A Loving Heart.

A warm, loving heart.

A heart that is alive!


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A Third Way.

                            

When we are young we think that there are only two alternatives:

To do what we want and seek pleasures.

Or.

To obey our elders and work hard for our masters.

But there is a Third Way:

To open our heart and give love to those around us.

This Third Way leads directly to God.

So love God and love your neighbor.

Then you will be Home.


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Gay Love.

                            

Homosexuality is love.

It is not some wicked act divorced from human feelings.

It is inspired by love as any heterosexual relationship is.

We are wired to engage with each other.

This is God's Love in action:

Bringing us out of ourselves and towards another.

Sex is not just for procreation.

Sex creates intimacy and love in a relationship.

All this is good.

There are many heterosexual couples who do not have children.
But no one is suggesting that they refrain from sex.

Gay people should be allowed to marry and have families as others do.


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Takers.

                            

Too many Church people are takers, not givers.

They leave it to God.

But they take the credit.

And when something goes wrong they are nowhere to be found.

They do little.

But they feel spiritually superior.

When they are called upon to act they do little to help.

And this is why the Church is dying.


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God.

                            

When we are young and we encounter the world we can mistake the way of the world for God.

Life seems tough, demanding, unsympathetic, and unforgiving.

But this is the influence of power and money which was once in league with the conservative Establishment but now represents the corporate plutocracy and its conservative political puppets.

But this is not the way of God despite what Fundamentalist Christians may tell you.

God is merciful, forgiving, gracious.
He will always give you another chance.

He is undemanding and considerate.

He loves you like a Father.

But the Churches traditionally sided with political conservatives and represented God as a harsh judge and moral wowser.

The reason for this is that the Church became entangled with power and money and adopted their carrot and stick approach to the masses in order to maintain their position of authority and privilege in society.

The result has been that the message of Jesus is severely compromised, even contradicted completely.

The traditional authorities of the Churches are the spiritual descendants of the Pharisees who were the enemies of Jesus.

Since the mass exodus from the Churches there have been some desperate attempts to bring people back but change is slow and reluctant.

There are some progressive Christians but the mainstream Churches are dragging their feet.

Even the most liberal Churches - the Episcopalian Church in America and the Uniting Church in Australia - sit on the fence when it comes to important decisions and refuse to speak up for minorities and outcasts.

So pray for courage and change.

Or the Church will die.


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The Establishment.

                                         

If you take Jesus' teachings seriously and put them into practice you will inevitably come up against the Establishment.

As Jesus did.

And it was the Establishment that murdered Jesus.


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State Religion.

                            

Were Progressive Christianity ever to become the State Religion it would be essential that we challenge any attempts to return to the carrot and stick religion of rewards and punishments with its heaven and hell.

These things are Machiavellian mass control techniques which are more in the interests of the State than God.

God does not punish us.

The State may punish us.

But God does not.

There is no devil.

There is no hell.

These things have developed from attempts to explain our experience.

They are based on outmoded dualistic thinking.

God is One.

And His nature is Love.


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Selling Lies.

                            

The major tactic of the malevolent forces in our culture is to sell lies.

If you can get enough people to buy what you tell them it may as well be true.

This is done by deception, illusion, fear, and force.

It is done in the darkness.

And in the realm of the unconscious.

But when the light comes it is seen for what it is - Lies.

Often the truth is the opposite of these lies.

And the debt is doubled.

Pray to God with a sincere heart.

And He will send the Light.


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Wannabes.

                            

Our world is full of corporate slaves and wannabes.

We have been reduced to black-suited work units and aspirational social climbers.

There is no sign of idealism.

And religion is dead.

Our governments are corporate pawns.

And our media is propaganda.

Rock music is Satanism.

And our entertainment is likewise.

The only sign of hope is Internet activism.

So keep signing petitions and sending messages.

Vote against corporate puppets.

And pray!


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Earphones.

                            

You know those earphones you are constantly listening with?

Well the rock music which you are listening to is Satanic.

The dirge-like songs contain negative suggestions and curses which sabotage your well-being.

Much of this is subliminal.

Death, suicide, sin, shame, darkness, the devil, evil.....

All these things are hidden in the music.

So take off your earphones.

And be free of this curse.


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A Human Face / A Human Heart.

                  

Aquarius has a human face.

Not only does Aquarius treat everyone as a unique human being but it shows: the human face of Jesus, the human face of the Buddha, the human face of Mohammed, the human face of God; it even shows the human face of our enemies.....

So do not be concerned if people call you a humanist.

The essence of spirituality is to become fully human.

And the key to this is the human heart.


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Force.

                            

We must be wary of forcing our ideas onto other people.

Our ideas may be right.

They may be enlightened.

They may be beautiful.

They may be sublime.

But we have no right to force them onto other people.

Other people will come to understanding in their own time.

This does not mean that we should not express our truth.

We have the right to express our ideas.

But we cannot force others to see.

Instead we should pray that everyone may see more clearly, including ourselves.

It may be that an inferior perception is being forced on us.
We should not battle for supremacy but cry out to God for help.

God knows non-violent ways that we do not understand.

"'What is impossible for mortals is possible for God.'"  Luke 18:27 (NRSV)


[Scripture quotations (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission.  All rights reserved.] 

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Garden.

                            

God has given us a beautiful garden in which to live.

But what have we done with it?

We live by the law of the jungle - the dominance of the strongest, dog eat dog.

Men of violence inhabit the darkness.

Their supremacy is established by violence and maintained by fear.

Their savagery is inspired by fear.

Fear of starvation. Fear of want.

Their privileges are justified by rationalizations.

They cannot give.

They say: "God has forsaken the Earth."

If they had faith the size of a mustard seed they would know that God provides - there will always be enough.

The Earth produces enough for everyone.

But we hoard and we waste.

We cannot give.

Cry out to the Lord God.

An end!


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Restore Us.

                            

"I will restore their fortunes, the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters.....
As for your sisters, Sodom and her daughters shall return to their former state."  Ezekiel 16:53,55 (NRSV)
"Was not your sister Sodom a byword in your mouth in the day of your pride?."  Ezekiel 16: 56 (NRSV)

Lord restore our fortunes.

Not as they were - driven and betrayed slaves to the rhythm.

But without promiscuity, without drugs, without cruelty.....

Restore our fortunes.

As a blessed tribe of your children innocent and free.

Bind us firmly in your steadfast Love.

And shelter us from evil.

Wash away all doubt.

And lead us to the Crystal Fountain.

Where we drink of the Waters of Life.


[Scripture quotations (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission.  All rights reserved.]

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The Reality.

                            

When the Light comes it reveals God's truths as self-evident.

This is why it is called The Reality.

So forgive those who abuse you and pray for them to see more clearly.

Pray for them to see the errors in their received knowledge and the identity of those who gave it to them.

Then their false ideas will be revealed as thinking which is not based in reality.

And therefore it cannot win.


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Turn on the Lights.

                            

An Indian Guru once said to me: "Don't just grope around in the dark; turn on the lights."

Unfortunately he didn't say how to turn on the lights.

In my experience, however, the Light comes from God.
And a relationship with God is established through study, prayer, and contemplation.

But a lasting link with God is made through love.


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Gay Parents.

                            

Research shows that children brought up by gay parents are slightly better adjusted than those brought up by straight parents.

This may be because children brought up by gay parents are truly wanted.

It takes a lot of effort to have children if you are gay and couples have to be really sure that they want to have a family.

So don't be spooked by bogus claims about gay parents.

The truth is that gay people are no different from straight people - they fall in love, they commit to a relationship, and they want to have children.

So there is no threat to our society from same-sex marriage.


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The Night.

                            

"Yours is the day, yours also is the night."  Psalm 74:16 (NRSV)

"even the darkness is not dark to you, the night is as bright as the day, for darkness is as light to you."  Psalm 139:12 (NRSV)

Rather than the day being God's realm and the night ruled by the powers of darkness, the day and the night are both ruled by God.

Archaic ideas of dualism do not apply.

God is One.
His nature is holistic.

There is no devil, no powers of darkness.

"when I think of you on my bed, and meditate on you in the watches of the night; for you have been my help, and in the shadow of your wings I sing for joy."  Psalm 63:6.7 (NRSV)

The moon and the stars watch over the night.
As the sun watches over the day.

"You who live in the shelter of the Most High, who abide in the shadow of the Almighty.  You will not fear the terror of the night, or the arrow that flies by day."  Psalm 91:1,5 (NRSV)

This is not to say that there are not evil people in the world, people who believe in the devil and the powers of darkness.

St. Paul believed in the devil and the power of death.

But this was left-over dualism from Persian religion which influenced Judaism in the ancient world.

The sect of Pharisees in which Paul was trained believed in these things.

But this does not appear in the teachings of Jesus.

The Gospel of John, written 100 years after Jesus' birth, contains some dualistic ideas but this is Christology which developed much later.

It does not appear in the Synoptic Gospels.

But new revelations show that dualism is a false doctrine, God is holistic, transcendent, and sublime.

If we can conceive of a reality without dualism.

This is the Great Leap Forward which leaves behind all negative ideas about Divinity.

God is good.

He does not punish us.

And His mercy is forever.


[Scripture quotations (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission.  All rights reserved.]     

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Phariseism.

One of the major problems in the Church is Phariseism.

The fact that the hierarchy of the Church has resembled the Pharisees rather than Jesus has been a long-standing defect of the Church.

All too often the Church has been judgemental, threatening, moralistic, and hateful.

But Jesus was forgiving, merciful, tolerant, and loving.

The passages in Matthew's Gospel in which Jesus is harshly critical of the Pharisees should be warning enough but the temptations of power and authority have proved too much for most priests and ministers who have reached positions of prominence.

"My people have been lost sheep, their shepherds have led them astray, turning them away on the mountains."  Jeremiah 50:6 (NRSV)

Jesus  said of them: "'You did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering.'"  Luke 11:52 (NRSV)

But this has not been preached in church for obvious reasons.

We are lost sheep indeed.


[Scripture quotations (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission.  All rights reserved.]

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666.

                   

June 6 1966 - the day that it all changed.

The day that we were betrayed.

The day that rock music died.

The day that the Baby-Boomers became the Hippies.

Before then the Baby-Boomers dressed reasonably conventionally and had fairly normal haircuts.

Afterwards long hair and long beards became the norm and bright costumes with flared trousers appeared.

This was a response to LSD.

It was psychedelic.

But unknown to us was the fact that the rock bands who pushed this onto us were followers of Aleister Crowley who was a Satanist.

Little did we know that Satanists used psychedelic drugs in their ceremonies.

Many Hippies had bad trips.
This was when the drug backfired and created a nightmare instead of a vision.

The Satanic influences of rock music could explain this.

Many rock bands created music which contained Satanic suggestion.

And it was used to invoke the devil.

The violent and evil backtracking on these albums could easily turn your dream into a nightmare.

And that's not all.

Everyone began smoking marijuana.

Everyone became sexually promiscuous.

Everyone left the Church.

But this was not the fairytale we thought it was.

It soon became evident that something was wrong.

But no one knew what it was.

We presumed it was the drugs.

But in fact it was evil emanating from the rock music we were listening to.

Drug addiction, degradation, divorce, criminality, depression, suicide.....

All these things resulted.

A tree is known by its fruit.

And these are the fruits of rock music.

But we cannot escape this web of evil until we realize that our precious rock legends were not the heroes we thought they were.

They were secretly Satanic - they sold their souls for fame and fortune, and they sold us down the river.

This is still happening today.

And it has spread to T.V., movies, sports, and literature.....

We are cursed.

We have all been betrayed.


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Addicts.

                                        

What is needed by addicts is Love.

If we were able to wrap them in a blanket of love the need for the drug would gradually disappear.

Drug taking is basically anaesthetic.
A hit to kill the pain of the world.

But if we can surround them with love then we have removed the cause.

And they will be cured.


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Escape.

                            

So how can we escape the web of evil created by rock stars and celebrities?

First of all we must stop listening to rock music altogether.

All rock bands and pop stars are involved in this Satanic conspiracy.
Even if their music seems benign and sugary on the surface there may be Satanic symbolism and suggestion hidden below.

Most of this is done below the surface on the level of the unconscious.
So it may not be evident on the surface.

We cannot afford to just take things at face value.

As a remedy we can listen to classical music - especially sacred choral music - which creates a more harmonious state of mind.

Secondly we must be discriminating in what we watch - on T.V., in movies, even sports - all of these things contain Satanic influences.
Watch for: flames (hell), skulls (death), funerals, black, darkness, night, madness, depression, suicide, horns (the devil), spiders (webs), snakes, idols etc......

All these things betray the Satanic nature of the entertainment.

And that's not all.

They will try to get money out of you by addicting you to their product.

Addict, beast, monster, animal, punisher, dominator, filthy, wicked, lust.....

Even violent and evil words and comments by sporting commentators and stars will tell you how they think.

Instead contemplation of religious or beautiful artistic images and poetry will lead your mind away from such disturbing influences and towards harmony and peace.

You might even read the Bible with discrimination.

Sitting quietly in the garden listening only to the song of the birds may help you find peace.

These alternative practices will help you to escape the web of evil which permeates our multi-media networks.

Solitude, quiet, silence, prayer.

All these things lead to God.

Go into you room and close the door.

Pray to God.

He will hear.

And He will deliver you.


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The Light.

May

The Light of God

Shine upon you.

And open

Your eyes

To the evil

Around you.

May

Your body

Be whole.

And your mind

Be clear.

May

You open

Your heart.

And see

Through the tears.


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Evidence.

                            

So there's a Satanic conspiracy in rock music.

Where's your evidence?

Apart from the fact that most heavy metal bands are openly Satanic the key to it is death.

There are death metal bands, death actors, death writers, death T.V. shows, and death songs.....

When a fan discovered hidden messages in the Beatles' music it was all about death.

"And in the Death...." begins Diamond Dogs.
Then "This ain't rock and roll, this is genocide!"

Death is a religious concept - death to God - "the wages of sin is death."  Romans 6:23 (NRSV)

So they spread sin and transgression in order to induce death.

Death is the basis of black magic.

And it represents power to them.

"the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil."  Hebrews 2:14 (NRSV)

So they deal with the devil.

Devil magic is backwards and upside-down.

There are many album covers with writing or images backwards or upside-down.

Sometimes there is a mixture of upright and inverted images or forwards and backwards letters or words.

This is done to deliberately confuse you or hide the Satanic nature of their music.

Black, funerals, skulls, graves, flames, spiders, snakes, darkness, evil, and hell.

All these things are in their music and videos.

They deal in negations and negativity.

The Fall, murder, sin, suicide, hedonism, darkness, violence, night, blindness, deafness, and dumbness.....

All feature in their music.

They call themselves Dogs - gods backwards.

And this is just the beginning of the evidence.


[Scripture quotations (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission.  All rights reserved.]

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Unbelievable.

                            

Why is the Satanic conspiracy in our rock music and popular culture unbelievable?

For one thing most people don't believe in Satan.
So they assume there are no Satanists.

Devil worship only ever appears in the media as a fringe phenomenon with few followers.

But most rock bands from the 1960s and 1970s were followers of Aleister Crowley.

Most people don't realize that Aleister Crowley was not just a magician but he was a black magician and Satanist.

His writings include the use of hallucinogenic drugs and pacts with the devil.

His catch-cry was "Do what you will."

So, even if you don't believe in Satan, rock bands and celebrities do and have sold their souls for fame and fortune and a rock star reception.

They do the devil's work in our world.


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Music.

                            

Even though Satanism in rock music harks back to the 1960s with the 1980s it became a global corporate monopoly.

24 hour a day satellite broadcasting brought Satanism into everyone's lounge room.

Evil became an ever present reality.

And with the development of technology young people now listen to rock music day and night.

What they are feeding into their minds is not healthy.

It is dark, negative, malicious, and evil.

They are being cursed.

So turn off your rock music and your T.V..

And reclaim your mind.


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Ceres and the Earth.

                            

Modern astrology consigns the three recently discovered celestial bodies - Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto - to rulership of the signs Aquarius, Pisces, and Scorpio respectively.

In ancient times the five visible planets - Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn - each governed two signs - the night sign and the day sign.

The Sun and the Moon each ruled a single sign.

This leaves two signs - Virgo and Taurus - without their own rulers.

Mercury rules both Gemini and Virgo.

My contention is that Virgo should be ruled by the dwarf planet Ceres which is the largest body in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

My reasoning is that since Pluto has been demoted to the status of dwarf planet there is a precedent for dwarf planets ruling signs.

And Virgo, as an earth sign, is ideally suited to Ceres who was the Roman goddess of grains, the harvest, fertility, and motherhood.

She was the mother of Proserpina who was abducted by Pluto - another link to the dwarf planet Pluto.

Many of Ceres' attributes were later taken over by the Virgin Mary.

So my contention is that Ceres should be the modern ruler of Virgo.

This leaves Taurus, which is currently ruled by Venus, as is Libra.

Libra - as the ruler of relationships, love, and marriage - seems the logical home for Venus.

Taurus the Bull is an earthy fertility sign arriving as it does at the height of spring.

In ancient times the Vernal Equinox was located in Taurus.

One possibility is that Taurus is ruled by the Earth itself as represented by the ancient Greek goddess Gaia who was the wife of the sky god Uranus.

Together they were called the grandparents of the gods because they gave birth to the Titans who preceded the Olympian gods.

This relates to the mythology of Mother Earth - fertility and abundance, flowers and fruit - all of which are very Taurean.

So there you have it.

The picture is complete.

Virgo is ruled by Ceres.

Taurus is ruled by the Earth.     


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Salvation.

Lay bare

the words

with which

demons

describe you.

Tempting

the tough guy,

seducing

your pride.

They hope to hell

that their labels

corrupt you:

Monster, enforcer,

animal, beast.....


Call down

from Heaven

God's blessings

upon you:

Angel, defender,

big-hearted lover.

Big softie, teddy-bear,

gentle giant, whale.....

These are the words

that deliver us

from evil.

These are the prayers

that will lead to

Salvation.


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God Reigns.

                            

I was surprised when a friend of mine said to me that he constantly reminds himself that God Reigns.

God reigns?

Not in this world.

In this world the poor suffer, money talks, and power wins.

God comes last.

Jesus prayed: "' Your kingdom come.  Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.'"  Matthew 6:10 (NRSV)

So Jesus did not think that God reigned on Earth.

Perhaps my friend meant that God reigns in the universe - overall.

But we cannot control everything with our thoughts.

"'What is impossible for mortals is possible for God.'"  Luke 18:27 (NRSV)

"The Lord God helps me .....he who vindicates me is near; Who will contend with me?"  Isaiah 50:7,8 (NRSV)

If God is with you there is nothing evil can do to win.

But God does not use force or violence.

"'Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord of hosts.'"'  Zechariah 4:6 (NRSV)

God is full of surprises.

He is unpredictable.

He is uncontrollable.

Blessed be the Lord God.


[Scripture quotations (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission.  All rights reserved.]

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The Third Way.

                            

Church tells you to abstain from sex and be clean.

Satanism in rock music tells you to indulge in sex and be dirty.

But there is a third way.

And that is to engage in sex in a moderate manner and maintain a positive attitude.

So between the extremes of abstinence and indulgence there is a middle path of healthy moderation.

Sex is not bad or dirty.

Sex is not a sin.

Sex is a natural part of life.

And we should accept it as such.


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Priscilla - Patron Saint of Gays.

                            

Priscilla was a woman of great faith who lived in Corinth, Greece.

She and her husband Aquilla were Jews who had been expelled from Rome by Claudius.

St. Paul stayed with them and worked as a tent maker.

Priscilla and her husband risked their lives to harbor Paul and showed great faith in the early Christian Church.

As we know Priscilla is also the name of the famous Queen of the Desert - a movie about three drag queens who travel across the Australian desert in a pink bus called Priscilla to a venue in Alice Springs.

So I think that Priscilla - which means worthy - would be a good Patron Saint for the gay community.


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Gay O.K.!

                            

It's O.K. to be gay!

God does not hate you.

You will go to Heaven when you die.

Religious bigots who push hate and hell do not know God.

They are wrong.

We are right.

Homosexuality is Love.

It's O.K. to be gay!


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Machines.

                                     

Since the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th Century machines have dominated commerce.

And the human beings who work these machines have become part of the machines.

Workers are no longer people but work units.

They are judged by their productivity alone.

This dehumanization of the workforce has had serious social repercussions.

William Blake called the machines Satanic.

But treating people like machines does not produce the best results.

They will resent it and deceive their masters.

Who will respond with threats and cuts.

But the workplace should not be a battlefield.

The workplace should be like a family.

Workers should feel valued and loved.

Then they will produce their best.


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Fear and Love.

                  

My thesis is that evil in our world is caused by fear.

And what is the antidote to fear?

Love.

Fear makes us attack.
Fear makes us hoard.

Fear makes us retaliate.
Fear makes us defend ourselves.

But love makes us forgive.
Love makes us pardon.

Love cares.

Love is compassionate.
Love is kind.

So if we are serious about lessening the evil in our world we must absorb evil and return love.

And this is precisely what Jesus taught.


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