Christian Democrats in the United States
Conceptual Issues - U.S. and HistoryWhether we believe that Jesus Christ was God's incarnation or not, we believe in the message of peace and redemption for all people, and of our free wills that no person or country can ever take, even by death. We can all learn to live in a world without fighting.
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Sunday, July 5, 2009
12:08 AM
Kim Jong-il and Sarah Palin: Both Annoying.
Fox News going to have a special on the history of "Governeor Sarah Palin," as if people will roll over and let her milk the title Governor even after she quit. Sarah Palin: A quitter. An opportunist. A sham. Sarah Palin, will you please quit your disastrous ambition for power and dutifully serve your community as a happy and content hockey coach.
Kim Jong-il: Dutifully playing the part of Doctor Evil for the Hollywood script acted out inside his demented mind. Really no more than a man, believing himself alone as equivalent to his nation, he thus finds himself alone, and will fade into history with the rest of a handful of talentless hacks dreaming themselves big with the barrel of a gun, remembered only as anecdotes of criminal psychology. Well dude, you haven't blown up California yet on this 4th of July. You could show your magnanimous wisdom and open your country to the world, and give up war... or you can shove it. Your act is boring -- learn a new song. It doesn't matter who you can kill, it matters if your name is in the book of life.
President Obama should stop using the word "sacred" to elevate the church of government, because our kingdom of iron and stone will one day be destroyed not by any rival nation or terrorist, but by God the almighty. Don't insult our intelligence. Managing the affairs of government well is necessary to a society free to reflect on the Lord, but it is not in and of itself a holy thing. President Obama, like Mike Huckabee, ought to resist the temptation to glorify themselves and their points of view in a bully pulpit. Democracy acknowledges that no individual or group can invade everyone's minds, so to speak, to know them, predict them or control them. In this the free mind is a unique entity, a radiation of being from a harmony of matter tuned to time, that cannot be categorized or explained.
"Christian Democracy:" A political spin created on democracy, abusing the trappings of Christian doctrine, to apply a split defined along arbitrary criteria: the ritual recitation of pledges or prayers, allegiance to this or that variation on metaphysical speculation, static, becoming stagnant and stifled, more and more the same. This notion mandates that the only legitimate democracy is one in which all people believe more or less the same thing, that is to say, they rehearse the same set of symbols and dialogs over and over, and these can be easily steered toward seemingly inevitable conclusions that benefit those in power. This idea is structurally identical to fascist governments today that manipulate the doctrines of Islam to corral their people ultimately with truncheons, tear gas and bullets. Well, that's not democracy.
Democracy means allowing new thought to emerge, to flower our potential in mysterious ways of the Lord. That means letting go of telling other people what they should believe, in order to explore what we could believe, in case we might stumble upon greater understanding. Christian Democrats, on the other hand, might be a name for we who choose to live at peace with the world, secure in our faith that one day Jesus of Nazareth -- the man, not the figurehead -- will return in the flesh, and that whatever may happen on that day we know not, but that it will be amazing.
The new world of the spirit and of new frontiers unfolds for the children of humanity. Ignorance and destruction will fade to dust. Let them go, and live! Happy 4th.
Rod Serling: Picture if you will, a place where the lies men tell themselves to numb their conscience take palatable form, not mere illusions of the screen but a reflection of tangible reality. Neighbors turn on each other and kill their friends and family to suppress their inner fear of what they cannot explain. Criminals of world war two are served justice by their victim souls. An old man would prefer to spend eternity with his dog than in heaven, only to find the heaven he deserved all along. The mind of this one man, an American, upending the lies of all men by touching the heart through a simple work of dramatic fiction, unadorned by the common desire to destroy the world to make it more simple to understand. A mind, secured to the earth by a good heart, which inhabits not only this world, but another dimension: the Twilight Zone.
There is a day, one of so many potential worlds, in which all human beings are free, free from material need and free from spiritual deficit, free to pursue art and love, and to transmit the seed of life and of mind into the void of the seas and the planets above. In this potential world all people would follow Christ because he was there, standing before you as any man would, but you just knew: everything would fall into place, and so it would be the obvious thing to do, because it would be good to do so, and the joy of knowing would overpower all our simian instincts to lie and to kill. Most curiously, he is there, and everything will fall into place if you let it. No one can trick people into the truth -- and no one needs to, because the truth is unfolding beyond anyone's control.
God Bless Rod Serling
Mike Huckabee is going to tell us what the nation will believe in for the next twenty years. Well poo on you, poo poo face Mike Huckabee, go poo on yourself, take your tasteless poo that you spew forth onto the screen and eat it.Kim Jong-il and Sarah Palin: Both Annoying.
Fox News going to have a special on the history of "Governeor Sarah Palin," as if people will roll over and let her milk the title Governor even after she quit. Sarah Palin: A quitter. An opportunist. A sham. Sarah Palin, will you please quit your disastrous ambition for power and dutifully serve your community as a happy and content hockey coach.
Kim Jong-il: Dutifully playing the part of Doctor Evil for the Hollywood script acted out inside his demented mind. Really no more than a man, believing himself alone as equivalent to his nation, he thus finds himself alone, and will fade into history with the rest of a handful of talentless hacks dreaming themselves big with the barrel of a gun, remembered only as anecdotes of criminal psychology. Well dude, you haven't blown up California yet on this 4th of July. You could show your magnanimous wisdom and open your country to the world, and give up war... or you can shove it. Your act is boring -- learn a new song. It doesn't matter who you can kill, it matters if your name is in the book of life.
President Obama should stop using the word "sacred" to elevate the church of government, because our kingdom of iron and stone will one day be destroyed not by any rival nation or terrorist, but by God the almighty. Don't insult our intelligence. Managing the affairs of government well is necessary to a society free to reflect on the Lord, but it is not in and of itself a holy thing. President Obama, like Mike Huckabee, ought to resist the temptation to glorify themselves and their points of view in a bully pulpit. Democracy acknowledges that no individual or group can invade everyone's minds, so to speak, to know them, predict them or control them. In this the free mind is a unique entity, a radiation of being from a harmony of matter tuned to time, that cannot be categorized or explained.
"Christian Democracy:" A political spin created on democracy, abusing the trappings of Christian doctrine, to apply a split defined along arbitrary criteria: the ritual recitation of pledges or prayers, allegiance to this or that variation on metaphysical speculation, static, becoming stagnant and stifled, more and more the same. This notion mandates that the only legitimate democracy is one in which all people believe more or less the same thing, that is to say, they rehearse the same set of symbols and dialogs over and over, and these can be easily steered toward seemingly inevitable conclusions that benefit those in power. This idea is structurally identical to fascist governments today that manipulate the doctrines of Islam to corral their people ultimately with truncheons, tear gas and bullets. Well, that's not democracy.
Democracy means allowing new thought to emerge, to flower our potential in mysterious ways of the Lord. That means letting go of telling other people what they should believe, in order to explore what we could believe, in case we might stumble upon greater understanding. Christian Democrats, on the other hand, might be a name for we who choose to live at peace with the world, secure in our faith that one day Jesus of Nazareth -- the man, not the figurehead -- will return in the flesh, and that whatever may happen on that day we know not, but that it will be amazing.
The new world of the spirit and of new frontiers unfolds for the children of humanity. Ignorance and destruction will fade to dust. Let them go, and live! Happy 4th.
Rod Serling: Picture if you will, a place where the lies men tell themselves to numb their conscience take palatable form, not mere illusions of the screen but a reflection of tangible reality. Neighbors turn on each other and kill their friends and family to suppress their inner fear of what they cannot explain. Criminals of world war two are served justice by their victim souls. An old man would prefer to spend eternity with his dog than in heaven, only to find the heaven he deserved all along. The mind of this one man, an American, upending the lies of all men by touching the heart through a simple work of dramatic fiction, unadorned by the common desire to destroy the world to make it more simple to understand. A mind, secured to the earth by a good heart, which inhabits not only this world, but another dimension: the Twilight Zone.
There is a day, one of so many potential worlds, in which all human beings are free, free from material need and free from spiritual deficit, free to pursue art and love, and to transmit the seed of life and of mind into the void of the seas and the planets above. In this potential world all people would follow Christ because he was there, standing before you as any man would, but you just knew: everything would fall into place, and so it would be the obvious thing to do, because it would be good to do so, and the joy of knowing would overpower all our simian instincts to lie and to kill. Most curiously, he is there, and everything will fall into place if you let it. No one can trick people into the truth -- and no one needs to, because the truth is unfolding beyond anyone's control.
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