Heaven and Hell.

The upshot of the moral panic triggered by the AIDS crisis was the claim that gays go to hell.

This was not a clearly thought-out response but a knee-jerk reaction inspired by fear.

Other forms of disease are not associated with sin.

If your wife gets breast cancer no one suggests that God is punishing her for being a woman.

If a man gets prostate cancer he is not being punished for being a man.

So why did people say that gays were being punished by God?

It seems to me that there is a double standard here.

As for hell I don't believe that God condemns people to hell in any case.

God is our Father.

And we are His gay sons and daughters.

God loves gays.

So there might just be a Heaven.

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Fear or Love.

There are only two things in the world:

Fear and Love.

And there are two ways that we can react:

With Fear

Or

With Love.

And AIDS is the perfect example of this great truth.

We can react with Fear

Or

We can react with Love.

And the perfect example of this is a Fundamentalist who has a gay son.

When his love for his son is greater than his fear of sickness, death, immorality, and hell he will have learned the greatest truth in life.

And that is that God is Love.

And God loves His gay sons.

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There is a God.

Some time ago, as I sat eating my lunch at a local restaurant, I overheard a young man dressed all in black saying: 

"What's all the fuss about the fire at Notre Dame its only a building dedicated to someone who doesn't exist."

This is an example of popular atheism.

 

A mentality fed by Satanists in rock music and comedy in particular.

But there is a God.

I would not be sitting here today writing this if there were no God.

God has rescued me from the mentality of Satanism.

And He has delivered me from evil.

So I can state categorically that there is a God.

And He is good.

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Joker.

The movie Joker represents a new low in movie madness.

The movie gets under your skin and infects your spirit with evil.

The depiction of a comic book character as some sort of disaffected human is ridiculous to begin with.

But suggesting that evil is an answer to human alienation and isolation is evil itself.

The film is spiritually subversive.

It tries to make you identify with the protagonist who then turns to evil and violence.

Unlike most people I believe that the makers of these movies have sold their souls and deliberately try to turn people to evil.

The Joker is the Devil.

We do not need a movie celebrating him.

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The Temple of Aquarius.

The Temple of Aquarius

is a Construct of 

Human Hearts,

Upheld by Faith,

Maintained by Love.

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Li Tie Guai.

Li Tie Guai is one of the Eight Immortals of Taoism.

He is said to be mentally disturbed and helps the sick and needy.

Thus proving that disability is no hindrance to Spiritual Development.

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Lan Caihe.

Lan Caihe is one of the Eight Immortals of Taoism.

He is androgynous, homosexual, or transsexual.

Thus proving that same-sex attraction is no barrier to Spiritual Development.

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