What Are We Here for Anyway?

Maybe this is just a fond daydream of my own but I have a vision of the Church as potentially able to be a real powerhouse in the world while as a matter of melancholy fact it's acting like anything but.  Could't we exert ourselvs to that level once in a while?  

It's our job, isn't it?  Or is it?  I mean to save America, to prevail with god for whatever is needed to roll back our national sins and get something back of the original Christian nature of America.  Yes it was once a Christian nation.  Even though the big name framers weren't Christians they were soaked in the culture of Christianity at least and their work drew heavily on it.  But the people of America were for the most part genuinely Christian in those early years, and that is what shaped the culture that brought down blessings from God.  Yes, slavery but we did away with it and things were getting better, and even those who held slaves often knew it was wrong an d were tryijg to figure out the bst way to end the practice without destroying the fabric of life, whioch yes, could have happened because the salves were not prepared for the kijind of life they d have to adjust to without a lot of preparation and that had to be thought out.  But that's another whole subjwect.

What I'm thinking of now is that the Church needs to wake up as Voddie Baucham calls the nation to do, wake up and realize the power we have available to ys if only we seek it with determination and ...  and self sacrifice.

There's the rub.  Self sacrifice.  I think that's what we are called to.  Ands down through history there have been Christians who did put their own lives on the cross in order to accomplish sometng for God and for the world.  Revivals come out of such a frame of ind.  Social movements for the benefit of the disadvantaged come out of that state of mind.  Missions across the world come out of that state of mind.   And why couldn't a great concerted effot to sae America be our objective this time and move us to the level of self sacrifice necessary to bring it about?

I mean things like fasting yes, whenever and wherever a particular individual is upp to it, and everyone has his own limits for that, but also giving up things like television shows in order to paray for an hour.  Learning how to pray for proteracted periods is something we could all try to do, it's ot easy, it does have to be learned.  I think of old time Pentecostsals in particular who seemed to be able to prayey for hours on end or until they felt the burden lift from tghem and knew theyir prayers were heard.  I've nwevr had that experience but I'v always wished I could have it and I'm in awe of those who have had it.  Tbey feel the burden, tjhey have the strength to keep praying about that burden for however long it takes until they are then able to feel it lift.  It sounds simple but impossible at the same time.  But if there is anyone who could do that for America he should do it now.  I'm using the generic masculine by the way because thomas Sowell gave a nice argument in favor of it and I've felt so awkward with all the other solutions, they just sound illiterate and they are confusing.  There was never any problem for me back int he saday when I had to read my female self into the masculine and it's a made up problem.  Anyway if you dislike it sorry it's correct English and I'm going back to it.

Fervent protracted prayer.  Maybe special prayer meetings but frequent ones, none of this once a week stuff, something every day at least needs to be done if we want to prevail with God and actually accomplish something for the saving of America.  The only weay we could win the midterm elections ifis if we pray, repent, confess sins and denounce the sins of America, and pray pray pray.  Otherwise the elections will just play out as they always do, on the basis of the worst in human endeavor as it has  been going fot the last few years.

If whole churches could stay late and pray tohether that would be one way to do it.  There are many ways to do it.  If every good church in America did something to get God to hear us and act to save the nation, that would be the best of all possible thigs.  EVERY church in the nation that has a right to be called a church, that teaches the truth rather than some compromised worldly gobbledygiiok.  If they wake up and join in great but otherwise let them die out while the solid churches ower up and cry out to God and neer let Him rest until He saves America.

I daydream about his sort of thing quite a bit even though I miyself don't have the energy for it a oit of the time.  I've had my moments but sustained dedication no, but that's why we need a lot of us doing it, to support each other in prayer along with everything else we're prayering for.    

I think that's what the Church is for.  I think that's why we're here.  To do our utmost, to a self sacrificial level, to bring God's righteousness down into this world and like salt stop the spread of corruption and likgke light bring truth into the darkness.  It takes commitment, it takes exertion, it takes sacrifice.   I wish for it, I pray for it, I wish I myself were better at it.

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Daniel ate "no pleasant food" for three weeks as he was praying for understanding of God's plan for His peopele as the Babylonian capitivity was coming to an end.  That was his fast. There are all kinds of ways to fast, cutting out specific foods, or cutting out whole meals, or going a day or more, it's all a matter of what you are able to do.  And of course giving up ordinary pastimes and recreations is anogther way to fast.  

When David's first son by Bathsheba was born the infant was sickly to the point of death and David prayed every day on his face without eating until the baby finally died.  In those days I think a daily fast meant not eating until after sundown and then he'd eat so it wasn't a complete fast for every moment of the week the baby continued to lifve.  He was under God's judgmetn for his sin wqith Bathsheba and he prayed that god might spare his son.  Sometimes God would, in this case He didn't.  David knew everteless that whe would see the child when hehimself went to be with the Lord.

Listen to Voddi Baucham's wonderful sermon on God's judgmetn of America.  

Later:  I keep wanting to get across that this is a huge task we're facing, not some everyday prayer request or even everyday political problem.  America has been accumulating sin against God for decades at least and we are up to our ears in it if not quite over our heads, thouigh maybe we are that too, metaphors like that should probably be avoided.  Anyeay,  I think of all the sins we've been accumulating since the Sixties, and I don't see that the Church has ever done much if anything about them.  We ight them when they are looming , we see them coming and we muster energy to defeat them at the polls, but that's the problem, although we may also pray our main efforts are political.  The real job of the Church which is to work with God to defeat the forces of darkness in this worklk is hardly ever exercised to the level it could be if we only recognized that that is our calling and that God would stren gthen us for it if we set ourselves to realize it.  

I aLWAYS PICTUR all THE GOOD CHURCHES INVOLVED IN THIS, BUT OF COURSE     A QW KNOQ DEOM THE STORY  of Gideon if nowehre else in God's word, God can work with small numbers to accomplish great things, and may actually prefer it.  But here we are and the wmore the better it seems to me if only the churches would get the message and see the need and work to engage each opther in the project and set ourselves wqith a new passion to be he saly and light we are called to and push out the corruption while establishing God's righteousness in the land.   It could be done, yes really it could be done, we have the power of God at our disposal you know, we just have to make the commitment and not give up.

Voddie Baucham Judmgnet on America

 For a few weeks I've written a blog post from time to time on the nation's being under God's judmgnet despite all the good things that GTrump is doing and that if we don't deal with this basic fact everything we get by way of political blessings is fragile and can't stand for long.  Trump is a great belssing but petrhaps he is also a distraction from what Christians should be doing if we want to save America.

So I wrote the previous post, another rather brief call to Christians to seek God as our only help for our pllitical mess.  Then I decided to see if anyone else was talking about the nation's being under judgment and found Voddie Baucham.  The only one I found was Voddie Baucham.  Seems to me some of our vbest voices are coming from black men these days.  

First I saw him interviewed and he talks about what a great nation iAmerica is, lbessed by God in so many ways and the one solid voice for God in the world. DESPITE the fact that we are under God's judgment.  And then I found his whole sermon on that topic.  America Wake Up, God's Warning to the Trump Era.    I can't see well enough to put up the URL but I think it can be found by seraching on Voddie Baucham and God's judgment on America and similar terms.  It's a great sermon,  a really really great sermon and everybody should listen to it through tot the end, bugt mostly of course Christains who are the only onces whoul should be expected to understand it as it should be understood.  Nevertheless as he says many of the churches are compromised and may not get it either.

Yes indeed, wake up America.  Trump is doing things we want him to do but he can't save us when God is against us.  In fact he may e mostly a distraction from what we need to be doing.  We need to be addressing the sins of the nation, repenting for our own part in them, fopr our lack of action against them, praying for htem to be reversed and for the nation to be saved.    

He names the two I keep naming though of course there are hundreds to be confessed and rependeted of.  But abortion and the destrution of marriage are the two big ones these days, through many contecxtrs, gay marriage being a huge one, but also divorce and sexual freedom that ignores marriage altogether, or cohabitation without mrraieage, lots of ways marriage has been tracshed in America in recent decades.   God will not lift His judgment on the nation until these things are dealt with.  It doesn't matter what Trump does, who we vote for or anything political.  We can't do anything God doesn't allow us to do, it's all in His hands, and ewhebter good is happening now cannot possibly last as long as the nation is so ddeeplhy ired in legal supporty of offenses against Him.  

Ye  Yes we've legally validated sins against God.  And at the same time stifled His voice on phony legal grounds as well.  

Yes indeed, wake up America.  Go hear Voddie Baucham all the way through.

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Losing Our Country

 Yes, Mark Levin, I'm afraid you are right, we definitely are losing this best of all nations, yes we don't seem to have the will to do what it would take to save it, yes the Islamists are taking over and we are passive in the facte of it, yes yes yesm, I'm afraid so.   

But why?  All you have is people power, what the Bible calls "the arm of the flesh" while God is left out in the shadows somewhere.   But why are we  so weak?  Why are the Islamists getting power over us?  Because the nation is under God's judgment.  hristians at least should know this ut often even Christians don't think along these lines.   

When God gave Israel the Law, His Law, He told them He was giving them the choice of blessing or cursing, life or death.  Therefore schoose life, he said.  Obedience brings life, proserity, safety from enemies, peace with neighbors;  disobedience brings many evils which are sketched out in both Levirtius and Deutreronomy.  TRo be ruled over by those who hate you is the one that keeps reverberating in my head, but the list of curses runs the gamut of every kind of loss, loss of sterrength, loss of prosperity, economic failures, I think even harsh weather although that isn't spelled out there atthat I remeber, all these tornados we are having, the heavy winter that just pastsed, wildfires.  Hardly eanybody even prays against these things any more that I know of, but then I may not be in the right place to know about that.

The rise of Islam over us is definitely God's judgment.  After nine eleven you'd have expected Islam to fall into disrepute but instead it's only risen in the esteem of some Americans and gained power in the country through even the election of Islamists to Congress of all things.  As I recall there was a time when they were forgbidden to hold public office but then that was rescinded and now they can and can exert their hatred of America from within our own government.  

We can decry this all we want, we can make as much effort as we are up to against it, to spread the word, to get people out to vote in the Midstrerms, but as Mark L:evin says, we  really don't have the will for it, do we?   EWven Christians don'e have the will for it and we are the ones who should know enough babout how God works to be in a position to call on Him and work through Him and not depend on our own weak flesh.  I don't know how many churches are dedicating themselves to praying for the country, I hope many, but what4ever it is, it isn't enough.   Some churches even won't support a political stance at all on the idea that their job is o preach the gospel and nothing more, not to get involved in politics.  Makes me wonder what they think it means to be asaalt and light in the world.

It could be that we are too far under judgment to be able to change cthings now anyway, but we don't know that and surely we should try.  How can you plreach the gospel in a country dominated by people who hate Christianity anyway?  Should we just sit back and let it come to that?  Sure, the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church and it's a powerful scenario when it happens, but why invite it when we've gbeen given a country in which we've had the freedom to poreach it withouit bloodshed?  Of course we've been losing that for some decades now too, anyhbody noticed?  But we just go about our business as if the nation weren't falling down around us.

So what's needed?  At least  prayer by every true Christian is needed, and a lot of prayer, prayer that includes repentance for our owsn sins and confession of the sins of the nation which is the reason we are unde God's judgmetn.  We may not be able to do much about those sins right now but we need at least to express the will to do somethig about them.  How is it that we have a law that allows two men or two women to live together calling themselves husband and wife?  That's just one egregeious offense against God that needs to be pushed back.  Praying against it is the only place I know of to start.   And of course abortion.  It's no longer A NATIONAL LAW BUT EVEN AS IT'S GONE BACK TOT EH STATES THERE HAVE BEEN MORE ABORTIONS THAN EVER AND THOSE COUNT AAGAINST THE NATION TOO, MILIONS OF MURDERED HUMAN BEINGS CRYING OUT TO gOD FROM THE GROUND.       j  What's needed is lots of prayer by every true Christain.

I've often wondered if our having given up on the requriement for women to dcover our heads in church is a reason God has not given us a revival in a long long time.  I don't count thyeye charismatic "revivals" as revivals, I mean a real Holy Spirit inspired revival.  Nobody much talks about the head covering.  If it's bropught up it's dismissed as legalism.  It's awfully clear that whether Paul's arguments for it make a lot of sense to us, and some of them are pretty hard to understand, that nevertheless I see no doubty that he meant we are to cover our heads.  Some thing where he said at the end of that passage, if there is contention we hae no such rule means he took it all back after sixteen verses of srgugment for it but I find that pretty lame, and the fact taht the churches all rquired women to cover our heads in church for two thousand years ought to be enough of an argument against such reasoning.  Just the fact that we gave it up in the sixties or thereabouts ought to e reason enough to recognize that it was the wrong thing to do.  I've go to awhole blog on it if anybody wants to see some of the arguemtns.

So it might be that we should cover our heads for this prayer, for this prayer for the wountry.  Perhaps it would make a diffedrence.  And we can pray for revival at the same time.  Badly badly do we need revival in this country.  Real Revival, the kind they had in Wales at the turn of the twentieth centry or in the Hebrides in the forties.  I think the one in Saskatchewan in the seventies wewas a real revival.  I don't know if they were dovering their heads then or not, but the ccount of it given in an interview with Pastor McCled that may still be on You BTUbe makes it wound like a true Holy SPirit revival.  It wasn't in the US, but Canada and I think that was the last one on the continent.    They started out with people signing up to pray for fiteen minute periods around the clock, each member of t3h congregation signing up for a particular fifteen minute period.  They didn't think they could pray any longer than that b tut they did at least manage to et all the time slots covered.  It's a possible plan a church could follow to get things rolling.

It may be too late no matter what we do, but we have to do something.

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Thomas Sowell, Voice of Sanity

 A Thomas Sowell Reader is the book I've been listening to lately.  I wasn't sure I wanted it because I knew it would cover some of the topics in books I've alread read, but it's been a boogood thing to have.  Yes it does hae sections I'd already heard but it's good to hear them again and otehrwise it's full of things from other books I haven't read.  

What an amazingly sane voice in the midst of utter confusion and cxraziness o bthe subject of race in particular but also pollitics and econimics in general among other things.  He was once a liberal himself, in fact he was a Marxist, knew Marx inside out and backwards he said, or something along those lines, because Marx seems at first to speak to the problems of poverty he saw so much of in his early life.  Other balacks went that same direction for the same reason, such as Walter Williams and Clarence Thomsas, and like Sowell eventually came to see that Marx wasn't the answer they'd thought, and all became strong conservative boices, which they all thing is the best possible route to a prosperous educated citizenry of all kins of people.

Onbe topic Sowell spends a lot of time on, particularly in a series of three books on it, is how cultures develop in various parts of the world and how culture is the main explanation for discrepancies between people groups.   I've been fascinated with his information about how geography affects the development of peoples, the simple fact of what sort of land they live on, what advantages or disadvantages it has for growing food for instance or developing trade withoutopther peoples.  Something I for one have never given any thought and I'd have to suppose most others haven't either.

Africa is one huge geographic provblem for its people.  Things one doesn't thingk of that they lack that we have in abundance in America and Europe and Asica  make simple livelihood a struggle apart from any other factors.   Sowell points out that Africa's west coast is a smooth edge, without the indentagtions that make harbors for boats in many other parts of the world.  Yes, look tat the majp.  One long smooth scoastline.  There are some big rivers in Africa but they aren't fed by snow because there are no mountains for it to snow on, so the flow of the rivers is dependent on the season as they are fed only by rainwater.  And they are mostly unnavigable because of rapids and waterfalls, not like the big rivers of other parts of the world where ships can travel safely deeply into the country.  So the kind of trade that depends on the ability to carry large amounts of supplies can't happen in Africa.  

And agriculture suffers from the soil's being radpicly depleted by the growing of crops so that people can't settle in one place for long but have to keep moving to better land.  And because of the diseases carried by the tse tse fly they an't have the usual farm animals that are abundant in othert parts of the pworld because they die out rapidly from the diseases, so the land never gets the benetfit of all that animal manure it gets in other places that builtd up its fertility.    Not to mention that the animalsthemselves aren't available for the tasks they've been suused for in most other places, for ploughing and harvesting jobs and so on.

Kind of a a staggering picture there of why Africa has never developed a civilization of any greatness or duration.  All this is laid out in his book Migreations and Cultures, but exerpted well in the Thomas Sowell Reader.    I suppose others must have spent some time thinking about these things but I never ran across them and wow is this stuff crucial to understanding how cultures can develop or fail to develop and how bpeoples can thrive or barely make it.   Beethoven could not have existed if Genrmany hadn't had lots of agricultural land and trade possibilities.  Etcl.

So I love Thomas owell.  He is a sane voice in a miserably mentally deranged poitical environment.  He's ninety six now and as far as I know still working and fairly healthy . Some people have lived into their hundreds and I really hope he could, healthy and strong of course, and mentally all there or what would be the point?   He's one of the voices we desperately need.

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There is a You Tube video that is a big help in sorting through Thomas Sowell's books, that helped me decie which ones I qanrws ro  read first.  That is A Complete Guide To Books by Thomas Aoqwll.  I don't know the host's name but he does a great job of organizing Sowell's books into categories, and at the end he gives his own list of top ten favorites.

Thomas Sowell nails liberalism to the wall. Pass the darts.

Thanks to a very nice birthday gift of some book credits for Audible I'm no longer dithering about thinking I should be dead, and henjoying reading, meaing listening, to books again.  Another book by Douglas Murray and Thomas Sowell's the Vision of the Anointed, are taking turns entertaining me.  Well, depressing me too.

The Vision of teh Anointed is a fairly old book but it's awfully relevant right now.  Liberaism is lieralism wherever you find it, and that's what Dowell means by "the vision of the anointed," the views of liberalism, the aointed bieng the way liberals think of themselves as appointed over everybody else to determine how to run the world.  He wrote another book on gthe same subject, A COnflict of Visions, that I was trying to get through bewfore I got this owne, and this one is a lot easier to read and covers a lot of the same ground.  It kind of romps along whackig down liberal ideas right and left with a welath of facts and statistics and mountains of common sense.    I guess you can't whack much with a mountain can you.  Oh well.

Actually, probably Sowell could whack with a mountain, twirl it over his head even and bring it crashing down on a liberal idea with barely any effort.   Yep, the superman of the war between the visions.

Why on earth do we have to put up with this insanity?  Why cat't we get rid of this utter stupidity?  It's ruining the world.  But it s purveyors are so smugly convinced of their rightness and the moral inferiority of their opponents we can't get past the sheer selfrighteous arrogance of their posturing.

Swowell contrasts what he calls the tragic view with the view of the anointed.  the tragic view is realistic, the anointed's view is sheer imaginarary lunacy.  You gotta read it, I can't do it justice.  They are always setting out to right some wrong in society, just as it has been bgetting better as Sowell points out, and always make it worse and deny that thyey anmajkemake it worldse.  Racism had just about disappeared and they'ver been treating it as a huge problemaem that tneeds their tender ministrations to make it go away. for instance.  Or the crime rate, or poverty, etc etc.  Whatever they decide is a problem they set out to cure it and make it ten times worrse.  You've got to read it.  

I've If I get my thoughts beter orgaized maybe I'll come back and say more.

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Trump and Pope Leo

 Pope Leo keeps saying thigs against the war with Iran that clealy criticize Trump and since this is from the level of a world authority and an authority looked to by milions of Catholics, over a billion, it carries weight, and although I might cringe a little at Trump's willingness to responsd to him as he did, mostly I'm glad that he did, for all the reasons I've often talked about here.  The Popels were once the rulers of the western world, self appointed of course, usurprers of that wrole but overn worse than that of course usurpers of the role of Christ in the world, and still accord themselves the right to rule kings and Presidents of nations.

The horrors of the rulership of the Popes in teh late Middle Ages are just about forgotten in the west and desperately need to be rrestored to the consciousness of today's Christians in particular but eveybody for that matter.  Especially cCtholics.   They murdered true Christians in the millions for refusing to accept Catholic doctrines, calling the true tdoctrines of the Protestant Reformation heresies although they are the ones with the heresies.  The Roman Church is mostly a revival of the pagan religons of Rome, most of which go back to Babylon, all the relgions that are opposed to Christianity, althought Rome also incorporates enough Christian teaching to confuse a lot of people and fool the unwary into accepting them as Christianity, even the foundational Chrsitainity of the West.   

We've forgotten the Protestant Reformation, even most Protestant Churches have rorgotten it.  the Reformation restored the true Chrsitainity that had been lost under the Roman usurpation, threw out their paganisms and brought back the pure gospel.   These days even Protestant leaders bow to Rome, some I mean, there are still a few who know the truth and kjnow that the Pope is an imposter.   Unless the truth is rediscovered the false Church of Rome is going to reclaim its power in the world and that means a renewed Inquisition against those who oppose them.  Inquisition means murder and torture of dissidents.   One thing that is very clear if you know anything about Roman dioctrine over the centuries is that they strongly oppose the concwepts of freedom of religion, freedom of Speech and all our individual freewdoms because they maintain that only Rome has the right to determine the truth and everybody else must obey.  Nboody thinks of that anywmore and probably doesn't believe it when I say it here iether.  

People nbeed to learn some history, a lot of history.  I recently reread a couple of books maybe everyone else should read, at least Dave Hunt's A Woman Rides the Beast, which is all about the history of the Roman power in the world./    H Grattan Guinness's Romanism and the Reformation is another that does that same work.  The end times theology of Guinness isn't to be trusted in my opinion bnut the portrait he paints of the Roman Church is very good.Hunt' end times vision excludes the idea of a Pope as the final Antichrist, which I think is a big mistake, and I've argued here that he must be a Pope for many reasons.  If some other figure has a name or title that convincigly adds up to 666 that would convince me that it imight not have to abe a Pope but that's all that would do it becaue the  numver is too compellingly embdded in a Latin title of the Pople in my opinion to allow for any better derivation of it to come along.

Trump should definitely reject the churzpah of the Pople in his pronouncements about what he does as President.  I would hope that American Catholics would also realize that the Pope should ot be obeyed in such a conflict, but of course the problem in America has always been that Catholics could choose what a Pope says over what our laws and leaders say.  That is why many people were upset at the thought of John F DKenney's becoming President, that he would represent the Pope against our institituions.  And it certainly did happen that way in the Middle Ages when papal decreses could turn a whole population of Catholic subjects of European kings against their king and force the king to give in to tthe Pople.  We are historically a Protestant nation but thgat may not guarantee that Americans would have the wisdom to reject a papal decree if one came down.  

I couldn't hear what the Pople said in response to Trump, I've tried to get a source I can hear but haven't yet found one.  All I can make out is something about the gospel and not being a polictical figure or something liketh at.  Well, the Pope as a matterof fact IS a political figure.  The Vatican is a sovereign nation unto itself and has that standing among the other nations of the world.  As for tyhe gospel, Jesus preached to individuals.  Only individuals can be saved, not nations.  The leader of a nation in this fallen world has an obligation to the citizens of that nation to protect them against other nations that would harm us, and against immigrants who would infiltrate us from within and harm us that way, which is another policy of Trump's, his polcity of deporting immigrants, that the Pople ha objected to.   Trump's job as President is pto protect the nation and the gospel does not apply to that understtaking.  That  The gospel isn't even rightly presached in the Catholic Church.  Catholics really don't know hot wo to be saved.  The principles of the Reformation have been denounced by Romae as heresides, and cursed as heresies to be shunned, those principles by which a person can be saved, but to Roman they are heresies so the average Catholic doesn't believe in the very truths that would save him or her.    Catholics who think they are saved  need to rethinik it and get out of the so cLLED CHURCH OF rOME WHERE TEHQYy cannot be saved.

Anhywahy, certainly we should treat a wrold leader with common respect, but truth ius truth and as Jesus disciples said when it was demanded of them that they obey the authorities and not preach the truth to the people, we must obey God aND NOT MAN.          The gospel does not apply to a national leader, but it does apply to individuals and Catholics are in real danger of missing eternal life because they are not taught the true gospel in their paganized Church.  

It is alarming to me that someone like J D Vance has become a Catholic.  There are certainly a lot of good patriotic Catholics in America, but is their allegiance going to stick with America or if challenged by a Poplee go against America.  that's a real caadanger, but besides that they are not saved and we were once a Protestant nation and the more we can do to reclaim that earilier status the better.  When a Pope is invited to speak in our Congress that is a travesty , a horror, a treatchery, and if we knew our history as we should the whole nation would have risen in outrage against that when Pelosis and Baynor did it and then when Pope Francis was invited later.  as well.    We need to wake up.

By the way if the Pople is concerned about people being killed in a wayr  he ought to consider that that is the reason Trump is doing what he is doing, trying to prevent the death of milions by a nuclear bomb and a much worse war by intervening now before it is too late.  

 esides, the idea that the head of the Church that tortued are murdered millions for the crime of disagreeig with them is almost laughale.

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Try that one again.  Besides, the idea that the head of the institution that murdered and tortured millions for the crime of disagreeing with him cares about what happens to people in this ar now is almost laughable.

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Friday

Well, Leo answered Trump, saying "Blessed are the peacemakers" to jutify his own position and accusing Trump of using religion to justify iliitary action or somethig like that.  I can't figure out what he thinks amounts to his using religion but anyway.  

The mailn roblem is that Trump is  pursuing a just war on behalf of innocents threatene by a malicious aggressort, and even Catholic doctrine promotes a just war as a righteous thing to do, although Pope Leo dodesn't seem to knowabout that or care if he does.  Or maybe he's just i that mode where he must claim his papal infallibility and can't back down, I don'tkknow.

then Turcker Carlson called Trump the Antichrist.  Wow.  Mockeing God or putting himself in the place of God or something like that?  Wow.  That is exactly what the Pope does, that's the definition of the papacy in many a Catholic declaration.  That's why people need to get more acquainted with history.  The Poppe puts himself in theplace of God Himself, Christ Himself, that's on their books.  The doctrine of the Inquisition is also still on their books, nevr rescinded, and in fact is still practiced out of sigh in tsome third world Catholic countries, such as in parts of South America where indigenous Indian tribes are persecuted for refusing to become Cathlic.  I reported on one such story on my Cahtholicism blog a few years ahgo.    Also on their books is something like a hundred anathemas, meaning curses, abainst Protestant doctrines, none of that having been rescinded either.  They are a lot more ciiliczed about it than Islam, but rally when it comes down to the root of it all they have the same attitude toward the rst of the world, tht they and only they have a right to have any say in anything in this world.  And that means killing h opposition is often caLLED FOR.  Or torturing them for their own good, which is a catholic thing I don't think the   Islamiosts are into, I mean otnot for thei good of the victim anyway.

Sean Hannity and his Producer Linda were jokiing around about going to the perarly gates on his show a couple days ago, she saying she didn't think they'd let her in and Hannity saying he'd vouch for her.  They were joking but she's a cATHOLIC AND HE GREW UP A cATHOLIC ALTHOUGH     hw'a now going to a Protestant Church as I under stand it.  Anyway, although it was jokking around it's so not what slavation is it makes me wonder if they have any clue at all how a person gets saved and I suspect not.  By now Sean shoujld but it doesn't sound like he does either.

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Cancer and the plant based diet

 I hear of people dying of cancer who are doing chemotherapy and have a short time to live and I want to scream at them that maybe they can csave themselves if they go a compleely dirrect direction.  Remember I said MAYBE, because I can't promise anything but I've been reading Christ Wark for some time off and on and I'm convinced that he kept his cancer from recurring by sticking to a raw plant foods diet.  On his website, CHiris Bwea Cancer.com I think, which is also the title of his book, Chris Beat Cancer, I can't type it straugight , sorry, anyway he has interviewed many cancer survivors who discovered their own plant based route to ridding themselves of the disease.  

Many diferent cancers have been successfully treated by some version or other of this diet, but that doesn'tmena there aren't some it wouldn't work for, or in some cases be too late for it to work, or that all versions of the diet will work either.  But the anecdotal evidence is very strong, and his book backs up wihis website with lots of statistics about the effects on cancer cells of different kinds of foods.

The mainstay of this diet is carrot juice, a half gallon a day taken in eight ounce doses througouthgt thte day, though I read one case of a woman who did it on forty oucnces a day and skilpped most of the rest of the diet Wark recommends which is a lot of raw rebevgetables.  

He does , or did, the half gallon of carrot juice every day, plus two huge salads of raw vegetables and greens, and a smoothie of mostly berries which are also highly evffective against cancers.  Carrot juice, cruciferous vegetables like vroccoli, cauliflower and red cabbage, plus raw spinach and other greens and kale, plus blueberies and strawberries, are the big ones, but lemons an crambnberries are also big, in fact cranberry shoujld be put above the others.  All this is in his book, from about chapter eight through ten.

I've never done tthis so it's pretty cheeky of me to be making such a big deal out of it.  All I can say is it I had a way to do it this is what I woulds do if I found I had cancer, and when I say if I had a waY, IT'S     very labor intensive.  Cleaning and trimming in juicing carrots is a LOT of wqork, and just washing and chopping vegetables takes time too.  I've done both for periods of time even without cancer as a reason for it and it just wears me out.

Chris Qark  was inspired by books and testimonies of other cancer survivors and fitness teachers and health clinics.  Carrot juice is big with all of them by the way.  

It does need research if you want to convince yourselvf,, it's not something to takeanybody's word for, and that takes time unfortunately, which you don't have if you've only been given a short time to live.   And I think it's somewhere in Wark's book that eating this way can interfere with chemotherapy so unfortunately it isn't something you can just do together , or at least not without some conflit.  

I personally knew a man who kept his prostate cancer at bay for something like twenty years just by drinking carrot juice.  I didn't know him all that well but everyone in town knew him, it was a small town and you'd see him frequently at the market with a cart loaded with carrots.    I don't know what else he did, if anything, all I know is that he rank a prodigious amount of carrot juice.  

Cooking the foods is OK too by the way, although Wark was sold on the raw regime.  Just stuff yourselvf with vegetables however you can manage to do it, lots of them cooked or raw, whatever you can tolerate, and although Wark is a purist who wouldn't eat anything else I gather that some people did find on a generatlly healthy diet of meats and carbs along with the vwgetables though the veggies were emphasized.

Wark has one story in his book I particularly enjoyed, in chapter ten I think.  A Greek man living in America got diagnosed with terminal lung cancer at the age of sisty six in the seventies and decided to move back to his home on a Greek island to die among family and friends.  He'd been given hnine months to live as I recall.  They all grow gardens on this island so he sgtarted one too.  He spent a lot of time with his friends, eating with them and dancing the Greek dances and all that, and he started going to church again too.  Nine months came and went and he was no where near dying but doing just fine and kept on doing what he was deoing indefinitely.  In fact he olived another thirty years and ddidn't tie until he was ninety six.   Don't you like that story?  Oh and although his diet was mostly plant based and came out of gardens of all his friends, they also occasionally had fish and meat, just not very often mostly because it's expensive, and they drank a lot of coffee and wine which Chris Wark thinks is a bad idea for cancer sufferers, which it probably is as a general thing but the point of all this is that there are many different ways to do this diety.  Just adding a lot of vegetables seems to be the kley, but surely other factos are important in different cases too.

So when I hear of people dying of cancer and I know they are not going to be told that diet ccould help and that they are going to have to suffer the oisons of the usual cancer treatments which in themselves would kill you if their dosage weren't carefully controlled, I want to scream, no no no, at least TRY this.  Shovel it in , shovel in those vegies.  Get a juicer and gulp down taht carrot juicew.

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