Contemporary Rock Stars.

Contemporary rock stars are not exempt from the curse of Satanism.

Excess, drunkenness, and darkness infect their music.

Sex and drugs and rock and roll ruined the Hippie Generation.

And darkness, death, hate, and evil ruined Generation X.

Now they are trying to corrupt and ruin Millennials.

They encourage sin in order to induce a spiritual death which in turn leads to damnation and hell.

Or so they believe.

So beware of contemporary rock stars who encourage excessive behavior.

It is infected with a death-wish which can lead to self-destructive behavior and suicide.

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The Kingdom of Heaven.

What we experience here on Earth is pleasure and suffering.

Evil lurks in the shadows.

Ambushing us and sabotaging our quest.

But for love we should barely survive.

But human love is fickle and fleeting.

It is barely enough to sustain us.

But God's Love is steadfast and enduring.

It bares us up and allays our fears.

And we glimpse a vision of everlasting joy.

For ours is the Kingdom of Heaven!

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The Reality.

In order to come into line with the Reality the Church will have to swallow its pride and admit that the theology they have been preaching for 2000 years is wrong!

The traditional theology of sin and redemption is not in line with the facts. (Adam and Eve is a myth.)

And stumbling blocks like punishment and judgement are not from God.

Jesus taught forgiveness.

And he said that God judges no one.  (John 5:22)

But the Church traditionally teaches punishment and judgement.

How could this be?

It is part of the conservative establishment's need to control the masses.

It is not from God at all.

"Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it!  How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!'"  Luke 13:34 (NRSV) 

And so if the Church is to survive it will have to radically change its teachings.

Any revival must not be merely a re-establishment of Church authority.

It must be a heartfelt commitment to a new and liberating theology.

[Scripture quotations (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission.  All rights reserved.]

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Sublimation.

 

Sublimation of the sex drive is not the same as repression.

When people encounter religious teachings about controlling the sex drive they assume this means repressing your sexual urges.

But this results in perversion of the sexual energy which then finds expression in unwelcome ways.

Sublimation of your sex drive means enlisting your sexual energy in support of the love that is the source of sexual energy to begin with.

This is not as difficult as it sounds because the soul that is the source of the energy that gives rise to sexual urges resides in the heart.

And that energy is love.

And so sublimation of the sexual energy serves to empower and purify your love for those whom you desire.

This, however, does not mean that sex is banned.

It is still permitted to engage is sexual activities when appropriate.

But sublimation serves to purify your love and provides an alternative where sexual activity is not possible. 

Neither does this mean that homosexual acts are banned.

Sexual acts between consenting adults are always good.

But sublimation in the service of love will respect the wishes, the rights, and the vows of the desired person.

This is not to put yourself at the mercy of force or fear.

Sublimation is purely voluntary.

If it is forced or the result of fear it is merely repression.

And the results will be unwelcome.

But if it is an expression of love then it works for the good of all.

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Lowdown.

When Boz Scags released Lowdown in 1976 little did we know who he was talking about.

"I wonder, wonder, wonder, wonder who."

The dirty lowdown scoundrels he was referring to were the rock musicians we so avidly listened to. 

Little did we know that they had secretly sold their souls to the devil and sold us down the river.

This explains why the fruits of the 1960s and 1970s were: degradation, addiction, criminality, and suicide.

Satanism is a form of Hedonism and we were led into lives of sex and drugs and rock and roll.

Our spiritual quest was sabotaged.

And our idealism was betrayed.

But it didn't end there.

The 1980s saw: violence, Fascism, and evil.

And later generations are being poisoned and corrupted in the same way.

So look beneath the mask of popular glamour.

You will find: darkness, sin, vice, suicide, drugs, and evil.

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The Search.

We are all searching.

Searching for something.

We feel a lack in our lives.

And we look for something in the world to fill that lack.

At last we realize that what we lack is love.

And we look for love in the world around us.

With limited success.

To be loved is good but to love is even better.

We look for love in the outside world.

But we find love in our own hearts.

And when we observe the First Commandment of Jesus to love God we find that our love is requited.

And when we see God in everyone around us we meet the Second Commandment: to love our neighbor.

And our search is over.

We are Home!

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Gay Theology.

Many say that a gay man's search for a lover is his yearning for his father's love.

And all too often a gay man's love is rejected.

But our ultimate Father is God Himself.

And God's Love is steadfast.

Jesus called God Papa.

An affectionate name for father.

And he commanded us to love God with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our mind, and with all our might.

If we do this we find that our love is requited.

And our search is over.

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