Thursday, June 1, 2006

                                                    Mutilation

     Many crimes have been committed by religions.  Today, countless millions of women are viciously mutilated by the mid-East's' dominant religion.  Young girls are held down while their private parts are removed.

     It is agonizingly painful and demeaning.

     The practice manifests a brutality that few Westerners have the courage to think about, let alone speak about.  "Half the population of my country must be painfully cut up for us to be obedient to our religion.  Yet, we say that our religion is good".

     The practice demeans the women who perform the operation, scraping away the clitoris, usually with a sharpened spoon, the men who order the operations done, the parents who tolerate it, and the concept of a God who would want such a thing to be done.

     Once God can be so demonized as to be thought of as wanting such a thing to be done to helpless little girls, any brutality is possible.  The same religion and the societies it has spawned and supports also allows slavery.  

     Such a religion makes loving God and one's neighbor impossible.  And that is the difference between them and us.

Monday, June 5, 2006

                                               Redefining God.

     The definition of God as "Father Who loves us.", describes His feelings more than His power. 

     Defining Him as "Father Who loves us and Who can program in three dimensions." lets us begin to realize His feelings and His power. 

     When we see how our own sloth often makes us resentful of having to rethink things, we get an idea of how hard it is to get others to rearrange the particles in their minds.

When we let others know about God, we should always say that "God can program in three dimensions."  No one can deny it.  It leads the way to understanding how He programmed the universe in a week.  It shows the other side is built on sand.

     In the "Books and Excerpts" section, you can download "New Road to Rome" right now, and at no cost. 

     Skim through it (as if that's not what you'd do anyway) and just read the points of interest.  It helps understand the new definition of God:  "The Father Who loves us and can program in three dimensions."

Tuesday, June 6, 2006

                                          Geology, a most respected lie.

     The other side attacks God and His people by undermining Scripture.  Since Scripture says Creation is less than ten or twelve thousand years old (at the outside), government hirelings have been extending our idea of its age.

     Geologists help the other side.  They don't encourage us to think about The Flood.  Nor do they want us to visualize the mountain range-sized waves that the moon pulled around the earth to cover it with silt that turned into rock.  Geologists want us to believe that the layers of sedimentary rock took billions of years to form.  For many, geologists help make Scripture into a myth.

     Pictures of the Grand Canyon show many, many layers of rock.  Geologists say it took billions of years to form.  We say it took a few months.  Layer after layer was deposited by water action during the flood.  The layers were immediately compressed.  Then, while they were still soft, melting water ran through cracks and flaws as rivers, eating the deep canyons out of the layered sediment.

     Today, geologists do not tell the truth about oil.  They still call it a "fossil fuel" despite knowing that it forms underground as a natural process.

     To get a better idea of how quickly The Flood made the world look old, go to the "books" section, and download "New Road to Rome". 

     Be the first to tell your friends, "You know, if God can program in three dimensions, the Book of Genesis may be right."

     It's important that you tell them.  Each soul who's moved toward God earns a reward for those who helped move it in the right direction.

Thursday, June 8, 2006

                                  Euclid meets Aquinas:  the unmoved mover.

     Most of us spend a surprising amount of time trying to picture the world in our minds.  It's hard, because there are physical, mental, and spiritual realities to reconcile.

     One handy visualizing tool:  Remember the old long playing records?  Picture one going around on the turntable.  In very the center of the pin that holds the record in place, there is a place that doesn't move.

     Like the "point with no dimension" that is at the heart of Euclidian geometry, the unmoving place on the rotating record is an easy visualization of Aquinas's concept of "unmoved mover".

     Now, picture the nano-sized soul of every single person on earth standing on the record as it goes around.  Those closest to the "unmoved mover" are Roman Catholic saints.  Then, there's an area where the needle swings closer and away from the pin after the music has played.  Most Catholics are in there, moving to and from the unmoved mover, but always close.

     Beyond them is the innermost song on the record.  That section is reserved for those who believe in The Trinity.  Beyond them, there are various degrees of semi-Christian thought. 

     Beyond that, the music grows ever louder and more discordant as we get farther from the calm, unmoving center.  People there are loud and discordant, too.  As we move farther toward the rim, the speed picks up.  Souls are flung off, into the flames below.

Friday, June 9, 2006

                                           Global warming's weighty lies.

     Global warming makes money for all its most ardent proponents.  It's biggest, and most profitable lie invents a new kind of money, "carbon credits".  That counterfeit concept makes paper money look like fiscal solvency.

     In order to make their new, fear-based money seem to have value, countless lies are spun and woven into a vast tapestry of impending doom.  Their latest: "earthquakes and volcanoes are caused because global warming melts glaciers and transfers their weight to sea beds."

     Like standing and shifting back and forth on an inner tube, it seems to make a certain amount of sense.  Until we look around.

     We see vast weight transfers used to build modern cities.  Chicago, Los Angeles, Manhattan, Pittsburgh, and every other urbanized area has added far more weight in concrete than was ever added in glaciers.  Each billion of tons of concrete was shifted from areas that are now as many tons lighter in weight. 

     If global warming causes volcanoes and earthquakes by shifting the weight on the earth's surface, then the even greater shifting of weight to build of vast cities must do the same.  No cracks appearing under Cleveland.  No breaks in Buffalo.  No volcanoes on Long Island.

     Global warmers simply aren't able to open their eyes and wonder just how many pounds per square foot their own office buildings have added to the crust below.

     It's easy to hate those who invent and pass on blatant lies as "global warming causes earthquakes."  Love them.  Pray for them that they might worship truth more than wealth and popularity.

Monday, June 12, 2006

                                                Loving our enemies.

     Many don't understand why we don't kill all our enemies.  At the end of WW2, Patton was ready to wipe out the Communists in front of him. 

     In Korea, MacArthur was ready to attack China.  In Vietnam, it was often unlawful to bomb, or shoot, enemies without permission that never seemed to come in time.

     A nation on the brink of victory is paralyzed by those who want to profit from the coming peace.  Since no peacetime army ever prospers without an enemy, few wars are finalized.   Rome, to be sure, did wipe out Carthage, but only because they had wars with lots more looting waiting to be fought in Spain and Gaul.

     America's military/industrial complex simply replaced "Nazi enemies" with "Communist enemies" and saved their jobs by restraining their Pattons and MacArthurs. 

     America's taxpayers were unnecessarily looted for decades.

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

                                                        Hate o' meter.

     Hate justifies stealing.  Inflation is a form of theft.  It steals value from every citizen, every day.  Inflation measures how much a government hates truth and its citizens. 

     "We are taking away your gold and silver money.  You must use coins made of cheap metal and bills made of cheap paper. We can then reduce your money's value every day.  We lie, and say we do this for your own good.  We actually do it because we want to be richer and we want you to be poorer and weaker.  With inflation, we can steal your money without getting our hands dirty.  We hate you so much we don't even want to touch you."

     Robert Mugabe is in charge of what used to be Rhodesia, once one of the richest countries in Africa.  He hates.  His latest currency is a one hundred thousand bill with which one may be able to purchase a loaf of bread.

     On the inflationary hate 'o meter, Robert is the most hate-filled head of state in the world.

     Governments always lie about their own inflation because they do not want to appear to hate their citizens. 

     We can be thankful that our government hates us less than Mugabe hates his people.

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

                                             Two ways we approach God.

     Our souls are always in motion.  Sometimes, we move toward truth.  Other times, we are repelled by lies.  Either way brings us closer to God.  Evangelism, then, should not focus solely, as it usually does, on the goodness of God.  We also have to let others know about the wages of sin.

     Each human soul has positive and negative poles.  Each soul has a different charge.  Each soul is separate from all who came before, all who are, and all who will come.  All souls are identifiable and unique.

     As we see the pain and suffering caused by lies, our souls instinctively move toward truth.  As we see the work and sacrifice that truth demands, we often slide back.  We spend our days in the clay vacillating.

     Both Church and Scripture tell us to love self-sacrifice more than sin.  Each time we give up something, our soul grows stronger.  As we grow stronger, we are enticed by greater sins.  Oh, the joy of never-ending battle!  

     Like the sideways-moving flagellum of a paramecium, vacillation does cause movement.  Each vacillation brings us closer to lies or truth.

     At the moment our soul leaves the clay that's wrapped around it, we want to be closer to truth than sin. 

     As The Program, said:  "He who endures to the end will be saved."

Friday, June 16, 2006

                       Catholic Guilt is good but is easily manipulated by demons.

     One of the most troubling things about being Catholic is the perpetual awareness that we are not as good as we could be.  We do not do enough good.  Every choice we make is never as good a choice as it could be.

     If we put five dollars in the collection plate, we feel guilty that it wasn't ten.  If we say one Rosary a day, some demon or another will try to make us feel guilty that it wasn't two. 

     There is no end to our shortfalls.

     This frustration is used by the Other Side to lead people away.  Demons whisper, "What's the point of believing?  There's no way you can be good enough.  There's no way you can ever be as good as you can be."

     Even saints can be thus discouraged.

     One tempting answer:  Cheerfully say "I'm not as good as I could be, but I could be a lot worse."  This justifies our current position, but does nothing to make us better.

     A better way:  "If I'm being attacked for not being good enough, withstanding the attack is all I need to do right now to be better.  After all, if the Devil wasn't worried about my getting into Heaven, he'd not have wasted a demon to lead me astray. "

     Then, we ask God, His angels and saints for help in standing firm. 

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

                                         Not many do-it-yourself cars.

     No matter how many parking lots and roadways we look at, we hardly ever see a home-made car.

     Many of us could make a car, especially if a kit were provided.  But, we are all smart enough to know that it wouldn't pay.  Cars are just too complicated for amateurs.  Getting thousands of moving parts to work together is just too difficult.

     Yet, those millions of professionally assembled cars we see are often driven by people who have put together their own ramshackle methods of getting to Heaven. 

     Mistakes in car building can only lead to physical injury or death.  Mistakes in getting our soul to Heaven can result in eternal pain and suffering.

     If we only trust moving our bodies to skilled engineers and mechanics, we should only trust moving our souls to similarly qualified people.

     Roman Catholic priests are skilled, knowledgeable guides.  Vows of poverty and chastity keep most of them from material and personal distractions.  Lifetimes of study and hearing confessions keep them abreast of how we should fit our temporary problems into eternity.

     One conclusion:  if we take care of moving our souls to Heaven as well as we take care of moving our bodies around the earth, the better the chances that we will be Roman Catholics.

Wednesday, June 21, 2006

                                     Reducing taxes is generally impossible.

     It's hard to elect tax-cutters   Democrats raise taxes.  So do Republicans.  The only people who can get through primaries are those who will raise taxes.  Special interests control both parties.

     What's happening in every democracy is represented by Pennsylvania's governor race.  Hardened tax-hiker Rendell (Dem) could have had a tax-cutting Republican opponent.  Instead, the Republican tax addicts who run the Party selected Lynn Swann, former football player, as candidate.  They know Swann is certain to be defeated.  That makes him their ideal candidate.  

     Professional Republicans are dependent as Democrats on increasing tax revenue.  They have ensured that high taxes, in the person of Rendell, will win.  Everyone who makes a living by confiscating other people's money will win, too.

     The rest of Pennsylvania will be further impoverished to pay higher taxes.  Much ado will be made about "replacing property taxes" or "shifting the tax burden".  Further impoverishment will go on.

     The same forces are at work in every state and county.

Monday, June 26, 2006

                       Elitists don't need families if they have atomic bombs.

     Families were important to governments when they needed lots of soldiers.  Families in those days were "soldier machines", turning out the endless ranks of men to mow and to be mowed down.

     Families were devalued when governments stopped depending on their ability to draft men into the military and make war to maintain power. 

     Nuclear weapons, long-range missiles, and sniping devices made heads of state vulnerable to retribution for  foreign excursions.  Policies which had been designed to protect families so they could produce soldiers changed.

     Since they couldn't loot foreigners, elitists took to looting their own countries, whose leaders were chosen for their ability to raise taxes. 

     Destroying families makes it easier to get more people working and paying taxes.  The 10% tax that had been customary in times of warring nationalism and values families now reaches 50-60% in most "civilized" countries.

     Most countries pretend to have a two-party system.  In fact, both parties are addicted to tax revenue.  This addiction results in the erosion and destruction of families because families are no longer valuable.

     There is no relief found in supporting one party or another.  Both parties become enemies of the people. 

     In the long term, high taxes drive people to support the enemies of their own government.  In Spain, aggrieved noblemen asked the Moslems to invade and get rid of their tax-mad kings. 

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

                             Catholics live in bubbles.  Catholics are bubbles.

     Trying to be a good Catholic keeps us from many popular activities.  We are not encouraged to be involved in falsehood and are told to "avoid the near occasions of sin".

     No fraud on earth has been as expensive as public education.  Yet, there are Catholics working in that, and other fraud-based systems not ordinarily thought to be criminal in nature.

     As the Catholic views such occupations, he cannot help but see elements of fraud.   Yet, we are not all called to be monks and nuns.

     How do we live in the fraud?  We don't.  We live in a bubble.  We move into a little sphere of activity, accompanied by our guardian angel, and we strive mightily to do our best without hurting others. 

     If we are in a corrupt organization, we must, as Jesus said, "be content with our pay". We must not steal or take bribes.

     If our bubble breaks, we may destroyed in the collapse.  Scientists say that collapsing bubbles produce so much energy that sometimes they emit sound and light.

     When our bubbles burst, the Devil hears and laughs.  Jesus hears, and weeps.

     Countless angels and saints want to preserve us.  Turn to them in adversity.  Their ever-bright bubbles swirl about the Throne of God in endless, coruscating waves.

     Oh, to be one of them and not a burst bubble, disappearing into the abyss.

Thursday, June 29, 2006

                                                          Bubbles.       

     Bubbles are destroyed by too much pressure and by too little.  A bubble rising from the bottom of a pond maintains its "bubbleness" until it joins with the air above.     

     A bubble under intense pressure can likewise be destroyed.  It gets smaller and smaller until it collapses.     

     Bubbles naturally want to rise, just as our souls instinctively want to go to God.   

     Souls who have decided to be on God's side are like bubbles we see floating around on the pond for awhile before they join the air.     

     The lenticular shapes of floating bubbles focus light.  The bubbles that have not yet become one with the air sending rays of light  beneath the surface.

     Their purpose?  Showing the bubbles still underwater that there is a great light beyond.

Friday, June 30, 2006

                        Another problem made worse by global warming.

     One of the world's most terrifying ecological dangers is being explored by brave scientists, intellectual mavericks willing to ignore centuries of established thought.

     "Evidence has led us to conclude", reports Dr. U'dumas Hol, from Calcutta Multiversity, "that the earth's crust is not locked in place."

     His colleague, Dr. Ramjet Singh, a senior Committee member, agreed.  "The fact that recent tsunamis may have moved entire islands as much as two kilometers showed that the crust is in a state of flux."

     The two researchers have compiled evidence that indicates the earth's crust is moving northwards at an increasing rate.

     When asked where the crust is going, Dr. Hol explained. "The crust is moving north.  Hidden by icecaps, it sinks downward around the North Pole, which we think of as the Polar Land Drain.  Then, the crust sinks in a perfectly straight line toward the South Pole in a column of moving, semi-liquified crust material that exactly parallels the axis of the earth."

     While researching their once-bizarre theory, the two researchers believe they have determined that the crust, currently moving northwards at the rate of 12 decameters a year, is replenished by an equal outflow of material beneath the Antarctic icecap.

     "The crustal material oozes out at the South Pole, and flows North.   The flow of the earth's crust is very much like the currents in the ocean, except that the Crustal Flow, because of global warming, is accelerating."

     The scientists are seeking grants to determine the force that pushes trillions of tons of crustal material along its established pathways.

     "After extensive research, we now believe that this movement of the earth's crust may be accelerated by global warming.  There is no way to tell how much faster it may be beginning to move, but it seems clear, there is no time to waste."

     Their research indicates that within the next several thousand years, possibly sooner, towns in Northern Canada will be sinking down what the usually serious scientists humorously call 'The Magmatic Esophagus'. 

     They calculate that Chicago will have moved to the current latitude of Hudson's Bay, and that Havana, Cuba, will be squarely over Washington, D.C. very quickly, in geological terms, unless something is done to stop global warming.