Words.

Monster, Beast, Punisher, Dominator.

Animal, Devil, Nasty, Bad.

These are the words thrust by devils upon you.

To damn your Immortal Soul to hell.

But God will have infinite mercy upon you.

And save your mind from their vicious grip.

For your soul is pure and untouched within you.

And He will give you the words of Life:

Angel, Gentle Giant, Big Softie, Lover.

Big-Hearted, Man-Mountain, Pillar of Strength.

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Arbitration.

Arbitration is Biblical.

"In a lawsuit, you shall not side with the majority so as to pervert justice, nor shall you be partial to the poor in a lawsuit."  Exodus 23:2 (NRSV)

"Look, you serve your own interests on your fast-day, and oppress all your workers." Isaiah 58:3 (NRSV)

So we are not to be partial to the poor but we are not to oppress our workers either.

The class war between workers and employers is fed by fear.

Fear of going broke.

And fear of exploitation.

But when both sides have equal power fear is overcome. 

We should return to a system of Independent Arbitration.

[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 Fathers.

Our world is ruled by corporations.

But there is a greater power than them.

God is real.

And He is at work in our world.

The irony is that the Corporate Plutocrats who dominate our world are in fact the fathers of our world.

So, rather than destroying them, God seeks to open their hearts.

To open their hearts to their children - the workers and employees they oppress.

The Love of God banishes our fear.

God understands.

God provides.

God knows each one of us.

And He calls us by our name.

And so He knows why the fathers oppress their children.

It is fear.

Most of them were born during the Great Depression.

Unconscious fear drives them.

But their generation is dying.    

A new generation of fathers is ascending.

God can banish this fear forever.

And bring Salvation to the world.

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Love Purifies.

Love purifies our hearts.

Love purifies our relationships.

Love purifies our motives.

Love purifies our minds.

Love purifies our bodies.

Love purifies our spirits.

Love purifies our prayers. 

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Satanism in Sports.

Have you noticed the flames?

The flames of hell.

Have you noticed the philosophy?

Their philosophy is tough and hard.

Have you noticed the commentary?

The words of violence:

"Put them to the sword!"

"Break their hearts!"

"Go in for the kill!"

All these things come from Satanism in sports.

They want you to follow them.

They want your admiration.

They want your money.

So do not follow false gods and heroes.

The chances are they have sold their souls and they want your soul in hell.

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AIDS Remembrance Day.

32 million people have died of AIDS worldwide 70% of which are gay men.

But who commemorates World AIDS Day on the 1st of December?

It never gets a mention in church unless I personally request it.

And even then some ignore it and others are reluctant.

Jesus' Church has been responsible for the persecution and damnation of gay men throughout history.

What was needed when the AIDS crisis hit was the tears of Jesus - his love and his compassion.

But his Church preferred to persecute us and send us to hell.

Many said that AIDS was God's punishment.

But what did those who died of the COVID-19 Virus do?

Nothing.

And gay men did nothing either.

Think about it.

Gay men will be justified.

And our suffering should be remembered.

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Insanity.

The mentality which has developed in America's Evangelical Christian population since the 1980s is a form of insanity.

They called Obama the Anti-Christ.

They oppose better health care.

They supported a profligate President.

They demonize Socialism.

They sanctify Capitalism.

They believe Fox News.

They scapegoat gays.

They promote gun violence.

They battle Satan.

They vote Republican.

They idolize Jesus.

Anyone who disagrees with them is labelled the devil.

And anything they don't want is lies or it didn't happen at all.

Their mentality is so divorced from reality that it has become a form of insanity. 

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Triumph!

You will triumph over your enemies.

Not by defeating them.

But by helping them to win.

God can take away their weapons.

By showing them that they don't need them anymore.

They too can triumph.

Triumph over jealousy and fear.

We are all equal.

We all feel jealousy and fear.

But God can take away these demons from us.

And He will.

If we pray for our enemies. 

Pray that they overcome their fears.

And share in the embrace of God's Love.

Then their fear will become love.

And they will be Home.

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We Fall in Love.

When I was reading a summary of the New York Times articles on gay priests in the Catholic Church I was struck by the statement of one priest: "I fell in love several times - with men."

And I thought: So did I.

So how are we different from heterosexual men or women?

We fall in love.

And love is the nature of God.

It is love that makes us grow spiritually.

Our heart blossoms and expands.

We include more and more people in our love.

Until, like God, we love everyone.

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Sex is Love.

In the 1980s we were inundated with sex.

Amid talk about raging hormones and "What's love got to do with it?" we were told that love was sex.

But they got it wrong.

Because in fact sex is love.

Without love sex leads to burnout and emptiness.

It results is misery.

Whereas when sex is practised as an adjunct of love we experience a  kind of earthly bliss.

So don't listen to their blasphemous lies.

Sex is love.

And as such it engenders intimacy and tenderness in our relationships.

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Love.

I believe that those who have sold their souls for a lover are in fact acting out of love.

And so I believe that they are acting in God.

"God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them."  1 John 4:16 (NRSV)

So even though they sell their souls and worship Satan they are acting out of love.

There is no Satan in Reality.

There is only God's Love.

Muscle Worship is love.

They bless him.

They dress him in white.

They call him a god.

They put him in Heaven.

And their love will save them.

  

[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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Hard-Hearted.

With the possible exception of the Uniting Church in Australia and the Episcopalian Church in America the attitude of most Christian Churches to gays and lesbians can only be described as hard-hearted.

No matter what the issue if it relates to gays and lesbians most Churches will close their minds and close their hearts.

They may even close their doors.

This mean-spirited response is a contradiction of everything Jesus Christ stood for.

After the suffering and persecution experienced by gay people in our world you would expect the representatives of Jesus to show compassion and love towards us.

But they would rather treat us as non-persons and even consign us to hell.

It is no wonder the Churches are dying.

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Rock Bottom.

When they told us to sacrifice everything to the bottom line.

And when everyone became bad, sinful, and wicked.

We corrupted ourselves.

We sold out.

And we gave up.

The time has come to regain our lost innocence and return to the ideals which we surrendered.

The world is crying out for leaders with principles.

And I don't mean prejudice and bigotry.

I mean real principles.

Honesty, truthfulness, integrity, courage, commitment to the common good.....

Not just pragmatism and serving the interests of rich corporations.

People are fed up.

They have made the world an evil place.

Full of darkness and violence.

But there is a glimmer of Light.

We reached rock bottom.

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The only way is up.

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Your Story.

Everyone has their story.

And make no mistake it is a story of abuse and exploitation.

A story of violence and fear.

People wear a mask of self-assurance and strength.

But underneath they are all just as insecure and afraid as we are.

We build a wall of cynicism and indifference to protect the child within.

A child crying out for love.

So be aware that everyone is damaged.

Everyone is hurting.

Everyone is frightened.

And offer the universal panacea which is love.

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Equal Rights.

Aquarius is about equality.

It is co-ruled by Saturn and Uranus.

And so each side has equal rights.

The Right and The Left.

Employers and Employees.

Rich and Poor.

Perpetrators and Victims.

Colonial and Indigenous.

Men and Women.

Straight and Gay.

Christian and Muslim.

Buddhist and Hindu.

Israel and Palestine.

Both sides have an equal claim.

At present we have an imbalance of power.

One side will have all the power while the other side is powerless.

This oppression results in violence.

And oppression is caused by fear.

Once this power imbalance is addressed and both sides feel that their case is being heard then the fear will be gone and the violence will stop.

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Surrender Your Weapons.

When the Light from God comes it shows us the deadly weapons that underpin jealousy and lust for power.

In normal circumstances these weapons are concealed.

But with God's help they become self-evident.

It is as we have always suspected.

The Plutocrats and Politicians defend their positions of power and privilege with deadly weapons.

They will not refrain from torture.

But this is all done in secret.

When their evil actions are revealed they may react differently.

God's Light reveals what is hidden.

And when their deadly weapons are revealed they have the chance to give them up.

God can remove our demons from us. 

And He will.

If we are willing.

So surrender your weapons.

And be free at last.

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Wake Up!

Pope Francis says that he wants his Priests and Religious to: "Wake up the world!"

This is all very good but to wake up the world you have to be awake yourself.

I am reminded of Jesus' message to the Pharisees: "'Why do you see the speck in your neighbor's eye, but do not notice the log in your own eye?.....  You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your neighbor's eye.'"  Matthew 7 3,5 (NRSV)

While I do believe that Pope Francis is an enlightened person that does not guarantee that all of his Priests and Religious are enlightened.

The quotation above comes in the context of judgement.

Jesus says: "'Do not judge, so that you may not be judged.  For with the judgement you make you will be judged.'"  Matthew 7:1,2 (NRSV)

So all of the Churches that preach judgment are in error.

This is a basic mistake made by authoritarian religious leaders who have not fully experienced the real God.

They adhere to the rigid Orthodoxy taught in Theological Colleges.

But God is merciful and forgiving.

God does not judge us.

"First take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your neighbor's eye,''"  Matthew 7:5 (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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Death is Not the End.

Most temporal leaders believe that death is the final solution.

Any threat or challenge can be terminated by death.

But death is not the end.

After Jesus was crucified and buried God resurrected him to Eternal Life.

Jesus lives on in Heaven.

And we can appeal to him when we are threatened or attacked.

"'Those who believe in me, even though they die, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die.'"  John 11:25,26 (NRSV)

These are the words of Life.

And I believe in them.

[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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Light.

So what is the Light that is coming from God?

Honesty, truthfulness, charity, mercy.

Affection, forgiveness, acceptance, love.

Keep on caring.

Don't give up.

Challenge the darkness.

Counteract evil.

Maintain your integrity.

Overcome fear.

But most of all:

Open your heart!

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The Appointed Time.

Sometimes I think that the people who are left in the Churches have given up.

When you make a suggestion or present a new idea they seem apathetic and make excuses not to do it.

To them perhaps it seems like a long time of decline and failure.

But "there is still a vision for the appointed time."  Habakkuk 2:3 (NRSV)

And that time is now!

The dawning of the New Age - the Age of Aquarius has begun.

A new way of interpreting scripture which is based on legitimate modern scholarship is developing now.

And with it is coming a new revelation from God.

This revelation revolutionizes our image of God and His relationship with humanity.

It revises our understanding of Jesus.

And it centers us in Love.

"I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh."  Ezekiel 11:19 (NRSV)

Spirituality will no longer be a matter of mental propositions or principles.

Spirituality will be about the development of the human heart.

Open your heart!

Open your heart to God and to humanity.

Open your heart to those around you. 

Not just to your family and your friends.

But to everyone!

We are all sons and daughters of God.

Brothers and sisters in the Family of Humanity.

And God is our loving Father.

{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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Counter.

God is our Father.

We are all brothers and sisters.

The world produces enough food for everyone.

Foreign Aid is good.

The United Nations is ideal.

Rich Corporations should pay tax.

War must cease.

Dialogue must commence.

Tolerance will prevail.

Truth will out.

Good will emerge.

Love wins.

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The Passion Flower.

Adorning the vine

The Passion Flower

Displays

The intoxicating love 

That is 

Our hearts desire.

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The Wrong Side of History.

With the fall of Soviet Communism Western Capitalism declared The End of History.

The subsequent ideological binge has led to the largest ever disparity between rich and poor.

The dismantling of the Social Safety Net.

The denigration of the United Nations.

The destruction of the Unions.

The despoiling of Education.

And the waging of Perpetual War (for profit).

Our media is controlled.

Corporate responses are lies.

Governments betray us.

Economic Rationalism has failed us.

The world is not a better place. 

But it may surprise the Right-Wing ideologues who designed this disaster that they are on the wrong side of History.

The coming Age is the Age of Aquarius and all the things that they have destroyed will return stronger than ever.   

The Plutocrats and their political puppets will not win the day.

The future will see greater equality, increased aid to the poor, sustainable development, dialogue, tolerance, humanitarianism, charity, universal brotherhood, and freedom.

People are sick of Corporate lies and political cowardice.

Cynicism and corruption have had their day.

We must return to the world of ideals.

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The Light.

When we turn

Towards the Light.

And love the Lord 

With all our might.

He blesses us.

And what we see

Is that our soul

Resides with Thee.

Not in our minds 

But in our hearts!

Our soul wakes up

And new life starts!

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Temptation 2.

If we look more closely at what devil-worshippers have done to the generations we will see that they push the negatives of each generation's astrological signs.

They Hippies were indulged in pleasure which is a negative aspect of Libra.  They were also encouraged to be selfish ("Do your own thing!"*) which is a negative aspect of Leo.

Generation X were tempted to be holier than thou and judgemental which are negative aspects of Virgo.  They were also tempted to use violence, hate, and evil which are negative aspects of Scorpio.

The religious and political right including Ronald Reagan were tempted to use judgement and demonization as weapons to win.  These are negative aspects of Capricorn.

And the older generation were tempted to be hypocritical and judgemental which are negative aspects of Virgo.

So the answer is not to blame anyone for what devil-worshippers have inspired in them but to look to the positive aspects of each generations astrological signs.

The positive aspects of the Baby-Boomers are: peace, diplomacy, and love (Libra); and creativity and enlightenment (Leo).

The positive aspects of Generation X are: discrimination, meticulousness, virtue (Virgo); and loyalty, passion, transformation (Scorpio).

The positive aspects of Capricorn are; responsibility, seriousness, discipline, obedience, strength, and practicality.

One last thing:

Aquarius is manifested negatively by Satan-worshippers as: drug abuse, promiscuity, insanity.

The positive aspects of Aquarius are; tolerance, genius, freedom, equality, humanitarianism, and vision.

(*This comes from Aleister Crowley's Satanic catch-cry "Do what you will.")

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