Category: religion

You Won’t Believe This

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Did you know Planned Parenthood has a “clergy advocacy board”? I didn’t; but it seems they really do–a coven of alleged religious leaders who support the abortion industry and say Planned Parenthood is “simply doing God’s work” ( http://cnsnews.com/news/article/brittany-m-hughes/clergy-advocacy-board-says-planned-parenthood-doing-gods-work ).

This is blasphemy of a very high order–just what you’d expect when Reformed rabbis, Episcopal ministerettes, UCC and Unitarian pagans, and self-proclaimed “progressive Muslims” get together. The absence of anyone from the Presbyterian Church USA from this board of directors can only have been an oversight, easily corrected.

Yep–God’s work is abortion, and then selling off the baby’s parts. Did you know this helps “oppressed groups”? I didn’t. Did you know the only people who’ve done anything wrong are those who caught the organ auction on videotape? Just ask any of those clergypersons.

Every time you think the news has bottomed out, that it just can’t get any worse than this, along comes something worse. I am afraid to try to imagine something more odious, more shameful, more wicked than this gleeful support of Planned Parenthood by persons claiming to be servants of the living God.

But that’s just what you have to expect from all those pseudo-churches.

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.

Bonus Hymn: ‘One More River to Cross’

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My wife and I have been trying to nail down this old hymn for quite some time. Let’s see if it works.

There are other versions, but they’ve all been hillbillied to death. I like to keep it simple.

Okay, here goes… One More River to Cross.

Hymn: ‘How Firm a Foundation’

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For many Christians this hymn has another tune. But in the church I grew up in, which no longer exists, How Firm a Foundation was sung to the tune of a Christmas carol, O Come, All Ye Faithful.

This, above, is the only example of it I could find. Yes, it’s only a piano playing. There is something to be said for simplicity: I believe the Lord likes it.

So find a magnifying glass for the lyrics, and sing along.

The Vatican and Space Aliens

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Here’s a headline that caught my eye this morning: “Vatican sceptical [sic] about close encounters of the third kind” ( http://news.yahoo.com/vatican-sceptical-close-encounters-third-kind-095541614.html ).

It seems scientists have discovered an “Earth twin”–a planet that is neither too close to its star, nor too far away, to support life–so that naturally revs up speculation about intelligent ETs, alien civilizations, Space Brothers, galactic federations, etc. And naturally some journalist in Rome went to the Vatican’s observatory (see, Galileo? now they’ve got telescopes, too) to ask a lot of stupid questions about how the discovery of life on other planets will prove that the Bible isn’t true, and so on.

Only thing is, this earthlike planet is some 1,400 light years away from here. If you pointed a flashlight at this planet when Mohammed was a boy in knee-pants, the light would just be getting there today. And so, said the Vatican astronomer, we can forget about meeting Mr. Spock for the time being.

He also told the journalist that the birth and life of Jesus Christ on earth was a unique event that will not have occurred on other planets. Plus the usual cop-out of the Bible not being a science textbook, so certain parts of it don’t have to be literally true, my precious…

I’m having trouble imagining this conversation.

A lot of people who sneer at religious faith, especially if it’s Christian religious faith, have their own unshakeable faith–based, mind you, on no evidence at all–in the universe being full of super-intelligent space aliens who will eventually teach us to be super-intelligent, too.

Don’t take science fiction lightly. It has seeped deeply into our culture, and deeply into many people’s minds.

A Reponse to That Stopid Archy Fish Viddio

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Ha, that other guy he had to go out so I can get on his blog and protext that archy fish viddio he just posted.

Why aint there a law aginst him talking about God al the time? If he was a interllectural he wuld know ther aint no God. What a dope. Dont he know its Evilution that makes all thes difrent animals and fish? That archy fish is no expection. It Evolved!! into a archy fish and it use to be something else. I think it probly Evolved!! from apes like we did.

Anyway ther shuld be a law so he cant rite no religin, My prefesser he says it viarlates Sepration of Church and State! if you rite about relgion and the goverment shuldnt alow it anymore. We fogt our Revilution War to git rid of religin and now here it is agan.

That guy Lee needs ougt to go back to collidge and learn some eddication.

Ther probly aint even such thing as a archy fish, I bettya christins made it up.

Satan’s Seat: Detroit

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Here is one of the many ruined public buildings in Detroit. Rather large chunks of the city look like this. See how soon you can make your city part of Satan’s kingdom!

Detroit now has exactly what it needs, the answer to its problems, just what the doctor ordered–a nine-foot tall, one ton, bronze statue of… no, not Al Kaline…of Satan ( http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2015/07/25/group-to-unveil-satan-statue-in-detroit-during-largest-public-satanic-ceremony-in-history/ ).

Erecting a statue of Satan in a building called The Satanic Temple may seem like a jejune and sophomoric thing to do–but who better to serve Satan than jejune and sophomoric idiots?

The monstrosity was originally going to be put up in Oklahoma City, but they couldn’t swing it–although they did persuade a “judge” to ban the state capitol’s Ten Commandments monument. But it’s really much more suitable to Detroit. If you want to see what Satan’s kingdom looks like, you can’t go wrong by starting in Detroit.

The ninnies at The Satanic Temple say they are advocates for the separation of church and state. You bet they are. They are also buckling down to fight a great battle against “theocrats.” This shows how it’s a good idea to choose your battles wisely. Theocrats have absolutely no influence whatever on American culture or public policy. No risk of being defeated by them!

So, why not take a few days off to visit Detroit, groove on the lovely urban scenery, and reflect on how long it’ll take for your city to have a great big statue of Satan, too?

Did I mention Detroit is a city ruled lock, stock, and barrel by Democrats?

Hymn: ‘Holy, Holy, Holy’

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I didn’t understand, when I was in Sunday school, that the imagery of the second verse (“all the saints adore thee, casting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea”) comes directly from the Book of Revelation. The rest of the lyrics also arise from the Bible.

I used to think this was just one of those tedious hymns adults liked to sing when they were showing off.

Now I know better; and as this hymn has been playing itself in my mind these past few days, I thought I’d like to share it with you.

Another Thing God Thought Of, But We Wouldn’t Have

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Behold the chuckwalla, a nice big lizard. The one in the video is enjoying a feast of chopped vegetables and cheeses that some thoughtful human provided him.

The chuckwalla lives in North America’s hottest deserts, where it eats bits of cactus. The chuckwalla is edible for human beings, a fact which has occasionally saved a life. When threatened, this lizard ducks into a crack in the rock and inflates himself, making it just about impossible to pull him out.

God creates the darnedest things. He creates them for His own pleasure. There aren’t enough people who get lost in the desert to justify the trouble of creating the chuckwalla. This lizard can be domesticated, but then you have the trouble of keeping him hot enough. Like most members of the iguana family, the chuckwalla is smart enough to adjust to you and become friendly with you.

No scientific committee would have ever conceived of a large, edible lizard whose primary defense is self-inflation. Science fiction writers never thought of it. For really cool ideas that no one else ever had, you have to go to God.

And this is Mr. Nature signing off… Enjoy your Sabbath rest, everybody.

Hymn, ‘Rise Up, O Men of God’

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If the Church ever needed to rise up, that time is probably now. Before our glorious national leaders make sodomy compulsory, or set up an image of Obama to be worshiped.

I chose this little version of the hymn because it’s easy to understand the words, albeit not so easy to understand the pictures.

All right, those who favor a wooden-headed literal interpretation of Romans 13 (“If the Powers that Be tell you to slaughter all the babies, then you gotta slaughter all the babies”) won’t like it.

But for the sane people out there, it’s time we thought seriously about the best way to rise up against the purposeful wickedness of our own Powers that Be.

P.S.–Upon further examination, this video seems to be a Mormon production. But I will let it be. The hymn is a Christian hymn, and that’s a fact.

Winsome? We’re Supposed to be Winsome?

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“Winsome” is one of those words that make me feel like giving someone an Indian burn. The dictionary defines it as “cheerful, pleasant and appealing.”  And Christian commentators are always advising us to “be winsome” as Team Satan tears down our country, debauches our culture, corrupts our churches, and comes gunning for our children.

Guess how many times the word “winsome” is used in the Bible, King James Version.

Zero! Never!

Was Our Lord Jesus Christ being winsome when He called the Pharisees, to their faces, a generation of vipers (Matthew 3:7, and elsewhere)? Was He being winsome when He fashioned a whip and drove the moneychangers from the Temple (John 2:15)? Or how about when He told His audience, “You are of your father, the devil” (John 8:44)? Think they found those words very winsome?

What do these commentators want of us? “Sure, tell the truth, that everyone who promotes homosexuality has a really good chance of spending all eternity in Hell–but simper winsomely while you do it!” Maybe we ought to have our pictures painted on velvet, with real big eyes–I’m told that’s winsome.

It’s okay to let people know that their actions are destroying the country, are exceedingly displeasing to God, and come directly from the Devil–as long as you can do it in a cheerful, pleasant and appealing manner? Maybe get the Doublemint Twins out of retirement: maybe they could deliver that message in a winsome way.

I think we’ve long passed by the time when winsome might have been of service to us. Don’t you?