"CHURCH AND STATE - FALSE GODS"
As you may of learned by now I have strong opinions on two subjects which tends to send people into a "State of Urination". They get "pissed off" because I believe this country was formed by those who believe the separation of Church and State was and is the substance of this great nation. That was the intent, the original intent of the "Founding Fathers", who due to the proliferation of false Gods has been challenged.
"THE FOUNDLING FATHERS"
This one really gets to me because I understand what abuse is. Some of the clergy need to be castrated and then shot. They are the "Foundling Fathers". Corruption, indecency and abuse, physical or mental, in either the political or the clerical arena should not be tolerated. Because they both have a jurisdiction over people's thoughts and psychological futures. Lest you come up with a better answer, greed and power rule here, by virtue of fear and eventually the excommunication from the club.
I HATE ABUSERS AND COVERUPS
I am dismayed at the coverup of this corruptness in the Catholic Church, heavily defended by the HOLY SEE. Thats the bad part. It should never of been, nor ever tolerated.
The Holy See (Latin: Sancta Sedes) is the episcopal jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in Rome, led by the Pope. It forms the central government of the Church. As such, legally diplomatically, and in international law as a sovereign entity, the Holy See acts and speaks for the whole Catholic Church.
So where do we put this blame for the damages done by their sales and regional representatives. Lets put the blame on the manufacturer. As my attorney would say, go for the money. If the Church has all this power and control and globally is the recipient of many claims from many countries then lets get to the source. It all comes down from the top. The General Sales Manager.
Just like in politics, the standing leader is the target of opportunity. Anything the last administration did that is now failing is still blamed on President Obama. The difference Obama had little to do with it. The present Pope may of been involved.
That old, "a few bad apples ruin the bunch is a dose of well....three bulls". The SEE controlled their worthless lives, hid them, swept it under the expensive carpet, gave them a new sales territory, worse a new base to draw from, and in some cases outright lied. There was coverup from the Vatican to the streets of Boston and the other cities.
WE ALL USE GOD AS A TOOL OF CONTROL
I have seen a lot of abuse and misuse of both of these foundations of our culture. There is a grey mass forming where some would merge the laws of the land and the laws of GOD. It is not new, it is the reason for our existence. The reason those pilgrims left the old world and ventured into the unknown for a better way.
Mans freedom's, and beliefs, have been challenged down during the ages, and in some cases led to the great declarations of our time. The Magna Charter literally established a middle class, the Declaration of Independence let to the establishment of the United States. On the other side of the coin, the Inquisition, the Pogroms, the Crusades, all challenged free belief. Today the theocracies, the FAR whatever in our world like the Taliban all seek to control.
No, no, no, I'm not just picking on the followers of the Catholic Church, it's a very hot topic now as some groups intend to sue the Vatican to the world court. It will play out when it does. But the pain of thousands needs to be answered.
All religions have extreme factions in one way or another. My beloved Florida has more Youth Ministers, Choir leaders, and pedophiles per capita in the jail for molesting minors than many other states.
Regardless of which of the Christian denominations, sects, specialties, beliefs, dialects, languages, or D&B ratings. All of them have participants but unfortunately one group dominates the field. Thinking out loud, it's about time they let the Priests marry. It's a strange belief that has "those coaching marriage have had nothing to do with it'. The answer lies in the book, the Da Vinci code. After reading it and seeing the excellent movie by Tom Hanks, one understands the secrecy, and mystery of the Church and it's goal to sublimate women.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY OFFENDER
My own religion, I am a Conservative Jew, scares me with it's Orthodoxy element, the extreme faction of the Jewish belief that has it's own following as does the Muslim world.
As a young Bar Mitzvah student I remember being smacked on the head with a book when I got one of the passages either phonetically wrong or out of sequence wrong.
I had a lot of headaches, he got a little too liberal with that book and I stormed out one day. But they tell me I put on a stellar performance and got a lot of pens. At almost 6'2 and 215, no one smacks me on the head anymore. I smack back and really don't care who is the smacker.
The Episcopal's are trying to Bishop, a known Lesbian. What a stir this caused. What do the words freedom of who you love and inclusion mean? They seem to be forgotten when controversy arises. Hmm, we never did this before?
It would probably bring thousands to their Church, thats what it would do by showing the openness of love and not hate or looking down on some because of gender or sexual. like a Bishop has the time to philander 24/7. There is no other reason. Technically that is against the law. So, another reason to separate the Church and State from the Church side of the issue.
THE EXTREME TALIBAN
Bill Maier once explained the difference in the Christian world versus the Extreme Muslim world. A Christian man gets up on Sunday and hears his neighbor mowing the lawn and pays little attention to it. An extreme Muslim gets up on Sunday, hears the mower, gets his AK-47 and shoots the guy. One takes religion for what it is and the other takes it for what it commands, literally.
HEARTBURN, From a Broken System.
I grow more and more concerned about these two topics and it has forced me to increase my stock of Alka-Selzer. There are times when eating can get out of hand and you just need to drop two of those white quarter sized pellets into ten ounces of water. Like indulgence, we are all food junkies. When you gobble down a chocolate eclair, a 14 oz. Dunkin Donuts French Vanilla coffee, with Mocha at Midnight and wonder why you are staring at the ceiling at 3:00 AM with this gurgle feeling, you are a junkie. Same thing with news.
But the biggest heartburn I feel today is the political arena we live in. We have become the Romans. We are a circus of actors, clowns, performers and some even have evolved to live by the sword of political assignation and that only ends in winners and losers, not always fair at times. But not without our tags, we are a nation of tags, "liberal, conservative, socialist, independent, and are classified or termed "soft or hard, dove or hawk, and maybe we wish to be just mainstream".
We have Senators and Congressmen who vote by the party line standard of "NO" or by the greed of political donations called "bribes". Bribes are alive and well thank you. In another time, they would be exposed and castigated. Maybe castrated would be a better idea. We could start with "E" street in Washington. Many lobbyists live there.
TV HAS BECOME THE BIG LIE DEPOT
FOX "news" people are like the presenters on Home Shopping. The product comes out, the presenters fall all over it, one lies, and the other swears to it.
And they show you "what a problem you have!" Some of those demos they do are so Dolly-wood played out they better get a fifth grader to show them how to "clean glass" or "change the bag" on the vacuum cleaner. And how many friggen pots do you need to heat up Manwhich or Burger Helper.
The product shown miraculously solves the problem. Add, big hair, big teeth, and lots of hype. Just like in Politics. Distortion and Dolly-wood.
Want to see the wacky side of life, turn on the TV at 4:00 AM. It is another culture. Voodoo Evangelicals calling the flock to some mysterious place explaining tithing and donations in terms your accountant would advise you to sell your house and donate all of it. Our Senators and Congressmen putting stuff on the Federal register that no one cares about, or they wish to slide it by. They look like idiots talking to an empty room.
One of the slickest cons is Kevin Trudeau, an author strongly thought to be a plagiarist, infomercial salesman aka the supreme con man, radio personality, without a station just infomercials, and advocate of alternative medicine who was accused of playing doctor by the feds. He has several new scams out now.
He is best known for a number of controversial television infomercials promoting his products, and for several books including Natural Cures, Free Money, Beating the Credit Reports.
What you might not know is he is a felon. Go to Wikipedia and get the truth. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Trudeau
Trudeau has been embroiled in a number of civil suits and misdemeanor and felony criminal cases. He was convicted of larceny and credit card fraud in the early 1990s, and in 1998 paid a $500,000 fine for making false or misleading claims in his infomercials.
He has millions off these ripoffs. It gives me the MEDIA gurgle and it seems to occur more often when I hear Sean Hannity and Sarah Palin vocalize their mutual mental masturbation during their various scheduled and promoted functions. Ad Nauseam. I reach for the bottle of Alka Seltzer just when O'Reilly has Hannity on his show or Beck hosts Hannity calling each other "Great Americans". A true farce.