Month: December 2023

Incorrigible and indigent

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Even when they pay us for the work our ancestors did I will not believe that there is a gram of philanthropy in the United States’ government. All those silent evangelicals and their leaders can start shouting “Let my people go”; it will be an act. The colonial powers will not change; they justify their empires and are dreading the heavy lifting that justice demands.

A realistic evaluation of an unbelievable world

Nothing to confess. We did nothing wrong. An idle people cannot be expected to feel anything for the descendants of slaves, slaves who they did not recognize as people. The Bible, they say, provides regulations for slavery. What are the chances that there are five good persons in the government of any country? Maybe eight souls in the entire country? Noah preached for a century and his family were the only ones who, apparently, bought his message. People are too lazy to think, too proud to humbly help the needy. Like Sodom? Like Jerusalem? Like Ottawa? Like Texas? It is not surprising that a failed tycoon and reality show player has the worship and allegiance of a third of society.

A proverb and a byword

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The hosts of Christ-hating rebels are trotting out their anti-christmas clips. What time is it? December. Pretending that they know and keep all of God’s commands they have a bowel-movement banquet of the dozens of prohibited practices God gave to Israel. If life’s abundance and sustainability depends on “do this” and “don’t do such and such” from God spiritual life is not in the picture. It is an attempt to enslave believers – because it cannot possibly make any sense to unbelievers – with juvenile and elementary principles like the following.

None of these practices are signs of maturity

  • Love God with all your heart
  • Love your neighbor as you love yourself
  • Read your Bible and pray every day
  • Observe feasts, Sabbaths, months, years
  • Avoid defiling yourself with foods
  • Avoid contact with unbelievers
  • Repeated baptisms on the basis of doctrines not on the basis of faith in God’s Son

Who are the pagans whose land “new Israel” is inheriting? When we realize that the answer to that question can only be attached to American racism, colonialism corruption and shamelessness we will know that anti-christmas rants are trashy jingoism, equal to the mistletoe, Santa Claus, and the sleighing songs. It will also be clear that celebrating the incarnation of God’s Son apart from any holy day or holy season is a good thing.

How does one live in a multicultural society without some melting and meeting? Sheesh! Let the United States, Israel and the United Kingdom answer.

What really happened on October 7, 2023

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Some people, thinking that eyes do not work anymore for the rest of us, are hoping to convince us that they know what really happened on October 7th in Israel.  Go figure.  With assorted assassinations, public protests, suicide bombings, the slow erosion of democratic priorities, noses thumbed at United Nations resolutions, fifty years have proved that talk is cheap and mostly duplicitous.  Forgive me.  Escalating barbarities is not war.  Honest leaders are hard to find and peace will reign when the lies skink back into the shadows

If people only knew what peace looks like!

The shedding of innocent blood in Jerusalem is not a modern problem to be blamed on foreigners.

41) When He approached Jerusalem, He saw the city and wept over it, 42) saying, “If you had known in this day, even you, the things which make for peace! But now they have been hidden from your eyes. (Luke 19:41-42, NASB)

For thus says the Lord of hosts, “Cut down her trees And cast up a siege against Jerusalem. This is the city to be punished, In whose midst there is only oppression.” (Jeremiah 6:6, NASB)

But your eyes and your heart are intent only upon your own dishonest gain, and on shedding innocent blood And on practicing oppression and extortion. (Jeremiah 22:17, NASB)