I follow an account — that I believe is Catholic in nature — that begins every day with a prayer: “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.” This is usually accompanied by some art that I find very attractive, as with today’s:
Very well stated Tom. I for one have never been comfortable with even attending a church where a woman is in the pulpit. I just have a hard time accepting that God ordains women to be Pastors. Teachers perhaps, but not Pastors. 🙏♥️
I was brought up in two Judaic traditions and Paul spoke to Romans and you can't speak Hebrew to Romans they speak Latin. I am uncomfortable with Pharisees and Sadducees and here in Quebec Canada gender is ANALOG and tables and chairs have genders and humans are on a wide spectrum of order and disorder. I am almost 77 and was born lazy according to the Church of England during the rule of the Most Corrupt and Incompetent THE KAKISTOCRACY from 1535-1689 and the English portion of the Protestant Civil War.
We are great grandparents and our children are NEW ROMANS and know only the Gods of Rome and the Empire and my Brother Jesus is still being crucified every moment of everyday and is still weeping.
I love the measured tone here. It has a lot more rhetorical power than overly emotional condemnations. I thought I would disagree with your argument, but I think it is compelling.
I will be 77 at the Solstice and I was born Autism Spectrum Disordered and I am ill equipped to be a Pharisee like Brother Paul. I know my Romans and as John Ralston Saul said in 1995 The USA is ROME and you are the NEW ROMANS. The USA is the only Empire since Rome to not understand it is Rome.
Page 299-301 The Doubter's Companion; A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense
Viking Press 1994.
Sir John was my go to historian and guru during Covid and he also wrote The Collapse of Globalism and the Reinvention of the World Penguin 1995.
Kamala Harris understands English Protestantism and America she grew up five blocks from my home 70 years ago when I was seven and I could walk in safety to Kamala's. In 1975 Kamala could walk safely and take public transit to school in Westmount Quebec's Century old Westmount English Protestant Public School and it is celebrating 150 years of leadership training. Kamala went to Westmount High School just like Leonard Cohen.
Nobody loved our Brother Jesus like Brother Leonard who couldn't help but praise our Brother Son of Man. Your writing is illuminating. We all live in fear of the unknown especially the Pharisees and Sadducees. I can't think in straight lines there are too many tangents. I am a month from 77 and still only seven and needing guidance.
And Jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the water
It is 2025 and if I could still walk, I am blind in one eye and the other isn't so good. If I could still walk, I could walk safely in Kamala's neighbourhood and shop at Plaza Cote des Neiges where people look like the entire globe not Witch Ata, Kansas in 1895 when Ambrose Bierce first asked "What's the matter with Kansas".
Shakespeare didn't have the KJV and said "the answer is not in the stars but in ourselves."
Trump refused to put his hand on the Bible at his inauguration.
He has said on camera "I'm not a Christian."
Jesus also warned us many would falsely come in His name. You notice Trump does not speak of Jesus, only "god". There are many like this.
His office of faith or whatever it's called is another deception IMO. That he cynically uses people's fears and creates imaginary "boogeymen" of persecution and is repugnant.
I agree. We should keep our faith close and not parade it publicly.
There are sound reasons men should lead. They need to be leaders and need the examples of strong leadership in church and elsewhere to learn how to be a strong leader.
Women have strengths other than leadership. God hasn't "short changed" anyone but He made us as we are for good and sound reasons.
Very well stated Tom. I for one have never been comfortable with even attending a church where a woman is in the pulpit. I just have a hard time accepting that God ordains women to be Pastors. Teachers perhaps, but not Pastors. 🙏♥️
Thank You Karen,
I was brought up in two Judaic traditions and Paul spoke to Romans and you can't speak Hebrew to Romans they speak Latin. I am uncomfortable with Pharisees and Sadducees and here in Quebec Canada gender is ANALOG and tables and chairs have genders and humans are on a wide spectrum of order and disorder. I am almost 77 and was born lazy according to the Church of England during the rule of the Most Corrupt and Incompetent THE KAKISTOCRACY from 1535-1689 and the English portion of the Protestant Civil War.
Mark Twain wrote my War Prayer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVYIRbmxHpc&t=93s
We are great grandparents and our children are NEW ROMANS and know only the Gods of Rome and the Empire and my Brother Jesus is still being crucified every moment of everyday and is still weeping.
So much wisdom, brother. So much wisdom. Thank you.
I love the measured tone here. It has a lot more rhetorical power than overly emotional condemnations. I thought I would disagree with your argument, but I think it is compelling.
Thanks!
I will be 77 at the Solstice and I was born Autism Spectrum Disordered and I am ill equipped to be a Pharisee like Brother Paul. I know my Romans and as John Ralston Saul said in 1995 The USA is ROME and you are the NEW ROMANS. The USA is the only Empire since Rome to not understand it is Rome.
Page 299-301 The Doubter's Companion; A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense
Viking Press 1994.
Sir John was my go to historian and guru during Covid and he also wrote The Collapse of Globalism and the Reinvention of the World Penguin 1995.
Kamala Harris understands English Protestantism and America she grew up five blocks from my home 70 years ago when I was seven and I could walk in safety to Kamala's. In 1975 Kamala could walk safely and take public transit to school in Westmount Quebec's Century old Westmount English Protestant Public School and it is celebrating 150 years of leadership training. Kamala went to Westmount High School just like Leonard Cohen.
https://westmount.emsb.qc.ca/whs
Nobody loved our Brother Jesus like Brother Leonard who couldn't help but praise our Brother Son of Man. Your writing is illuminating. We all live in fear of the unknown especially the Pharisees and Sadducees. I can't think in straight lines there are too many tangents. I am a month from 77 and still only seven and needing guidance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF3SJerPG7g
And Jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the water
It is 2025 and if I could still walk, I am blind in one eye and the other isn't so good. If I could still walk, I could walk safely in Kamala's neighbourhood and shop at Plaza Cote des Neiges where people look like the entire globe not Witch Ata, Kansas in 1895 when Ambrose Bierce first asked "What's the matter with Kansas".
Shakespeare didn't have the KJV and said "the answer is not in the stars but in ourselves."
Thank you for your inspiring thoughts
Trump refused to put his hand on the Bible at his inauguration.
He has said on camera "I'm not a Christian."
Jesus also warned us many would falsely come in His name. You notice Trump does not speak of Jesus, only "god". There are many like this.
His office of faith or whatever it's called is another deception IMO. That he cynically uses people's fears and creates imaginary "boogeymen" of persecution and is repugnant.
I agree. We should keep our faith close and not parade it publicly.
There are sound reasons men should lead. They need to be leaders and need the examples of strong leadership in church and elsewhere to learn how to be a strong leader.
Women have strengths other than leadership. God hasn't "short changed" anyone but He made us as we are for good and sound reasons.
Thank you for your article.