We, Americans, give sincere thanks to God for giving us the following 'Reich' bounty, for we have received more than most other nations combined:
JDAM's
Nuclear Powered Submarines
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Spy Satellites & Technologies
Hellfire Missiles
Nuclear Bombs
Neutron Bombs
Bunker Buster Bombs
Laser Guided Bombs
Aircraft Carriers
Destroyers
Frigates
Blackhawk Helicopters
Ospreys
F117s
B1s
B52s
RPGs
Rapid Fire Weapons
Tomahawk Missiles
Heat Seeking Missiles
Hand-held Nuclear Weapons
Biological Weapons
Bradley Fighting Vehicles (Plated)
Tanks
The new generation of planes, nuclear devices and other technologies that will be soon be produced - so that we can efficiently and effectively destroy our fellow men and women.
Thank you for blessing us during the illegal occupation of a once sovereign nation, Iraq, and for permitting us to have its leader martyred.
Thank you for warmongering Republican ideologues and for hatemongering Republican talk show and television moguls.
And most of all God, thank you that we have enough (weapons and bombs) to share with our fellow-men like Israel.
And for Christmas, Lord, grant us more lethal weapons, bombs and armaments (particularly for outer space attacks on other nations of the world), along with a PEACEFUL World! Amen!!
Give the Rev a break ---
peace & grace
Rev. C. Solomon
Addenda: America ought to repent!
Eccl. 5:8 reads: If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
For righteousness exalts a nation, however, sin is a reproach to any people! God will eventually have to comfort and deliver all individuals and nations of the Earth, who are victims of the American hegemon.
And unless you misunderstood, the reactionary behaviors and animus of the rest of world towards the United States is a consequence of our policies and pre-emptive actions towards them.
Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field. The Earth's rich bounty does not belong and should not inure, exclusively to the United States of America.
And where are God's people and God's clerics in all of this? In America, it would appear that too many our ministers, are too busy trying to get rich themselves to notice that people are being mercilessly slaughtered by the United States of America in order to satisfy their consumer appetites as well!
Wake up church and those clerics who are called by God's name: and please get out of the bed with earth's venal politicians!
Nov 24, 2007
Nov 21, 2007
Thanksgiving: Be Thankful as well as Very Concerned!
I encourage everyone to be Thankful to God, family, friends, employers and everyone else... All Year Long!
At the same time, I encourage each one of you to also be cautious, because iniquity abounds, not just abroad, but within our neighborhoods and homes, we have much to be concerned about.
We must pray for those who seek their own emoulments, the ones who cause division, and help to bring about hatred, rancor and strife.
We should pray for the purveyors of crime, and the harbingers of hatred, greed, terrorism and rebellion. We should also pray for world-governments, including our own Federal Government that have embarked upon reckless courses that might soon lead to the crippling or destruction of humankind as we know it.We must pray for injustice in the land, and greed, not only by corporate czars and politicians, but many of our own members of the clery who have fallen in love with mammon.
Let us pray for the innocent, the elderly, unborn fetuses, and the one's who suffer the most from poverty, under-employment, lack of health-care, poor health and the lack of Love.
We should be thankful, however, we must also be concerned and keep a strong watch - for given that inequity abounds in 'our Land', the Love of many have cooled off - and our sisters and brothers - even in this nation of ours - oftentimes, have little real concern for their fellow men and women. If they did for example, many would go and sell off their overabundant surpluses, and help to eliminate once and for all, poverty from the LAND!
Helen Steiner Rice said it best in her poem: Touch of The Master's Hand. She wrote,
Planet Earth needs to be touched, very soon, by the Master's hand!
Peace, Love & Grace
Reverend C. Solomon
Addenda: Enjoy the turkey, however, remember, it was not the turkey that died for you, and just as turkeys are being slaughtered for our consumption during the Holidays, many human beings have and will be experiencing a similar fate during the Holiday Season - just so that we Americans can have our insatiable consumer lust(s), as well as greed satisfied. Sadly, many in America do not realize that other human beings are being sacrified, so that our lusts, in the end, will be satiated!
At the same time, I encourage each one of you to also be cautious, because iniquity abounds, not just abroad, but within our neighborhoods and homes, we have much to be concerned about.
We must pray for those who seek their own emoulments, the ones who cause division, and help to bring about hatred, rancor and strife.
We should pray for the purveyors of crime, and the harbingers of hatred, greed, terrorism and rebellion. We should also pray for world-governments, including our own Federal Government that have embarked upon reckless courses that might soon lead to the crippling or destruction of humankind as we know it.We must pray for injustice in the land, and greed, not only by corporate czars and politicians, but many of our own members of the clery who have fallen in love with mammon.
Let us pray for the innocent, the elderly, unborn fetuses, and the one's who suffer the most from poverty, under-employment, lack of health-care, poor health and the lack of Love.
We should be thankful, however, we must also be concerned and keep a strong watch - for given that inequity abounds in 'our Land', the Love of many have cooled off - and our sisters and brothers - even in this nation of ours - oftentimes, have little real concern for their fellow men and women. If they did for example, many would go and sell off their overabundant surpluses, and help to eliminate once and for all, poverty from the LAND!
Helen Steiner Rice said it best in her poem: Touch of The Master's Hand. She wrote,
...when the master comes, the foolish crowds will never quite understand, the worth of a soul and the change that is wrought - by the touch of the Master's Hand.
Planet Earth needs to be touched, very soon, by the Master's hand!
Peace, Love & Grace
Reverend C. Solomon
Addenda: Enjoy the turkey, however, remember, it was not the turkey that died for you, and just as turkeys are being slaughtered for our consumption during the Holidays, many human beings have and will be experiencing a similar fate during the Holiday Season - just so that we Americans can have our insatiable consumer lust(s), as well as greed satisfied. Sadly, many in America do not realize that other human beings are being sacrified, so that our lusts, in the end, will be satiated!
Nov 16, 2007
Chinese Submarines & The U.S.A. Strike Group: The Rev's Washington Post Response 11/16/07
Earlier this week, the nuclear-powered USS Enterprise carrier strike group concluded a three-day, multi-unit, intense exercise in the North Arabian Sea -- an exercise that included two stealthy Tomahawk cruise missile carrying attack submarines!
It didn't receive mention in the mainstream press. And it wasn't discussed in the blogosphere. But, if it had been, it very likely would have been framed as one more piece of evidence that the Bush administration appears to be marching toward war with Tehran. Sure, the media would note that the Navy said, "This was a routine training exercise to help our forces maintain a full-range of readiness." But that wouldn't dissuade the true believers from thinking that pre-emptive war is near.
Mr. Arkin
Is this the same crack American carrier strike group that experienced, recently and undetected, a Chinese submarine's appearance in the midst of its ongoing naval exercise?
Whichever American strike group that this turns out to be (and was caught off guard by the Chinese submarine), one has to wonder whether or not this could be a portent of things to come, i.e, that while America is busily menacing and focusing its intentions on 3-rd world nations like Iran, more formidable nations like China will be inserting themselves, undetected, into the fray?
Now which 'big brother' I ask, is watching who? In other words, the Chinese having shown up - was not an accident.
And I suspect that if the Chinese show up in the future, they won't be coming to deliver mammoth orders of pork fried rice to the American battle groups!
Posted by: The Rev
Addenda: There isn't any doubt in the Rev's mind, that the President is preparing the military for the possibility and spectre of yet another war, or at least a crippling airstrike against the nation of Iran. One thing that you have to say that is true about this administration is - they will, right or wrong, attack another nation.
I believe that if nothing else, by conducting observable exercises in this nearby theater - Iran has been sent a message by the President of the United States, that they had better not interfere in the actions that the United States is undertaking in Iraq! However, have China, Russia or other nations of the world received the message, and what will they have to say or do if the United States were to attack yet another sovereign country? Our children, it might turn out, will be the one's to find out what our government is really intending to do, if not we ourselves!
It didn't receive mention in the mainstream press. And it wasn't discussed in the blogosphere. But, if it had been, it very likely would have been framed as one more piece of evidence that the Bush administration appears to be marching toward war with Tehran. Sure, the media would note that the Navy said, "This was a routine training exercise to help our forces maintain a full-range of readiness." But that wouldn't dissuade the true believers from thinking that pre-emptive war is near.
Mr. Arkin
Is this the same crack American carrier strike group that experienced, recently and undetected, a Chinese submarine's appearance in the midst of its ongoing naval exercise?
Whichever American strike group that this turns out to be (and was caught off guard by the Chinese submarine), one has to wonder whether or not this could be a portent of things to come, i.e, that while America is busily menacing and focusing its intentions on 3-rd world nations like Iran, more formidable nations like China will be inserting themselves, undetected, into the fray?
Now which 'big brother' I ask, is watching who? In other words, the Chinese having shown up - was not an accident.
And I suspect that if the Chinese show up in the future, they won't be coming to deliver mammoth orders of pork fried rice to the American battle groups!
Posted by: The Rev
Addenda: There isn't any doubt in the Rev's mind, that the President is preparing the military for the possibility and spectre of yet another war, or at least a crippling airstrike against the nation of Iran. One thing that you have to say that is true about this administration is - they will, right or wrong, attack another nation.
I believe that if nothing else, by conducting observable exercises in this nearby theater - Iran has been sent a message by the President of the United States, that they had better not interfere in the actions that the United States is undertaking in Iraq! However, have China, Russia or other nations of the world received the message, and what will they have to say or do if the United States were to attack yet another sovereign country? Our children, it might turn out, will be the one's to find out what our government is really intending to do, if not we ourselves!
Nov 15, 2007
The Rev's 11/15 Response to the Washington Post
Re: Pervis Musharref's behavior in the Midle East.
I see it as A Presidential grab for power:
However, let's be honest about it folks, for it is not only Mushareff and Chevaz (in the Americas) who have tried to consolidate power in their respective countries, Bush and Putin did the same thing recently (in their respective countries).
The United States Supreme Court, in part, checked #43's grab for power. Musharref was smarter than #43, he simply put the Supreme Court on furlough, in the same manner that #43 (did an end around) and appointed former U.N. Ambassador Bolten, and others while Congress was in recess. Moral equivalent again? Bush continues trying to consolidate power in America to this day.
And speaking of that, my nemesis/comrade in arms, the Reverend Pat Robertson wants to 'fix the Supreme Court". At least that is what he said on the Hannity and Colmes news show last night. He said that, in order to explain his support for Giuliani in the presidential race.
I suspect that 'fix the court' in Pat's lexicon means: Fixed as in illegally prearranged as to outcome: you know like a fixed election. Robertson is an unprincipled man!
President Mushareff is simply doing what several other leaders of note, including the American leader, have done and and trying to do over and over again!
peace & grace
The Rev
Addenda: The Rev hopes that many of the Christians who have supported the Rev Pat Robertson, particularly in the political arena, will wake up and see this man who for he really is, an unprincipled man, who will do whatever he has to do in order to get the people that he feels should be in office - elected. And he is not above having people who disagree with his position, killed. It is happening in the middle-east, just as it has happened on more than one occasion in Guatemala and Nicaragua.
I see it as A Presidential grab for power:
However, let's be honest about it folks, for it is not only Mushareff and Chevaz (in the Americas) who have tried to consolidate power in their respective countries, Bush and Putin did the same thing recently (in their respective countries).
The United States Supreme Court, in part, checked #43's grab for power. Musharref was smarter than #43, he simply put the Supreme Court on furlough, in the same manner that #43 (did an end around) and appointed former U.N. Ambassador Bolten, and others while Congress was in recess. Moral equivalent again? Bush continues trying to consolidate power in America to this day.
And speaking of that, my nemesis/comrade in arms, the Reverend Pat Robertson wants to 'fix the Supreme Court". At least that is what he said on the Hannity and Colmes news show last night. He said that, in order to explain his support for Giuliani in the presidential race.
I suspect that 'fix the court' in Pat's lexicon means: Fixed as in illegally prearranged as to outcome: you know like a fixed election. Robertson is an unprincipled man!
President Mushareff is simply doing what several other leaders of note, including the American leader, have done and and trying to do over and over again!
peace & grace
The Rev
Addenda: The Rev hopes that many of the Christians who have supported the Rev Pat Robertson, particularly in the political arena, will wake up and see this man who for he really is, an unprincipled man, who will do whatever he has to do in order to get the people that he feels should be in office - elected. And he is not above having people who disagree with his position, killed. It is happening in the middle-east, just as it has happened on more than one occasion in Guatemala and Nicaragua.
Nov 9, 2007
To Whom Shall I Liken The Men of This Generation? Roles and the Male-Female Dynamic Part III
Jesus answered his own question. And who are they like, Jesus said?
They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, we have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.
Many women in America are no longer dancing!
Ouch!! Now brethren, before you get mad at me, consider the words uttered by the late Johnnie Cochran, during the previously televised O.J. Simpson trial, i.e., '...if the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit'. If it fits, and you are not in denial over whether it fits or not, then you have to do something about it - don't be so quick to acquit yourself.
And with regard to name dropping: Did I tell you that I had the opportunity to meet Mr. Cochran at the pro-basketball player, Latrell Sprewell's, press conference that I attended some years ago at the Convention Center in Oakland California? The Rev gets around folks - Mr. Cochran was surprisingly short of stature, however, a very nice man.
And while I am it, OJ's other best friend who completed the triumvirate - besides AC Cowlings, Jo Bell (had just turned minister when OJ was incarcerated) was also a friend of mine who would keep me abreast of how OJ was doing in jail - when he visited our church from Seattle Washington. Yes the same Jo Bell, the famous running back on the Championship University of Washington football team of years gone by.
OJ was from the Protrero Hill area of San Francisco, a stone's throw from Candlestick Park where a former female acquaintance of mine that I often visited once resided. I just missed meeting OJ, years before he got in trouble, when I was visiting the players in the locker room (particularly All-Pro middle-backer Cleveland Elam) at the San Francisco 49er's training camp; that was when it was still located in Redwood City. The Niner’s camp is currently located in Santa Clara -yes, I've been there too. Man, those dudes were bigger than the Rev!
Today's quotations by author, scientist and futurist: Ray Kurzweil:
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1). A deeper truth can be perceived only by illuminating the opposing sides of a paradox.
2). A common approach is to deny that the issue exists.
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Quotation by Rev. C. Solomon
It is both unthinkable and unconsciencable, that many black males today - who are the successors and beneficiaries of the courage, love and largese of female liberators, could in turn subject females (progeny of their liberators), to similar condtions and slave treatment, of the kind that they were helped to escape from!
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Introduction:
Author Ray Kurzweil is correct, the only hope of deeper truth ever being revealed within the human male-female standoff, is when both sides agree to listen attentively to what the other side has to say. After that, both sides must attempt to understand and do something about what the other side has been trying to say to the other(for eons it would appear). Black American males should be especially suited to listen, understand as well as relate to what women have been trying to say to them, given their experiences of being exploited by racism and historical slavery.
The discrimination and slavery that persisted in America was similar in many respects to the bondage and discrimination that was experienced in classical history and literature by the Jews). Both groups, in spite of their cries for freedom, were held in bondage for approximately 400 years!
Males of every hue and nationality, should ask themselves, particularly black males, just how long have females been enslaved or treated as slaves by the male portion of the species? We should also ask ourselves, when are we going to do something about liberating them? One could argue (if you believe Bishop Usher's calculations), that females have been in bondage for going on about 4-7000 years now. That is how old he believes that humans have been on earth. I don't necessarily agree with Bishop Usher's numbers, but right or wrong, even 4-7000 years is too long.
I strongly agree with Mr. Kurzweil that the common approach to dealing with problems that is often employed by too many human beings (especially males in this context,) is to deny that an issue even exists. Many males would have you to believe that the other side is simply delusional, or experiencing auditory or visual hallucinations. I am not here to beat up on my brothers, for there are many enlightened brothers out there who are trying to change themselves and to treat women like human beings instead of chattel.
However, just as an aside, I often wonder why some black males, the same ones who decry the racism and subjugation that was forced upon them by their white counterparts, have been so adept at behaving in the same manner when it comes to females? In the book: ALL God's Children, the story of the Bosket family from Edgefield South Carolina, the author explained why he believed that black males often misbehave in the manner in which they do. He also explains, who he believes that black males in America are trying to imitate - their former white masters.
Black males should recall all of the female leaders, black and white, who led us and helped to secure our freedoms. Many of these females, both black and white, were members of the abolitionist movement in America, others were not. However, and at the same time, all of them helped African males (as well as African females) to secure freedom from the American slave south.
It is both unthinkable and unconsciencable, that many black males today - who are the successors and beneficiaries of the courage, love and largese of female liberators, could in turn subject females (progeny of their liberators), to similar condtions and slave treatment, of the kind that they were helped to escape from! Is this how we thank those females who helped to secure our freedoms, by enslaving their postertity, and treating their progeny as if they are 'slave children', and as if they belong to us and we are their masters?
Well back to the subject: In part 2, Roles and Woman Inherits the Earth, I used the movie Jurassic Park as a backdrop, particularly the verbal bantering that took place between Park Creator John Hammond and Ellie Sattler. Their encounters during the film often depicted the veiled and at times open sexist encounters and harbored feelings of antipathy and resentment that often exists between males and females - especially by males. One can only imagine the energy that it takes when one one spends his entire life trying to keep his counterparts in subjection to him.
And as we pointed out last time, Jurassic Park was based on a period/epoch that most of us read about in the Bible the Garden of Eden. In Yahweh's garden setting, replete with birds of the air, animals (including a serpent) large and small, vegetation, food for human consumption, herbs and trees - and last but not least human beings; the humans, the flora and the fauna were brought together in what turned out to be a cosmic clash that was of astronomical proportions.
The fruit was dangerous, the devil (played by the serpent) was the supplanter, and the humans (played by Adam and Eve) were both the victims in this divine cosmic experiment. The experiment tested whether or not man would obey God, or submit to a death that would result as a consequence of his disobedience to God's command. The consequence of failure: the humans were tossed from the paradisiacal garden and females forevermore, not just Eve, would suffer in two ways.
Women would suffer excruciating pain in childbirth. And I will let women decide, however, it would appear that the worse park of her suffering would be that forever, she would be 'ruled over' by man. That will teach her to stay in her place! Well, here we are today in the year 2007CE, and still on planet Earth, however, 'we are not living in paradise".
Part I. As I pointed out in Part II, there was as much testosterone and male arrogance present in JP as there was in the Garden of Eden. Yahweh, who was characterized as a male-God (not a genderless spirit), who without the aid of female input, relied upon aspects of himself in order to create his earthly paradise. John Hammond, played by Sir. Richard Attenborough, one of my favorite actors by the way, acquired the assistance and knowledge of several male experts, who along with himself (doctors and scientists) made up the male dominated god-head of Jurassic Park. The final touches to be put on the park prior to its opening, and inspection were being made to the park under the direction of a male attorney who was sent to examine the park before it could be opened to the public.
But something unexpectedly went wrong as Ian Malcolm, the chaotician interjected, 'nature will not be contained'. Nature in this instance was represented by females: a female storm, the 2-females on the isle that wouldn't stay in their places, and the all-female animals on the island. Towards the climax of the movie, the female dinosaurs found a way to conceive and reproduce without the assistance of any male progenitors, and the females contributed by and large to the saving of lives more than any other single factor. Now isn’t that just like a female?
Frankly women are still saving our hides today, even though we will rarely admit it. The question that remains then - how come we really don't like them? And how come we will not treat females with the dignity and respect that they deserve? So why do we abuse females, either verbally or physically? Male males desire females, primarily for sensory purposes; when we can use them for sexual purposes, and last but not least we also like it when females serve and take care of us.
But the idea of females having a say, one need only to consider American history, for proof that the founders of this nation had very little interest in what females had to say; look how long it took for females to attain suffrage. Factually, I was speaking with a gentleman on this subject approximately 30 years ago. I said to him at the time, "women were not put here simply for our sexual gratification". He immediately replied, you are right, "they are supposed to cook too"!
Part II. The Rev Doesn't Know Why He is a Fish Out (one of many I am sure) of Water, in terms of his feelings. However, and to be frank, I have been fairly unsuccessful getting along with women myself in spite of my wonderful attitude and feelings towards women. So it must be their fault that we haven't always gotten along? And to be honest, the Rev is a divorcee. However, having said that - I certainly don't blame the women who were once in my life, dating or otherwise, solely, for our failure to get along. For example, years ago I resided in the mountains just above the Pacific Ocean, having relocated from the East Bay where I lived in the mountains overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge. The area was known as Pacifica. Pacifica is located in California, just above the city of Serramonte and near Skyline Drive, it is a suburb of San Francisco.
I had been married for a relatively short period of time when God let me sense that my former wife was not a happy camper. I think it was when she told me, I AIN'T HAPPY, that I got it - women will let you know when they are not happy. Well, anyway, we lived in a beautiful area, having just been married for about a year it would seem. I had a great job as a Territory Manager with a General Motors subsidiary. I had a beautiful wife, new cars provided for me every year, expenses, a church to attend - and man we were, I thought, 'on my way'. Get it, we were on my way!
The Rev could not understand given our wonderful start as to what was wrong with this chick? First of all, she had me (good looking, tall, dark, handsome and Holy-Ghost filled stud that I was); and we were doing well. Then the Lord helped me to understand. Do you remember the young man who was with the Prophet Elijah on the occasion when the Syrian army surrounded their dwelling, see 2 Kings 6:17? Then Elisha prayed and said, "O LORD, I pray, open his eyes that he may see..." The prophet had to pray that the young man's eyes be opened in order for him to see what he could not see. Before his eyes were opened, the young man could see only what was right in front of him, and what registered within his sense. Heaven help the female whose mate lacks obstensible sensory deprivation?
Many of us need to have our eyes opened so that we can see beyond = limited periphery, through tunnel vision and our own narrow perceptions of reality. Among the things that he made me to realize was that she was stranded in our mountain paradise, if you will - having just located away from her home for the first time that was 2200 miles away. We had one automobile at the time, and I used the car mostly in my work from home business. There was an experimental and archaic bus system that the county was trying out; they purchased some old dilapidated buses from another jurisdiction, about 4 buses I believe in order to provide some public transportation for those who needed to make the trek up the mountain.
And having, said that the buses often broke down before reaching the top of the mountain. If you were driving up the mountain, you might believe, as I did initially, that the driver had simply stopped over for his coffee break. Nope, the bus had broken down, again and again and again.
That was only one of the problems: God spoke to me and said that females are people too, and they have lives and they don't want to spend their lives as slaves and servant girls or simply waiting at home until ‘tall dark and handsome hubby got home’. Seem simple? Nothing saddened me more than to witness the sadness in her spirit. Here was someone who relocated 2200 miles across the country, from Chicago IL, to be with me - and folks, she was not happy. I would come home and tell her about my great day, and share stories about what I saw in the beautiful California country and coast side, failing to understand that she was unable to have the social interaction that I enjoyed each and every day.
I was living my dream. I had a home (Luxury apartment actually - one of the most expensive in the San Francisco Bay Area), new car provided yearly, money, a paradise of sorts including 'my woman'. In fact, one day for the heck of it I walked down that mountain myself, and man - forget it, you don't want to do that. Okay, so she couldn't walk up and down the mountain, but I bet you those women in the Bible would have!
Part III. Do Men Understand Women?
Are we men, often like children just sitting in the marketplace without a clue, and happily singing, dancing, playing games and simply calling out to each other while ignoring the needs of the females? Oftentimes, the Eve's in our paradises, are not happy campers. Why? Because, we, males, are fulfilling our visions and at the same time expecting women to give up there visions. We want them to simply get on board with us, and help us to fulfill our visions. And what we end up with most of the time, is a partner with a broken, wounded and repressed Spirit.
Why are we like that? We males have zero respect for the feminine principle (which represents what women think and feel and what women bring to the table). Why? I will tell you why? It is because most of us, egocentric males, believe that what women feel and think is inconsequential. See, males have their own principle: it is called, I am the boss and you were placed here on earth in order to make me happy. The female principle, on the other hand, contains within it antecedents and elements of a female who wants to do things that make her happy.
Good Lord, aren't females aware yet, that they were not put here on earth to make themselves happy? Females, every male and most children believe, were placed on earth to serve and to make them happy! If you a female who felt any joy today, somewhere today you were not doing what you were created to do - so stop it, apologize, and go and find someone to wait on - given the servile expectancy that is a part of your nature. At least, that is how males see it – besides, YOU SHOULD HAVE NEVER EATEN THAT APPLE - and look what you have done to yourself. If you hadn’t of eaten that apple, surely we would have been nicer to you!
Okay smarty, I heard you - it wasn't the apple or the quince or whatever Eve purportedly ate and shared with her husband that made her unhappy - it was male dominance that made her unhappy, then and it is insensitive male dominance and injustice that causes most women to be unhappy in life today. So what do we do, throw grits on the man as Tyler Perry suggested in his films and plays, or have grits thrown on us as Rev. Al Green and others have already experienced? Or, should women employ the Lysine contingency? Remember the Lysine contingency that was mentioned in the Jurassic Park film, which was that the dinosaurs could not produce the amino acid lysine. Without supplements in their food they slip into comma and die. Should women, being the embodiment of the lysine contingency in men's lives simply withdraw. Well, we deserve it, but I hope you won't do that even though we would deserve it if you did.
One minister who appreciated the women in his congregation so much, once proclaimed, folks if all of the women were to leave the church he would be preaching a final sermon. And the title of his sermon, he said, would be taken from the words of St. Paul found in 2 Corinthians 13:11, "FINALLY MY BRETHREN FAREWELL".
As we mentioned before, some females are withdrawing into monogamous same-sex relationships. These females have given up on the male portion of the species. They don't believe that we will ever change. And they are in part right. Some years ago the Rev became a fan of the San Jose Lasers and the Sacramento Monarchs women's professional basketball teams. I spent many weekends in hotels, having made the 110 mile trek to Sacramento on more than one occasion, to watch the Monarchs play.
However, my efforts to get my male-friends to go and watch the females play basketball close-by in San Jose, just as we often did with the male Golden State Warriors team - well let's just say that I heard things like: they can't dunk, or I don't want to go and watch a bunch of lesbos. Can you believe they said that in front of the Rev? Man, we can be cruel! I would counter, and how about all of the years that females have supported male sports? And of course, my response did not yield the desired result!
Folks, the Rev personally witnessed the United States' Women's Olympic Basketball team’s decapitation of the Australian Olympic team, with its 7-foot center. Lisa Leslie was there, and she could dunk, and let me tell you - she ain't no lesbo. Lisa is a beautiful and accomplished woman. The deeply held and insidious feelings that males harbor towards women are deeply entrenched (even among Christian males) - I have witnessed it first hand as I have already pointed out. I suspect that my male friends knew that Lisa could beat any one of us playing basketball. I suspect that they were intimidated by women who could beat them in a given sport.
Now that girl from Brasil, on the other hand, who is the spittin' image of Dennis Rodman - well, let’s just say that not many men would want to look just like Dennis – The Rev wouldn’t have asked her out on a date or to play basketball either! Hmm baby. I am not saying that she was ugly, but let's just say that the Rev does not want to go out on a date with a woman who looks like a 6 foot by 7 inches version of one of his homeys. Besides, she could beat me down and I don't want that!!
Part IV. The Transparent Rev:
Someone recently asked the Rev, "... do you ever plan to remarry"? I didn't hesitate to provide them (I was asked more than once) with an answer. My answer was, 'not if God gives me the gift'. Ah, you know what gift I'm talking about. Now Paul was wrong to imply that people should get married, simply because they could not control their sexual appetites. Paul has given too many individuals, particularly Christians, a license to get married if you need to 'get it on' and you can no longer control yourself. But marriage is far more than that. I am certain that what he said was not what he intended to say. I hope not anyway – however, Paul was a male and from a male perspective I am certain that his position was valid from a male perspective!
The Rev doesn't, 'not want to get married either', simply because he is carrying some residual or latent anger towards females. Trust me, the Rev is still alive, however, the Rev doesn't want to fight with anyone. I see so many unhappy people today, so the Rev wonders, why get into that again? I see so many women around who are sagacious, witty, confident, successful (and can I say) FINE! And having said that, peace is more important to me than living in a superficial arrangement, simply because someone may not possess 'the gift'.
Frankly, I don't want to do what women like to do, right now. I want to watch football, basketball, boxing, preach ... and enjoy life! One of the Rev's best Thanksgiving Holiday celebrations went like this (there was no church that day and I cannot remember why not).
I decided that I was going to spend the entire Thanksgiving Holiday watching collegiate and professional football, after giving thanks of course. And I did just that. I woke up that Thanksgiving morning (said my prayers of course) then turned on the tube to a football game. I cooked and consumed breakfast as I watched the game. At lunchtime, I cooked again and tuned in to another football game. At dinner time I did the same. This pattern went on until it was dark. And around midnight, having never showered, or changed from my bathrobe or pajamas, the Rev, simply turned off the TV and climbed right back into bed. Oh, what a life?
How many men can do that with a female in your life? Man, you would be peeling potatoes (having showered 1st), washing dishes, getting dressed in order to go and visit the relatives (even grandma of: women think faster than males fame) or being told to turn that TV off and come and help me. Ah, you are the one who wanted to cook all of that food (females), so have at it I say - and don't forget to wash the dishes! A box of Churches chickens, a rib dinner, or the Thanksgiving Dinner, like the one that is traditionally served at Harvey's in Lake Tahoe, suits and suited me just fine.
I have enjoyed Thanksgiving at Harveys on more than one occasion, where I enjoyed my Holiday respite in a marvelous suite, with a full view of the 70-miles around once crystal clear alpine lake that was also surrounded by snow-covered mountains. I always reserved a panoramic view of the entire resort (which I could see from my bedroom windows) while sitting, walking or lying in bed. And at Lake Tahoe there was plenty of football to watch (on massive screens, and there was food and no dishes to wash - not to mention a hot-tub in the room, fireplace et al. Did I say no dishes to wash?
Ah, did I ever tell you about Christmas without a female being present? Well, I volunteered to serve the poor for two days at the Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco. We served about 20,000 people over that 48-hour period. I forgot to get me something to cook for Christmas day, and all of the stores were mostly closed on Christmas day, well almost all of them. The Rev stopped over in an area called Milpitas California on the drive home. The Mall was comprised mostly of Asian stores. And since most Asians don't celebrate Christmas, the Rev found an open grocery store, where he went inside and purchased the biggest Porterhouse steak that you have ever seen in your life.
Now the Rev has a special way of grilling steaks, so I took that baby straight home and got busy, and as a friend (a female once accused me of doing when she witnessed the Rev devouring a steak) 'I tore that meat off of that bone like a rapacious lion'.
You see, previously, I made the mistake of having this female friend over for dinner one evening, when I prepared steaks. She was a good friend (up until then) and she had no problem with the Rev eating his dinner on the floor, while she dined at the table. The Rev was getting down, when suddenly he heard a voice say, "tear that meat off that bone lion". Fellas’, are all females smart alecks or what? And that reminds me of another occasion when everyone in the office purchased BBQ rid dinners from the church, that were brought over to us during the lunch hour.
An hour or so after we finished eating our meal, the Rev heard raucous laughter going on. What was going on I thought? Well, one of the smart aleck female co-workers had gathered everyone around the Rev's waste basket. Why? In order to view the departed bones, that were left over from the ribs that the Rev had previously devoured. There was absolutely no meat left on the bones, she hollered. Someone said, he must have bleached those bones – they are so clean. See, that is the reason why you cannot have females around when you are 'devouring a good meal'!
Let me explain, when the Rev has steak, he doesn't want anything else with it, except something to drink. Nope, I don't want any bread, vegetables, steak sauce, potatoes, utensils-just kidding, or anything - just throw that meat at the Rev as you would do with a lion - and the Rev being the carnivore that he is - will simply devour that steak. Now can you do that with a female around? No, for first of all you would have to have napkins and to observe the proper table etiquette. Then there would be vegetables, or, a nutritionally balanced meal to eat - she would see to that (she would want a salad). Who wants that? The Rev wants meat and a huge soda - that's it. Now again, how many married men who are in relationships with women can get away with that I ask?
I can hear her now, saying, that, 'you should cut that meat up into little bite-sized pieces'. Ah gobble, gobble, gobble and mind your own business I say, for a man has got to do what a man has got to do. No wonder Paul recommended that men remain single - it is very difficult to domesticate us. Frankly, someone once said that men don't get married, they simply surrender. I'm not surrendering!
Paul was apparently, not domesticated himself, he seemed to know the secret of life. Peter liked to fish, besides I bet you that the Apostles could cook up a mean 'lamb shank' or prepare a great fish fry when hanging out with the fellas' while consuming some Johannesburg Riesling from their wineskin leather bottles! I am certain that the Apostle felt like he was doing just fine living single, and that is why he encouraged the other men to do the same – if they could hold out!
Part V. Are Men Children and am I a Manchild? In the book of St. Luke, chapter 7 verses 31 and 32, where I borrowed this week’s title from, Jesus was speaking in another context to the people of the current period. Most Bibles today have changed the terms around a bit, and instead of Jesus’ warning being directed towards men, his message has been re-directed to all human beings.
Why would Jesus make such a strong comparison, and how can we apply his stinging comments and rebuke to the men and women of today’s generation? Jesus compared the adults at that time to ‘children’. For despite all that had been done to reach them with a powerful message of empowerment, the truth is that they simply ignored the message and continued on with their game playing. WHY WON"T THE WOMEN DANCE ANYMORE?
What adult would like being told that he or she was comparable to a child that was sitting in the marketplace, calling and chanting back and forth with other children while at the same time having ignored the music and songs that were being directed at them. The adult children were so busy at play that they refused to respond, by engaging in an appropriate dance. Nor did the adult-children weep or cry given the poignant and sad dirge that was being sung to them. Their indifference reminded Jesus of children who failed to heed warnings, or to listen when someone was calling out to them.
And similar to our predecessors, many of us are so busy (you might say in the marketplace of today) trying to acquire and harbor wealth, and to obtain possessions, so much so that we cannot hear those voices that are calling out and pleading with us today. And the voices that we hear crying out today are amplified, and they are the plaintive cries of women who are crying out for justice. We are also hearing the voice of justice and right crying out from God, saying that the heavy burden of control and servitude must be lifted off of the shoulders of all of God’s female creatures.
Folks, I still do not believe that God ever intended for males to turn out to be the harsh and dominating individuals that all too many of us have turned out to be throughout human history. For too many of us, it is as if nothing else matters, beyond the spirit of control and Lordship and that we may rule over our fellow-human compliments.
Most of us, males, would curl up and laugh or mock at the very thought of anyone placing a child over us or over the affairs of our household, our places of business or, over our government. However, most females today view us in that light. We are seen by many women as nothing more than bossy little boys, who happen to inhabit grown-up bodies, who through some shift of fate, have been placed over them. They recognize that many times, we lack the skill sets that would qualify us to be the head of the house, a female, the church or our places of business or the government for that matter.
Most females spend most of their young lives (taking classes in High School) learning and acquiring all of the requisite skills that will be required in order to someday manage a household. On the other hand most males spend much of their time, in their formative years, playing basketball and football, or practicing with their XBox360s. Now these same males who have not been taught anything, or developed the requisite skills or understanding that is so necessary in order to be the head of a household, will still demand to be the head of the house based on nothing else but gender assignment and brute strength.
So Rev, are you saying that females are categorically right, in terms of everything that they do or say? And Rev, are you saying that there aren’t any rebellious females around? No, but what I am saying is that we should not create an atmosphere/hostile environment wherein females find it necessary to rebel against us. Most humans, when they are put under constant pressure or mistreatment will eventually rebel. Has every female been mistreated by her male counterpart then? The answer is a resounding no, however, having said that, the human way of dealing with rebellion, has historically been to simply quash the rebellion. And most males are still trying to quash the rebellion, when many times, there is zero evidence of a rebellion taking place.
No circumstances between a man and a woman should ever reach the point where either one feels that in order to be respected, that he or she has to beat up, undermine or destroy the other!
A business acquaintance of my mine, some years ago in the city of Berkeley California, tried to explain to me why a man who had been divorced could never be a pastor of a church. Her reasoning went like this; if he cannot manage his own house, how can he manage a church? I asked her, but what if the man had a rebellious partner, and regardless of what he did – she simply rebelled. She replied, that it was inconsequential.
My question to her and individuals who believe as she did is this, then how can God retain his headship over us? What do I mean by that? Well, if God’s whole creation rebelled against him in the past (angels and humanoids), a rebellion that has continued until this day - then somehow God must have been a failure or unqualified to be God, correct? The Rev understands that one can be the kindest, gentlest and most understanding and fair person that one can be – and still be rebelled against. And when doing the best that you know how to do, someone can divorce you just as the children of Israel divorced God!
I believe that in those instances, when you encounter ‘the spirit of python’, you need to turn that over to God. For whether it is your wife, children, a friend or employer – if you are doing what you are supposed to be doing, the rebellion is not against you – it is against God and eventually he will take care of it. However, keep in mind that at one time in your life you were rebellious yourself. Ask yourself, how did you want to be handled when you were in error? Wouldn’t you have wanted someone to at least try to get you on the right track?
The fact is that males have been trying to quash both the real and the imaginary rebellions, apparently, from the time that females were placed on this earth. From a male's perspective, women have always been in rebellion. There is some insidious aspect at work within the nature of most human beings, particularly males, that causes us to want to conquer, or dominate other humans, animals and things. From the male perspective, most males believe that they are simply doing what God told them to do - having dominion over the earth and everything in it (especially females). Conversely, I have never met a male who did not cherish the notion of freedom. So what happened to, "...do unto others.."?
Part IV. The Burning Bed:
To be frank, I could not imagine being an individual who found him or herself forced to live up under the control of another human being throughout my lifespan. Most women, with a few exceptions, in America have endured such treatment, well until the ‘Burning Bed’ happened. Do you recall that movie, which was also based upon a true story. That woman in Philadelphia had experienced enough of her husband’s abusive behavior, and she in turn murdered him while he was asleep. How? By sitting the house on fire and turning him into a grilled steak, while she escaped with the kids.
She was subsequently acquitted, given the extreme cruelty and abuse that she had reportedly endured over the troubled years of their marriage. And, the net effect of her acquittal was that other women realized that the scales of justice were finally being balanced and swinging in the direction of females. Many American women said at that point, I’m not taking it any more! I can recall a decade or so later, when a friend phoned the Rev, and asked, "are you sleeping on your stomach tonight"? I asked quizically, "what do you mean". Well, he was referring to what happened to another gentleman who met his fate in Manassas Virginia, another city that the Rev stayed in for awhile during a period when he was doing some work with the Washington DC Federal and District governments; a woman named Lorena Bobbitt, who had apparently had enough, simply castrated her man!
So what should we do as a society? Most women, like the American slaves of the post-bellum period, still feel, ironically, that males should still be ‘the head’ of the woman. What a spirit of forgiveness? Clearly this type of woman still wants to work things out, however, they have found out that a willingness to compromise on their parts, will not result in any mitigation of power or a willingness to compromise on the part of their male counterparts. Most women, not the radical feminists, will tell you that they neither want to be nor do without their men. And they on the other hand report that they simply want their men, to stop acting like domineering, power-happy, selfish men-children, who if they do not get their way - will beat them up or take their ball(s) and go home.
This group of females would simply prefer that their men simply conduct themselves as grown-ups and to learn to love them, to respect them and their ideas, and to better qualify themselves in many of the areas where they are lacking - so that they can be a qualified head of a household. These women no longer want a man who leads by force and mandate, or one who as a result of gender assignment - feels that their assigned gender alone qualifies them to lead the household. These women want a qualified man, one who loves them to be their knights in shining armor. It has never been a requirement, at least one that I have found in any culture, that requires any male to demonstrate in any any form, that he has the requisite training, understanding, skills or qualifications to be the head of a household!
Factually the term husband, is the same root, translated from the Greek that gives us the term, husbandry. That's right, husbandry, a farming term - that simply means 'to plant seed (sperma) or the planter'. Husbands plant the seed, just as a famer plants the seeds in the garden, or on a farm. Now many males, can readily get with this definition of being a husband - we like the job of planting our seed in women, well as long as they don't get pregnant.
And many of the planter-husbands are suspicious of women who feel that males ought to ever listen to them’. Some males, view that desire of women as an abridgment of male power, and a challenge to his power as the head of the house. Many men recall what happened to Adam and strong-man Samson when they listened to their female counterparts.
Adult males take being in charge so seriously, that they in fact groom the young males at an early age to assume prepare to assume the role. They teach the younger males to ‘step-up-to-her’, and that they must keep her in check. Why is this so important to me? Well, from a male perspective, a man who doesn’t keep his woman in check is not a real man. And folks, that is what it is all about, at least from the male’s perspective. Many males base their virility and manliness on how adapt they are at dominating, controlling and keeping you powerless. And isn’t it ironic, that in one sense both the male and the female wants the same thing from the male. Both want him to ‘be a man’. The problem is that the two sides often have a different definition of what it means to ‘be a man’.
Many a young female, not to mention some of the older ones have often been shocked by her once endearing and loving male Sir. Gallihad, who after he got what he wanted (her), he turned into a evil demanding and overpowering emperor! What happened, they ask themselves? He used to be so attentive and sweet. He brought over flowers and candy, and he used to take me out to dinner and dancing. And, he held the door for me back. But once I became 'his woman', he made a 360 degree turnaround and began to treat me like a slave or as if I was his child!
Paul asked, in closing, who shall deliver me from the body of this death? How many females ask themselves daily, who are in relationships with males, who, or when will I be delivered from the death of unappreciated servitude!
Even though I veered off course and had some fun with this topic from time to time, and employed a made up story from the movie Jurassic Park, using it it as a backdrop for discussing the ongoing and inherent problems embedded within the male-female dynamic, I do take this topic very seriously. When I graduated from high school, one of my stated aspirations was to prove that a man and a woman could live happily ever after. Sofar, I have failed!
With regard to my self-deprecating moments of transparency, I meant it, but having said that I realize that it is not only marriage that requires commitment, but working with other people requires a willingness to submit, to care, learn and to share.
I will always remember when the Lord woke me up one morning, and spoke out into my room the words that I have made a constant part of this blog. The voice said the following: Our theme – ought to be- to pursue different passions - for different people. I suspect that when we all learn how to listen and to pursue the passions of another human being, me first of all, then our world as well as our relationships and interactions with others who differ from us - in one way or another - will be a more fulfilling place to be; and the world that we reside in and our relationships will be more satisfying!
Men we have been, and are being cried out to today. But have we wept? In Lorraine Hansberry's play, Rasin In The Sun, she posed the question to her daughter: Have you wept for your brother today? The matronly woman recognized the fallen condition of her son. However, we must be just as sensitive, men, to the needs of women today. We have and are being danced in front of by females, and experiencing the lyrical sounds that ebb from broken, lonely, unappreciated and incarcerated spirits. These hearts of those with broken-spirits who have served us and born our children; those who have made an inestimable and loving effort to support us as we pursue often our selfish dreams ambitions, are crying out for respect.
It would seem to me that the book: Weeping In The Playtime of Others, the title enough would be sufficient to describe what females are trying to convey to others. But we are busy playing our games, sometimes literally, while our women, not children this time, are crying out to us to set them free!
And it is indeed time that we reform ourselves, and begin to enter into loving, enlightened and meaningful relationships with our counterparts, and to show meaningful respect and humane positive regard for all of the females that God has placed upon this earth along with us.
Peace & Grace & I Love You Ladies
Reverend C. Solomon
WWW.SEALOFABRAHAM.BLOGSPOT.COM
Books referred to:
All God's Children, by author Fox Butterfield
Weeping In the Playtime of Others, by author Kenneth Woodsen
They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, we have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.
Many women in America are no longer dancing!
Ouch!! Now brethren, before you get mad at me, consider the words uttered by the late Johnnie Cochran, during the previously televised O.J. Simpson trial, i.e., '...if the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit'. If it fits, and you are not in denial over whether it fits or not, then you have to do something about it - don't be so quick to acquit yourself.
And with regard to name dropping: Did I tell you that I had the opportunity to meet Mr. Cochran at the pro-basketball player, Latrell Sprewell's, press conference that I attended some years ago at the Convention Center in Oakland California? The Rev gets around folks - Mr. Cochran was surprisingly short of stature, however, a very nice man.
And while I am it, OJ's other best friend who completed the triumvirate - besides AC Cowlings, Jo Bell (had just turned minister when OJ was incarcerated) was also a friend of mine who would keep me abreast of how OJ was doing in jail - when he visited our church from Seattle Washington. Yes the same Jo Bell, the famous running back on the Championship University of Washington football team of years gone by.
OJ was from the Protrero Hill area of San Francisco, a stone's throw from Candlestick Park where a former female acquaintance of mine that I often visited once resided. I just missed meeting OJ, years before he got in trouble, when I was visiting the players in the locker room (particularly All-Pro middle-backer Cleveland Elam) at the San Francisco 49er's training camp; that was when it was still located in Redwood City. The Niner’s camp is currently located in Santa Clara -yes, I've been there too. Man, those dudes were bigger than the Rev!
Today's quotations by author, scientist and futurist: Ray Kurzweil:
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1). A deeper truth can be perceived only by illuminating the opposing sides of a paradox.
2). A common approach is to deny that the issue exists.
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Quotation by Rev. C. Solomon
It is both unthinkable and unconsciencable, that many black males today - who are the successors and beneficiaries of the courage, love and largese of female liberators, could in turn subject females (progeny of their liberators), to similar condtions and slave treatment, of the kind that they were helped to escape from!
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Introduction:
Author Ray Kurzweil is correct, the only hope of deeper truth ever being revealed within the human male-female standoff, is when both sides agree to listen attentively to what the other side has to say. After that, both sides must attempt to understand and do something about what the other side has been trying to say to the other(for eons it would appear). Black American males should be especially suited to listen, understand as well as relate to what women have been trying to say to them, given their experiences of being exploited by racism and historical slavery.
The discrimination and slavery that persisted in America was similar in many respects to the bondage and discrimination that was experienced in classical history and literature by the Jews). Both groups, in spite of their cries for freedom, were held in bondage for approximately 400 years!
Males of every hue and nationality, should ask themselves, particularly black males, just how long have females been enslaved or treated as slaves by the male portion of the species? We should also ask ourselves, when are we going to do something about liberating them? One could argue (if you believe Bishop Usher's calculations), that females have been in bondage for going on about 4-7000 years now. That is how old he believes that humans have been on earth. I don't necessarily agree with Bishop Usher's numbers, but right or wrong, even 4-7000 years is too long.
I strongly agree with Mr. Kurzweil that the common approach to dealing with problems that is often employed by too many human beings (especially males in this context,) is to deny that an issue even exists. Many males would have you to believe that the other side is simply delusional, or experiencing auditory or visual hallucinations. I am not here to beat up on my brothers, for there are many enlightened brothers out there who are trying to change themselves and to treat women like human beings instead of chattel.
However, just as an aside, I often wonder why some black males, the same ones who decry the racism and subjugation that was forced upon them by their white counterparts, have been so adept at behaving in the same manner when it comes to females? In the book: ALL God's Children, the story of the Bosket family from Edgefield South Carolina, the author explained why he believed that black males often misbehave in the manner in which they do. He also explains, who he believes that black males in America are trying to imitate - their former white masters.
Black males should recall all of the female leaders, black and white, who led us and helped to secure our freedoms. Many of these females, both black and white, were members of the abolitionist movement in America, others were not. However, and at the same time, all of them helped African males (as well as African females) to secure freedom from the American slave south.
It is both unthinkable and unconsciencable, that many black males today - who are the successors and beneficiaries of the courage, love and largese of female liberators, could in turn subject females (progeny of their liberators), to similar condtions and slave treatment, of the kind that they were helped to escape from! Is this how we thank those females who helped to secure our freedoms, by enslaving their postertity, and treating their progeny as if they are 'slave children', and as if they belong to us and we are their masters?
Well back to the subject: In part 2, Roles and Woman Inherits the Earth, I used the movie Jurassic Park as a backdrop, particularly the verbal bantering that took place between Park Creator John Hammond and Ellie Sattler. Their encounters during the film often depicted the veiled and at times open sexist encounters and harbored feelings of antipathy and resentment that often exists between males and females - especially by males. One can only imagine the energy that it takes when one one spends his entire life trying to keep his counterparts in subjection to him.
And as we pointed out last time, Jurassic Park was based on a period/epoch that most of us read about in the Bible the Garden of Eden. In Yahweh's garden setting, replete with birds of the air, animals (including a serpent) large and small, vegetation, food for human consumption, herbs and trees - and last but not least human beings; the humans, the flora and the fauna were brought together in what turned out to be a cosmic clash that was of astronomical proportions.
The fruit was dangerous, the devil (played by the serpent) was the supplanter, and the humans (played by Adam and Eve) were both the victims in this divine cosmic experiment. The experiment tested whether or not man would obey God, or submit to a death that would result as a consequence of his disobedience to God's command. The consequence of failure: the humans were tossed from the paradisiacal garden and females forevermore, not just Eve, would suffer in two ways.
Women would suffer excruciating pain in childbirth. And I will let women decide, however, it would appear that the worse park of her suffering would be that forever, she would be 'ruled over' by man. That will teach her to stay in her place! Well, here we are today in the year 2007CE, and still on planet Earth, however, 'we are not living in paradise".
Part I. As I pointed out in Part II, there was as much testosterone and male arrogance present in JP as there was in the Garden of Eden. Yahweh, who was characterized as a male-God (not a genderless spirit), who without the aid of female input, relied upon aspects of himself in order to create his earthly paradise. John Hammond, played by Sir. Richard Attenborough, one of my favorite actors by the way, acquired the assistance and knowledge of several male experts, who along with himself (doctors and scientists) made up the male dominated god-head of Jurassic Park. The final touches to be put on the park prior to its opening, and inspection were being made to the park under the direction of a male attorney who was sent to examine the park before it could be opened to the public.
But something unexpectedly went wrong as Ian Malcolm, the chaotician interjected, 'nature will not be contained'. Nature in this instance was represented by females: a female storm, the 2-females on the isle that wouldn't stay in their places, and the all-female animals on the island. Towards the climax of the movie, the female dinosaurs found a way to conceive and reproduce without the assistance of any male progenitors, and the females contributed by and large to the saving of lives more than any other single factor. Now isn’t that just like a female?
Frankly women are still saving our hides today, even though we will rarely admit it. The question that remains then - how come we really don't like them? And how come we will not treat females with the dignity and respect that they deserve? So why do we abuse females, either verbally or physically? Male males desire females, primarily for sensory purposes; when we can use them for sexual purposes, and last but not least we also like it when females serve and take care of us.
But the idea of females having a say, one need only to consider American history, for proof that the founders of this nation had very little interest in what females had to say; look how long it took for females to attain suffrage. Factually, I was speaking with a gentleman on this subject approximately 30 years ago. I said to him at the time, "women were not put here simply for our sexual gratification". He immediately replied, you are right, "they are supposed to cook too"!
Part II. The Rev Doesn't Know Why He is a Fish Out (one of many I am sure) of Water, in terms of his feelings. However, and to be frank, I have been fairly unsuccessful getting along with women myself in spite of my wonderful attitude and feelings towards women. So it must be their fault that we haven't always gotten along? And to be honest, the Rev is a divorcee. However, having said that - I certainly don't blame the women who were once in my life, dating or otherwise, solely, for our failure to get along. For example, years ago I resided in the mountains just above the Pacific Ocean, having relocated from the East Bay where I lived in the mountains overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge. The area was known as Pacifica. Pacifica is located in California, just above the city of Serramonte and near Skyline Drive, it is a suburb of San Francisco.
I had been married for a relatively short period of time when God let me sense that my former wife was not a happy camper. I think it was when she told me, I AIN'T HAPPY, that I got it - women will let you know when they are not happy. Well, anyway, we lived in a beautiful area, having just been married for about a year it would seem. I had a great job as a Territory Manager with a General Motors subsidiary. I had a beautiful wife, new cars provided for me every year, expenses, a church to attend - and man we were, I thought, 'on my way'. Get it, we were on my way!
The Rev could not understand given our wonderful start as to what was wrong with this chick? First of all, she had me (good looking, tall, dark, handsome and Holy-Ghost filled stud that I was); and we were doing well. Then the Lord helped me to understand. Do you remember the young man who was with the Prophet Elijah on the occasion when the Syrian army surrounded their dwelling, see 2 Kings 6:17? Then Elisha prayed and said, "O LORD, I pray, open his eyes that he may see..." The prophet had to pray that the young man's eyes be opened in order for him to see what he could not see. Before his eyes were opened, the young man could see only what was right in front of him, and what registered within his sense. Heaven help the female whose mate lacks obstensible sensory deprivation?
Many of us need to have our eyes opened so that we can see beyond = limited periphery, through tunnel vision and our own narrow perceptions of reality. Among the things that he made me to realize was that she was stranded in our mountain paradise, if you will - having just located away from her home for the first time that was 2200 miles away. We had one automobile at the time, and I used the car mostly in my work from home business. There was an experimental and archaic bus system that the county was trying out; they purchased some old dilapidated buses from another jurisdiction, about 4 buses I believe in order to provide some public transportation for those who needed to make the trek up the mountain.
And having, said that the buses often broke down before reaching the top of the mountain. If you were driving up the mountain, you might believe, as I did initially, that the driver had simply stopped over for his coffee break. Nope, the bus had broken down, again and again and again.
That was only one of the problems: God spoke to me and said that females are people too, and they have lives and they don't want to spend their lives as slaves and servant girls or simply waiting at home until ‘tall dark and handsome hubby got home’. Seem simple? Nothing saddened me more than to witness the sadness in her spirit. Here was someone who relocated 2200 miles across the country, from Chicago IL, to be with me - and folks, she was not happy. I would come home and tell her about my great day, and share stories about what I saw in the beautiful California country and coast side, failing to understand that she was unable to have the social interaction that I enjoyed each and every day.
I was living my dream. I had a home (Luxury apartment actually - one of the most expensive in the San Francisco Bay Area), new car provided yearly, money, a paradise of sorts including 'my woman'. In fact, one day for the heck of it I walked down that mountain myself, and man - forget it, you don't want to do that. Okay, so she couldn't walk up and down the mountain, but I bet you those women in the Bible would have!
Part III. Do Men Understand Women?
Are we men, often like children just sitting in the marketplace without a clue, and happily singing, dancing, playing games and simply calling out to each other while ignoring the needs of the females? Oftentimes, the Eve's in our paradises, are not happy campers. Why? Because, we, males, are fulfilling our visions and at the same time expecting women to give up there visions. We want them to simply get on board with us, and help us to fulfill our visions. And what we end up with most of the time, is a partner with a broken, wounded and repressed Spirit.
Why are we like that? We males have zero respect for the feminine principle (which represents what women think and feel and what women bring to the table). Why? I will tell you why? It is because most of us, egocentric males, believe that what women feel and think is inconsequential. See, males have their own principle: it is called, I am the boss and you were placed here on earth in order to make me happy. The female principle, on the other hand, contains within it antecedents and elements of a female who wants to do things that make her happy.
Good Lord, aren't females aware yet, that they were not put here on earth to make themselves happy? Females, every male and most children believe, were placed on earth to serve and to make them happy! If you a female who felt any joy today, somewhere today you were not doing what you were created to do - so stop it, apologize, and go and find someone to wait on - given the servile expectancy that is a part of your nature. At least, that is how males see it – besides, YOU SHOULD HAVE NEVER EATEN THAT APPLE - and look what you have done to yourself. If you hadn’t of eaten that apple, surely we would have been nicer to you!
Okay smarty, I heard you - it wasn't the apple or the quince or whatever Eve purportedly ate and shared with her husband that made her unhappy - it was male dominance that made her unhappy, then and it is insensitive male dominance and injustice that causes most women to be unhappy in life today. So what do we do, throw grits on the man as Tyler Perry suggested in his films and plays, or have grits thrown on us as Rev. Al Green and others have already experienced? Or, should women employ the Lysine contingency? Remember the Lysine contingency that was mentioned in the Jurassic Park film, which was that the dinosaurs could not produce the amino acid lysine. Without supplements in their food they slip into comma and die. Should women, being the embodiment of the lysine contingency in men's lives simply withdraw. Well, we deserve it, but I hope you won't do that even though we would deserve it if you did.
One minister who appreciated the women in his congregation so much, once proclaimed, folks if all of the women were to leave the church he would be preaching a final sermon. And the title of his sermon, he said, would be taken from the words of St. Paul found in 2 Corinthians 13:11, "FINALLY MY BRETHREN FAREWELL".
As we mentioned before, some females are withdrawing into monogamous same-sex relationships. These females have given up on the male portion of the species. They don't believe that we will ever change. And they are in part right. Some years ago the Rev became a fan of the San Jose Lasers and the Sacramento Monarchs women's professional basketball teams. I spent many weekends in hotels, having made the 110 mile trek to Sacramento on more than one occasion, to watch the Monarchs play.
However, my efforts to get my male-friends to go and watch the females play basketball close-by in San Jose, just as we often did with the male Golden State Warriors team - well let's just say that I heard things like: they can't dunk, or I don't want to go and watch a bunch of lesbos. Can you believe they said that in front of the Rev? Man, we can be cruel! I would counter, and how about all of the years that females have supported male sports? And of course, my response did not yield the desired result!
Folks, the Rev personally witnessed the United States' Women's Olympic Basketball team’s decapitation of the Australian Olympic team, with its 7-foot center. Lisa Leslie was there, and she could dunk, and let me tell you - she ain't no lesbo. Lisa is a beautiful and accomplished woman. The deeply held and insidious feelings that males harbor towards women are deeply entrenched (even among Christian males) - I have witnessed it first hand as I have already pointed out. I suspect that my male friends knew that Lisa could beat any one of us playing basketball. I suspect that they were intimidated by women who could beat them in a given sport.
Now that girl from Brasil, on the other hand, who is the spittin' image of Dennis Rodman - well, let’s just say that not many men would want to look just like Dennis – The Rev wouldn’t have asked her out on a date or to play basketball either! Hmm baby. I am not saying that she was ugly, but let's just say that the Rev does not want to go out on a date with a woman who looks like a 6 foot by 7 inches version of one of his homeys. Besides, she could beat me down and I don't want that!!
Part IV. The Transparent Rev:
Someone recently asked the Rev, "... do you ever plan to remarry"? I didn't hesitate to provide them (I was asked more than once) with an answer. My answer was, 'not if God gives me the gift'. Ah, you know what gift I'm talking about. Now Paul was wrong to imply that people should get married, simply because they could not control their sexual appetites. Paul has given too many individuals, particularly Christians, a license to get married if you need to 'get it on' and you can no longer control yourself. But marriage is far more than that. I am certain that what he said was not what he intended to say. I hope not anyway – however, Paul was a male and from a male perspective I am certain that his position was valid from a male perspective!
The Rev doesn't, 'not want to get married either', simply because he is carrying some residual or latent anger towards females. Trust me, the Rev is still alive, however, the Rev doesn't want to fight with anyone. I see so many unhappy people today, so the Rev wonders, why get into that again? I see so many women around who are sagacious, witty, confident, successful (and can I say) FINE! And having said that, peace is more important to me than living in a superficial arrangement, simply because someone may not possess 'the gift'.
Frankly, I don't want to do what women like to do, right now. I want to watch football, basketball, boxing, preach ... and enjoy life! One of the Rev's best Thanksgiving Holiday celebrations went like this (there was no church that day and I cannot remember why not).
I decided that I was going to spend the entire Thanksgiving Holiday watching collegiate and professional football, after giving thanks of course. And I did just that. I woke up that Thanksgiving morning (said my prayers of course) then turned on the tube to a football game. I cooked and consumed breakfast as I watched the game. At lunchtime, I cooked again and tuned in to another football game. At dinner time I did the same. This pattern went on until it was dark. And around midnight, having never showered, or changed from my bathrobe or pajamas, the Rev, simply turned off the TV and climbed right back into bed. Oh, what a life?
How many men can do that with a female in your life? Man, you would be peeling potatoes (having showered 1st), washing dishes, getting dressed in order to go and visit the relatives (even grandma of: women think faster than males fame) or being told to turn that TV off and come and help me. Ah, you are the one who wanted to cook all of that food (females), so have at it I say - and don't forget to wash the dishes! A box of Churches chickens, a rib dinner, or the Thanksgiving Dinner, like the one that is traditionally served at Harvey's in Lake Tahoe, suits and suited me just fine.
I have enjoyed Thanksgiving at Harveys on more than one occasion, where I enjoyed my Holiday respite in a marvelous suite, with a full view of the 70-miles around once crystal clear alpine lake that was also surrounded by snow-covered mountains. I always reserved a panoramic view of the entire resort (which I could see from my bedroom windows) while sitting, walking or lying in bed. And at Lake Tahoe there was plenty of football to watch (on massive screens, and there was food and no dishes to wash - not to mention a hot-tub in the room, fireplace et al. Did I say no dishes to wash?
Ah, did I ever tell you about Christmas without a female being present? Well, I volunteered to serve the poor for two days at the Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco. We served about 20,000 people over that 48-hour period. I forgot to get me something to cook for Christmas day, and all of the stores were mostly closed on Christmas day, well almost all of them. The Rev stopped over in an area called Milpitas California on the drive home. The Mall was comprised mostly of Asian stores. And since most Asians don't celebrate Christmas, the Rev found an open grocery store, where he went inside and purchased the biggest Porterhouse steak that you have ever seen in your life.
Now the Rev has a special way of grilling steaks, so I took that baby straight home and got busy, and as a friend (a female once accused me of doing when she witnessed the Rev devouring a steak) 'I tore that meat off of that bone like a rapacious lion'.
You see, previously, I made the mistake of having this female friend over for dinner one evening, when I prepared steaks. She was a good friend (up until then) and she had no problem with the Rev eating his dinner on the floor, while she dined at the table. The Rev was getting down, when suddenly he heard a voice say, "tear that meat off that bone lion". Fellas’, are all females smart alecks or what? And that reminds me of another occasion when everyone in the office purchased BBQ rid dinners from the church, that were brought over to us during the lunch hour.
An hour or so after we finished eating our meal, the Rev heard raucous laughter going on. What was going on I thought? Well, one of the smart aleck female co-workers had gathered everyone around the Rev's waste basket. Why? In order to view the departed bones, that were left over from the ribs that the Rev had previously devoured. There was absolutely no meat left on the bones, she hollered. Someone said, he must have bleached those bones – they are so clean. See, that is the reason why you cannot have females around when you are 'devouring a good meal'!
Let me explain, when the Rev has steak, he doesn't want anything else with it, except something to drink. Nope, I don't want any bread, vegetables, steak sauce, potatoes, utensils-just kidding, or anything - just throw that meat at the Rev as you would do with a lion - and the Rev being the carnivore that he is - will simply devour that steak. Now can you do that with a female around? No, for first of all you would have to have napkins and to observe the proper table etiquette. Then there would be vegetables, or, a nutritionally balanced meal to eat - she would see to that (she would want a salad). Who wants that? The Rev wants meat and a huge soda - that's it. Now again, how many married men who are in relationships with women can get away with that I ask?
I can hear her now, saying, that, 'you should cut that meat up into little bite-sized pieces'. Ah gobble, gobble, gobble and mind your own business I say, for a man has got to do what a man has got to do. No wonder Paul recommended that men remain single - it is very difficult to domesticate us. Frankly, someone once said that men don't get married, they simply surrender. I'm not surrendering!
Paul was apparently, not domesticated himself, he seemed to know the secret of life. Peter liked to fish, besides I bet you that the Apostles could cook up a mean 'lamb shank' or prepare a great fish fry when hanging out with the fellas' while consuming some Johannesburg Riesling from their wineskin leather bottles! I am certain that the Apostle felt like he was doing just fine living single, and that is why he encouraged the other men to do the same – if they could hold out!
Part V. Are Men Children and am I a Manchild? In the book of St. Luke, chapter 7 verses 31 and 32, where I borrowed this week’s title from, Jesus was speaking in another context to the people of the current period. Most Bibles today have changed the terms around a bit, and instead of Jesus’ warning being directed towards men, his message has been re-directed to all human beings.
Why would Jesus make such a strong comparison, and how can we apply his stinging comments and rebuke to the men and women of today’s generation? Jesus compared the adults at that time to ‘children’. For despite all that had been done to reach them with a powerful message of empowerment, the truth is that they simply ignored the message and continued on with their game playing. WHY WON"T THE WOMEN DANCE ANYMORE?
What adult would like being told that he or she was comparable to a child that was sitting in the marketplace, calling and chanting back and forth with other children while at the same time having ignored the music and songs that were being directed at them. The adult children were so busy at play that they refused to respond, by engaging in an appropriate dance. Nor did the adult-children weep or cry given the poignant and sad dirge that was being sung to them. Their indifference reminded Jesus of children who failed to heed warnings, or to listen when someone was calling out to them.
And similar to our predecessors, many of us are so busy (you might say in the marketplace of today) trying to acquire and harbor wealth, and to obtain possessions, so much so that we cannot hear those voices that are calling out and pleading with us today. And the voices that we hear crying out today are amplified, and they are the plaintive cries of women who are crying out for justice. We are also hearing the voice of justice and right crying out from God, saying that the heavy burden of control and servitude must be lifted off of the shoulders of all of God’s female creatures.
Folks, I still do not believe that God ever intended for males to turn out to be the harsh and dominating individuals that all too many of us have turned out to be throughout human history. For too many of us, it is as if nothing else matters, beyond the spirit of control and Lordship and that we may rule over our fellow-human compliments.
Most of us, males, would curl up and laugh or mock at the very thought of anyone placing a child over us or over the affairs of our household, our places of business or, over our government. However, most females today view us in that light. We are seen by many women as nothing more than bossy little boys, who happen to inhabit grown-up bodies, who through some shift of fate, have been placed over them. They recognize that many times, we lack the skill sets that would qualify us to be the head of the house, a female, the church or our places of business or the government for that matter.
Most females spend most of their young lives (taking classes in High School) learning and acquiring all of the requisite skills that will be required in order to someday manage a household. On the other hand most males spend much of their time, in their formative years, playing basketball and football, or practicing with their XBox360s. Now these same males who have not been taught anything, or developed the requisite skills or understanding that is so necessary in order to be the head of a household, will still demand to be the head of the house based on nothing else but gender assignment and brute strength.
So Rev, are you saying that females are categorically right, in terms of everything that they do or say? And Rev, are you saying that there aren’t any rebellious females around? No, but what I am saying is that we should not create an atmosphere/hostile environment wherein females find it necessary to rebel against us. Most humans, when they are put under constant pressure or mistreatment will eventually rebel. Has every female been mistreated by her male counterpart then? The answer is a resounding no, however, having said that, the human way of dealing with rebellion, has historically been to simply quash the rebellion. And most males are still trying to quash the rebellion, when many times, there is zero evidence of a rebellion taking place.
No circumstances between a man and a woman should ever reach the point where either one feels that in order to be respected, that he or she has to beat up, undermine or destroy the other!
A business acquaintance of my mine, some years ago in the city of Berkeley California, tried to explain to me why a man who had been divorced could never be a pastor of a church. Her reasoning went like this; if he cannot manage his own house, how can he manage a church? I asked her, but what if the man had a rebellious partner, and regardless of what he did – she simply rebelled. She replied, that it was inconsequential.
My question to her and individuals who believe as she did is this, then how can God retain his headship over us? What do I mean by that? Well, if God’s whole creation rebelled against him in the past (angels and humanoids), a rebellion that has continued until this day - then somehow God must have been a failure or unqualified to be God, correct? The Rev understands that one can be the kindest, gentlest and most understanding and fair person that one can be – and still be rebelled against. And when doing the best that you know how to do, someone can divorce you just as the children of Israel divorced God!
I believe that in those instances, when you encounter ‘the spirit of python’, you need to turn that over to God. For whether it is your wife, children, a friend or employer – if you are doing what you are supposed to be doing, the rebellion is not against you – it is against God and eventually he will take care of it. However, keep in mind that at one time in your life you were rebellious yourself. Ask yourself, how did you want to be handled when you were in error? Wouldn’t you have wanted someone to at least try to get you on the right track?
The fact is that males have been trying to quash both the real and the imaginary rebellions, apparently, from the time that females were placed on this earth. From a male's perspective, women have always been in rebellion. There is some insidious aspect at work within the nature of most human beings, particularly males, that causes us to want to conquer, or dominate other humans, animals and things. From the male perspective, most males believe that they are simply doing what God told them to do - having dominion over the earth and everything in it (especially females). Conversely, I have never met a male who did not cherish the notion of freedom. So what happened to, "...do unto others.."?
Part IV. The Burning Bed:
To be frank, I could not imagine being an individual who found him or herself forced to live up under the control of another human being throughout my lifespan. Most women, with a few exceptions, in America have endured such treatment, well until the ‘Burning Bed’ happened. Do you recall that movie, which was also based upon a true story. That woman in Philadelphia had experienced enough of her husband’s abusive behavior, and she in turn murdered him while he was asleep. How? By sitting the house on fire and turning him into a grilled steak, while she escaped with the kids.
She was subsequently acquitted, given the extreme cruelty and abuse that she had reportedly endured over the troubled years of their marriage. And, the net effect of her acquittal was that other women realized that the scales of justice were finally being balanced and swinging in the direction of females. Many American women said at that point, I’m not taking it any more! I can recall a decade or so later, when a friend phoned the Rev, and asked, "are you sleeping on your stomach tonight"? I asked quizically, "what do you mean". Well, he was referring to what happened to another gentleman who met his fate in Manassas Virginia, another city that the Rev stayed in for awhile during a period when he was doing some work with the Washington DC Federal and District governments; a woman named Lorena Bobbitt, who had apparently had enough, simply castrated her man!
So what should we do as a society? Most women, like the American slaves of the post-bellum period, still feel, ironically, that males should still be ‘the head’ of the woman. What a spirit of forgiveness? Clearly this type of woman still wants to work things out, however, they have found out that a willingness to compromise on their parts, will not result in any mitigation of power or a willingness to compromise on the part of their male counterparts. Most women, not the radical feminists, will tell you that they neither want to be nor do without their men. And they on the other hand report that they simply want their men, to stop acting like domineering, power-happy, selfish men-children, who if they do not get their way - will beat them up or take their ball(s) and go home.
This group of females would simply prefer that their men simply conduct themselves as grown-ups and to learn to love them, to respect them and their ideas, and to better qualify themselves in many of the areas where they are lacking - so that they can be a qualified head of a household. These women no longer want a man who leads by force and mandate, or one who as a result of gender assignment - feels that their assigned gender alone qualifies them to lead the household. These women want a qualified man, one who loves them to be their knights in shining armor. It has never been a requirement, at least one that I have found in any culture, that requires any male to demonstrate in any any form, that he has the requisite training, understanding, skills or qualifications to be the head of a household!
Factually the term husband, is the same root, translated from the Greek that gives us the term, husbandry. That's right, husbandry, a farming term - that simply means 'to plant seed (sperma) or the planter'. Husbands plant the seed, just as a famer plants the seeds in the garden, or on a farm. Now many males, can readily get with this definition of being a husband - we like the job of planting our seed in women, well as long as they don't get pregnant.
And many of the planter-husbands are suspicious of women who feel that males ought to ever listen to them’. Some males, view that desire of women as an abridgment of male power, and a challenge to his power as the head of the house. Many men recall what happened to Adam and strong-man Samson when they listened to their female counterparts.
Adult males take being in charge so seriously, that they in fact groom the young males at an early age to assume prepare to assume the role. They teach the younger males to ‘step-up-to-her’, and that they must keep her in check. Why is this so important to me? Well, from a male perspective, a man who doesn’t keep his woman in check is not a real man. And folks, that is what it is all about, at least from the male’s perspective. Many males base their virility and manliness on how adapt they are at dominating, controlling and keeping you powerless. And isn’t it ironic, that in one sense both the male and the female wants the same thing from the male. Both want him to ‘be a man’. The problem is that the two sides often have a different definition of what it means to ‘be a man’.
Many a young female, not to mention some of the older ones have often been shocked by her once endearing and loving male Sir. Gallihad, who after he got what he wanted (her), he turned into a evil demanding and overpowering emperor! What happened, they ask themselves? He used to be so attentive and sweet. He brought over flowers and candy, and he used to take me out to dinner and dancing. And, he held the door for me back. But once I became 'his woman', he made a 360 degree turnaround and began to treat me like a slave or as if I was his child!
Paul asked, in closing, who shall deliver me from the body of this death? How many females ask themselves daily, who are in relationships with males, who, or when will I be delivered from the death of unappreciated servitude!
Even though I veered off course and had some fun with this topic from time to time, and employed a made up story from the movie Jurassic Park, using it it as a backdrop for discussing the ongoing and inherent problems embedded within the male-female dynamic, I do take this topic very seriously. When I graduated from high school, one of my stated aspirations was to prove that a man and a woman could live happily ever after. Sofar, I have failed!
With regard to my self-deprecating moments of transparency, I meant it, but having said that I realize that it is not only marriage that requires commitment, but working with other people requires a willingness to submit, to care, learn and to share.
I will always remember when the Lord woke me up one morning, and spoke out into my room the words that I have made a constant part of this blog. The voice said the following: Our theme – ought to be- to pursue different passions - for different people. I suspect that when we all learn how to listen and to pursue the passions of another human being, me first of all, then our world as well as our relationships and interactions with others who differ from us - in one way or another - will be a more fulfilling place to be; and the world that we reside in and our relationships will be more satisfying!
Men we have been, and are being cried out to today. But have we wept? In Lorraine Hansberry's play, Rasin In The Sun, she posed the question to her daughter: Have you wept for your brother today? The matronly woman recognized the fallen condition of her son. However, we must be just as sensitive, men, to the needs of women today. We have and are being danced in front of by females, and experiencing the lyrical sounds that ebb from broken, lonely, unappreciated and incarcerated spirits. These hearts of those with broken-spirits who have served us and born our children; those who have made an inestimable and loving effort to support us as we pursue often our selfish dreams ambitions, are crying out for respect.
It would seem to me that the book: Weeping In The Playtime of Others, the title enough would be sufficient to describe what females are trying to convey to others. But we are busy playing our games, sometimes literally, while our women, not children this time, are crying out to us to set them free!
And it is indeed time that we reform ourselves, and begin to enter into loving, enlightened and meaningful relationships with our counterparts, and to show meaningful respect and humane positive regard for all of the females that God has placed upon this earth along with us.
Peace & Grace & I Love You Ladies
Reverend C. Solomon
WWW.SEALOFABRAHAM.BLOGSPOT.COM
Books referred to:
All God's Children, by author Fox Butterfield
Weeping In the Playtime of Others, by author Kenneth Woodsen
Nov 7, 2007
The Harvest is Past The Summer is Ended -Rev's 11/07 Response to the Washington Post - And Still We Are Not Saved
The harvest is past, the summer is ended and we are not saved. Jer. 8:20.
The threat to America has not diminished, in fact it has increased since #43 began his shenanigans.
Part I. It's Not Over Yet The Situation is Worse.
#43's buffoonery should earn, not just Dick Cheney, but #43, impeachment and imprisonment!
I wonder how many Americans can understand it now, that #43's misdirection-blunder of 5 years ago has cost America lives, billions of hard-earned dollars, wasted time and increased suspicion and hatred around the world? In short, the actions of #43 and his administration have been an inestimable, colossal, consequential, unequivocal and quintessential blunder!
The current situation in Pakistan is just another reason that thinking Americans ought to reconsider, as well as re-examine #43's buffoonery. Look at the damage that he is responsible for given his attack and 4-year occupation of a nation that had not done anything to America, while at the same time he supported a nation that harbored the real problem(s).
Conspiracy theory? Isn't it interesting in light of all of what is happening in Pakistan, that Cheney himself, not so long ago, paid a visit to Pakistan. These fella's are all in this thing together - the Rev suspects!
UBL or someone is going to have nuclear capabilities soon, it would appear. And at the same time a lot of people are gettin' paid off, by the hard-working American wage earners who are actually less-secure than they were when #43 began his modern day scorched earth policies!
#43 has created all of America's problems in both regions, and he cannot fix any of them. The man cannot pay-off the whole world - but he will apparently try! If that strategy fails, he is not past having the military to nuke some other nation before he heads off to Crawford with his Golden Parachute! I forgot, in this nation we reward executives for doing a poor job!
The western Christian nations have been so arrogant over the past century, given their economic, military and nuclear might - now the other side will not stop until they get theres!
When will 'some people' learn?
PART II. To God's People (Who Are Called By His Name)
Additional: The Rev prays that those people who are called by 'God's name', would wake up and pray. This morning Pat Robertson, who many believers obeyed in previous elections (not the Rev) and supported the Bush-Cheney (homosexual) ticket for example, announced that he is supporting (cross-dresser) Giuliani's ticket this time. Whass up with all of Pat's duplicity, compromising, double-speak and hypocrisy? What does this man really believe in, besides himself, and why are so many misguided Christian pastors following his lead? I won't even get into those Christians who are enrolled at one of Regent's University indoctrination campuses around the nation - wake up and find out why Pat Robertson and his group (many Dominionists) decided to enter into the educational arena.
And when will Christians see this man for who he is? Rev. Pat Robertson, Rev. Hagee, the late Jerry Falwell and the rest of this crop got together to oppose a peace plan for peace in the Middle-East several years ago. These warmonger preachers believed that God wanted the militaristic, greedy and hegemonic USA to help usher in the kingdom age by destroying Middle-Easterners. Get it? God wants to destroy Muslims and Arabs, and save secularist Israel and the 'money loving' and 'warmongering' United States of America? That makes no sense at all people, unless you are a westerner and support a western-centric point of view. I witnessed, on CNN, a Muslim who was praying to Allah, asking Allah to save he and his family from the United States of America. Folks, what is wrong with that picture?
I lectured a church group in Chantilly Virginia, just outside of Washington DC, several years about their failure to hold the nearby Federal government accountable for its corruption and misdeeds around the world, given their close proximity to Washington DC. The churches in Washington DC metro area, particularly the blacks ones, are so busy building mega-ministries, that they are completely ignoring what is going on just a stone's throw away from them. In fact many of these churches, and their ministers are in bed with venal politicians in Washington DC. By the way, did your minister at your church receive his talking points from Tony Perkins and the Family Research Council this week? Not many parishioners in America' churches know that their ministers are being told what to preach - by the White House. The Faith Based Initiative dollars, has silenced many American ministers. The Reverend sit in on several congressional sessions in order to discover the real meaning behind the government handing out 'faith-based' dollars.
Now who leads the White House and America and what kind of man is this really? I will answer my own question: this purportedly Christian President, who before attacking Iraq uttered the following words: Iraq is 'f'cked! Can I make it any plainer folks. The reason that most Christians were caught off guard when the 19, mostly Saudi's, attacked the United States of America on 9/11, was because the churches and the members themselves were so misconsumned.
What were American churches preoccupied with at that time? What were ministers preaching at the time? I will tell you, it was get me rich Prayer of Jabez, the get me rich Prosperity Gospel and the get us rich 'Tear Down My Current Church Barn, so that I can build a bigger one. Hmm, sad commentary! The militant church is no more, that is if it ever existed! Today's minister, like Jakes, views the church 'as a business". He said it, when I attended one of his workshops in D.C. And mostly everyone there attended, not the Rev, in order to figure out how to make money from religion.inc.
The group of radical Christian fundamentalists Christian ministers who head the Christian Right/Moral Majority/National Evangelical (and its recently deposed Homosexual Leader) have contributed to the east-west divide, as much as any of the radicals in the Middle-East have done, if not more. A couple of decades ago Pat Robertson began his run for the office of the President of the United States of America. Then he turned around and said, just as he wrote in his book, that God told him to stay out of politics. Then he ignored God (got called on his apparent turnaround), and briefly decided to run for office again! Like Elvis once was, these so-called preachers are no more than agents of the United States government. And when you checked out their backgrounds, and the ideology that they are trying to sell, you will learn that their sources were mostly avowed 'white racists'!
The man unabashedly calls for the murdering of certain heads of state. And all of these supremacists, have given aid and comfort to the nefarious affairs of our government in the Americas, where they have supported coups and the overthrow of other heads of state besides Hugo Chavez. Someday, God's people (who are called by his name) will realize that they will have to stop compromising their beliefs and groom up worthy candidates themselves, or abstain from the world's venal election processes - even those in the United States of America.
And if you don't like my message, its okay - the Rev is used to it. However, the Rev also remembers other ministers and prophets who were raised up to stir up the people who the people really misunderstood. They were martyred, Jesus, Martin Luther King and El Hagg Malik El-Shabazz for example. But later, the people came to understand that they were telling them the truth.
Part III. Senator Grassley of Iowa is about to come after some of the 'get rich while ignoring the poor ministries' in America. Is it a good thing to hold some of these get rich ministries accountable? Yes, however, having said that, who is going to hold the government (including Senator Grassley's U.S. Senate) accountable for its wasteful and greedy practices.
If you ever visit Washington DC, be sure to take a tour of 'K' Street, particularly the area just a stone's throw from the White House. There you will find the majority of your lobbyists, who do nothing else but go back and forth between the White House and Congress with their quid pro quo- i.e., making our leaders and themselves as well as their corporations rich!
In conclusion: This nation is not any safer today, than it was when Bush launched an unwarranted, illegal and unjustified pre-emptive attack on a once sovereign nation of the world. In spite of all of the killing and the passing out of satchels full of money (not to mention the lost billions) by the American government the problem has only been worsened. America simply took American boys and girls to the Middle-East, set up a new theater overseas - where America's boys and girls, not to mention the Iraqi people have been needlessly slaughtered.
Factually, in a discussion with a Pakistani national last year, he explained the following. The people of Pakistan know that they are not friends of the United States. He went on to say that Pakistani's know that the U.S.A. views Pakistan and as a prophylactic (he used the c-word actually), and that when the U.S.A. is through with Pakistan, they will 'peel it off and discard it', the nation of Pakistan. He ended by saying, that having nuclear capabilities was as important to Pakistanis for protection against the U.S.A. than for any other nation.
I pray that God's people will become more enlightened, for while you are sleeping, and trying to increase your portfolios - the world is in danger of being swept away!
peace & grace
Rev. C. Solomon
The Radical Rev
Someone wrote that the Rev seems to be angry: folks if you are not angry given all of the lives that are being innocently destroyed as a result of the policies of our nations (not to mention the direction that this nation is headed in), something is wrong with your, not the Rev! For of the things that God hates, liars and shedding innocent blood for example, America appears to be leading the pack at this time!
The threat to America has not diminished, in fact it has increased since #43 began his shenanigans.
Part I. It's Not Over Yet The Situation is Worse.
#43's buffoonery should earn, not just Dick Cheney, but #43, impeachment and imprisonment!
I wonder how many Americans can understand it now, that #43's misdirection-blunder of 5 years ago has cost America lives, billions of hard-earned dollars, wasted time and increased suspicion and hatred around the world? In short, the actions of #43 and his administration have been an inestimable, colossal, consequential, unequivocal and quintessential blunder!
The current situation in Pakistan is just another reason that thinking Americans ought to reconsider, as well as re-examine #43's buffoonery. Look at the damage that he is responsible for given his attack and 4-year occupation of a nation that had not done anything to America, while at the same time he supported a nation that harbored the real problem(s).
Conspiracy theory? Isn't it interesting in light of all of what is happening in Pakistan, that Cheney himself, not so long ago, paid a visit to Pakistan. These fella's are all in this thing together - the Rev suspects!
UBL or someone is going to have nuclear capabilities soon, it would appear. And at the same time a lot of people are gettin' paid off, by the hard-working American wage earners who are actually less-secure than they were when #43 began his modern day scorched earth policies!
#43 has created all of America's problems in both regions, and he cannot fix any of them. The man cannot pay-off the whole world - but he will apparently try! If that strategy fails, he is not past having the military to nuke some other nation before he heads off to Crawford with his Golden Parachute! I forgot, in this nation we reward executives for doing a poor job!
The western Christian nations have been so arrogant over the past century, given their economic, military and nuclear might - now the other side will not stop until they get theres!
When will 'some people' learn?
PART II. To God's People (Who Are Called By His Name)
Additional: The Rev prays that those people who are called by 'God's name', would wake up and pray. This morning Pat Robertson, who many believers obeyed in previous elections (not the Rev) and supported the Bush-Cheney (homosexual) ticket for example, announced that he is supporting (cross-dresser) Giuliani's ticket this time. Whass up with all of Pat's duplicity, compromising, double-speak and hypocrisy? What does this man really believe in, besides himself, and why are so many misguided Christian pastors following his lead? I won't even get into those Christians who are enrolled at one of Regent's University indoctrination campuses around the nation - wake up and find out why Pat Robertson and his group (many Dominionists) decided to enter into the educational arena.
And when will Christians see this man for who he is? Rev. Pat Robertson, Rev. Hagee, the late Jerry Falwell and the rest of this crop got together to oppose a peace plan for peace in the Middle-East several years ago. These warmonger preachers believed that God wanted the militaristic, greedy and hegemonic USA to help usher in the kingdom age by destroying Middle-Easterners. Get it? God wants to destroy Muslims and Arabs, and save secularist Israel and the 'money loving' and 'warmongering' United States of America? That makes no sense at all people, unless you are a westerner and support a western-centric point of view. I witnessed, on CNN, a Muslim who was praying to Allah, asking Allah to save he and his family from the United States of America. Folks, what is wrong with that picture?
I lectured a church group in Chantilly Virginia, just outside of Washington DC, several years about their failure to hold the nearby Federal government accountable for its corruption and misdeeds around the world, given their close proximity to Washington DC. The churches in Washington DC metro area, particularly the blacks ones, are so busy building mega-ministries, that they are completely ignoring what is going on just a stone's throw away from them. In fact many of these churches, and their ministers are in bed with venal politicians in Washington DC. By the way, did your minister at your church receive his talking points from Tony Perkins and the Family Research Council this week? Not many parishioners in America' churches know that their ministers are being told what to preach - by the White House. The Faith Based Initiative dollars, has silenced many American ministers. The Reverend sit in on several congressional sessions in order to discover the real meaning behind the government handing out 'faith-based' dollars.
Now who leads the White House and America and what kind of man is this really? I will answer my own question: this purportedly Christian President, who before attacking Iraq uttered the following words: Iraq is 'f'cked! Can I make it any plainer folks. The reason that most Christians were caught off guard when the 19, mostly Saudi's, attacked the United States of America on 9/11, was because the churches and the members themselves were so misconsumned.
What were American churches preoccupied with at that time? What were ministers preaching at the time? I will tell you, it was get me rich Prayer of Jabez, the get me rich Prosperity Gospel and the get us rich 'Tear Down My Current Church Barn, so that I can build a bigger one. Hmm, sad commentary! The militant church is no more, that is if it ever existed! Today's minister, like Jakes, views the church 'as a business". He said it, when I attended one of his workshops in D.C. And mostly everyone there attended, not the Rev, in order to figure out how to make money from religion.inc.
The group of radical Christian fundamentalists Christian ministers who head the Christian Right/Moral Majority/National Evangelical (and its recently deposed Homosexual Leader) have contributed to the east-west divide, as much as any of the radicals in the Middle-East have done, if not more. A couple of decades ago Pat Robertson began his run for the office of the President of the United States of America. Then he turned around and said, just as he wrote in his book, that God told him to stay out of politics. Then he ignored God (got called on his apparent turnaround), and briefly decided to run for office again! Like Elvis once was, these so-called preachers are no more than agents of the United States government. And when you checked out their backgrounds, and the ideology that they are trying to sell, you will learn that their sources were mostly avowed 'white racists'!
The man unabashedly calls for the murdering of certain heads of state. And all of these supremacists, have given aid and comfort to the nefarious affairs of our government in the Americas, where they have supported coups and the overthrow of other heads of state besides Hugo Chavez. Someday, God's people (who are called by his name) will realize that they will have to stop compromising their beliefs and groom up worthy candidates themselves, or abstain from the world's venal election processes - even those in the United States of America.
And if you don't like my message, its okay - the Rev is used to it. However, the Rev also remembers other ministers and prophets who were raised up to stir up the people who the people really misunderstood. They were martyred, Jesus, Martin Luther King and El Hagg Malik El-Shabazz for example. But later, the people came to understand that they were telling them the truth.
Part III. Senator Grassley of Iowa is about to come after some of the 'get rich while ignoring the poor ministries' in America. Is it a good thing to hold some of these get rich ministries accountable? Yes, however, having said that, who is going to hold the government (including Senator Grassley's U.S. Senate) accountable for its wasteful and greedy practices.
If you ever visit Washington DC, be sure to take a tour of 'K' Street, particularly the area just a stone's throw from the White House. There you will find the majority of your lobbyists, who do nothing else but go back and forth between the White House and Congress with their quid pro quo- i.e., making our leaders and themselves as well as their corporations rich!
In conclusion: This nation is not any safer today, than it was when Bush launched an unwarranted, illegal and unjustified pre-emptive attack on a once sovereign nation of the world. In spite of all of the killing and the passing out of satchels full of money (not to mention the lost billions) by the American government the problem has only been worsened. America simply took American boys and girls to the Middle-East, set up a new theater overseas - where America's boys and girls, not to mention the Iraqi people have been needlessly slaughtered.
Factually, in a discussion with a Pakistani national last year, he explained the following. The people of Pakistan know that they are not friends of the United States. He went on to say that Pakistani's know that the U.S.A. views Pakistan and as a prophylactic (he used the c-word actually), and that when the U.S.A. is through with Pakistan, they will 'peel it off and discard it', the nation of Pakistan. He ended by saying, that having nuclear capabilities was as important to Pakistanis for protection against the U.S.A. than for any other nation.
I pray that God's people will become more enlightened, for while you are sleeping, and trying to increase your portfolios - the world is in danger of being swept away!
peace & grace
Rev. C. Solomon
The Radical Rev
Someone wrote that the Rev seems to be angry: folks if you are not angry given all of the lives that are being innocently destroyed as a result of the policies of our nations (not to mention the direction that this nation is headed in), something is wrong with your, not the Rev! For of the things that God hates, liars and shedding innocent blood for example, America appears to be leading the pack at this time!
Nov 6, 2007
Wake-up Call To Christians
Has anyone, particularly Christians, paid attention to the carnage and destruction that is taking place in Pakistan of late, which is mostly as a result of America's venal and historical support of yet another world-dictator? Pervis Musharref, has been supported by the United States of America in order to benefit the United States of America? Arguably, most of what has been taking place in Pakistan of late, is a result of the 'Bush Doctrine', a doctrine of hegemony and worldwide supremacy for the United States of America.
This man, George Bush, who unfortunately duped too many of God's people into placing him into the office of President in the first place, is responsible for much of the carnage that is taking place around the world, including Pakistan. This man is responsible for destroying more lives in the 21st century than any other single individual in the world - Hitler would be proud to know him!
Bush may refer to the freedom fighters around the world as 'terrorists', but sadly, he is only too willing to overlook the fact that he is the leader of worldwide terrorism himself. Too many lives of innocent individuals and families, are being destroyed by this man - given the policies of this man and the sycophants who support him.
And regrettably many of his supporters, claim to be Christians. When will Christians wake up and realize that what is really happening has to do with American supremacy, consumerism and greed?
God help us for God's Spirit does not operate like that! However, Hitler was also supported by the German Christian Church wasn't he?
The Rev
This man, George Bush, who unfortunately duped too many of God's people into placing him into the office of President in the first place, is responsible for much of the carnage that is taking place around the world, including Pakistan. This man is responsible for destroying more lives in the 21st century than any other single individual in the world - Hitler would be proud to know him!
Bush may refer to the freedom fighters around the world as 'terrorists', but sadly, he is only too willing to overlook the fact that he is the leader of worldwide terrorism himself. Too many lives of innocent individuals and families, are being destroyed by this man - given the policies of this man and the sycophants who support him.
And regrettably many of his supporters, claim to be Christians. When will Christians wake up and realize that what is really happening has to do with American supremacy, consumerism and greed?
God help us for God's Spirit does not operate like that! However, Hitler was also supported by the German Christian Church wasn't he?
The Rev
Nov 2, 2007
A Homily by the Rev: To The Washington Post 11/02/07: The Garden of the Rose
God walks into the 'Garden of the Rose' aka 'The Rose Garden' during the cool of the day, year 2007 CE.
God calls out: #43 where art thou?
#43 replies: hiding behind and blaming others (just as me and the boys hid on 9/11), for all of the problems that we, single-handedly, created.
Then God asked: Why are you hiding?
#43 replied: Because I have been exposed, my cover has been removed, and the 'naked truth' about my international foreign policy foul-ups are out there for all to see!
God asks: Who told you that you had been exposed, or that the 'naked truth' about you and your self-serving policies..., are out there for all to see?
#43 replies: You know those women (Nancy, Condoleeza and Hillary) whom thou gavest to be with me! It is their fault that I fouled up in the first place, for they gave me money, weapons and the go ahead to partake (from the tree I was strictly forbidden to partake from).
And Lord knows (excuse me God), that I don't know what to do now - everyone is fighting, getting nukes, and even worse than that - my allies have mostly turned against me too - and now Ahmadinajab won't roll over!
God overlooks the (Lord knows) faux pas and asks: #43, are you really blaming the women, or the Iranians for your strategic foreign policy failures? And, weren't you a cheerleader once upon a whirlwind?
#43 stutters.
God tires of the uncomfortable silence and stuttering and says to #43: Because you have done this - you will be banned from the Rose Garden forever more.
#43 replies: My punishment is more than I can bear, now every man will be after me! Where can I go?
God says: Okay, you can change your name to Cain or something more apropos (given all of your innocent brothers in the Middle-East whose lives you have mercilessly destroyed), and then you can go to Crawford, Connecticut or somewhere else. However, you may never return to the Garden of the Rose again.
Saddened, #43, grabbed a couple of souvenirs (fruit I think) and left never to return again!
Shouldn't someone tell #43 and his boyz to admit that they don't know how to fix the worldwide mess that they have created, or how to ameliorate the problems that they will leave behind (unresolved) for Hillary to straighten out?
The quicker they leave, the quicker the next President can begin straightening out the mess that they will leave behind, (just as Bill Clinton had to do) following the departures of Reagan and Bush 41!
Posted by: The Rev
Addenda:
Has anyone, particularly Christians, paid attention to the carnage and destruction that is taking place in Pakistan of late, mostly as a result of America's venal and historical support of yet another world-dictator? Pervis Musharref, has been supported by the United States of America in order to benefit the United States of America? Arguably, most of what has been taking place in Pakistan of late, is a result of the 'Bush Doctrine', a doctrine of hegemony and worldwide supremacy for the United States of America.
This man, George Bush, who unfortunately duped too many of God's people into placing him into the office of President in the first place, is responsible for much of the carnage that is taking place around the world, including Pakistan. This man is responsible for destroying more lives in the 21st century than any other single individual in the world - Hitler would be proud to know him!
Bush may refer to the freedom fighters around the world as 'terrorists', but sadly, he is only too willing to overlook the fact that he is the leader of worldwide terrorism himself. Too many lives of innocent individuals and families, are being destroyed by this man - given the policies of this man and the sycophants who support him.
And regrettably many of his supporters, claim to be Christians. When will Christians wake up and realize that what is really happening has to do with American supremacy, consumerism and greed. God help us for God's Spirit does not operate like that!!
God calls out: #43 where art thou?
#43 replies: hiding behind and blaming others (just as me and the boys hid on 9/11), for all of the problems that we, single-handedly, created.
Then God asked: Why are you hiding?
#43 replied: Because I have been exposed, my cover has been removed, and the 'naked truth' about my international foreign policy foul-ups are out there for all to see!
God asks: Who told you that you had been exposed, or that the 'naked truth' about you and your self-serving policies..., are out there for all to see?
#43 replies: You know those women (Nancy, Condoleeza and Hillary) whom thou gavest to be with me! It is their fault that I fouled up in the first place, for they gave me money, weapons and the go ahead to partake (from the tree I was strictly forbidden to partake from).
And Lord knows (excuse me God), that I don't know what to do now - everyone is fighting, getting nukes, and even worse than that - my allies have mostly turned against me too - and now Ahmadinajab won't roll over!
God overlooks the (Lord knows) faux pas and asks: #43, are you really blaming the women, or the Iranians for your strategic foreign policy failures? And, weren't you a cheerleader once upon a whirlwind?
#43 stutters.
God tires of the uncomfortable silence and stuttering and says to #43: Because you have done this - you will be banned from the Rose Garden forever more.
#43 replies: My punishment is more than I can bear, now every man will be after me! Where can I go?
God says: Okay, you can change your name to Cain or something more apropos (given all of your innocent brothers in the Middle-East whose lives you have mercilessly destroyed), and then you can go to Crawford, Connecticut or somewhere else. However, you may never return to the Garden of the Rose again.
Saddened, #43, grabbed a couple of souvenirs (fruit I think) and left never to return again!
Shouldn't someone tell #43 and his boyz to admit that they don't know how to fix the worldwide mess that they have created, or how to ameliorate the problems that they will leave behind (unresolved) for Hillary to straighten out?
The quicker they leave, the quicker the next President can begin straightening out the mess that they will leave behind, (just as Bill Clinton had to do) following the departures of Reagan and Bush 41!
Posted by: The Rev
Addenda:
Has anyone, particularly Christians, paid attention to the carnage and destruction that is taking place in Pakistan of late, mostly as a result of America's venal and historical support of yet another world-dictator? Pervis Musharref, has been supported by the United States of America in order to benefit the United States of America? Arguably, most of what has been taking place in Pakistan of late, is a result of the 'Bush Doctrine', a doctrine of hegemony and worldwide supremacy for the United States of America.
This man, George Bush, who unfortunately duped too many of God's people into placing him into the office of President in the first place, is responsible for much of the carnage that is taking place around the world, including Pakistan. This man is responsible for destroying more lives in the 21st century than any other single individual in the world - Hitler would be proud to know him!
Bush may refer to the freedom fighters around the world as 'terrorists', but sadly, he is only too willing to overlook the fact that he is the leader of worldwide terrorism himself. Too many lives of innocent individuals and families, are being destroyed by this man - given the policies of this man and the sycophants who support him.
And regrettably many of his supporters, claim to be Christians. When will Christians wake up and realize that what is really happening has to do with American supremacy, consumerism and greed. God help us for God's Spirit does not operate like that!!
Nov 1, 2007
Blaming Nancy Pelosi and Hillary for the Iraq War Debacle: The Rev Responds to the Washington Post 11/01/07
The Presidential Veto, and the leftover Republican filabusterers are the real problem, not Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid.
It is amazing how many Americans continue to place the blame, as they have done (looking back for about 15 years now), for what has resulted in today's 'Republican Party Debacle In The Middle-East', on the Dems.
I haven't heard of anything like it, since Adam blamed Eve for his own failure - when he willfully partook of the forbidden fruit in the Garden. Poor Eve, Nancy, and we might as well add Hillary to the list! Listening to the debate the other night, it would appear that it is her fault that the U.S.A. ever attacked Iraq and she will apparently get the blame for whatever action #43 and Cheney take in Iran.
Who is the real snake/deceiver in all of this? Unfortunately, Nancy and company do not have the votes required to override #43's vetoes. And, #43 still has a sufficient number of 'insouciant rubber-stampers' left in Congress to keep up the facade of eliminating terrorism, and threats to America - when the major terrorists of the world are really homegrown in Washington DC (see American foreign policy).
The traitors of the American people who hold seats in Congress, care very little about America or the will of the American majority. Their objectives it would appear, are to simply get themselves re-elected (that is when they are not too busy trying to get themselves laid in airport restrooms). And in order to get re-elected, they have to appease the hardliners on the so-called Right!
Folks, the Rev is thinking about saying what he means <(-: for once! Neither Tehran, Seoul, Damascus or the city of Baghdad are the problem that should concern the nations of the world the most.
Americans and most nations of the world ought to be more concerned with what is going on in appropriately named, Dodge City, USA! Someone had better keep an ear open and an eye on Washington. WE ARE IN THE HANDS OF FOOLS!
And BTW how come we haven't heard anything lately from the South Korean American puppet who is in control of the United Nation's? How come he never tries to stop the U.S.A. from its malfeasance?
Hmm!!
The Rev
Jesus once said in response to King Herod: To go and tell that Fox...! We have a fox occupying the White House in Washington DC. Although he presents himself as an angel of light, I believe that he is motivated by a totally different entity. And it is truly amazing how he inveigled many of my Christian friends into voting for him and the Party of War and Duplicity in the first place!
With respect to the blood of all of those who were slaughtered by the U.S.A. military machine, who will be held responsible? The war in the Middle and Near East is about American hegemony and consumerism, in addition to America's intent to remain solely atop the World Order, regardless of its own malfeasance and disregard for the Rule-of-Law!
It is amazing how many Americans continue to place the blame, as they have done (looking back for about 15 years now), for what has resulted in today's 'Republican Party Debacle In The Middle-East', on the Dems.
I haven't heard of anything like it, since Adam blamed Eve for his own failure - when he willfully partook of the forbidden fruit in the Garden. Poor Eve, Nancy, and we might as well add Hillary to the list! Listening to the debate the other night, it would appear that it is her fault that the U.S.A. ever attacked Iraq and she will apparently get the blame for whatever action #43 and Cheney take in Iran.
Who is the real snake/deceiver in all of this? Unfortunately, Nancy and company do not have the votes required to override #43's vetoes. And, #43 still has a sufficient number of 'insouciant rubber-stampers' left in Congress to keep up the facade of eliminating terrorism, and threats to America - when the major terrorists of the world are really homegrown in Washington DC (see American foreign policy).
The traitors of the American people who hold seats in Congress, care very little about America or the will of the American majority. Their objectives it would appear, are to simply get themselves re-elected (that is when they are not too busy trying to get themselves laid in airport restrooms). And in order to get re-elected, they have to appease the hardliners on the so-called Right!
Folks, the Rev is thinking about saying what he means <(-: for once! Neither Tehran, Seoul, Damascus or the city of Baghdad are the problem that should concern the nations of the world the most.
Americans and most nations of the world ought to be more concerned with what is going on in appropriately named, Dodge City, USA! Someone had better keep an ear open and an eye on Washington. WE ARE IN THE HANDS OF FOOLS!
And BTW how come we haven't heard anything lately from the South Korean American puppet who is in control of the United Nation's? How come he never tries to stop the U.S.A. from its malfeasance?
Hmm!!
The Rev
Jesus once said in response to King Herod: To go and tell that Fox...! We have a fox occupying the White House in Washington DC. Although he presents himself as an angel of light, I believe that he is motivated by a totally different entity. And it is truly amazing how he inveigled many of my Christian friends into voting for him and the Party of War and Duplicity in the first place!
With respect to the blood of all of those who were slaughtered by the U.S.A. military machine, who will be held responsible? The war in the Middle and Near East is about American hegemony and consumerism, in addition to America's intent to remain solely atop the World Order, regardless of its own malfeasance and disregard for the Rule-of-Law!
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