Abortion: A Religious Issue

June 21st, 2007

The “Right to Choose” movement has failed miserably in its attempt to convince America that Abortion is a protected right to privacy under the Constitution. On the other hand the “Right to Life” movement has steadily gained support for life beginning at conception. But that is a religious belief, and while a growing number of Americans are buying into that Christian heresy, it pits what is essentially a Catholic religious belief against the more traditional religious belief that life begins with the “Breath of Life.”

When government passes laws that touch on when life begins, or when government officials espouse life at conception, it puts the weight of their religious belief over those of us with different religious beliefs. It tells us that our religious belief is not worthy of government consideration and that government prefers the Christian religion over all other. But even more repugnant is the de facto imposition of those religious beliefs on the entire nation; and, it compels the entire nation to accept their religious belief, whether it is “life at conception,” or worshiping only the Christian god as required by the Ten Commandments. The First Amendment’s prohibition against the establishment of religion means nothing to the religious right. After all, the current president has established religious governments in Afghanistan and Iraq, so why not establish a religious view in America?

The right to life movement argument that “life at conception” is not a religious belief, but is supported by scientific evidence is belied by the fact that animals, not just humans, undergo conception, and their lives are without value, not for scientific reasons, but for religious reasons.

The problem with this Christian heresy is it is a not supported by Jewish or Christian scripture. Catholics base their belief on life at conception on tradition, antidote and not scripture. The Protestant reformation was in no small part fueled by the paradox of the salvation they claimed Jesus brought to mankind, through “faith” and baptism and the doctrines of the roman Church. Christian doctrine holds that one must “be born again… of water and spirit” in order to “enter into the kingdom of God” (John 3:3-7). That is, one must be baptized.

Roman Catholic doctrine holds only three possibilities for a spirit after death, Hell, Purgatory and Heaven. Heaven is for those who were baptized and lived saintly lives in accordance with the Catholic god’s doctrines. Purgatory is reserved for those who were baptized, but who have shortcomings which must be overcome in a state less than heaven. Any un-baptized spirit (soul) goes to Hell. The cacodoxy of Limbo arose within the Roman Church to mollify those who found the doctrines of Jesus too harsh, and for centuries many Roman Catholics held to the false doctrine that the unborn that died in the womb would go to Limbo.

Protestants have neither Purgatory nor Limbo, but like the Roman Church, they have a Heaven (or paradise), Hell, and some in between a nebulous “prison” (Peter I 3:18-20) where disobedient spirits are kept. However, since Protestants, until recently, believed that the spirit was created with the Breath of Life, the problem for them was in what happens to un-baptized infant who die.

While each Christian has his or her own belief, they are compelled by scripture and doctrine to believe (unless they are Mormons) that every embodied spirit must not only be baptized, but “born again.” If the spirit enters the body at conception, then every fetus (or embryonic stem cell) is a living being with a spirit, and every living soul must be baptized. But that presents a paradox for the unborn, because according to the Jesus every living person must be “born again,” and if it was never born in the first place, it cannot be born again. Thus, if a fetus suffers a natural abortion, that is, when all functions terminate at any time after conception, and the fetus is reabsorbed by the mother, as happens quite often or where there is a miscarriage, and then the spirit, according the Christian doctrine, will go to Hell. There is no Christian salvation for that spirit. “Christ’s blood” cannot save it regardless of what the mother might want to believe. After all, according to Jesus, one must be born again, and the “unborn” by its very nature has never been born the first time, and therefore cannot be born again. There is no salvation for that spirit. It goes to Hell.

We must assume that because the Christian god is just, because the unborn died in the womb, that spirit must have been so evil that the Christian god would not permit it to be born. That spirit will certainly go to Hell, and only question is whether that evil spirit is sent immediately to Hell, or whether it remains in the mother awaiting exorcism.

Thus, not only does “life at conception” as a government policy, require non believers to accept a so-called Christian doctrine, but by extension, it requires non believers to accept as religious doctrine that every pregnant woman is inhabited by a foreign spirit, which may be so evil that it will go to Hell without being born.

Because conception is a matter of conscience those who believe life begins at conception can act accordingly, but only for themselves, while those who believe otherwise must be allowed the right to terminate a pregnancy if they so choose.

As for those who seek to impose their beliefs on others, we should show compassion when their women suffer a miscarriage. We might want to console the grieving mother and express our sorrow at the death of her unborn, and our sorrow at how she must feel in having sent her unborn child to Hell.

UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES

June 18th, 2007

T.D. Lysenko firmly believed he could make the Soviet Union the breadbasket of the world through genetics. His vision was to create a hybrid plant that would have the head of a cabbage and the root of a radish. What he got were plants with the roots of cabbage and shriveled heads of radishes.

Neo Cons envisioned the overthrow of Saddam Husain, and the establishment of democracy in a nation that would welcome the United States with open arms. What the United States created in Iraq would, according to Neo Con ideology, spread throughout the mid east. They were half right. What the Neo Cons created in Iraq is now spreading across the mid east. Their argument that civil war is an unintended consequence is as valid as one who drives a car off a high cliff in order to get to the road below. The disastrous consequences may not be intended, but they are as predictable as the consequences of removing Saddam Husein from power.

Now as the Jews and Neo Con in America push for military strikes against Iran, their reverent desire to destroy Israel’s enemy blinds them to the unintended (but predictable) consequences.

Illegal Immigration and the Catholic Church

June 17th, 2007

The American Catholic Church sees its salvation in illegal immigrants. The “open borders” stance of some Catholic Cardinals and Bishops is pure hypocrisy. Until the Catholic Church opens the borders of the Vatican and give immediate citizenship to anyone, Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, Jew, Protestant or Catholic who wants to live there, the American Catholic Church must be viewed as either hypercritical or heretical.

Aside for the obvious, that nearly all illegal immigrants from Central and South America are Catholic, there is an even more compelling reason for the American Catholic Church to want citizenship for illegals: The Catholic Church is dying from a lack of priests. The number of priests in the United States has declined by over 25% in the last 30 years, while less that 10% of the priests ordained in the United States each year are American born, and few of those have come out of the Catholic Seminaries. Where once the Catholic preparatory seminaries turned out thousands of well educated young men, many of whom would become priests, today, there are probably no more that 500 total young men enrolled today in the few preparatory seminaries that remain in the United States.

The answer for the Catholic Cardinals and Bishops is making the illegal immigrants citizens so they can produce Catholic priests. The look at how the Irish immigration infused the priesthood. It was axiomatic that an Irish mother should have three sons. One would become a priest, one a policeman, and the other a fireman. The Italian and Polish immigrations followed closely with large families that produced many well educated priests.

The Catholic Bishops understand the power of ignorance. Brilliant Catholic scholars have always been able to allow faith to overcome reason, and supplant reason with apologetics. But the world is changing. Unlike the fundamentalist Christians who espouse ignorant faith over fact and reason because they believe Jesus will come and they will rule the world, young Catholics are not only questioning the tenets of their religion, but rejecting many of them as being in opposition to the truth. The Catholic “flat earth,” “earth centered universe” and “evolution” are far from the minds of ignorant immigrants who are not conflicted by knowledge they do not have. They are the base clay from which the Catholic Church can mold its future priests, and give life and salvation to their dying religion.

A MORMON PRESIDENT

March 18th, 2007

Can a Mormon become President of the United States? If it happens, then America deserves him, just as America asked for and received a President who would lie and promote a religious agenda that has taken America to the brink of moral degradation. Morals are not the pseudo morals of Christianity, but the moral laws of the Goddess, http://www.goddess.org/cmhg/laws.html . And while a Mormon candidate for President would most likely be far more moral than any Christian, it would be the Christian community that would reject that candidate simply because he is a Mormon.

Christians are a resentful and covetous people. They resent other Christian denominations and covet their so-called flocks. And while they are deeply divided as to doctrine, church going Christians would resent the fact that a Mormon President would inspire many Americans to not only seek to understand what a Mormon is, but to become Mormons. Faced with the choice of electing a godless President who would have no religious impact, or a Mormon whose very election would most likely double the ranks of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons), and most of those coming from the Christian ranks, the Christian vote would be clear.

Christian fears of “sheep stealing” (converting to Mormonism) would be well founded, as once a Mormon Presidential candidate would win his party’s nomination, the Mormon Church, which by its very nature is a “missionary church” would revive its adage, “Every Member a Missionary.” Within a matter of months the Mormon Church would double its full time and local missionary forces and with the positive prospects of a Mormon President, not only convert hundreds of thousands of former Christians, but within a matter of months, turn them into missionaries, who duty would be to convert their friends and families.

Christians would not, however, attack the Mormon candidate on the grounds of conversion, but rather point to the glaring doctrinal differences between Christians and Mormons. Christians believe in “one god” without body parts or passions, as “spirit” as it would be. Mormons are polytheistic, believing that “God the Father” and “God the Son” (Jesus) are two distinct personages, both with physical bodies (glorified and perfected as Mormon’s claim) and that the “Holy Spirit,” called the “Holy Ghost” by Mormons, is a distinct god who does not have a body. Additionally, Mormons believe that each person has the potential of becoming a god, just like their god of this world; and, while Mormons denounce polygamy, they believe that as “gods” they will have many wives, each of which will produce spirit children that will, if they are faithful, receive bodies and be born into a world like “Earth,” so they too can die, be resurrected and become “gods” of their own worlds.

Despite their obvious polytheistic beliefs, Mormons declare there is only “One god.” It is an intellectual dishonesty, a half truth. After all, in their way of thinking, there is only one god, the so-called “father,” Elohim, who just happens to have a son, “Jesus,” who is the “Savior” of the world, the “Christ.” But he isn’t really “God,” but rather the literal “Son of God” who was created through a sexual union of the “Holy Ghost” and the “Virgin Mary.” And this “Holy Ghost,” is a male personage, who is not really a god, because he doesn’t have a physical body. And, even though the Mormon, Elohim, was the son of a god of another world, and that “god/father of Elohim” was the god of a world that produced him… there is only “one god.”  But mere mortals need not be concerned with such trivial matters, because they won’t become gods anyway.

The Unwinnable War

January 12th, 2007

With events unfolding in Iraq that will have consequences for decades to come, many have asked whether the United States can win in Iraq. The answer is simply “No.” But for those who cannot understand the spiritual reason, or those who are unwilling to accept defeat, the reason for defeat can be examined strictly from a military view.

First, there was no justification for going into Iraq in the first place. This made the invasion out of harmony with the people of Iraq, America and the world. Few of those in favor of the war could sustain their support for long because it was, as stated, without harmony. Had the world or even the American people been in harmony they would follow the American President regardless of the sacrifice, and would have volunteered their lives for the cause.

Second, because the war was unjustified, it was planned without wisdom, sincerity or good faith. The American Presidency became, and still is the “borrowed sword” of Israel. The threat Iraq posed was not to the United States, but to Israel. That threat was removed, but an even greater threat has taken its place, not just with the perception of Iran being the new “evil” but with the entire Mideast, Muslim world and most of the world seeing Israel as being the United States’ 51st State.

Third, the war was not planned nor fought in the minds of the generals nor the Commander in Chief. There were no plans made for every contingency. Instead, the Christian god was on the side of the Presidency and the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy drove the war making decisions.

Fourth, neither the Presidency nor the generals knew who the enemy would be. Nor did they know the abilities of the enemy. They knew their own troop strength and their superior training and weaponry, but they did not know the enemy. Thus for every victory achieved, the United States suffered a defeat, and will continue to suffer a defeat for every victory gained, until the commanders know their enemy.

Fifth, the reward for American troops winning a battle is little more than accomplishing a mission, while the reward for the enemy causing any defeat of American troops is glory of winning or the reward of paradise as a martyr. The American troops fight to establish and protect a democracy in a foreign land while the enemy fights to govern themselves, protect their religion, country and families. Their idea will last for a century, while the American Presidency’s idea will last in the mind of the American people only for the moment.

Americans seem not to understand that the Iraqis would defend their country just as American insurgents would defend American if it had been taken over by Russia. The Iraqis can fight for centuries, and the British knew this before they entered into the conflict, and it is this inability to understand the enemy that makes it impossible for the United States to win in Iraq.

The rhetoric now being presented to the American people is to leave Iraq now would have untold consequences which would be far more disastrous for America than to stay and win. America cannot win, but few are considering why America got into an unwinnable war in the first place, and who got us to this position. Yet the Christian right backs the Presidency in defeat because they see this as their god’s path to a Second Coming. It is a false doctrine, fueled by false hope and the Zionist movement.

Next is the posturing for war with Iran. Such a war, or even a so called surgical strike, will be viewed by Iran as an attack by Israel, and will throw the Mid East into a conflict the American politicians cannot imagine.

A Warning to Iraq

December 29th, 2006

The execution of Saddam Hussein will bring the wrath of justice upon Iraq. The justice by which Saddam Hussein was tried will be the justice Iraq will be governed for the next thirty years. Iraq’s government will fall, and its leaders will be tried and condemned by the same rules applied in the trial of Saddam Hussein; and the new government will fall and its leaders will be tried and condemned in the same manner; and, this will continue until the blood of the innocent killed in Iraq has been purged

Nature of the Beast

December 14th, 2006

The captivity of the Russian people was seventy years from the revolution to the fall of the Soviet Union. So likewise the captivity of the Palestinian people is to be seventy years from the influx of Jews into Palestine. The spirit of this captivity has been spreading throughout the Muslim world for several months, but is just now being heard in the west.
As the United States and Israel loose prestige throughout the world the clamor for a just Palestinian/Israeli solution will become deafening. Yet neither the United States nor Israel wants a just solution. Their positions are one, Israel as a Jewish state occupying Palestinian land, the land the Bible asserts was given to the Israelis, which the Zionist see as all the land from the Mediterranean to Hamath in the north and the Wadi Al Arish  (River of Egypt) in the Sinai, to the Euphrates. Israel’s occupation of Palestinian land is thus viewed as God given.
But that is not the view of the rest of the world, where that occupation is analogous to a bully who steals a car and then negotiates with the rightful owner for the return of the contents of the glove compartment. That is about to change as the Arab world demands a just solution to the occupation, which is the return of all Palestinian land and the establishment of a free Palestinian state.
How long this will take will depend on how long the American people will support Israel, but certainly by 2017, the captivity of the Palestinian people will end and they will exert strength to overcome their oppressors.
It is not in Israel’s interest to have peace in the Middle East. As long as the Arabs and Muslims are fighting each other they will not be able to fight Israel. But the day of Palestinian children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks is coming to an end. Hezballa will gain strength in Lebanon, and the pro-Israeli/US coalition of that nation will loose power.
This is the plan set out by the spirits of the Arab and Moslem leaders. Jordan and Lebanon will agree to give land to a new Palestinian state, and once established, Palestine will claim its borders first to those of pre 1967 war, then to all of Palestine, which will include all of Israel. Palestine will then hold a referendum where all who live in the newly claimed territory, will be given the right to vote. Israel will reject the referendum and it will go ahead without Israel and will be overwhelmingly approved by the Palestinians. Israel and the United States will reject the vote as being illegal, but the Palestinians will take the measure to the General Assembly of the United Nations where Palestine will be held as the sole government, and expel Israel from the United Nations, much as it expelled Nationalist China and recognized Communist China as the sole government of China. Hence the warning I have been giving since 2000, “Israel’s greatest fear will be another Albania.”

Adding to the confusion of Mid East mind and spirits is the division among the factions seeking Islamic rule over Zionist domination. But what is becoming more clear is the Islamic world recognizing Zionism as the real threat to both the Mid East and the United States.  Hezballa will seek the overthrow of the current Lebanese government and the integration of its forces into the Lebanese army as antonymous forces, thus keeping with the UN mandate allowing arms for the Lebanese government.
Israel made two major blunders in it recent war against Hezballa as seen in the Moslem minds and spirits. First the war showed the world that Israel was not invincible, and it would strike in anger, and second, that Israel’s attack on the infrastructure of Lebanon showed the Arab world the tactic for defeating Israel, ergo, attack Israel’s own infrastructure. Although the Muslim mind and spirit is greatly divided on how to accomplish this, however, there will be attacks on Israel’s interests throughout the world. These will be minor at first, attacks on individuals and Jewish companies. This will escalate to attacks on companies supplying raw material and oil to Israel. Ships will be attacked in their home ports where oil is loaded, or in shipping lanes where the oil is transported. Ships that carry the oil to Israel will then be targeted as enemy ships and attacked anywhere in the world where defenses are weak, thus sending a message to the shipping companies that if they deal with Israel, they will be considered enemy ships. “If you are not with us, you are against us,” will be the rational.
This type of attack on Israel’s interests will begin before 2017, and will be well coordinated as the Muslim factions begin to unite and coordinate their attacks against the west. It is for this reason that Zionism is the greatest threat to America than Islamic fundamentalism, but as Zionism begins to be repudiated in the United States, and as Messianic Christian begin to realize Biblical prophesy are not being fulfilled the threat will become Islam; and Islamic terrorism will never be defeated until the west fights this brand of terrorism as a religion.

Two Questions for Israel-Palestinian Peace Talks

October 17th, 2006

There will be no peace in the mid east until the United States becomes an honest broker of peace. It does not matter what party is in power, or who is President of the United States, there are two questions which must be asked.

Questions for any president and every peace negotiator whether, American, Israeli or Palestinian:

  1. Do you believe the land of Palestine or the Holy Land is given to the Jews by the God of the Bible?
  2. The Bible says that when the Messiah returns, he will appear in the Jewish temple. Would you, either now or in the future, support the demolition of the Mosk of Omar, or any other structure on the Dome of the Rock, so the Jews can build a temple for the return of the Messiah, or do you believe the Mosk of Omar must forever be an Islamic shrine?

Seven Chinese Leaders

October 16th, 2006

Seven leaders of the Chinese government met yesterday. Their spirits were moved by the deception of the United States on the UN resolution to impose sanctions on North Korea. War is based on deception, but there is not yet war in Asia. The game the United States played with the words of the UN resolution led the Chinese to believe sanctions were optional and must be agreed upon, while the United States immediately after passage of the resolution declared that the wording binds all nations under Chapter 7. The Chinese do not and will not accept that interpretation, and they are now moving to lessen whatever impact sanctions would have on North Korea.

But the spirits of the Chinese leaders are troubled that the U.S. would play such a political game. They are now convinced that the United States will not follow Asian customs of treating you enemy as an honored guest, and respect their values. The spirits of the seven Chinese leaders see the posturing of the U.S. as an attempt to raise a moral issue for war, to unite America through fear of atomic weapons. While they see the North Koreans as having the superior moral cause to defend their country, and their way of life. They will fight and die, and if necessary starve for their country, while America will chose sacrifice nothing but money in a foreign conflict.

What the United States sees in Asia will no longer be a reality, but only what the Chinese want America to see. The spirits of the Chinese leaders are now making many calculations of every possibility and weighing the potential of each.