This is the season of the
anti conspiracy people. The word “conspiracy
theory” is like poison to any call in person on a radio talk show. Nobody wants to have even a taint of
conspiracy theory. This is unfortunate
because there is a lot to get paranoid about these days. We have the Kennedy assassination conspiracy
of course. That one is over fifty years
old and some say “give me something more recent than that”. There is the 9 – 11 conspiracy. There are tons of entries on the internet
with ample evidence there are more than irregularities in the events of 9 – 11 and
I won’t even list them here. But now
there are people who don’t even believe that Russia sabotaged our presidential
and other elections of 2016 and don’t seem particularly worried that it could
happen again. This is highly
unfortunate. We’re all a bunch of
lemmings following our esteemed leader, Donald J. Trump over a cliff. Any evidence you present to them is at most “a
test of their faith” and they aren’t about to fail any “tests” of their undying
loyalty. Now the polls apparently show
Trump with rising popularity numbers after all of the house hearings of the
past two weeks. The hearings are
apparently backfiring, having the opposite effect of what perhaps some
democrats were hoping for. Now of course
we’re getting ahead of ourselves because the House hasn’t yet even formulated Articles
of Impeachment yet. I’d like to know how many articles they intend to have- -
few or many. That will take at least a
month to do and this week is the Thanksgiving recess. Hopefully they will get it done by
Christmas. But now Lindsay Graham and
Mitch Mc Connell say that the trial itself will last only two weeks. This is not even vaguely possible if they
intend to present any evidence, on either the pro or the anti-Trump side. Hopefully we will hear from some of these
administration officials like John Boulton, who haven’t testified yet. Hopefully we don’t have to wait till they put
out their book several years from now when the damage is done. Perhaps it’s a temptation to say “Well you
knew this was going to happen; you knew there would be a backlash”. I just didn’t think it would come this
soon. The smart thing seems to be to
abort the senate trial before it can take place to minimize the damage. Now we can get back to our orgy of Walt Disney
movies.
Arguments "from the lesser to the greater" are interesting. We would not trust worship of an alien being from another galaxy or something even if he were vastly more intelligent and advanced than we are. It would be BECAUSE he is so "advanced" (as he sees it) and "so far beyond us" in intelligence that we could not porribly hope to relate to him. How much less could we relate to a being who supposedly lives OUTSIDE or our universe and created our universe perhaps with the carefree abandon that a seven year old does a painting he wants us to see? We don't know HOW much thought he put into the Universe. Perhaps it was quite a lot of thought. But we would know that his reasoning would be entirely different from ours. It could not possibly be called "human" reasoning. To think humans are "at the top of the creation chain" is vanity on our part. You would not lend someone you didn't know or trust a great deal of money and not care if you never saw it again. But humans trust such an "Entity" with our very lives and all of our posessions. Then there is the Neil Savedra argument. He says he doesn't regard the "Second Coming" as very important because "Last Things" should be treated "Last" in our priorities. Be this as it may- - - what about death. Everybody dies. But nobody has the vaguest idea about the after life. Now tell me- - which is the greater leap in faith. To believe that while we live there may be some sort of "space invasion" of the Messiah and his angels-- - - - or is it the existance of heaven which nobody has seen and there have been no reports of anybody coming back from the dead to tell us "it's allright". once you die. We then have theology, which is a train wreck of confusion. For instance- - - do we believe there is a connection between comitting "Sin" and bad things happening to us. If we don't sin does that mean bad things don't happen to us. You may say that is a silly question but if you think about it human oppinion is pretty divided on the subject. We can argue also about whether we are expected to even have a relationship to God at all. Some would say it's presumptious to think we can have a relationship with God. If you took all of the theological differences even in the Bible, reconsiling them would be nearly impossible. The old testament speaks of sin offering as being for the removal of curses. People don't know that. I can look at my life and say "I think I've been cursed" on a whole lot of matters. Many say that we aren't even supposed to talk directly to Jesus but pray "To the father only in the NAME of the son". Jesus doesn't do too much talking in the Book of Acts, for instance. Then there is the whole question as to whether "the spiritual gifts" were just for that time to prove a "theological point" or does God still sanction "the spiritual gifts" for our time, too. Then we have this new "Cyrus the Great" doctrine. Donald Trump may not be a true Born Again Christian but he was "sent here by God- - -to liberate us from those socialist, atheist democrats". Even if you had perfect theology up to now, how could you get past having to embrace the words and deeds of President Trump in order to be "one of them". (Selah)
Arguments "from the lesser to the greater" are interesting. We would not trust worship of an alien being from another galaxy or something even if he were vastly more intelligent and advanced than we are. It would be BECAUSE he is so "advanced" (as he sees it) and "so far beyond us" in intelligence that we could not porribly hope to relate to him. How much less could we relate to a being who supposedly lives OUTSIDE or our universe and created our universe perhaps with the carefree abandon that a seven year old does a painting he wants us to see? We don't know HOW much thought he put into the Universe. Perhaps it was quite a lot of thought. But we would know that his reasoning would be entirely different from ours. It could not possibly be called "human" reasoning. To think humans are "at the top of the creation chain" is vanity on our part. You would not lend someone you didn't know or trust a great deal of money and not care if you never saw it again. But humans trust such an "Entity" with our very lives and all of our posessions. Then there is the Neil Savedra argument. He says he doesn't regard the "Second Coming" as very important because "Last Things" should be treated "Last" in our priorities. Be this as it may- - - what about death. Everybody dies. But nobody has the vaguest idea about the after life. Now tell me- - which is the greater leap in faith. To believe that while we live there may be some sort of "space invasion" of the Messiah and his angels-- - - - or is it the existance of heaven which nobody has seen and there have been no reports of anybody coming back from the dead to tell us "it's allright". once you die. We then have theology, which is a train wreck of confusion. For instance- - - do we believe there is a connection between comitting "Sin" and bad things happening to us. If we don't sin does that mean bad things don't happen to us. You may say that is a silly question but if you think about it human oppinion is pretty divided on the subject. We can argue also about whether we are expected to even have a relationship to God at all. Some would say it's presumptious to think we can have a relationship with God. If you took all of the theological differences even in the Bible, reconsiling them would be nearly impossible. The old testament speaks of sin offering as being for the removal of curses. People don't know that. I can look at my life and say "I think I've been cursed" on a whole lot of matters. Many say that we aren't even supposed to talk directly to Jesus but pray "To the father only in the NAME of the son". Jesus doesn't do too much talking in the Book of Acts, for instance. Then there is the whole question as to whether "the spiritual gifts" were just for that time to prove a "theological point" or does God still sanction "the spiritual gifts" for our time, too. Then we have this new "Cyrus the Great" doctrine. Donald Trump may not be a true Born Again Christian but he was "sent here by God- - -to liberate us from those socialist, atheist democrats". Even if you had perfect theology up to now, how could you get past having to embrace the words and deeds of President Trump in order to be "one of them". (Selah)
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