....is not same-sex marriage.
Nope. Biggest threat to marriage started long before 2004 when Massachusetts judges in the state supreme court allowed it.
Marriage has been under attack since people began to get married in drive-thrus in Las Vegas.
Marriage especially in recent years has been under attack with our society today applauding couples living together before they're married.
Marriage is under attack with the rise in numbers of divorces in the past 50 years. And that's if they even get married in the first place. Nowadays you've got all these couples in relationships living together unmarried, having kids together, having bank accounts and insurance together, and then they just maybe kinda become common law married if anything.
Folks -- I'm not even completely coming from a religious perspective on this -- YES, I am a devout and practicing Catholic. But one should not have to be any sort of serious practitioner of any of the Abrahamic faiths to see this point ----> If you're already living together, having sex, sharing bills, being on the same cell phone plan, cable bill, insurance, etc, then WHAT'S THE POINT OF BEING MARRIED?
I am not a supporter of same-sex marriage. I'm also not a supporter of government getting involved in anything and calling it marriage. Two adults, regardless of gender, should be allowed to enter into contracts with one another and have rights like hospital visitation and so on. I say make everything civil unions, and let individuals and religious organizations decide what they want to call marriage.
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
My thoughts on the Prosperity Pimps
(I am a Maronite Catholic, just so you understand I am trashing the preachers, not Christianity).
Turn on TBN, or Trinity Broadcast Network, just about any given day at just about any given time, or BET on a Sunday night after 9 PM EST, and you'll see the lowest of the low. Men and women who call themselves Ministers turning Christianity into "Get Rich -- Here's How."
They'll tell you you HAVE TO give 10% of your gross income to their Church or God won't bless you.
They'll tell you to believe for "a harvest." I've even seen Pastor Rod Parsley on tv talking about the Hebrew word "Shmoneh" means eight and that if you give $800 or $8000, then the word "Shmoneh" sounds to him like "Some money." In others words, you'll get some money.
And whatever you give to their church, God will give you 10 fold.
Yet there are quite a few members of these churches who give and give and do as are told but never end "blessed" with material wealth for all their contributions and sacrifice.
Christianity is not a religion of using God to get rich here on earth. But that's what people like Kenneth Copeland, Joyce Meyer, and Creflo Dollar are turning it into.
YES, God will bless you with that which you ask for, even if it's some money. Jesus says in Matthew 7:7-11 -- "Ask and you shall receive. Seek and you shall find. Knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. Which one of you would hand his son a stone when he asks for a loaf of bread, or a snake when he asks for a fish? If you then, who are wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good things to those who ask Him?"
But Jesus also says a chapter before that, "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and decay destroys, and thieves break in and steal. But store up treasures in Heaven, where neither moth nor decay destroy, nor thieves break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be." Matthew 6:19-21
But storing up treasures on Earth seems very much to be what Kenneth Copeland has done. Just look online at google images for his 18,000 square foot mansion. Or his "ministry's" 4 private jets. Which by the way he was caught by Senate Committee using for hunting/fishing in Colorado, and a layover in Hawaii which lasted more than one day.
And he's just one example. Joyce Meyer has an annual conference for women every September in St Louis. It averages about 20,000 women every year. Now, according to Pastor Manning, each woman on average will spend about $3000 for airline travel, rental car, outfit, meals, motel room, etc. And that's even before they give an offering to her ministry at the conference. If Pastor Manning's math is right, that's $60 MILLION BEFORE they give an offering in the collection. Even if he's way off, and it were $30 Million, that's still a lot of money. Pastor Manning's challenge to her is to call it off just for one year and to use the money you would have used for that conference and go to a battered women shelter and give them new bras, clothes, doctors office visit, take them out to a meal at a nice restaurant. And on top of all this, Joyce Meyer has two conferences per month every month.
I agree with Pastor Manning.
Yes, I want middle class people to be better off financially, own real estate, have money in the bank, etc. I do want that for myself too.
But when you turn CHristianity into "God wants you to be rich" is borderline evil.
Personally, I'd like to ask a question to Kenneth Copeland, Joyce Meyer, John Hagee, Joel Osteen (whom I actually like), and Creflo Dollar: What business do you have taking a salary from your congregations when you're already loaded rich???
Turn on TBN, or Trinity Broadcast Network, just about any given day at just about any given time, or BET on a Sunday night after 9 PM EST, and you'll see the lowest of the low. Men and women who call themselves Ministers turning Christianity into "Get Rich -- Here's How."
They'll tell you you HAVE TO give 10% of your gross income to their Church or God won't bless you.
They'll tell you to believe for "a harvest." I've even seen Pastor Rod Parsley on tv talking about the Hebrew word "Shmoneh" means eight and that if you give $800 or $8000, then the word "Shmoneh" sounds to him like "Some money." In others words, you'll get some money.
And whatever you give to their church, God will give you 10 fold.
Yet there are quite a few members of these churches who give and give and do as are told but never end "blessed" with material wealth for all their contributions and sacrifice.
Christianity is not a religion of using God to get rich here on earth. But that's what people like Kenneth Copeland, Joyce Meyer, and Creflo Dollar are turning it into.
YES, God will bless you with that which you ask for, even if it's some money. Jesus says in Matthew 7:7-11 -- "Ask and you shall receive. Seek and you shall find. Knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. Which one of you would hand his son a stone when he asks for a loaf of bread, or a snake when he asks for a fish? If you then, who are wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good things to those who ask Him?"
But Jesus also says a chapter before that, "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and decay destroys, and thieves break in and steal. But store up treasures in Heaven, where neither moth nor decay destroy, nor thieves break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be." Matthew 6:19-21
But storing up treasures on Earth seems very much to be what Kenneth Copeland has done. Just look online at google images for his 18,000 square foot mansion. Or his "ministry's" 4 private jets. Which by the way he was caught by Senate Committee using for hunting/fishing in Colorado, and a layover in Hawaii which lasted more than one day.
And he's just one example. Joyce Meyer has an annual conference for women every September in St Louis. It averages about 20,000 women every year. Now, according to Pastor Manning, each woman on average will spend about $3000 for airline travel, rental car, outfit, meals, motel room, etc. And that's even before they give an offering to her ministry at the conference. If Pastor Manning's math is right, that's $60 MILLION BEFORE they give an offering in the collection. Even if he's way off, and it were $30 Million, that's still a lot of money. Pastor Manning's challenge to her is to call it off just for one year and to use the money you would have used for that conference and go to a battered women shelter and give them new bras, clothes, doctors office visit, take them out to a meal at a nice restaurant. And on top of all this, Joyce Meyer has two conferences per month every month.
I agree with Pastor Manning.
Yes, I want middle class people to be better off financially, own real estate, have money in the bank, etc. I do want that for myself too.
But when you turn CHristianity into "God wants you to be rich" is borderline evil.
Personally, I'd like to ask a question to Kenneth Copeland, Joyce Meyer, John Hagee, Joel Osteen (whom I actually like), and Creflo Dollar: What business do you have taking a salary from your congregations when you're already loaded rich???
Chevy Volt/Nissan Leaf
Don't know why this is being hailed as such a big step or some new innovation. It's big in the sense that the Powers-That-Be are going to allow We-The-Sheeple to have electric cars in the mainstream.
But electric cars have been around for literally almost a hundred years. The reason they've not been on the radar is because Rockefeller oil interests have held them down for the sake of their profit and power and control.
And when I say electric cars, I'm not referring to some of those geeky looking glorified golf carts. I'm talking about normal looking sedans and trucks running on pure electricity. Not one drop of oil.
These people out in California charging $12,000 to add extra battery packs onto hybrids so that they can go at higher speeds still just on electricity are not pioneers. I applaud what they're doing, but they're not sailing into uncharted waters.
Watch the documentary "Who Killed The Electric Car" and you'll hear Phyllis Diller recall being a child and riding in her parents electric car.
Read about the first Ford Model T which ran on pure ethanol.
This is the real reason we had prohibition in the late 20s and early 30s -- Ethanol is an alcohol fuel and if you illegalize alcohol, you also make ethanol illegal. And John D. Rockefeller Sr's big oil gets to dominate for a century.
There are hundreds of people in this country who have on their own modified their own vehicles to make them run on pure electricity. No gasoline.
The EV1 back in the 90s was able to go 90 miles on a single charge, and could go up to 80 miles per hour. Now Chevy puts out this VOLT piece of crap that can go 40 miles on a charge and then uses a GASOLINE-POWERED motor to generate more electricity when the battery starts to die. Whoopty-frickin-doo.
If you want a really good electric car that can go more than 40 miles on a charge, go to http://www.codaautomotive.com I hope this guy doesn't get whacked by the elites for mass producing a REAL electric car.
But to be quite honest, we should be able to have real full-electrics that don't require hardly any battery power, and have batteries than can be charged with sunlight. We SHOULD have that. The technology's existed for well over a decade. But Mr. Rockefeller and the Dutch Royal Family lose money if that happens. And they lose control.
But electric cars have been around for literally almost a hundred years. The reason they've not been on the radar is because Rockefeller oil interests have held them down for the sake of their profit and power and control.
And when I say electric cars, I'm not referring to some of those geeky looking glorified golf carts. I'm talking about normal looking sedans and trucks running on pure electricity. Not one drop of oil.
These people out in California charging $12,000 to add extra battery packs onto hybrids so that they can go at higher speeds still just on electricity are not pioneers. I applaud what they're doing, but they're not sailing into uncharted waters.
Watch the documentary "Who Killed The Electric Car" and you'll hear Phyllis Diller recall being a child and riding in her parents electric car.
Read about the first Ford Model T which ran on pure ethanol.
This is the real reason we had prohibition in the late 20s and early 30s -- Ethanol is an alcohol fuel and if you illegalize alcohol, you also make ethanol illegal. And John D. Rockefeller Sr's big oil gets to dominate for a century.
There are hundreds of people in this country who have on their own modified their own vehicles to make them run on pure electricity. No gasoline.
The EV1 back in the 90s was able to go 90 miles on a single charge, and could go up to 80 miles per hour. Now Chevy puts out this VOLT piece of crap that can go 40 miles on a charge and then uses a GASOLINE-POWERED motor to generate more electricity when the battery starts to die. Whoopty-frickin-doo.
If you want a really good electric car that can go more than 40 miles on a charge, go to http://www.codaautomotive.com I hope this guy doesn't get whacked by the elites for mass producing a REAL electric car.
But to be quite honest, we should be able to have real full-electrics that don't require hardly any battery power, and have batteries than can be charged with sunlight. We SHOULD have that. The technology's existed for well over a decade. But Mr. Rockefeller and the Dutch Royal Family lose money if that happens. And they lose control.
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Been a long time since I rock 'n rolled....
What up, folk?
A lot of things to talk about but I couldn't possibly hit on all of them, so off the top of my head, here's what I'm thinking....
-- Dorothy M. Murdoch is a fraud. She calls herself "Acharya S." For those that don't know, Acharya is some Indian language (India Indian, not Indigenous/Native American) for "Teacher" or "Guru." She is a teacher and a guru of nothing but writing books with garbage information that no serious publisher will publish because they're crap. The ancient mystery schools and the Illuminati want Christianity dead, and Ms. Murdoch, whether wittingly or unwittingly, is advancing that objective. So do yourself a favor, if you watch that movie ZEITGEIST, only watch the parts about 9/11 and the banking cartels, skip past the portion on religion.
-- Greece.....stand strong. I will pray for you. Don't give into the bankers who set you up to fail so you'll be even more under their control. I hear you're selling off islands to the banks to settle your debts. STOP! Get out of the Euro.
-- The elections are coming up soon, and once again, Americans will turn out at the voting booths thinking republocrats or demicans will really make a difference. Sure, they may outwardly differ philsophically on some domestic issues and spending and the like, or how precisely to conduct unnecessary wars, but when you get down to it, they both answers to the same powerful lobbies and interests. Mr. Rockefeller and his elk will get what they want regardless.
-- I hope the political and corporate elite that went to Bohemian Grove in July had fun.
-- I'm glad the summer is over. I hate summer. Same shit but hotter outside.
-- Glad to have a 3 day labor day weekend.
-- Dr. Laura shouldn't have used the "N" word outright. She should have just said "the N word." But it really wasn't even just that that got her in hot water. I think it also was her not being sympathetic to Jade's mentioning of how the family member says, "Do Black people do.....Do black people like...." I could understand how some people might not take that the right way. And when you call into a radio show you're nervous. You can't come up with stuff off the top of your head the way you would in casual conversation. And why did she bring up the Obama vote thing for? What does black people voting for Obama have to do with the call at hand?
I don't think Dr. Laura is a racist at all. But she just gets overly blunt and overly frustrated sometimes and lets things like that come out.
A lot of things to talk about but I couldn't possibly hit on all of them, so off the top of my head, here's what I'm thinking....
-- Dorothy M. Murdoch is a fraud. She calls herself "Acharya S." For those that don't know, Acharya is some Indian language (India Indian, not Indigenous/Native American) for "Teacher" or "Guru." She is a teacher and a guru of nothing but writing books with garbage information that no serious publisher will publish because they're crap. The ancient mystery schools and the Illuminati want Christianity dead, and Ms. Murdoch, whether wittingly or unwittingly, is advancing that objective. So do yourself a favor, if you watch that movie ZEITGEIST, only watch the parts about 9/11 and the banking cartels, skip past the portion on religion.
-- Greece.....stand strong. I will pray for you. Don't give into the bankers who set you up to fail so you'll be even more under their control. I hear you're selling off islands to the banks to settle your debts. STOP! Get out of the Euro.
-- The elections are coming up soon, and once again, Americans will turn out at the voting booths thinking republocrats or demicans will really make a difference. Sure, they may outwardly differ philsophically on some domestic issues and spending and the like, or how precisely to conduct unnecessary wars, but when you get down to it, they both answers to the same powerful lobbies and interests. Mr. Rockefeller and his elk will get what they want regardless.
-- I hope the political and corporate elite that went to Bohemian Grove in July had fun.
-- I'm glad the summer is over. I hate summer. Same shit but hotter outside.
-- Glad to have a 3 day labor day weekend.
-- Dr. Laura shouldn't have used the "N" word outright. She should have just said "the N word." But it really wasn't even just that that got her in hot water. I think it also was her not being sympathetic to Jade's mentioning of how the family member says, "Do Black people do.....Do black people like...." I could understand how some people might not take that the right way. And when you call into a radio show you're nervous. You can't come up with stuff off the top of your head the way you would in casual conversation. And why did she bring up the Obama vote thing for? What does black people voting for Obama have to do with the call at hand?
I don't think Dr. Laura is a racist at all. But she just gets overly blunt and overly frustrated sometimes and lets things like that come out.
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Some thoughts on Easter
Christ is risen! Happy Easter Sunday to all. Happy Resurrection Sunday to all!
And some thoughts:
-- Climate change is a hoax.
-- Al Qaeda is a hoax.
They want to control us.
And some thoughts:
-- Climate change is a hoax.
-- Al Qaeda is a hoax.
They want to control us.
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Freedom on Life Support about to die
Where do I begin? It all started with the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.
Then the 16th Amendment which even the federal Supreme Court has ruled gives the government no new powers of taxation.
Then the War Powers Act during FDR.
Then Bill Clinton's two staged attacks: The '93 WTC bombings and the Oklahoma City bombings.
Then his "1995 anti-terrorism" bill.
Then Bush comes into office. The government stages 9/11.
Republicans and a handful of Democrats fill the 24 hour news channels with lies about Saddam Hussein being a threat to us (and I don't say that because no weapons were found. I at the time thought he had more than they estimated and still didn't think he was a threat. Pat Buchanan was dead on on that one.)
1 Republican (Lincoln Chaffee), 1 Independent (Jim Jeffords) and 21 Democrats had the courage to vote "NO" to this false garbage Iraq War.
Richard Ben-Veniste (whose law firm represented the oil company that was competing with Argentinian company BRIDAS for the Pipeline in Afghanistan) gets to be on that sham kangaroo court 9/11 commission.
Erik Prince's fascist private militia, often referrred to as "Black Water" gets billions in contracts to police the globe, including right here in the states in New Orleans after Katrina.
The Bilderberg Group and the private Federal Reserve stage this bank failure stuff and cost swindle the tax payers of America out of $800 Billion.
A staged bomber "attempts" to blow up an airliner on Christmas day. Now all of us have to get full body scanned at airports. I will NEVER fly on a plane again for this reason.
And now the Federal Government and their allies in the state governments are telling us we HAVE TO buy health insurance or face fines.
I have a friend who thinks that protests don't do anything and the elites just sit back and laugh. But I disagree with that. I think the protests are what is slowing down and even stopping the advance of the fascist one-world government movement by the ILLUMINATI. Why do you think we didn't get the Public Option thrown at us? Cuz the tea partiers protested.
Then the 16th Amendment which even the federal Supreme Court has ruled gives the government no new powers of taxation.
Then the War Powers Act during FDR.
Then Bill Clinton's two staged attacks: The '93 WTC bombings and the Oklahoma City bombings.
Then his "1995 anti-terrorism" bill.
Then Bush comes into office. The government stages 9/11.
Republicans and a handful of Democrats fill the 24 hour news channels with lies about Saddam Hussein being a threat to us (and I don't say that because no weapons were found. I at the time thought he had more than they estimated and still didn't think he was a threat. Pat Buchanan was dead on on that one.)
1 Republican (Lincoln Chaffee), 1 Independent (Jim Jeffords) and 21 Democrats had the courage to vote "NO" to this false garbage Iraq War.
Richard Ben-Veniste (whose law firm represented the oil company that was competing with Argentinian company BRIDAS for the Pipeline in Afghanistan) gets to be on that sham kangaroo court 9/11 commission.
Erik Prince's fascist private militia, often referrred to as "Black Water" gets billions in contracts to police the globe, including right here in the states in New Orleans after Katrina.
The Bilderberg Group and the private Federal Reserve stage this bank failure stuff and cost swindle the tax payers of America out of $800 Billion.
A staged bomber "attempts" to blow up an airliner on Christmas day. Now all of us have to get full body scanned at airports. I will NEVER fly on a plane again for this reason.
And now the Federal Government and their allies in the state governments are telling us we HAVE TO buy health insurance or face fines.
I have a friend who thinks that protests don't do anything and the elites just sit back and laugh. But I disagree with that. I think the protests are what is slowing down and even stopping the advance of the fascist one-world government movement by the ILLUMINATI. Why do you think we didn't get the Public Option thrown at us? Cuz the tea partiers protested.
Sunday, March 28, 2010
The FDA and B-15
Recently I learned that you never can find Vitamin B15 on the shelf of a drug store or a grocery store. There's a reason for this.
According to FDA law, it is ILLEGAL to sell it under the name "Vitamin B15."
It actually can be sold but not under the name B15. It has to be called Di-methyglycine or Tri-methylglycine, which are the 2 components of the Vitamin.
But who's going to walk into a store and say, "Dimethylglycine.....I should take that. It would make me healthier." Yeah right. Most people can't even pronounce it. And the Rockefeller-controlled FDA knows this, and they intend it that way.
I take B15 EVERYDAY and I use a couple different companies who are standing up to the FASCIST DEATH ADMINISTRATION (which is what FDA should really stand for). Here are the links if you're interested in living longer and illness free and anti-aging benefits:
http://www.apricotpower.com
and http://www.vitacost.com
According to FDA law, it is ILLEGAL to sell it under the name "Vitamin B15."
It actually can be sold but not under the name B15. It has to be called Di-methyglycine or Tri-methylglycine, which are the 2 components of the Vitamin.
But who's going to walk into a store and say, "Dimethylglycine.....I should take that. It would make me healthier." Yeah right. Most people can't even pronounce it. And the Rockefeller-controlled FDA knows this, and they intend it that way.
I take B15 EVERYDAY and I use a couple different companies who are standing up to the FASCIST DEATH ADMINISTRATION (which is what FDA should really stand for). Here are the links if you're interested in living longer and illness free and anti-aging benefits:
http://www.apricotpower.com
and http://www.vitacost.com
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