Doctor Ostrich and Death Overdoses

Herd immunity is the medical concept of allowing (I wing it!) a disease to run rampant until the population develops a natural resistance. The cost is an extremely high casualty count. Listening to some people who have the ability to spend time and money protecting and caring for the affected populations one gets the impression that 200,000 deaths mean nothing more than a nuisance and obstacle to their electoral goals. That kind of willful ignorance is not going to happen in Canada. We have no stomach for Dr. Ostrich, Pastor Blind, and Dr. Martyrdom.

UNITED STATES STATISTICS

200,000 dead; 7,131,000 infected (from http://corona.tuply.co.za/)

Sometimes life imitates nightmares. No ships carry the intransigent Americans and Brits into exile but the reins held by Russia and the entities making up the UK tell us that united power is no longer possible, no matter how miraculous or functional the innovations. If one wants to see fragmented government and divided people one needs to look no further than the United States and the United Kingdom. These two nations might as well confess their exile instead of ginning up their independence and freedom. Remember potus45 sitting mute in Helsinki! Remember “we are rounding the corner” as nearly every statistic points to more deaths.

Let ’em die in the millions! We’ll honour them with a monument.

The cruelty of official violence

If one member of the church, club, or service organization of which you are the leader became the victim of violence from an agency tasked with protecting and serving citizens your silence on the matter would make your leadership suspect. While no informed person would jump to conclusions or condemnation, our communities (the commonwealth, the United Nations) expect an expression of solidarity with the victim first as the gold standard of public service. The agency that is responsible for the violent incident also deserves a statement that recognizes the damage done to its reputation and an unambiguous reiteration of the community’s abhorrence of the behaviour. Telling us “never again” does not work because we have seen the repitition of glorification of violence against people in police custody by the chief executive of the United States.

We expect an expression of solidarity with the victim out front first as the gold standard of public service.

Most of us know that statistically the rogue cop is not “one bad apple”. The label is highly inappropriate and misleading. The other apples on the scene where deadly force is used seem to have no power to apprehend the bad apple who violates the law and his solemn vow.

To approve or to disapprove

The 21st. century is not a good time to trot out the barbarism of the 1st century AD or the 13th to 10th centuries BC. The legitimizing of every person does not extend to their views of life, love, and liberty. Are we that stupid. When Canada’s constitution embraces immigrants from the Syrian or German communities there is no embrace of misogyny or nazism. Even in the privacy of one’s home misogny and nazism are crimes. Violence as the final recourse seems to be a thing happening more as the opening moves when police interact with citizens. But, they say, people should not worry: it was violence that paid for our freedoms, and our kids can walk right up to the line of assaulting their parents and be called the good generation. Are you going to wait until your friendly neighbourhood cop abuses you or you child punches you in the face? The abuse of one citizen is an abuse of all citizens.

Intellectual Trolls

The Supreme Court replacement should be of great importance not only for Christians in America but within the entire world. So says a professor of theology.

If it had anything to do with justice there should be no need to differentiate its importance to any group. If Christians are responsible for the US constitution they are responsible for its progress and abuses.

The founders of the United States are not even like Moses (who had to consult God when matters if equality and diversity arose) and they made their genius certain by putting religion at a healthy distance from government and law.

Breonna Taylor

Murdered by police in her home while the person sought was in custody.

ANOTHER BLACK PERSON VICTIMIZED BY THE POLICE

American justice smells like an untreated latrine with the odours emanating from the executive mansion, the department of justice, and circulating freely in churches, “political” rallies, and among so-called Christians in the United States and Canada.

People Licensed to Kill are liable

Justice delayed is questionable justice

BLACK LIVES MATTER

People who prefer to say “all lives matter” have self-lobotomized because life in most nations needs to be protected.  Black lives matter because friends who respect us are hard to find.  “Black lives matter” is a distinct expression of solidarity within the oppressed community.   Who in his or her right mind does not conclude that Palestinian lives are not as valuable as others or that vulnerable standard because friends who respect us are hard to find. 

Black lives matter more

Ethiopia mattered when Italy invaded and brutally.  It was Great Britain that cared enough to distance itself from the ridicule and apathy of the League of Nations.   Who cares about First Nations, their women (missing and murdered in Canada), migrant families, Palestinians, Rohingya, entire nations in constant distress and poverty (like Haiti and the United States!)?  Black lives matter more because their plight has been either a political football to benefit the wealthy or a thinly disguised murder strategy.  Christians are attacking the Black Lives Matter movement for some of its stated goals and viewpoints. Isn’t that how America decided to create a backroom for Native people and Blacks, saying in effect,  “you are different and less”?

Black lives matter more because they are increasingly vulnerable to state-sanctioned violence, discrimination by religious people and economic repression.

When was “All lives matter” a virtue in America, Israel, in our churches, mosques or synagogues? No royal commission or research project is necessary.

Very right, almost persuaded

Noisy gongs, offnote tones, and worldly Christian are the allies of the leader who refuses to read.  We are seeing the end of the beast, the false prophet,  and the devil happening in real time.  Yet, a horde of zoom-confident contenders are muddying the waters of Christian faith with their hopes for a Christian empire in the image of the United States. God has no such opening – not for a righteous nation. If today’s leaders refuse to get in touch with the live images of the Bible what hope is there for those who are totally thrilled with the sparks of their own devising?

We are either wrong or right, blind or sighted, living or dead, and watered down apostolic sayings will get us nowhere.

Tell your scanner to alert you about

  • Politicians who do not read
  • Christians who have Yeshua in 2nd place
  • Preachers who do not read their native language competently
  • Brothers who pass on the other side
  • Comrades who look down their noses
  • Sages with little experience
  • Children who claim to need no correction
  • Loving people who fear everything
  • Law enforcement that sentences before hearing the case
  • Natons that drink prostitution like water (they have the best and biggest everything)
  • Righteous people who hate everyone

Our opinions may not impress but God’s word, rightly handled, leaves no question.

Making food for hell

If anyone thought that the bigot in the White House was a decent and reliable person one could assume that the person was someone who believes all things, which is an activity aligned with the excellent way.  If the lies, bigotry, misogyny, failed business ventures, and racism were not happening one might have hoped that a conversion was about to happen or indeed had occurred.  The inciter of neo-Nazis and killer cops has no more power to change his ways than Adam to get bsck into Eden.  Christians who go gaga over the rot that is American politics prove that they are themselves twice as much hell-bound as who ever recruited them.

Jeremiah 13:23

“Can the Ethiopian change his skin Or the leopard his spots? Then you also can do good Who are accustomed to doing evil.

How quickly their nakedness becomes public.   They admire the only power that mirrors the outrages of the papacy and think they have enough magic to convince their disciples that there is a marriage between Judaism and The Way, and that America is the shining example of that marriage.   That is such a load of mule manure that Yahweh had an answer to that proposition long before he sent His Son to save the world.

Jeremiah 13:24-27, For Trusting in Falsehoods we pay

24. “Therefore I will scatter them like drifting straw To the desert wind. 25. “This is your lot, the portion measured to you From Me,” declares the Lord, “Because you have forgotten Me And trusted in falsehood. 26. “So I Myself have also stripped your skirts off over your face, That your shame may be seen. 27. “As for your adulteries and your lustful neighings, The lewdness of your prostitution On the hills in the field, I have seen your abominations. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will you remain unclean?”

How many lies would you tolerate from your bishop, child, husband or wife?

If you are not a Pharisee you flee full speed from this kind of pimp behaviour.