Christian Democrats in the United States
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Monday, June 22, 2009
10:51 AM
I feel the same way about Fox News. This one announcer was interviewing some financial analyst. The announcer said everyone was worried that the instability could cause problems with getting the oil out of the ground in Iran, and that could drive up prices. Then the announcer stated that was why the Iranians were out protesting in the first place, because they were concerned about oil prices. Excuse me? What? The Iranians are protesting because a bunch of fascist jerks are lying to them. Does this Fox News announcer want the same thing to happen someday in Los Angeles, millions of people marching on his door in Bel Air with torches and pitchforks? Because that's the kind of utterly selfish lie that causes wars.
I remember a 2000-year old story about religious dictators who were hypocrites....
The Iranian masses have realized that they outnumber the dictators and the fascists and murderers who follow them. Conscript soldiers, throw off your chains, burn your draft cards, and join the protests!
The fascists, whose sole interest is their personal power, will try to use the chaos of the peoples' rebellion to make the case against democracy, that democracy is too unstable, that Iranians cannot have a democracy to lead themselves into the unknown future of humanity.
But precisely the opposite is true - Iran is unstable because a bunch of fascist jerks are more interested in personal power than enabling Iranians' personal struggles for peace of mind and peace in the world. Iran is unstable because its people are intelligent but it is not a democracy.
Indeed the various peoples of South Asia are not stupid, I would say that I even agree with some of their mainstream conclusions about the intellectual history of the West, that the philosophers of antiquity in the West were in fact misguided and incoherent in a spiritual way, that Aristotle and others took their systematic and mathematical proofs for fact, when, however useful those models are, their conclusions are inevitably derived from their own presupposed rules. Whereas, any spiritual being immediately knows by the nature of perception that there is something in the real world beyond the scope of mechanistic logic.
The Iranians understand that their national peace cannot be achieved by foreign military intervention, and the rest of the world understands that as well. Most of the world is pretty sick of hearing about the violence. Like the Iranian people, we want to be free to explore all that God has given us, out in the world, but most importantly in own minds, and deep in our souls.
The violent anger that Ahmadinejad, Khomeni and his ilk drum up is the only thing they know how to do. In this way, the controlling forces of Iran's government are much stupider than the Iranian people, who know how to direct their lives.
The fascist brigands who use Islam as their excuse of the day to wield the knife of murder also stoke the anger of Muslims in Europe and the rest of the world. Just as the Iranian people should be free to live their lives openly and in honest freedom, without the lies that drip with blood, Muslims around the world must learn to control their own anger. Just as the Iranians should be free to openly participate in and control their own governments, so people ought to be free to draw cartoons of the prophets and even the messiah. It is said that God will only hold blasphemy against the spirit against us... and you can't draw a cartoon of something you cannot see. Besides, good humor is necessary to a heart open to God... God likes to laugh.
Similarly, I ought to be free to hold the opinion, which I do personally, that Muhammad is the False Prophet mentioned in Revelation, just as the sinfulness expressed in the partially free western world is the opposite character, Babylon, Mystery, and as polar opposites of cultural force, their interaction is used by the Beast and the Dragon to levy death upon the good people who live with God everywhere among us and in every religion -- but even though I hold this opinion personally, I certainly have no reason to hurt anyone because they do not believe the same way I do. (I also have no reason to hurtfully make fun of what other people believe by drawing immature cartoons.) That's the thing -- no one knows the details of God's plan, not us, not even the angels. When you turn to the light of the Lord, it is so interesting to the mind in and of itself, that what other people believe ceases to have any importance.
God does not want us to hate each other or to be angry about what we cannot control. The sword of death cannot control people even in death; when wielded by governments, inevitably the government slips and cuts its own throat. Thus good people courageously step forward without weapons, with only love to guard them. That is the story of the world, that is the way it always plays out. So, we might as well live the good dream while we are still dreaming in God's mind. I hope all the people of Iran choose the good dream. We may never reach perfection in our lives, but it is easier than you think to let it live in your heart.
Iranian revolution
Some stations have covered the anger Iranians feel that Ahmadinejad and the religious dictators insult their intelligence, claiming the election was not a fraud and that Iran is the "most stable country in the world." Iranians are not stupid. They know they are human and often err in the struggle with their selves, each other and the rest of us out in the world.I feel the same way about Fox News. This one announcer was interviewing some financial analyst. The announcer said everyone was worried that the instability could cause problems with getting the oil out of the ground in Iran, and that could drive up prices. Then the announcer stated that was why the Iranians were out protesting in the first place, because they were concerned about oil prices. Excuse me? What? The Iranians are protesting because a bunch of fascist jerks are lying to them. Does this Fox News announcer want the same thing to happen someday in Los Angeles, millions of people marching on his door in Bel Air with torches and pitchforks? Because that's the kind of utterly selfish lie that causes wars.
I remember a 2000-year old story about religious dictators who were hypocrites....
The Iranian masses have realized that they outnumber the dictators and the fascists and murderers who follow them. Conscript soldiers, throw off your chains, burn your draft cards, and join the protests!
The fascists, whose sole interest is their personal power, will try to use the chaos of the peoples' rebellion to make the case against democracy, that democracy is too unstable, that Iranians cannot have a democracy to lead themselves into the unknown future of humanity.
But precisely the opposite is true - Iran is unstable because a bunch of fascist jerks are more interested in personal power than enabling Iranians' personal struggles for peace of mind and peace in the world. Iran is unstable because its people are intelligent but it is not a democracy.
Indeed the various peoples of South Asia are not stupid, I would say that I even agree with some of their mainstream conclusions about the intellectual history of the West, that the philosophers of antiquity in the West were in fact misguided and incoherent in a spiritual way, that Aristotle and others took their systematic and mathematical proofs for fact, when, however useful those models are, their conclusions are inevitably derived from their own presupposed rules. Whereas, any spiritual being immediately knows by the nature of perception that there is something in the real world beyond the scope of mechanistic logic.
The Iranians understand that their national peace cannot be achieved by foreign military intervention, and the rest of the world understands that as well. Most of the world is pretty sick of hearing about the violence. Like the Iranian people, we want to be free to explore all that God has given us, out in the world, but most importantly in own minds, and deep in our souls.
The violent anger that Ahmadinejad, Khomeni and his ilk drum up is the only thing they know how to do. In this way, the controlling forces of Iran's government are much stupider than the Iranian people, who know how to direct their lives.
The fascist brigands who use Islam as their excuse of the day to wield the knife of murder also stoke the anger of Muslims in Europe and the rest of the world. Just as the Iranian people should be free to live their lives openly and in honest freedom, without the lies that drip with blood, Muslims around the world must learn to control their own anger. Just as the Iranians should be free to openly participate in and control their own governments, so people ought to be free to draw cartoons of the prophets and even the messiah. It is said that God will only hold blasphemy against the spirit against us... and you can't draw a cartoon of something you cannot see. Besides, good humor is necessary to a heart open to God... God likes to laugh.
Similarly, I ought to be free to hold the opinion, which I do personally, that Muhammad is the False Prophet mentioned in Revelation, just as the sinfulness expressed in the partially free western world is the opposite character, Babylon, Mystery, and as polar opposites of cultural force, their interaction is used by the Beast and the Dragon to levy death upon the good people who live with God everywhere among us and in every religion -- but even though I hold this opinion personally, I certainly have no reason to hurt anyone because they do not believe the same way I do. (I also have no reason to hurtfully make fun of what other people believe by drawing immature cartoons.) That's the thing -- no one knows the details of God's plan, not us, not even the angels. When you turn to the light of the Lord, it is so interesting to the mind in and of itself, that what other people believe ceases to have any importance.
God does not want us to hate each other or to be angry about what we cannot control. The sword of death cannot control people even in death; when wielded by governments, inevitably the government slips and cuts its own throat. Thus good people courageously step forward without weapons, with only love to guard them. That is the story of the world, that is the way it always plays out. So, we might as well live the good dream while we are still dreaming in God's mind. I hope all the people of Iran choose the good dream. We may never reach perfection in our lives, but it is easier than you think to let it live in your heart.
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