Treasure.

"'Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like the master of a household who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.'"  Matthew 13:52 (NRSV)

And so we bring out the best of both worlds:

What is new: tolerance, liberty, pacifism, positivity, benevolence, universalism, unitarianism, humanitarianism, unconditional love.....

What is old: altruism, reverence, respect, gratitude, selflessness, charity, mercy, forgiveness, prayer, faith.....

And we discard what is outmoded:

What is new: license, excess, extremism, obsession, promiscuity, drugs, degradation, negativity, hedonism, cynicism, alienation.....

What is old: violence, vengeance, judgement, punishment, hate, callousness, pragmatism, legalism, materialism, hypocrisy.....

And so we salvage the treasure from the dross.

[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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Gay Angels.

Gay men and women are androgynous.

That is they are half male and half female.

This is like the Angels in Heaven.

And even like God Himself.

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Wicked.

Wicked for Good is the work of devil-worshippers.

The idea is to corrupt you and encourage you to sin.

And then your soul will be damned to hell!

(Or so they think).

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Hunger.

We pray for all those who are hungry,

And the children who will die

Because of our corrupt Financial System.

Take them to your bosom, Lord.

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Good.

Jesus said: "''Why do you call me good?  No one is good but God alone.'"  Mark 10:18 (NRSV)

And wicked for good is the work of the devil.

[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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Grace.

"let the wicked forsake their way,

and the unrighteous their thoughts;

let them return to the Lord,

that he may have mercy on them,

and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon."

Isaiah 55:7 (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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Inhumanity.

God is not responsible for the suffering in our world.

It is not God's actions nor is it God's Will.

Our suffering is caused by our inhumanity to each other.

And our inhumanity is caused by fear.

It is God's Will that we love one another.

If we do this simple action.

Our suffering will disappear.

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