SIX MENTAL LEAPS TO BECOMING A CHRISTIAN

Fred Thompson has announced that he's running for President on the Tonight Show. This is what he was expected to do. In the process he missed a New Hampshire debate with eight of his other Republican rivals, who criticized him for not being there. I don't know anything about Fred Thompson that you don't. My one hope is that some candidate will come to knock Guiliani off his front-runner pedistal so I don't have to vote for him. It would seem that Mit Romney is more to my liking on issues such as the Iraq War, but we'll have to see.

Larry Craig has become a poster boy hero of the left wing now because people like Randi Rhodes dug into his voting record and discovered that he was on record against the civil rights abuses of the Attorney General and wants to put a curb on the policies of Gonsolez. Also many democrats feel that he is being unduly persecuted for his sexual proclivities, which they point out are a private matter and that other congressmen have been found guilty of such things as running a call girl ring, which are more serious. Arlen Specter came out in support of Craig when Craig wanted to revoke his plea of guilty to "disorderly conduct", which is a misdomeaner. But now all the republicans are lining up to say that Larry Craig must go. We have to wonder why?

Apple has come out with their new I Pod and I guess it's a good one, but I haven't yet looked at Google or Cnet news to read about it. You ZAC people know that Zachery is known to be a fan of Apple computers. Apparently they're also planning to drop the price of their I phone.

If one were a defense attorney one would want to do a good job for his client even if the facts didn't look promicing. Even the Luis Lopeses of the world need a competent defence. O J and Phil Specter have the best defence money can buy. These attorneys aren't above paying scientientists thousands of dollars for their "expert" oppinions, even of the science involved is bogus. Clearly any jury needs to be reasonably intelligent enough to do some comon sense reasoning for themselves. Of course the question is suppose you ask your client, "Did you really do it?" and he grabs you from behind and points a knife to your throat and tells you "If you ask that question again it will be the last you ever breathe", well, that is just another incident you won't happen to mention in your client's defense. Christians are in the business of defending God and I imagine there are "things you just don't bring up" if in your oppinion it will make your client look bad. The fact is a chief reason for being a Christian is "because you get to escape going to Hell" and J C of K F I defines hell as "A place of constant frustrated and unfufilled desires". So basically, Hell is just an extention of life as we know it. The pleasant alternative is heaven, which is sort of a place where you can reach that state of emotional "blotto" where the pain of life is drowned out, presumably in the Blood of Christ. Christianity will not help you deal with your problems, but Christianity can change your mental state so that you just don't care any more. As such Christianity can be seen as that example from the book "Misery" where the "wood pilings to the pier" are still there but they just seem to disappear in the rising tide of - - forgetfulness- - -or dope- - -or religion. Christianity can't offer anything positive. It can only offer a negative. Hence a Christian does not become more loving and concerned about others, such as family members- - unless you're Homer Simpson in heaven. You're not normally concerned about family members or friends once you "pass on" according to Jesus Christ of KFI, but instead "the things of earth will grow strangely dim", to quote a church hymn. Once you die the hopes and fears and values of this life appearently pass away in a sea of forgetfullness. Right now we are going to join yesterday's Word file and take it from there.

In soap land Jeremy plans to skip to another country as soon as their plane lands in Las Vegas, even as the cops are laying a dragnet for him. If I were Stephany I would not have said a word to Chelsea about it. As his girlfriend my philosophy would be, “We’ve had a lot of good times. It’s been fun but now it’s come time for a parting of the ways. I’ll respect any decision you make about your life as long as you respect my decision not to come with you”. I switched to the Phil Specter summation statement just after two when “Passions” showed signs of being a bomb. The D A refuted ten scientific claims that the defense had made, one by one. He also summarized the gun evidence and talked about Lana Clarkson’s hopeful, eager mental state during that day. It’s clear to me if there was ever doubt before that Phil Specter did it. Dr. Lee was scheduled to talk about 72 inch blood back-spatter, but they know that’s a myth because the evidence is clear that the blood didn’t travel more than two feet. There was not blood on the carpet so the gun couldn’t have gotten smeared (as if wiped) by being “kicked across the carpet”. Perhaps the most damning scene of all was all the woman witnesses testifying in a row in clips that (a) Phil Spectrer drank a lot and (b) Specter liked to control women and he got the maddest when they wanted to leave and he’d threaten them with a gun. There was also testimony about sprained wrists and impact blows to the mouth and various bruises suffered. Specter couldn’t have had all that blood on his jacket from spatter unless he had been inside a two foot radius of the killing.

I would now like to talk about the six mental hurdles you have to undergo before you can be a Christian. The first is that it is an article of Faith with these people that physical evidence will never “prove” Christianity, such as the shroud. World Net Daily was talking about a wall from Solomon’s temple being demolished by the Moslems with Israel’s permissions and pious Jews are asking the Christians to intervene. If you’re looking for some secret texts or something you’re likely not to find it with all the book burning and heresy hunting that went on. Another hurtle is the notion that St. Paul seems to be unfamiliar with practically all the basic teachings of Jesus. He refers to “the gospel” but there is some assumption all his readers have heard about it from another source because if you had to rely on what Paul said you’d know almost nothing. The next hurdle was you have to believe that people got Jesus’ message wrong when he said and they assumed that He was coming back within their lifetime so don’t write anything down. This explains why there is no historical record in the first sixty or seventy years of its existence. There is also another “liberal” hurdle of the fact that “The gospels appear biased twords Rome because they had to be politically correct to please the Romans. The gospels were written to “accommodate” the Romans. Next you have to buy into the belief that none of the miracles or manifestations of the Spirit mentioned in the Bible are for our day because of the doctrine of dyspensationalism and as such anything that happened was “done to make a theological point” and “after the Bible was written there was and is no further need for any divine manifestation of any sort”. Next is the notion that not any manifestation or positive result of Christianity can be proved. There is no physical evidence of the soul or spirit. Not only this but if anybody comes up with actual evidence of either seeing God or of angels or of surviving death- - it is considered a false doctrine. I had Sylvia Browne on at three for a while while Specter was on a break. None of this stuff about seeing ghosts or spirits or getting any kind of message from beyond the grave is admissible evidence. Think about these things.

In summery you can conclude that asking questions or showing any kind of natural curiosity about anything you’re told is a waste of time. Here are a few questions. It is said that Jesus preached to five hundred people after his resurrection. What sort of topics did he talk about in this post mortem sermon? Why aren’t there five hundred reporters writing down his precious words? How come Philo of Alexandria had perfect Aryan Christian theology in 50 AD? How can there not be some connection? There is that Italian guy who makes a half way credible case that Jesus never existed because none of the prominent people in the first century had ever heard of him. There is the confusing of the placement of the city of Nazareth with another sea side city. Three of Jesus’ brother’s names just happen to be the same as the names of the son of Judas of Galilee. There is the confusing of the sequence of events in the book of Acts when it came to listing of the false messiahs. There is the almost apology for being “wrong” about the death of John even though presumably John wrote the gospel and was presumably still alive so there would be nothing to argue about. How come with all this emphasis on soul sleep and the word “resurrection” meaning “awaken” how come the martyr Stephen says he saw Jesus coming to meet him before he died? With all this emphasis on “staying alive till Jesus comes” how come the deaths of people like Peter and Paul are not recorded in the Bible? One would think their deaths would be a traumatic milestone and their funerals major events and their graves major landmarks from the moment they were laid.. How come the emperor Nero is referred to often but never named in the Bible nor any of his bad works referred to? How come there is no historical record of either St. Paul or many of his numerous other “characters” such as Luke and Sylus and Timothy? What did St. Peter do for thirty years other than an occasional appearance in the book of Acts only to be rebuked by Paul? What was St. John doing all this time? Was John of Ephesus in the year 100 AD the same as the disciple of Jesus. Was that friend of Shakespeare, Christopher Marlow right? Did Jesus “bed down John”? Why is John portrayed with feminine features in the Di Vinci “Last Supper”? Why did nobody before about the year 110 AD or even later seem to have even heard of such basic inventions of pen and paper and writing? Why do all the other “eastern denominations” of Christianity appear to have no evidence for their existence in the first century- - either. I’m not saying Christianity isn’t true, but there are all of these mental hurdles that you have to overcome first, before you can begin to consider it.