Rock Satanism.

If there is one thing that I would tell young people today it is that the rock music which they are constantly listening to is poison.

Since the 1960s rock musicians have sold their souls to the devil and practiced Satanism and black magic/witchcraft in their music.

This is disguised, often as wisdom or goodness, but they are whited sepulchers.

Death, evil, shame, blasphemy, profanity, violence, incest, hate, Nazism, madness.....
All these things can be found in their music.

Things to look out for: horns, skulls, snakes, spiders, spider webs, flames, anything upside down or backwards, backtracking, black, darkness, negations, misery, guilt, and fear.

At first it may seem as if only overtly Satanic rock bands are involved but I can assure you that the others are equally culpable, even if their pop music appears harmless on the surface.

Look a little closer.
Look beneath the mask.

Not all of their songs are dark and sinister.  They will include innocent songs in order to draw you in then they will poison and curse you to death.

But they are sorely mistaken.

There is no Satan to reward them.

They have been misled.

In the end there is only God's Love.

Pray to God to deliver you from their web of evil.

He will hear.

And you will be delivered.


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Sign Posts.

We need to be able to read the sign posts that point the way to God.
So that at least we are heading in the right direction.

In this we will be directly contradicting what we are being told by the media and the entertainment industries.

Rather than money, fast cars, nasty sex, filthy, wicked, materialism, power, and status, we will emphasize the things of God: people. love, compassion, forgiveness, non-violence, moderation, charity, equality, and the common good.

These are the characteristics which point to God.

Through prayer, contemplation, and study we can experience God for ourselves.

But first we must practice the commandments of Jesus:
"''You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind"'"  Matthew 22:37 (NRSV)
"'"You shall love your neighbor as yourself."'"  Matthew 22:39b (NRSV)
"'Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.'"  Luke 6:27,28 (NRSV)

If we do this we will be following in the footsteps of Jesus which lead directly to 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.]

You Can Count on Me.

If only people knew that they can call on God in distress and He will deliver them.

We are so used to thinking of God as absent, or inactive, or even unreal.

"For he delivers the needy when they call, the poor and those who have no helper. He has pity on the weak and the needy, and saves the lives of the needy.  From oppression and violence he redeems their life; and precious is their blood in his sight."  Psalm 72:12-14 (NRSV)

"Rescue the weak and the needy, deliver them from the hand of the wicked."  Psalm 82:4 (NRSV)

"'Is my hand shortened , that I cannot redeem?  Or have I no power to deliver?'"  Isaiah 50:2b (NRSV)

When we are young we feel as if we should not bother God with our prayers.
But as we grow in faith we realize that God listens to our prayers and answers them.

Moses, David, and Jesus all speak of God's steadfast love and compassion, of God's willingness to help.

Cry out to God!

He will say, "You can count on Me!"


[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.]

It's a Man's World.

The philosophy of men:
Being strong.
Being tough.
Not crying or whingeing.
Coping.
Competing.
Not showing emotion.
Being one of the boys.
Winning.

This was the philosophy with which we were confronted as children.

Because this was the dominant philosophy in society it was assumed that this was the philosophy of God.

It is not.

This is the reactive philosophy of the world.

When we realize that the dominant philosophy of the world has nothing to do with God we begin to see.

The mistake comes from confusing worldly authority with divine authority.
A mistake which was made by the institutions of the Church.

The divine right of kings was followed by the born to rule attitude of the conservative establishment, of which the Church was part.

Once we separate the teachings of Jesus - love and compassion - from the political conservatism of the establishment we will begin to grow.

The social justice agenda of the prophets - the widow, the fatherless, the stranger - is the opposite of this tough philosophy of the men of the establishment.
It is more Marx than Moses.

So the despised touchy-feely nanny state of the socialists turns out to be the true philosophy of God.

So Jesus prays, "'Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.'"  Matthew 6:10b (NRSV)

Because what we are taught to obey on earth is not God but men.


[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.]

T.V.

I hardly watch T.V. anymore.

I came to the conclusion that what was not Satanic entertainment was political propaganda.

So I turned it off.
The music, the sport, the news.
All of it.

And I'm happier for it.

No longer am I barraged with negativity and darkness.

I get my news from the internet, where I have some control over what I watch and read.

I listen to classical music, mostly sacred choral music.

I read with discrimination.

I write.

And I pray.

The Establishment.

When I was young it seemed to me that the conservative establishment had appropriated the higher ground in Christianity and used the threatening passages of the Bible to reinforce their position of power.

There was no talk of social justice, or freedom from oppression, or prejudice, or even corruption, or exploitation.
The interests of the rich business community were not threatened by the Church.

Instead we had a fear and smear campaign about sex and selfishness.

The Protestant work ethic reinforced the injustice of the business community.

And everyone was expected to feel ashamed of their natural sexual instincts.

This was done deliberately to subjugate everyone to the rich right-wing establishment.

It was a blatant abuse of the Christian religion.

As we move into the new millennium people are beginning to see that this is not what Jesus intended.

Neither is it God's way.

The prophets exhort us to care about the poor and the disabled, the destitute and the stranger.....

Jesus tells us to love everyone, even our enemies.

So the religion of unconditional love and social justice is emerging from the death of Christendom.

Perhaps the old, corrupt religion has to die before the new religion can be born.

Of course the powers of the world will try once again to usurp this new religion.
Just as the teachings of the historical Jesus were usurped by the bishops at Nicea and linked to the Roman state.

This new religion could be co-opted by the powers for their own purposes.

We must be sure that this does not happen.

Righteousness.

"'Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the orphan who had no helper.....and I caused the widows heart to sing for joy.....
"'I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame, I was father to the needy and I championed the cause of the stranger.
"'I broke the fangs of the unrighteous, and made them drop their prey from their teeth.'"  Job 29:12-17 (NRSV)
"'The stranger has not lodged in the street, I have opened my doors to the traveler.'"  Job 31:32 (NRSV)

This is Job's declaration of his righteousness before God.
It consists of charity and social justice.

"And the crowds asked him, 'What then should we do?'  In reply he said to them, "Whoever has two coats must share with anyone who has none, and whoever has food must do likewise.'
"Even the tax collectors came to be baptized, and they asked him, 'Teacher, what should we do?'  He said to them, 'Collect no more than the amount prescribed to you.'  Soldiers also asked him, 'And we, what should we do?'  He said to them, 'Do not extort money from anyone by threats or false accusations, and be satisfied with your wages.'"  Luke 3:10-14 (NRSV)

This was the advice of John the Baptist.

How does this relate to us today?

I would suggest that today we should open our hearts to the poor and destitute, the disabled and asylum seekers.
Instead of blaming them for their own misfortune.

I would also suggest that we deal honestly in business.
Not avoiding tax or exploiting labor.
But treating employees like brothers and sisters or sons and daughters.

Employers should provide as a father provides for his family.
They should open their hearts to their workers and the community around them.
Instead of oppressing and exploiting people our of fear.

We should challenge the conventions which say that we don't have to care about the people we employ, we are not responsible to anyone.

"'Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me'"  Matthew 25:40 (NRSV)

And this includes vulnerable people in third world countries.

I would say to those people - Do not resort to arms or violence in response to oppression and exploitation but cry out to God!
He will hear you.
And deliver you from their hands.


[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.]