Canada will not turn right

Pierre Pollievre, political activist, is so MAGA and of such meagre great whiteness gravitas that he is willing to call Canadians poor so he can win an election.  Many Canadians are in the shape they are in because of Conservative governments pandering to business and the American dollar.  The fortunes of Canadians with a Conservative government will sink into atrocities for which we will not hear even an “oops”.  Pierre and his name-calling predecessors can manipulate the polls and even win an election, but right wing and separatist politics are yesterday like donkey-carts in Gaza.  Promises to reduce crime is Wonderland Wickedness.  Canadians are not that poor as to turn right headlong into the traffic jam of miscarried justice and insensitive social policies. There is no thinking behind conservative ridicule, only hunger for right wing and quasi-religious values.  There is no right turn in here.

There ought to be a law

How many laws do you have to break to be a convict? Does anyone’s reputation depend on being humble, or on being a lover of mercy, and on being an justice activist? Do not bother asking the people who want booze everywhere possible, like Ontario’s Ford.  Do not bother laundering the proceeds of gambling as vital funders of benevolent causes.  Quit trying to convince the population that promises to eradicate malfeasance is a happening thing. Every time the public hears “never again” people should realizes that all the horses, and all the king’s men have not been able to fix a cracked egg. One can wish for a law to end the maddening hypocrisy of Christians, Muslims and Jews, especially, and keep protesting all the sweet sounding nothings of every occidental and oriental ism, but there is a law. There is a law for which no immunity can be cooked up, and the man who wants his country first and solitary should not be allowed to visit anyone’s country, great white sources of racism or holes where excreta rules the day.

Fascist, Racist, Crash-ist

Of course democracies slip in and out of fascism. What do you suppose 200 years of American history proves? Israeli men whose top dream is ridding the land of those pesky Palestinians are fascist and unfeeling people bent on crashing the very dream of their common ancestor. If Jewish Israelis think thay can get away with not recognizing their kinship to the Palestinian people their diet has to be regurgitated delicacies at which the rest of the wold will eventually find themselves holding their noses.

There is no law to rescue Jew or Gentile

The criminal enterprises of European, Pacific, and Atlantic nations have no excuse for continuing their exploitation of the poor.  What law can they call on to curb their hunger and thirst for unequal prosperity and their readiness to violate human rights.  If the reader is in the grip of the wave of tyrannical powers who promise to fix everything, then the history of the 4000 years should provide a wake up call.  There ought to be a law that says”You shall not be ignorant of your history”.  Sadly there is not.

Clanging cymbals and noisy gongs

You have no doubt heard about the church that tries to wipe out the weak or unstable in the church and you know the utter catastrophe that results.  People who are setting themselves up as restorers of the Church, call themselves reformers, and righteous avengers.  In fact there is nothing in the human experience that is outside of God’s providence, and the freedom that most Christians claim to exercise is neither liberating nor comforting. God’s business is both word and deed.  “Just like David” is the line from people like Joel Osteen, and most believers are obsessed with the idea that eternal life means a ticket to heaven and a life where they win and reverse every adversity.  The victory that makes them invincible, free from death, perfectly disease free makes them clanging cymbals and noisy gongs.

While you are healing others

How much of a witness for Christ can a person be without  daily cross and does anyone know when people become more triumphant than Christ and they are still aging, ailing and failing.  I wonder if they listen to themselves pressing people into a miracle seeking worship. 

Church with no weeds

The Church without weave is a pure satanic concoction. The Lord said that wheat nd tares will grow together until the time of harvest, yet I hear people trying to create some perfect Church where things go the way humans like it in every circumstance. The church is already perfect.  Your perfect congregation is a fantasy, never existed and never will.  If you had learned the first lesson about Christian fellowship you would know that lies kill you, not always literally like Ananias and Sapphira, but kill they do.  Getting people to join the church or if you like bringing people to Jesus, and then starve them on the word of God is a real genius plan from Satan. A church without needs is a church with no light from God on the lampstand.

The church has never been sick.  The leaders are the ones charged with lying, cowardice and pride (see Revelation 2 and 3).  Sickness, famines, persecution and death do not hinder the church.  The church is not a hospital.  It is not a place where anyone’s smile guarantees people a healing.  It is not a temple or holy place for sacrifice.  God’s true and enduring residence is the human body.  If healing is not happening there round the clock who do you want to believe you that churches are places of deliverance, especially when the same people come for healing every week, and the miracle workers themselves are the victims of seemingly perpetual satanic assaults.  At least the healers are liars, trotting out deliverance while they remain captive.

Discrimination, partiality and apathy

And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter (Greek logos) (Acts 15:6, KJVA)

Lots of talk and lots of books are no way to witness to the world  If the modern churches were genuinely grounded in the truth of the gospel there would be more expounders of the apostolic message than pushing the tradition of their sect.  People who really care about others cannot possibly expect to be respected as genuine philanthropes when their tools are the instruments of condemnation, death and self-righteousness.  Mercy, even to family members, is a strange thing that many godly people avoid.  There is a certain sound that comes when racism and self-righteousness are taken down from their thrones. most miracle workers seem to have lost the ability to empathize with the suffering and the oppressed, and they seem to be always ready to throw miracle working faith at every issue, whether it be actual maladies of the body or ignorance of the scriptures.

Endless talk and useless clanging

Yet even lifeless things, either flute or harp, in producing a sound, if they do not produce a distinction in the tones, how will it be known what is played on the flute or on the harp? For if the bugle produces an indistinct sound, who will prepare himself for battle? So also you, unless you utter by the tongue speech that is clear, how will it be known what is spoken? For you will be speaking into the air. (1 Corinthians 14:7-9, NASB)

Why people say crap and expect you to clap

Every discredited and accredited religion is designed to get us to the same place as the latest wisdom stealth package being sprayed all over the domains of public speech, debate and spiel. “Gee”, I hear someone say, “if only we could just let people from the ancient cultures of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East be the ones to decide the direction of our generation, we’d be world leaders in learning, technology, and social cohesion”. Crap like those views will never bring the mutual genocidal covenant between Israelis and Iranians to an end any time soon. Since all of our cultural history is noble material let us give life back to the lynched Negroes and exterminated Jews, let us resurrect the women and girls killed to erase family shame, let us re-materialize the Aboriginal civilizations that predated European colonialism, and let us stop saying we are the most wise iteration of homo sapiens. These hands will never meet in applause of the love of justice and the humility of Americans, Russians, Germans, Chinese, Japanese, Canadians, Cree, Ojibway, and Mohawk people. Check your applause very carefully, because if you do not, you may find yourself comfortable in the respective company of illiterate experts of sacred writings, or walking the ruthless line of homicidal maniacs and angry exterminators of their cousins, American legislators and Jewish settlers. Check your applause.

Say it night and day and hang it from every blade of grass in the field

The days of drilling children to repeat the stories of our various traditions are over. Children of the 1970s generation were probably the last to have only the tiniest interest in following their parents. The vast majority of adults since the middle of the 20th century have bribed their children to be loyal, coerced them to be traditional, and hijacked their dignity of choice.  I am supposed to say kind things about a host of theologians who have left their works for us to see, but what can be said about the last two generations cannot be written here without sinking the boats of the most popular pastors and Christian educators.  The facts are that people who leave everything in order to follow Christ are few indeed.  Diligence to discard our traditional practices and views is rare as resurrections of the dead and buried.  All the things that are possible have not happened over the 2000 years since Christ said “All things are possible with God”, and no wonder.  Saying outrageous things and painting in the blanks with faith has been one of the most unrealistic patterns of Christian life.

Contradicting the gospel with present truth

We are often amused by how many people do not know the difference between faith and works.  The surefire joke accompanying the message of JESUS Christ of Nazareth is that only a handful of people actually believe that God’s work (assigned to us), and his will for us is that we believe on his Son:  they do not know what the gospel is and consequently have not embraced with will all their heart, soul, and mind.  If faith is the only means by which humans can please God why do we suppose that we can arrive at the stature of his  Only-begotten Son by obedience to law.  Receiving Christ-God-the Holy Spirit is not a priority.   The most deadly joke is people saying they have achieved victory over sin after God for Christ‘s sake forgave every sin.  If the leaders of every sect can gin up enough courage to see Christ as separate from their sect’s tradition and practice we might see a revolution in the spread of the lifegiving word of the apostles of Jesus of Nazareth.  I stopped clapping for religious crap a long time ago, and my association with religious people – pastors, elders, evangelists, missionaries, reformers, and commandment-keepers – reflects my hope that grace touches the crap shooters.