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Larry Cannon's avatar

Amen Tom!

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Karen Lynn Cannon's avatar

Beautifully written Tom. Like the song, “It Is Well With My Soul”. “Whatever my lot, thou hast taught me to say, it is well, it is well with my soul.” ♥️👆

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Moe Strausberg's avatar

Thank you, Tom,

American Chrisianity is Roman and Greek. Jesus was a Jew. Its roots are not in GOOD VS EVIL BUT OF BALANCE. i DO NOT UNDERSTAND BLIND OBEDIENCE TO MEN LIKE eMPERORS, kINGS, pRESIDENTS OR PASTORS. i REMEMBER bILLY gRAHAM AS A fLIM fLAM MAN IT WAS MY PERCEPTION FROM MY REALITY. i AM OLD AND IN BODY NOT IN SPIRIT. i SURVIVE TILL AT LEAST 2025 WHEN i WAS NOT TO MAKE PLANS FOR 2011. i'VE STUDIED SCRIPTURE FOR 75 YEARS AND HAVE FOUND VERY LITTLE EVIL IN THE HEARTS OF MEN.

i HAVE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ON THE FRONT DOORPOST BUT i KNOW THERE WERE NEVER jEWS IN ancient eGYPT AND nOAH NEVER BUILT AN aRK. i AM Almost blind and cannot type and see the monitor and must look at the monitor to see if my typing was successful George Washington was a Freemason and Franklin, Jefferson and Paine were Unitarians and in 1789 Religion meant the acceptable religions in Henry VIII's England after he executed Thomas More

https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=religion

Merkaba mysticism is older than the story of Methusala and I don't do time very well.

https://healing-sounds.com/blogs/spirituality/kabbalah-star-of-david-merkaba

I know Chicago. I lined up at a Bridgeview Illinois processing center to become an American and couldn't watch my brothers and sisters treated like chattel by people where crosses and preaching love and respect and treating their fellows like the shit the Samaritans used to smear on the doorposts of the temple. It wouldn't be minus 25 degrees above my grave in Florida if I was able to handle the pain of good people doing terrible things because they were just following orders.

I was in a small village in the subarctic ion December 6 1989 when a devout Christian murdered 14 young engineering students in Montreal because they took up male engineering student places at Ecole Polytechnique. The young man could not compete on a level playing field and his Roman Church said women are there to serve and we are there to rule. I was in the coffee shop where they spoke the root of all the Dene Languages but sure enough a self professed Canadian Christian was celebrating God's will in Montreal.

I've been to Ogden Utah which welcomed Charlie Kirk because their Jesus said love thine enemy but Charlie Kirk was in Ogden to destroy Mormons because they follow an American Jesus not a Roman Emperor or a murderous coward like Peter the Hermit the first Crusader. Peter began his holocaust by slaughtering the Jews of Central Europe before the slaughters in Jerusalem. The Jews of central Europe were there before Jesus was conceived and never attacked their neighbours. Germany began in 1866 before it called itself the third Rome and now America is the fourth . I am sore afraid not for myself but for my great grandson and our future. I live where the churches are empty but our libraries are full and our schools need more teachers not more students and healthcare, education and welfare are rights of all that walk our soil and you define Christian as an insatiable appetite for excess and dominion. That is not who we are, we are not American whether on my side of the border or your side. America committed suicide in 2024 and wants us to go along for the ride. Last January Kristi Noem came to our library and said we would be assimilated and resistance is futile and she claims to be a real Christian. I am an old wandering Jew who was welcomed and loved everywhere he went. What the hell are you doing to yourselves?

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Tom's avatar

I don’t understand blind obedience either, which is why I don’t practice it.

I have no idea what you mean by “American Christianity”, but it sounds nothing like my church.

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Moe Strausberg's avatar

Thank you Tom,

Super reply. What is your church as you perceive it?

This poem was written in a kirk a Scottish Church by a great Jacobin. The Bard of Scotland. O what a gift the Giftee gie us to see ourselves as others see us.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/robertburns/works/to_a_louse/

To me metaphysical is basic not complex. What do you see when you look in the mirror? Do you like what you see? That is metaphysics. That is the story of Don Quixote and the Impossible dream. Everyday is a struggle for everyone from your deranged President to our most respected wiseman. Jesus said there is only one response. Leonard Cohen led the country band at Kamala Harris' High School. Here is his response.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2wZwT6qTJ4&list=RDr2wZwT6qTJ4&start_radio=1

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Kate Dreston's avatar

You are an inspiration. God's light shines through you. That was exciting to read you are writing fiction - very cool. I tried it once and found out I was no good at it. But, I did have fun writing it. I wish you all the best in that pursuit.

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Charisse Tyson's avatar

I will continue to pray for you. My cousin was given six months to live about a year ago. Like you, he's plugging away and putting it in Jesus' hands. You are an inspiration. 📖🙏⛪🕊️†

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Linzy Bruno's avatar

Inspiring

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