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As best as I can figure, he betrayed these innocent children and animals into the hands of satanic cruelty and evil, in order that, when all was said and done, his good buddy could build a billion dollar Star Wars museum.
Meanwhile, be not deceived. Real Heaven is not a spirit person virtual-reality show in the sky, rather "the kingdom of God is within you." Indeed, the problem with THEIR heaven is that there is not a single honest and courageous person to be found in it.
True religion, I submit, implies we are brothers and sisters; who are are honest with and can trust and rely upon one another: not a bunch of lying and dissembling sojourners appealing to an unaccountable, invisible, supposed authority to justify their conniving and deceit.
[ch. 9]
I could adduce ten thousand Scriptures of which not “one tittle shall pass away,” [Matthew 5:18] without being fulfilled; for the mouth of the Lord the Holy Spirit has spoken these things. “Do not any longer,” he says, “my son, despise the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked of Him.” [Proverbs 3:11] O surpassing love for man! Not as a teacher speaking to his pupils, not as a master to his domestics, nor as God to men, but as a father, does the Lord gently admonish his children. Thus Moses confesses that “he was filled with quaking and terror” [Hebrews 12:21] while he listened to God speaking concerning the Word. And are you not afraid as you hear the voice of the Divine Word? Are you not distressed? Do you not fear, and hasten to learn of Him—that is, to salvation—dreading wrath, loving grace, eagerly striving after the hope set before us, that you may shun the judgment threatened? Come, come, O my young people! For if you become not again as little children, and be born again, as says the Scripture, you shall not receive the truly existent Father, nor shall you ever enter into the kingdom of heaven. For in what way is a stranger permitted to enter? Well, as I take it, then, when he is enrolled and made a citizen, and receives one to stand to him in the relation of father, then will he be occupied with the Father's concerns, then shall he be deemed worthy to be made His heir, then will he share the kingdom of the Father with His own dear Son. For this is the first-born Church, composed of many good children; these are “the first-born enrolled in heaven, who hold high festival with so many myriads of angels.” We, too, are first-born sons, who are reared by God, who are the genuine friends of the First-born, who first of all other men attained to the knowledge of God, who first were wrenched away from our sins, first severed from the devil. And now the more benevolent God is, the more impious men are; for He desires us from slaves to become sons, while they scorn to become sons. O the prodigious folly of being ashamed of the Lord! He offers freedom, you flee into bondage; He bestows salvation, you sink down into destruction; He confers everlasting life, you wait for punishment, and prefer the fire which the Lord “has prepared for the devil and his angels.” [Matthew 25:41, 46] Wherefore the blessed apostle says: “I testify in the Lord, that you walk no longer as the Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind; having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart: who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness and concupiscence.” [Ephesians 4:17-19] After the accusation of such a witness, and his invocation of God, what else remains for the unbelieving than judgment and condemnation? And the Lord, with ceaseless assiduity, exhorts, terrifies, urges, rouses, admonishes; He awakes from the sleep of darkness, and raises up those who have wandered in error. “Awake,” He says, “you that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light,” [Ephesians 5:14] — Christ, the Sun of the Resurrection, He “who was born before the morning star,” and with His beams bestows life. Let no one then despise the Word, lest he unwittingly despise himself. For the Scripture somewhere says, “Today, if you will hear His voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness, when your fathers proved Me by trial.” And what was the trial? If you wish to learn, the Holy Spirit will show you: “And saw my works,” He says, “forty years. Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do always err in heart, and have not known My ways. So I swore in my wrath, they shall not enter into My rest.” Look to the threatening! Look to the exhortation! Look to the punishment! Why, then, should we any longer change grace into wrath, and not receive the word with open ears, and entertain God as a guest in pure spirits? For great is the grace of His promise, “if today we hear His voice.” And that today is lengthened out day by day, while it is called today. And to the end the today and the instruction continue; and then the true today, the never-ending day of God, extends over eternity. Let us then ever obey the voice of the divine word. For the today signifies eternity. And day is the symbol of light; and the light of men is the Word, by whom we behold God. Rightly, then, to those that have believed and obey, grace will superabound; while with those that have been unbelieving, and err in heart, and have not known the Lord's ways, which John commanded to make straight and to prepare, God is incensed, and those He threatens...
~ Clement of Alexandria (c.150–c.215), Exhortation to the Heathen
[From Face Book, 21 Jan. 2017]
"'There will be trying moments. The critics will rage. Your 'friends' will disappoint you,' George W. Bush wrote to Barack Obama. 'But, you will have an Almighty God to comfort you, a family who loves you, and a country that is pulling for you, including me.'"
"’‘There will be trying moments. The critics will rage. Your 'friends' will disappoint you,’ George W. Bush wrote to Barack Obama. ‘But, you will have an Almighty God to comfort you, a family who loves you, and a country that is pulling for you, including me.’”
~ from The Hill
See: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/315174-bush-letter-to-obama-made-public-for-the-first-time
[To which I quipped:]
That's all very well and good until it is explained that Bush Jr's "God" is the giant from Jack and the Beanstalk.
[A Bob Hope style joke; yet well-said, because not a few people's idea of God, thanks often in part to spirit persons' influence, are no less childish and ludicrous.]
If Trump is going to make America great again, it will be necessary for him to say to the National Entertainment Activities Coordinator (the same one employed by Obama) "You're fired!" Since evidently it was ostensibly the same person who provided him with most of his pre-inauguration show line-up.
Bad movies, bad television, bad music, bad internet, low and inferior culture -- and amoral, anti-intellectual, regularly disrespectful of traditional religion, viciously violent, one-note, unfunny culture generally -- proceeds from strangle-hold monopolies and power hungry executives of the mass media, in its various forms and genres, accompanied by brutal and surreptitious suppression of free competition and free enterprise. It is owing to such unfair or criminal trade practices that the culture to such a ruinous and sad degree gone down the tube these last 20 to 30 years.
Hillary Clinton was criticized by actress Susan Sarandon for being "soulless." Will this same charge apply also to Trump or will he, as part of his prospective reform program, take it to the mass media entertainment cheats and racketeers?
Yes, but where was all the vitriol when the Bushes were elected? Really many of the outspoken and seeming humanitarians lead by the oligarchic, hypocritical mass media are merely mummified old school who assume outlandish salaries and whose greatest fear is the danger of having to compete for the same. Aside from some mislead dupes who are often nice people, these are the true rabble rousers. and bums and phonies that are emitting the greatest hue and cry. Trump may indeed have his shortcomings, but the fact is the democrats are to blame for not supporting Sanders, and instead backed an opportunist, albeit hugely talented and well meaning, actress. Had they done so, I would have had a much harder time voting.
Speaking as someone who has -- ahem, non stop --been subjected to physical torture since the Administration of Bush senior, including brain torture radios, multiple poisonings, being given disease (including such as yellow jaundice), armies of rats, ghosts and myriad acts or burglary, theft and vandalism (including having my pets murdered and kidnapped) and received absolutely no response from Federal and local law enforcement when I submitted to them a report of my situation (both personally and in writing) --- I for one frankly can't think the change in power any worse than it has been.
[ch. 6]
For the sun never could show me the true God; but that healthful Word, that is the Sun of the soul, by whom alone, when He arises in the depths of the soul, the eye of the soul itself is irradiated. Whence accordingly, Democritus, not without reason, says, “that a few of the men of intellect, raising their hands upwards to what we Greeks now call the air, called the whole expanse Zeus, or God: He, too, knows all things, gives and takes away, and He is King of all”...
Whence, O Plato, is that hint of the truth which you give? Whence this rich copiousness of diction, which proclaims piety with oracular utterance? The tribes of the barbarians, he says, are wiser than these; I know your teachers, even if you would conceal them. You have learned geometry from the Egyptians, astronomy from the Babylonians; the charms of healing you have got from the Thracians; the Assyrians also have taught you many things; but for the laws that are consistent with truth, and your sentiments respecting God, you are indebted to the Hebrews,
“Who do not worship through vain deceits
The works of men, of gold, and brass, and silver, and ivory,
And images of dead men, of wood and stone,
Which other men, led by their foolish inclinations, worship;
But raise to heaven pure arms:
When they rise from bed, purifying themselves with water,
And worship alone the Eternal, who reigns for ever more.”
And let it not be this one man alone — Plato; but, O philosophy, hasten to produce many others also, who declare the only true God to be God, through His inspiration, if in any measure they have grasped the truth. For Antisthenes did not think out this doctrine of the Cynics; but it is in virtue of his being a disciple of Socrates that he says, “that God is not like to any; wherefore no one can know Him from an image.” And Xenophon the Athenian would have in his own person committed freely to writing somewhat of the truth, and given the same testimony as Socrates, had he not been afraid of the cup of poison, which Socrates had to drink. But he hints nothing less; he says: “How great and powerful He is who moves all things, and is Himself at rest, is manifest; but what He is in form is not revealed. The sun himself, intended to be the source of light to all around, does not deem it fitting to allow himself to be looked at; but if any one audaciously gazes on him, he is deprived of sight.” Whence, then, does the son of Gryllus learn his wisdom? Is it not manifestly from the prophetess of the Hebrews who prophesies in the following style?—
“What flesh can see with the eye the celestial,
The true, the immortal God, who inhabits the vault of heaven?
Nay, men born mortal cannot even stand
Before the rays of the sun.”
Cleanthes Pisadeus, the Stoic philosopher, who exhibits not a poetic theogony, but a true theology, has not concealed what sentiments he entertained respecting God:—
“If you ask me what is the nature of the good, listen:
That which is regular, just, holy, pious.
Self-governing, useful, fair, fitting,
Grave, independent, always beneficial;
That feels no fear or grief; profitable, painless,
Helpful, pleasant, safe, friendly;
Held in esteem, agreeing with itself, honourable;
Humble, careful, meek, zealous,
Perennial, blameless, ever-during:
Mean is every one who looks to opinion
With the view of obtaining some advantage from it.”
Here, as I think, he clearly teaches of what nature God is; and that the common opinion and religious customs enslave those that follow them, but seek not after God.
We must not either keep the Pythagoreans in the background, who say: “God is one; and He is not, as some suppose, outside of this frame of things, but within it; but, in all the entireness of His being, is in the whole circle of existence, surveying all nature, and blending in harmonious union the whole—the author of all His own forces and works, the giver of light in heaven, and Father of all—the mind and vital power of the whole world—the mover of all things.” For the knowledge of God, these utterances, written by those we have mentioned through the inspiration of God, and selected by us, may suffice even for the man that has but small power to examine into truth.
~ Clement of Alexandria (c.150–c.215), Exhortation to the Heathen
Grace at perhaps her nuttiest.
See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVB2QYf3DOU
["Grace Slick - Seasons" - from Top of the Pops 1980 show]
From 1966. Proof that Grace Slick and the Great Society were the inspiration for the Doors' sound. The original version of "Sally Go Round the Roses" came from an all girl Black group the Jaynetts from 1963.
See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NSy4i-5Qxw
["Sally Go Round The Roses - Great Society (Grace Slick)"]
SIGNS OF THE TIMES
Regardless of your feelings about the deranged church assassin, it is nothing short of amazing that someone who works regularly for the "Washington Post" AND received the Pulitzer Prize would formally title a commentary/article of theirs with "Dylann Roof is a Loser" (11 Jan. 2017). What is the going standard for becoming a Post writer and or receiving the heretofore illustrious journalistic and literary prize these days -- lame brain?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dylann-roof-is-a-loser/2017/01/03/b5ed2f9a-d1f6-11e6-945a-76f69a399dd5_story.html?utm_term=.1d04189b83d6
But if that is bad, how about spending a billion dollars to bill a Star Wars museum?
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/george-lucas-selects-los-angeles-1-billion-museum-963313
As Max Davidson says to Farina in the Little Rascals short "Moan and Groan, Inc." (1929) -- "Who's nuts?"