Beauty.

Beauty 

Is one of the Major Attributes of God.

Not just Physical Beauty

But Beauty of: 

Ideas, Concepts, Principles, Sentiments, and Words.....

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My Love.

Happiness is

My Love.

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Guns.

Part of the climate of fear whipped up by the media is the issue of gun ownership.

Common people influenced by hysterical media coverage believe that they need  a gun to protect themselves.

This is fighting violence with violence.

But this never works.

It just embroils us in more violence.

Gun control laws on the other hand will reduce violence.

Unstable or radicalized people will not be able to purchase a gun in the first place.

But the belief that the threat can be put down by superior violence is fed by the media for political purposes.

So do not be afraid.

Surrendering your gun may help to end gun violence in our world.

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Millennials.

The Millennials (born 1996-2010) are the most politically aware generation since the Baby-Boomers.

Their commitment to gun control and climate change action is exemplary.

And their courage and integrity sets them apart from a population which is apathetic and confused.

Their action is also in harmony with God's Will for humanity.

Because God is non-violent and caring in nature.

It is His Will that there be peace on Earth and goodwill between the nations.

It is also His Will that we care for our environment.

The Biblical witness attests to the fact that we are custodians of the environment.

We were not put on the Earth to rape and plunder nature.

We are to care for nature like our mother.

The Millennials are also the biggest victims of workplace changes brought about by Generation X.

Casual jobs, no overtime or penalty rates, no sick leave or holiday pay, no jobs security, low wages, work for the dole, exploitation etc.....

A renewed commitment to unions is the only answer for a workforce that has no power.

So the Millennials deserve our support.

Their actions will change the world.

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Judgement Day.

Ronald Reagan used expectations of Judgement Day* as the Millennium approached to intensify his attack on the Baby-Boomers and Communism.

And Generation X blew the trumpet with glee.

But time marches on.

And we are well past the Millennium.

Ronald Reagan is long gone.

And Generation X are old, overweight, and wrecked.

Their black shirts are faded.

And their evil is abating.

(*This was backed up by Capitalist claims that it was forever - The End of History.)

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Brainwashing.

The techniques initiated by Ronald Reagan and his corporate allies are a form of brainwashing.

Imposing violence and intimidation of left-wing thinking through the hatred of Generation X they offered respite if your thinking conformed to their right-wing views.

This was called Reconstruction. 

And it has affected whole generations.

The methods that the corporations adapted from George Orwell's 1984 are also brainwashing techniques.

These were backed up by violence - verbal, emotional, psychic, spiritual, and physical.

It can be clearly seen on Fox News.

So turn off the T.V..

And think back before 1984.

Then you will be free.

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The Hippies.

The Hippies have been brainwashed and reconstructed to suit the purposes of the corporate plutocrats.

But the fact remains that the Hippies never resorted to violence to achieve their goals.

And the Seal of God is non-violence.

So when the brutal reign of the corporates comes to an end the Hippies will be vindicated.

But any revival of their ideas and their ideals will have to be done without the rock legends who betrayed them in the first place.

The rock legends of the 1960s followed the teachings of Aleister Crowley - an early 20th Century black magician and Satanist - who taught people how to make pacts with the devil.

So peace and love became sex and drugs and rock and roll.

Freedom became licence.

And love became casual sex.

But the main crime of the 1960s rock legends was the use and abuse of drugs.

Under the guise of spiritual enlightenment they sold marijuana, L.S.D., heroine, and cocaine to their fans.

This wrecked many lives.

And it led to addiction, degradation, mental illness, and crime.

So the evil influence of rock music must be shed in order to revive the spiritual principles of peace and love.

And the abiding principle of non-violence.

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Red Dead Redemption.

Red Dead Redemption

is offering Heaven for killing Commies.

Like the Assassins of Ismailism.

(Red Dead Redemption is a computer game.)

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The Devil's Music.

Rock music is the devil's music.

(Katy Perry at the Grammies.)

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Post-Modernism.

Post-Modernism is the period after Modernism.

In this period it became obvious that science could not answer all questions.

The Newtonian Laws applied to Nature broke down at the very small and very large levels.

Theoretical Physics began to resemble Cosmology.

And the assumption that Economics would save the world has broken down on the rocky coastline of corruption.

Greed and violence have prevailed.

So what is our Salvation?

Only love can save us.

For love will give to the needy.

And love will show goodwill.

Love will forgive.

And love will let live.

But to do this we must overcome our fears.

And give love to our fellow brother and sisters.

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God's Love.

Because God loves everyone equally does not mean that what everyone says is equally true.

There is a Reality.

And that Reality has its own truth.

The modern preoccupation with relativism is a perversion of the concept of freedom.

We are not free to hate.

We are not free to harm others.

These things are anathema to the Divine Will.

God is good.

And His inmost nature is Love.

He does not punish us.

He does not judge us.

He loves us like a Father.

But that does not mean that He condones violence and hate.

Violence and hate are rooted in fear.

And there is no fear in God.

God's Love dispels fear.

And we are free to love.

And to forgive as we have been forgiven.

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The Living God.

When we make contact with the Living God we experience:

Light.

Life.

Joy.

Peace.

Beauty.

Goodness.

Truth.

Mercy.

Forgiveness.

Gratitude.

But most of all:

Love.

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God.

God loves you.

God does not punish you.

God does not judge you.

God is merciful and compassionate.

He forgives and He delivers.

His Love is true.

And His Salvation is forever.

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Wrong?

How could the Church be wrong about God?

Well in Jesus' time the Scribes and Pharisees were wrong about God.

And in our time the Church is wrong about God.

Fear, expectations, and corruption explain why they are wrong.

Fear of God's punishment.

Expectations of Natural Justice.

Corruption of Church and State.

These things combine to create a rigid Orthodoxy which is enforced with threats of hell.

Jesus said of them: "'Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!  For you cross sea and land to make a single convert, and you make the new convert twice as much the child of hell as yourselves.'"  Matthew 23:15 (NRSV)

These are the temptations of religious authority.

They were present in Jesus' time and they are present today.

And this is the reason why the Kingdom has not come.

"But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!  For you lock people out of the kingdom of heaven.  For you do not go in yourselves, and when others are going in, you stop them.'"  Matthew 23: 13 (NRSV)

And they stopped Jesus.

They mocked him.

And they crucified him.

But God had one last blessing up His sleeve.

He resurrected Jesus to Eternal Life!

And He sent the Holy Spirit to his disciples.

So all was not lost.

Until the leaders of the Christian revolution became like the leaders of Israel and re-instated the religion of heaven and hell.

[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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