Politics and holy stains
Presidential Powers
the almighty George all powerful
his very own hill top
Matthew 4:8 – Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor; 4:9 – and he said to him, “All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.”
A God of fundamentals who is a light, not a lash
by Sydney Harris
All this argument and controversy about the evolution of man, and no thought about the evolution of God. Fundamentalists and modernists disputing the origin of species, and no consideration of how our species has changed its view of God since the earliest times.
In the beginning, in the first book of the Old Testament, we find a vengeful as well as a gracious God, a tribal God extracting duty and devotion by ritual and sacrifice.
Then, as the Bible progresses, we find a strange thing happening. God Himself changes, in the eyes of the Israelites. He becomes less fearsome and more compassionate; He expands from a tribal to a universal deity; as men grew in understanding, God grew in stature.
At first, He rejoiced in the slaying of Israel’s enemies. But by the time of the Babylonian Exile, He was already depicted as a God who wept that the Egyptians were drowning in the Red Sea after the Israelites had safely crossed over. He cries, “Are the Egyptians not my children too?”
(This may be found in Midrash, the earliest commentary on the Hebrew Scriptures.)
And by the time we reach the great prophets, such as Deutero-Isaiah, man has discovered a God who is far closer to the precepts and parables of Rabbi Jesus than most of us realize. Many of Jesus’ sayings are direct quotations or paraphrases of the Old Testament, for he never considered himself anything but a pious Jew.
The evolution of God continued during his ministry, for He set about to reform and expand and deepen the vision of a loving and redemptive deity, placing the spirit above the laws that had come to cramp and rigidify the Old Guard fundamentalist Jews of his day.
The Ministry of Jesus was a further liberation from the ritual for its own sake. (It is not what goes into a man’s mouth that defiles him, but what comes out of it.”) It was an evolutionary breakthrough in men’s conception of the Creator and His relation to us.
Alas, the church founded in Jesus’ name (which I think would have shocked and scandalized Him) retrogressed, as all establishments do, and became in its own way as repressive and ritualistic and rigid as the synagogue he rebelled against, again placing law above spirit.
God grows, as we grow, for He reflects what we become; and when we grow to the fullest, we will have the fullest God – not a God of the fundamentalists, but a God of fundamentals, a light, not a lash.
first published in the Detroit Free Press
Friday, Dec. 4, 1981, feature page 15B
one dead twelve alive!
NO
one alive twelve dead!
no one to blame in the heat of emotions
of bleeding family members
one gigantic roller coaster
if it is true what Free Speech tv reports
that more US Military Personel have died
after they came home than in Iraq what size
the roller coaster when
all those
mothers/fathers/sisters/brothers/children/grandparents
learn
they are not alone?
it was ok for mommiee and daddy to spank us
so we learned aggression is ok under some circumstances
criminals and controllers have the same imprint
criminals go to jail
because they have not learned to control aggression
controllers control their aggression controlling others
controllers, depending on the number of people
under their control is equal to
how powerful they feel
the root of
“power corrupts absolutely”
beginning at age two
ending when we learn
we need
somebodies
to lean
on.
Evolution is always
becoming more aware than our parents
sometimes these times become
as if one thousands years lived in one day.
Other times
there is
Eureka!
too much rain in California
too much fire in Oklahoma
and thirteen miners in West Virginia
this January 2006
trapped underground
July 2002 nine miners
trapped 77 hours
with the all of America
a long long time to hold our breath
how much waste & greed does it take
before we all pass out?
Early in this mornings program you said
“I don’t think there has been any abuse of wiretapping.”
From as far back as J. Edgar Hoover
we know wire tapping, by our government,
has abused this power,
and spied on people with dissenting voice
including Vietnam War protesters.
My question is why your “thinking” doesn’t include
the facts of history?
“The fact that somebody leaked this program
causes great harm to the United States,” Bush said.
“There is an enemy out there. They read newspapers.”
May 20, 2003
“Senior U.S. officials said the chatter
suggests a significant attack inside
the United States might be in the works.”
(full story:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/05/20/terror.main/)
The “terrorists” have long known thru “senior officials”
their wires and phones and computers have been breached
now they know via “leaked…cause great harm…”
was Not to “the United States” the great harm
was to King George Bush por que
now we the people know we also too
are being spied upon via
cookies library cards et al.
Washington Journal C-SPAN 1006
first two callers of the year:
equally highly emotional
with their opposing held truths
rich man praising Bush with holy fervor
poor man bashing Bush with holy terror
a few reports of welfare fraud sets the rich man’s hair on fire
the few reports of now billionaires sets the poor man’s hair on fire
the Left and the Right’s powers held in One Disembodied Body
Thy name of this body is Corporation
Dis Embodied Corporation given equal rights of we the people
How did this happen?
ask George Orwell
failing that ask John Wheat Gibson
The information highway is near complete
with contradictory facts to sate every ideologue
Question of the morning:
What do you want from Washington this year?
Answer:
For those who who live there who took oaths
of, in de facto, service to we the people,
recall the essence of the tale
of an honest Mr. Smith who Goes To Washington,
give back the dishonorably acquired riches to the people
and take back their honor.
In plainer words:
It’s time to roast the Pork.
roger peter look and see
we all become masters of survival
some more dishonest honest or druthers
be kind to yourself
in any disparagement
half is yours half is mine theirs
everyone loves a teddy bear
(be leery of proprietorship
it is only comely in little children
and they
only step on your toes,
the big children go for the heart)
“the life unexamined
is not worth living”
my beloved
Mother of the Night and Day
are your best friends
paraphernalia manipulation creation
is only loopingly plausible
little big horn is aplenty
stars are born and die
the burden onerous
our personal past is our guide to future
stations a time of down
by the old mill stream
o the joy
to awake to the smell
of heavenly bread!
a very fine one you’ve picked there brother John
who ties the tongue like winter holds the seed
yet aware the beating there within
with rhythm of the ages sages it only takes
three wisdoms patience of the waiting
waiting the howling calm of the wind
tick tock three o’clock all tis at the well
music train clef’s then flats
Tipperary is not too much further now
and Tripoli has doubled in the past
cards are shuffled waiting for the deal
what is dreaming who is now awake
remember then
“It’s best to not take one’s self too seriously.”
of course my subject is my losing or more succinct
never truly knowing surely perhaps
once shedding discipline it is remarkable
the search for that which is most valued
changing muses in the stumbling along
of course lives are fraught with imperfection
full of denials and rejection
i try and i try but i
still hold remnants of the Vatican Rag
the “I’m not worthy will never be”
worthy of what and to whom i say
you priestly priest who scolds me not to think
or the false hearted friend who condemns my habit
while indulging his because it is manly
the fingers in the dark find f and g
paused like the eyes in candle light
to the silence between the in and out
will there be a 4:44 o’clock
between the tock find either you or i
after the tick is :41
most likely there will be a next tear drop to fall
she’s here :42
the walking stick is handy in the parlor
:43 one howling wind returns
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4:44 a.m.