crazies on the right have criminalized something
that God has stated is good, forcing hundreds of thousand if not millions to
suffer jail time for what God has stated is good.
The
crazies on the right have also legalized theft by allowing the games that Wall
Street plays.
If
one believes that the Bible is from God, and in the Bible God made the
statement:
“Do
not lie with a man as one lies with a
woman; that is detestable” (some versions use abomination).
The
crazies on the left have legalized actions that are detestable/abominable.
Too many statements infer for a large number of us we have to choose
which group of crazies we have to support, somebody needs to come up with
another plan.
There is an old saying “A choice between the lesser of 2 evils is still
evil.”
The choice between 2 insane groups is still insanity.
I am continually amazed at how many
Christians do not realize that Jesus spent his time on earth teaching. Jesus
explained that we would suffer the consequences for our actions, not issuing
edicts, not telling people what we have to do, but instead telling us what we
should do and offering grace when we mess up. Jesus summarized the
roughly 625 laws of the Old Testament into fewer than 50 words, knowing, it
would still be a life-long journey none of us would complete unscathed.
“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and
with all your mind.” This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second
is like it: “Love your neighbor as yourself” (treat people like YOU want to be
treated).
The group of individuals that Jesus persistently battled with was the
group he referred to as hypocrites (generally the lawmakers); Jesus was not
killed because his sermons were warm and fuzzy, he was murdered because he
ticked off the ruling elites by calling them hypocrites and legalistic tyrants
who made laws for others to follow but exempted themselves. Today the number of
laws, statutes, regulations, and codes total over 30 million here in the United
States.
Check out Proverbs the book of cause and effect; Lamentations -- The Book of Woe and Regrets.
To understand Christianity (Christmas - Easter) please read Mark, John, Acts, Luke, Matthew, Do not
blindly follow a preacher; also, if you wish some understanding of the Jewish religion, read the Minor Prophets and a Major Prophet Isaiah if not the whole Bible for yourself.
Just as the Prophets of Old attempted
to warn the people of Israel about the death and destruction headed their way;
these 3 Visions could/should be looked upon as a warning to the people of the United States of
America.
There
is God, there is Christ, there are Angels, there are Demons, there is
Satan, there is a Heaven and there is a Hell; If I were the Devil was written by Paul Harvey years back and still appears
quite prophetic.