To be a man of God as a Christian, and to hate Muslims, that is a sign of hypocrisy. For a Christian who hates Islam but professes to love God knows not that the God of Islam is the God of the Jews.
Yet that Christian is known to hate them equally, all due to the closed-mindedness and jealousy of Christian royalty and nobility.
How noble it is to think of oneself as more holy than a Jew or a Muslim.! How pitiful such pride is! Many a man and woman has fallen before theirs.
They who mock the Jews and revile the Muslims do not know their own Bible. For such folk are not unlike the rich man congratulating himself for not being poor.
God has greater reward for a Christian who unashamedly declares, "Kýrie, eléi̱són me ton amarto̱ló.*"
* The Greek version of the quote "Lord, have mercy on me a sinner" from verse 13 in the Parable of the Tax-Collector and the Pharisee in Luke 18:9-14.
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20150109
Every Tragedy Leads to Redemption (Mormonism)
It is because Joseph Smith Jr threatened the status quo in American Christendom that he was martyred.
Because he invented his own doctrine his followers were persecuted.
Yet it is jealousy that led to his death in 1844. For American Christendom will never let an American form his own folk religion, and will lie about LDS theology and practices, emphasizing the negative while not even comparing the similarities between Mormonism and Christianity.
This is not the work of the devil; this is the work of men who are afraid of religious plurality. For religion relies on fear to keep its members in line, in order to maintain control over their followers.
I am truly thankful that things turned out as they did, because had Smith lived to an old age, Mormonism would have become less pluralistic and even more conservative than it is today.
That tragedy may have led to me becoming baptized, and I only regret that I didn't accept the sister missionaries' invitation two years ago. In my mind's eye, I feel the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saint is successful because all Mormon members pitched in to maintain the church as they saw fit.
Indeed, their hard work as redeemed both Mormonism and Joseph Smith.
Because he invented his own doctrine his followers were persecuted.
Yet it is jealousy that led to his death in 1844. For American Christendom will never let an American form his own folk religion, and will lie about LDS theology and practices, emphasizing the negative while not even comparing the similarities between Mormonism and Christianity.
This is not the work of the devil; this is the work of men who are afraid of religious plurality. For religion relies on fear to keep its members in line, in order to maintain control over their followers.
I am truly thankful that things turned out as they did, because had Smith lived to an old age, Mormonism would have become less pluralistic and even more conservative than it is today.
That tragedy may have led to me becoming baptized, and I only regret that I didn't accept the sister missionaries' invitation two years ago. In my mind's eye, I feel the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saint is successful because all Mormon members pitched in to maintain the church as they saw fit.
Indeed, their hard work as redeemed both Mormonism and Joseph Smith.
20141023
Let God Be My Master (poem)
No longer can I ask what I do
for myself; rather, I ask myself:
"What will God give to me?"
Freedom from life's woes is
sometimes as easy as coming
to believe God is everywhere.
Since God is everywhere,
what then do I have
to fear but fear itself?
By accepting God into my life,
all fear is replaced by faith
in His power to look after me.
Do I still fear? Yes, I fear
and thus respect God,
for He is truly my Master.
By placing my life in God's hands,
that respect and humility nurtures
a growing sense of fearlessness and courage.
It helps me to remember
the prayer of a sinner:
‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’
Suppose that all of Christendom
finds me to be unworthy to sup with them
in Heaven when that time comes.
Then the Absolute is my inspiration,
and no-self is the divine principle.
Still, God shall remain my Master.
For what is the Absolute but
Heaven itself? For God is absent there
as is the Buddha after death.
Let God be my Master, the Absolute
my inspiration and the Buddha,
the origin of the Golden Rule:
"Do unto others
what thou wishes
done until thineself."
Originally posted October 21, 2010 1:26 AM
Updated on December 25, 2013 at 6:54 AM
for myself; rather, I ask myself:
"What will God give to me?"
Freedom from life's woes is
sometimes as easy as coming
to believe God is everywhere.
Since God is everywhere,
what then do I have
to fear but fear itself?
By accepting God into my life,
all fear is replaced by faith
in His power to look after me.
Do I still fear? Yes, I fear
and thus respect God,
for He is truly my Master.
By placing my life in God's hands,
that respect and humility nurtures
a growing sense of fearlessness and courage.
It helps me to remember
the prayer of a sinner:
‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’
Suppose that all of Christendom
finds me to be unworthy to sup with them
in Heaven when that time comes.
Then the Absolute is my inspiration,
and no-self is the divine principle.
Still, God shall remain my Master.
For what is the Absolute but
Heaven itself? For God is absent there
as is the Buddha after death.
Let God be my Master, the Absolute
my inspiration and the Buddha,
the origin of the Golden Rule:
"Do unto others
what thou wishes
done until thineself."
Originally posted October 21, 2010 1:26 AM
Updated on December 25, 2013 at 6:54 AM
20140925
Unconditional Love
Unconditional love is the unborn love awaiting a person's existence to manifest itself.
To love is to care for, to die for, and to live for other people regardless of being strangers.
To love unconditionally is to love without conditions attached to that Love.
Rather than saying "I love you", I say "I love the world." Instead of saying "I do it for myself," I say "I do it for everyone, including myself."
Thus is the ideal of unconditional love manifested. Anyone can care for their mother and father. Yet he who knows of God knows of His unconditional love for us all.
Such a Love as this was manifested when Jesus Christ died on the cross for all our sins.
It continues today with the rise of secularism as a challenge to God-fearing people to turn the other cheek when the spiritually ignorant atheists cherry pick quotes from the Bible that challenge the Christian worldview of a loving God.
Indeed, what right do the ignorant masses have to misrepresent Christianity? Free speech allows each of us to question the doctrines of both the Protestant and Catholic churches. They do not give each of us the right to harass believers in a vain attempt to prove religion is for weaklings.
For religion is not for the weak willed, because they shall soon find themselves choosing between mannah and God. Rather, religion is for the strong stomach, because there shall be challenges to one's faith in life.
At the root of these challenges is a lack of faith of the atheists. It makes me wonder what they truly have faith in.
What good is a life in which lack of faith is one's guide? Without faith, are they truly free?
However, even the atheists have their beliefs. I know not what they believe in, but have faith that they do believe, for they are human too.
As for faith, just as I have faith that God is merciful, I hope that the unbelievers have faith in whatever they worship, be it Pikachu or Captain Kirk or even science.
Throughout all of this, I also hope that unconditional love, in its myriad forms, is known to both the believer and the unbeliever. Though I do not know how such a Love would manifest among the unbelievers, I know that Love manifests in the form of the Christ for all Christendom.
For I have faith that unconditional love exists, and that it empowers me to act within the limits of my faith in God.
To love is to care for, to die for, and to live for other people regardless of being strangers.
To love unconditionally is to love without conditions attached to that Love.
Rather than saying "I love you", I say "I love the world." Instead of saying "I do it for myself," I say "I do it for everyone, including myself."
Thus is the ideal of unconditional love manifested. Anyone can care for their mother and father. Yet he who knows of God knows of His unconditional love for us all.
Such a Love as this was manifested when Jesus Christ died on the cross for all our sins.
It continues today with the rise of secularism as a challenge to God-fearing people to turn the other cheek when the spiritually ignorant atheists cherry pick quotes from the Bible that challenge the Christian worldview of a loving God.
Indeed, what right do the ignorant masses have to misrepresent Christianity? Free speech allows each of us to question the doctrines of both the Protestant and Catholic churches. They do not give each of us the right to harass believers in a vain attempt to prove religion is for weaklings.
For religion is not for the weak willed, because they shall soon find themselves choosing between mannah and God. Rather, religion is for the strong stomach, because there shall be challenges to one's faith in life.
At the root of these challenges is a lack of faith of the atheists. It makes me wonder what they truly have faith in.
What good is a life in which lack of faith is one's guide? Without faith, are they truly free?
However, even the atheists have their beliefs. I know not what they believe in, but have faith that they do believe, for they are human too.
As for faith, just as I have faith that God is merciful, I hope that the unbelievers have faith in whatever they worship, be it Pikachu or Captain Kirk or even science.
Throughout all of this, I also hope that unconditional love, in its myriad forms, is known to both the believer and the unbeliever. Though I do not know how such a Love would manifest among the unbelievers, I know that Love manifests in the form of the Christ for all Christendom.
For I have faith that unconditional love exists, and that it empowers me to act within the limits of my faith in God.
20131225
Good Alone Means Nothing (satire)
For good is empty of evil; evil, of good.
Empty implies the quality called "good and evil" is not a thing that has been here since the beginning. Instead it is a reified object of abstract origin made to be real which it is not.
Indeed, there is no reified good or evil.
For the "battle between good and evil" is a metaphor for what each person does in his life.
As well, the devil is not a personification of evil opposed to the personification of good (God).
Rather, the devil or satan is merely the metaphor of the Tempter without any power to harm us, just as God is aloof from man. It is within the mind of a person that the so-called battle rages, not from the supernatural realm (a mystical dimension).
For God is the author of good and evil, and Jesus-worship is a violation of the first commandment that God is your Lord, and he does not take kindly to worship of Jesus, whilst forgetting God is in deity with Jesus. All "Jesus is Lord" means is Jesus is the god of the Chrisitans.
Yet, to Christians, Jesus in deity with God means Jesus is Lord God.
Therefore, asking us to accept Jesus into our hearts is unnecessary as God-worshipers such as Jews and Muslims believe in God, and can do very well without Christianity.
For a Christian, Jesus-worship is empty of God-worship but is full of Jesus in deity with God.
What that means is that Jesus became the means by which Gentiles (non-Jews) and Jewish converts came to know God as the Jews tend to keep Gentiles (Goyim) in the dark about all things Jewish.
Thus it became difficult to know God personally as the Jew would stone any Goyim who tried to read the Talmud.
This is why Christianity was invented: to know God by accepting Jesus into their hearts. In this way, the Bible replaced the Talmud and the Jewish tendency to isolate was rejected.
As well, the Salafi Muslims err in persecuting Coptic Christians because their hate crimes against Christians violate Muslim respect for Christians.
Salafi propaganda is a fascist political tool that combines religious hatred for Christianity with violence against Christians, Jews and so-called unbelievers. For them, good means a worldwide Caliphate, which is impossible to arise due to the tendency for humanity to resist against hate and violence.
As much as anti-Semitism against Jews is a hate crime, so too is oppression of Coptic Christians and violence against unbelievers.
For Salafi Muslims are much too zealous to be considered a proper Muslim. Here the good that is full of hate and empty of love for all people as the Salafi display it is untrue and thus a pernicious fallacy inflamed by their zeal.
Were God to bless their enemies, not one Salafi Muslim would view as such. In their blindness, they are led by Shaitan and fooled by Iblis. Yet a Salafi would deny this and resort to violence while affirming that they are led by God to cleanse the land for the future Caliphate.
I do not write this to inflame a man's heart against Islam, but rather to convince people that Salafi Muslim are Muslim only in name. Even if they pray five times a day, they cannot wash off the curse of Cain, which is to murder others out of jealousy over God's blessing of their works.
Just as a Jew Jealously guards his Talmud from Christian eyes, so too does a Salafi guard his faith from the moderation of mainstream Islam, which he finds to be the root of unbelief of the moderate Muslims.
Good alone means nothing to a zealot. For he thinks he is good and others evil. The truth is, good and evil is relative to the situation, and in the situation of the Salafi warrior, it is good to kill unbelievers. His way is subtly influenced by Shaitan.
No matter how many infidels a Salafi warrior kills, his reward will still be the one of what the Christian calls "sinners", which is a time when to help cleanse the warrior of his sins, he will be cast into the pits of the Hells.
What this means is, the Salafi warrior has besmirched his name and brought shame to his ancestors. It is only by the forgiveness of the rest of humankind that their legacy will be redeemed. For there is a purpose to such zealous acts of mayhem and violence.
Since the Salafis see the Coptic Christian displays of piety as sacrilege, it is due to their level of shame which conflicts with the level of pride the Christians demonstrate when consecrating their churches. It makes me wonder if their ancestors were also guilty of condemning the Christ.
Out of their shame they act with the zeal of madman, killing Christians, be they men, women or child.
All the Christians of this world can do is condemn it and think of the good in forgiving the Salafis, for their ignorance of their actions.
That ignorance is what leads to the evil caused by their violence against the Christians.
It is not the Christian's duty to resist evil through violence, lest by raising a hand they go to Hell.
Even though the Jews may laugh at such things, even their actions bear the fruit now of evil rather good. It may be good to Israeli to kill nine Palestinians, but the one Israeli who was shot by a Palestinian sniper was a contractor to the Israel Defence Force. Though it was also a good for the Palestinians to martyr the killers of their people, their revenge is an evil.
Thus, no good will come of it, all this violence in the Middle East.
If I take a side, then I am no better than them. So on this matter, relative to good and evil, neither side is good (worth defending), be it Christian, Jew or Muslim.
For good alone means nothing.
Originally written January 20, 2013 4:21 AM
Empty implies the quality called "good and evil" is not a thing that has been here since the beginning. Instead it is a reified object of abstract origin made to be real which it is not.
Indeed, there is no reified good or evil.
For the "battle between good and evil" is a metaphor for what each person does in his life.
As well, the devil is not a personification of evil opposed to the personification of good (God).
Rather, the devil or satan is merely the metaphor of the Tempter without any power to harm us, just as God is aloof from man. It is within the mind of a person that the so-called battle rages, not from the supernatural realm (a mystical dimension).
For God is the author of good and evil, and Jesus-worship is a violation of the first commandment that God is your Lord, and he does not take kindly to worship of Jesus, whilst forgetting God is in deity with Jesus. All "Jesus is Lord" means is Jesus is the god of the Chrisitans.
Yet, to Christians, Jesus in deity with God means Jesus is Lord God.
Therefore, asking us to accept Jesus into our hearts is unnecessary as God-worshipers such as Jews and Muslims believe in God, and can do very well without Christianity.
For a Christian, Jesus-worship is empty of God-worship but is full of Jesus in deity with God.
What that means is that Jesus became the means by which Gentiles (non-Jews) and Jewish converts came to know God as the Jews tend to keep Gentiles (Goyim) in the dark about all things Jewish.
Thus it became difficult to know God personally as the Jew would stone any Goyim who tried to read the Talmud.
This is why Christianity was invented: to know God by accepting Jesus into their hearts. In this way, the Bible replaced the Talmud and the Jewish tendency to isolate was rejected.
As well, the Salafi Muslims err in persecuting Coptic Christians because their hate crimes against Christians violate Muslim respect for Christians.
Salafi propaganda is a fascist political tool that combines religious hatred for Christianity with violence against Christians, Jews and so-called unbelievers. For them, good means a worldwide Caliphate, which is impossible to arise due to the tendency for humanity to resist against hate and violence.
As much as anti-Semitism against Jews is a hate crime, so too is oppression of Coptic Christians and violence against unbelievers.
For Salafi Muslims are much too zealous to be considered a proper Muslim. Here the good that is full of hate and empty of love for all people as the Salafi display it is untrue and thus a pernicious fallacy inflamed by their zeal.
Were God to bless their enemies, not one Salafi Muslim would view as such. In their blindness, they are led by Shaitan and fooled by Iblis. Yet a Salafi would deny this and resort to violence while affirming that they are led by God to cleanse the land for the future Caliphate.
I do not write this to inflame a man's heart against Islam, but rather to convince people that Salafi Muslim are Muslim only in name. Even if they pray five times a day, they cannot wash off the curse of Cain, which is to murder others out of jealousy over God's blessing of their works.
Just as a Jew Jealously guards his Talmud from Christian eyes, so too does a Salafi guard his faith from the moderation of mainstream Islam, which he finds to be the root of unbelief of the moderate Muslims.
Good alone means nothing to a zealot. For he thinks he is good and others evil. The truth is, good and evil is relative to the situation, and in the situation of the Salafi warrior, it is good to kill unbelievers. His way is subtly influenced by Shaitan.
No matter how many infidels a Salafi warrior kills, his reward will still be the one of what the Christian calls "sinners", which is a time when to help cleanse the warrior of his sins, he will be cast into the pits of the Hells.
What this means is, the Salafi warrior has besmirched his name and brought shame to his ancestors. It is only by the forgiveness of the rest of humankind that their legacy will be redeemed. For there is a purpose to such zealous acts of mayhem and violence.
Since the Salafis see the Coptic Christian displays of piety as sacrilege, it is due to their level of shame which conflicts with the level of pride the Christians demonstrate when consecrating their churches. It makes me wonder if their ancestors were also guilty of condemning the Christ.
Out of their shame they act with the zeal of madman, killing Christians, be they men, women or child.
All the Christians of this world can do is condemn it and think of the good in forgiving the Salafis, for their ignorance of their actions.
That ignorance is what leads to the evil caused by their violence against the Christians.
It is not the Christian's duty to resist evil through violence, lest by raising a hand they go to Hell.
Even though the Jews may laugh at such things, even their actions bear the fruit now of evil rather good. It may be good to Israeli to kill nine Palestinians, but the one Israeli who was shot by a Palestinian sniper was a contractor to the Israel Defence Force. Though it was also a good for the Palestinians to martyr the killers of their people, their revenge is an evil.
Thus, no good will come of it, all this violence in the Middle East.
If I take a side, then I am no better than them. So on this matter, relative to good and evil, neither side is good (worth defending), be it Christian, Jew or Muslim.
For good alone means nothing.
Originally written January 20, 2013 4:21 AM
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