What is Confidence? In the joyful mysteries it is no illusion & a vessel of beauty lit w/ the consciousness of the light of the Torah & a listening heart. In the luminous mysteries it is to be born again in the kingdom of beatitude of soul stripped of veils of vanity w/ a quatrefoil of glory as pinnacle of law & prophesy. And no illusion in action or temptation, in both sets it is accord w/ creation & destruction. Then Jesus + Mary have confidence in your messiah consiousness.
Marcion the docetic scholar of the 2nd century discerned in Pauls writings a heavenly father Jesus related to of mercy + love. Not the heavenly father & tradition of strict constructionism, vengence & draconian messenthropic injustice. A tradition which has survived to this day & given us a Hitler & a holocost; abortion & the spread of AIDS; Jack Ruby & Lee H. Oswald. Marcion is a heretic w/ 2 gods, but the problem won’t go away w/ the church preaching right to life & Mary shilling mass murder in a deluge of fire for the big boy at Akita, Japan. While the rest of Christendumb licks its chops when the phallic minds in savage glory down-size 85% of the worlds population to a sustainable oiless economy in an end-times confabulated clap-trap of Jesus in complicity w/ an armagedon. Who has 2 gods? Who’s a heretic? Let’s go up to Mabel’s room. The heavenly father & tradition doesn’t have the time talent & resources for the salvation, one-at-a-time for 7 billion stonechildre on earth every generation. According to this eskeetes of rosary + the cross. Let the buyer beware of what the read agenda is w/ erezats of a cross & cut off rosary, let him fear the Lord(s)
Monday, May 11, 2009
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
VERY DISMAYED
To Whom It May Concern:
I have been reading the last [issue], and was VERY DISMAYED to find an advertisement for the __________ Bible. Now I am not unhappy about the bible, but the picture that was in the add, specifically of the woman. As a woman, who works as a marriage and family therapist for a pregnancy crisis center, I DAILY work with sex abuse, addictions and pornography issues. As a woman involved in church on a leadership level, and who has had deep discussions (with men and women) of what and how men think and see women, sex, and the sexualization of our country, and just how damaging sexual addictions can be for men AND women – I WAS VERY DISMAYED to see the add with what looked to me like an attractive woman, wearing a white loose fitting shirt, bra-less with the outline of a nipple showing through the shirt (handily right above the bible – isn’t that nice??)
PLEASE, PLEASE consider what you are placing in your magazine – and for a BIBLE no less?? I hope that it would be your wish to not be a stumbling block to christen me and women who might have problems of this nature, and you will carefully consider the pictures that are published in your magazine.
After much communication and study, our editors came to the conclusion that this particular Nipple-Gate simply did not exist. What was she looking for exactly, I wonder?
I have been reading the last [issue], and was VERY DISMAYED to find an advertisement for the __________ Bible. Now I am not unhappy about the bible, but the picture that was in the add, specifically of the woman. As a woman, who works as a marriage and family therapist for a pregnancy crisis center, I DAILY work with sex abuse, addictions and pornography issues. As a woman involved in church on a leadership level, and who has had deep discussions (with men and women) of what and how men think and see women, sex, and the sexualization of our country, and just how damaging sexual addictions can be for men AND women – I WAS VERY DISMAYED to see the add with what looked to me like an attractive woman, wearing a white loose fitting shirt, bra-less with the outline of a nipple showing through the shirt (handily right above the bible – isn’t that nice??)
PLEASE, PLEASE consider what you are placing in your magazine – and for a BIBLE no less?? I hope that it would be your wish to not be a stumbling block to christen me and women who might have problems of this nature, and you will carefully consider the pictures that are published in your magazine.
After much communication and study, our editors came to the conclusion that this particular Nipple-Gate simply did not exist. What was she looking for exactly, I wonder?
Christians and Alcohol
___________ had a well-written and interesting article in a recent __________________. In the article, _____ started by saying, “I’ve recently become deeply concerned over what appears to be a trend toward drinking among young church leaders.” By leaders he was referring to preachers. _________’s article is one that is worth reading.
Drinking is not a new problem. Noah was the first that we have record of to drink and get drunk. There are many references in the Bible that tell us not to get drunk. But the question that is asked is: “Is it O.K. for a Christian to drink alcohol?” and that question is usually tagged with the thought that, “Well, they drank wine in the Bible.”
The question and thought presuppose that wine in the Bible always had an alcoholic content. It also says the ancients were such dummies that they knew of no way to preserve grape juice without it fermenting. If they couldn’t figure that out, then I guess that means that the pyramids had to have been built by aliens from outer space. It is truly a wonder that man ever progressed to his brilliance of the 21st century. By the way, does anyone really think that when Jesus turned water into wine that it was fermented? Can one really think and believe that Jesus would have made something, and so much of it, that could actually hurt people?
Is there no other drink than alcohol around to drink? What good will come from drinking alcohol? Attend an AA meeting and hear all the good stories they have about alcohol. If drinking alcohol is O.K., when does it become bad? In other words, which drink of alcohol makes drinking alcohol bad? Brief hint: no alcoholic or drunk ever became that way without the first drink!
A Scotsman was seen by his wife, taking a shirt from the closet to the window to put in the sunlight to check to see if the shirt was clean enough to wear again. She spoke to her husband and said, “If it’s doubtful, it’s dirty!”
Wise words for anytime a choice is necessary.
Drinking is not a new problem. Noah was the first that we have record of to drink and get drunk. There are many references in the Bible that tell us not to get drunk. But the question that is asked is: “Is it O.K. for a Christian to drink alcohol?” and that question is usually tagged with the thought that, “Well, they drank wine in the Bible.”
The question and thought presuppose that wine in the Bible always had an alcoholic content. It also says the ancients were such dummies that they knew of no way to preserve grape juice without it fermenting. If they couldn’t figure that out, then I guess that means that the pyramids had to have been built by aliens from outer space. It is truly a wonder that man ever progressed to his brilliance of the 21st century. By the way, does anyone really think that when Jesus turned water into wine that it was fermented? Can one really think and believe that Jesus would have made something, and so much of it, that could actually hurt people?
Is there no other drink than alcohol around to drink? What good will come from drinking alcohol? Attend an AA meeting and hear all the good stories they have about alcohol. If drinking alcohol is O.K., when does it become bad? In other words, which drink of alcohol makes drinking alcohol bad? Brief hint: no alcoholic or drunk ever became that way without the first drink!
A Scotsman was seen by his wife, taking a shirt from the closet to the window to put in the sunlight to check to see if the shirt was clean enough to wear again. She spoke to her husband and said, “If it’s doubtful, it’s dirty!”
Wise words for anytime a choice is necessary.
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