Idolatry

You have heard the televangelists preaching "God is punishing America for its homosexuality".

I say unto you, They are wrong.  God is not punishing America for its homosexuality, but for its idolatry.

Idolatry is worshipping gods that are manufactured, created, gods that are not real.

America is guilty of idolatry, of worshipping a god that is not real.

America, as a nation, worships a god that is not real - the false trinity.  The True Trinity is real enough, but America does not worship the true Trinity, but a false one. The trinity they worship is false because it is composed of truth and falsehood blended together. It is not real because it was created by man.  It is false because it includes a fantasy. This fantasy is that God (or a part of God) came down to Earth as a mortal and then died on the cross and was resurrected - all to atone for the sins of mankind.

The whole thing is a fantasy.  If God could become his own Son and die as a mortal, why couldn't he just forgive all the sins of man in the first place?  It is  all just insane.  And thus, we may say that God is punishing America for the idolatry of believing in such an insane trinity.

Actually God is not punishing us.  We are punishing ourselves. Let me explain.  Why do we believe in the false Trinity? Because everyone else does, or at least those who count.

In ancient Israel, why did they turn to the worship of idols? Because everyone else did, or at least those who counted.  God did not punish them for this idolatry and he is not punishing us for the same kind of idolatry.  We are punishing ourselves. When we place the opinion of others above our own rational thinking, when we respect political correctness more than our own self-respect, when we permit ourselves to be coerced into worshipping some insanity that we do not understand just because it is the thing to do - when we do these things, we do them not only in the arena of religion and spirituality, but also in the other avenues of our public life.  And that type of thinking can only lead to the destruction of our nation. When we pursue public acceptance over self-respect, the nation must fail. We are being punished for the sin of idolatry, but God is not punishing us. We are doing it to ourselves.

Pass a law, DON'T create a bureaucracy

If something is wrong, or something needs to be done, then pass a law. Don't create a bureaucracy. For example: EPA, Homeland Security. When the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was created - December 1970 - American had a serious problem with uncontrolled pollution. Now, after 38 years, America has a serious problem with controlled pollution. We still have smog over our cities. Smog that is killing dozens of Phoenicians every year. And that's in a city that has reasonably clear skies as compared to the other largest American cities. Why do we still have smog? Because the problem was turned over to a federal bureaucracy instead of letting the American people take care of it.  If they had passed a law that anyone producing more than X amount of pollution was in violation of the law with a criminal penalty - millions of Americans would have gone active and criminal and civil lawsuits would have been filed and things would have happened. Instead it was put into the hands of federal bureaucrats who are often in the pockets of big business and very little has happened. After an entire generation of EPA we still have too much smog and pollution.  And do I need to say anything about the ineptitude of Homeland Security? A generation of Homeland Security and American will have gone the way of the Chinese empire.

Death . . .

. This month I am going to be speaking at the New Age Community Church, Sunday May 18. My topic will be Death. In this country death is totally denied. We don't say that a person has died, but rather that he has "passed on", or some other death-denying euphemism.  We deny death, because we don't understand it. It is a mystery, a scary mystery.  In my talk I hope to clarify what death it, how it works, and what follows it.

. .  and Taxes

All good citizens finished paying their taxes last night.  My, how federal income tax has changed since it was first instituted in 1913.  At that time the tax rate was just 1% up to $20,000 and 7% up to $500,000 and ten percent or something like that over $500,000. That is a fair rate, especially if you realize that when federal income tax was initiated, the definition of income excluded salaries and wages.

Lets return to those golden years.  Remember, no exemptions or discounts.  1% on everything up to $20,000, 7% on everything over $20,000, and 10% on everything over $500,000. Corporations should not pay income tax. (They don't actually pay it anyway, they just pass it on to us in the price of their products or services)  We should finalize this by ruling that corporations are not "persons" in any legal sense, but are only financial instruments.

Socialism CAN work

The latest news is that the Cuban government is allowing all its citizens to own cell phones.  They were forbidden before (though, of course, thousands managed to get one anyway). Under the socialized Cuban state, the government controls 90% of the economy. BUT citizens have free, housing, education and health care. They get ration cards that cover basic food items.  People argue that the average monthly income is only $20.  I ask you, how much do you have left each month after all the bills and medical and food have been paid? So, it does work, you see. Would socialism work here in the U.S.? Absolutely not!! Because there are only 9 million people in Cuba, but there are nearly 300 million here. You can govern a small group of people much easier and more justly, and with less turmoil, then you can govern a large nation.  That is what is wrong with the U.S. They are stupidly trying to govern the entire nation from Washington.  That is too many people. Let each state do the governing, and let Washington just oversee to make sure corruption does get in on the state level. That's the way the Constitution organized it. To sum it up, Socialism CANNOT work as a U.S. federal program.  

Never before

To my knowledge, never before has the U.S. experienced both a war AND a depression (today they are called recessions - same thing). Why are we experiencing a recession in the midst of a war? Because Bush is an idiot.  We shouldn't be surprised. We knew he was an idiot from the beginning.  What has he done to put us in this position.  We have never had a recession during a war because, during other wars, the government passed a War Tax to pay for the war. President Bush did not want to tax his rich friends, so there was no War Tax. Ergo: we are up to our ears in debt, which is throwing the economy in to a mess.  Thank you, President Bush.

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