Damnation.

We are surrounded by Satanists in our popular culture.

What they do is take over the driver's seat, steer you left until you are breaking the rules, then move the right hand of God against you.
Resulting, they hope, in hell forever.

But this will not happen.
There is no hell to go to.

The religious right, however, ia all too willing to damn people who have been led astray in this way, especially if they are their political opponents.

And the damage done by negative suggestion and temptation remains.

So don't follow the lead of your rock stars and sporting heroes, they may be trying to damn you!

Looking for Jesus.

"'I am the way, and the truth, and the life.'"  John 14:6 (NRSV)

My generation - the baby boomers - rejected the moralistic teachings of the Church in favor of a more liberal philosophy.

The result, however, has been that we are imprisoned in the world, held captive by darkness and fear.

In fact my generation is looking for Jesus.

Which Jesus?

The Jesus that inspired Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jnr..


[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.]

The Book of Lies.

The Satanic Bible was written as a negation of the Holy Bible.

And as its author is "'the father of lies'" John 8:44 (NRSV) its readers are mired in darkness.

Those who follow its teachings are therefore the farthest from the light of the truth.
Their beliefs and practices are not to be followed no matter how cleverly disguised they may be.

Darkness hides them.

I would not recommend that anyone read the Satanic Bible.

Satan does not exist in reality.
So the very basis of this book is a falsehood.

Reading such things can only lead you to dark places, places with no truth in them.

It is a book of lies.


[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.]

Don't Believe Everything.

Our media is owned by big business.

They manipulate what we see and read for their own purposes.

So don't believe everything they tell you.

They lie, exaggerate, manipulate figures, and use religious language to demonize their political opponents.

This has been happening for over decade and it's getting worse.

We are being fed blatant lies.

This is to demonize the opposition and prepare the public for their business agenda.

This will make the rich richer and subjugate the poor.

It is time we woke up and challenged their propaganda.

It is time we saw the motives behind the headlines.

And turned the television off.

Fear and Faith.

If we accept that fear is the motivation for people who accumulate wealth then it is by addressing these fears that we can bring about a more just world.

And if we accept that God will provide then it is by increasing people's faith that we can make a difference.

These two things - fear and faith - are at the heart of all human problems.

Our Image of God.

An important factor in our worship is our image of God.

This is a significant part of the New Paradigm.

Progressive Christians are rejecting the punitive, angry God of the Old Testament in favor of the loving, benevolent God which we believe Jesus showed us.

In order to make this transition we must look at how we interpret the Bible.

If we view the Bible as a series of revelations written down by men years after the event we can see how their image of God evolves from the tribal god Yahweh to the universal God of Christianity.

God gradually loses His primitive violence and becomes less punitive as the Bible progresses.

The loving, forgiving, compassionate God of Jesus is the last Biblical evolution of God.

But it is 2000 years since Jesus walked the earth.

What has changed in that 2000 years?

What progress have we made?

The time has come to discard all notions of violence and anger from our image of God.

No longer will He be seen as an enforcer of rules.

No longer will He be the dispenser of punishments.

God is our loving Father, and He wishes to be close to us.

Betrayed.

Like every generation we have been betrayed.

The idealism and altruism of the 1960s and 1970s was betrayed by the rock bands and superstars who appropriated it.

These stars and celebrities took over the peace and civil rights movement and steered it away from its objective, i.e. to change the world.

They did this by accentuating the negatives of our generation - self-centeredness, pleasure, and escapism.

By selling us drugs and hedonism they ensured that our generation failed.

And when things turned against us in the 1980s they were nowhere to be found.  We had been stabbed in the back.

Unfortunately most people of my generation refuse to believe that their rock legends are evil.

Their true identity is cleverly disguised.
Darkness hides them.

But the fact remains - they have sold their souls to the devil and do the devil's work in the world.

(P.S.  There is no devil in reality but those who believe in him do evil in his name.)

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The Right Teaching.

One of the reasons why the world is not saved is because the Churches do not teach the right teaching.

Since Nicea Christianity has been hijacked by the establishment and modified to reinforce their power.

Thus we see absolutes like the Christ, Original Sin, Universal Condemnation, and Eternal Damnation.

These things are tools to subjugate the masses to the power of the establishment.

They have nothing to do with Jesus.

Jesus' teaching of unconditional love and forgiveness from the Father did not suit the needs of the powerful elites.  So it was modifies to become a religion of salvation.  Any challenge to the power of the establishment was removed from their teaching and worldly authority took the place of heavenly authority.

So what is the right teaching?

The true teaching of Jesus is unconditional love and forgiveness from the Father.
And the values of the kingdom of God - equality, justice, peace, compassion, and humility - on earth.

Kali Yuga.

We think that we live in enlightened times.

But according to Hindu scripture we are in the Kali Yuga or Dark Age.

This began in 3102 BCE when Krishna left the earth and returned to his spiritual home.  It lasts 432.000 years.

A daunting prospect.

If we look at our present age we can see evidence of the distance from God which is predicted for this age.

Economic materialism rules the world.
Covert Satanism rules our popular culture.
Religion is in decline.
Belief in God is diminishing.

There is predicted, however, a ten thousand year golden period in which devotees of Krishna live upon the earth.
This is said to have begun after 5000 years of the Kali Yuga had elapsed.
So the golden period began in 1898 CE.

A mixed message?

A mixture of light an darkness?

It is said that the devotees of Krishna will purify their hearts by the practice of bhakti or devotion.

So there is some hope.

We can save ourselves by practicing Love in a dark time.

The Divine Spark.

Every human being has within them a divine spark.

Some call it the soul, some call it atman, some call it Buddha.....

It is pristine, pure, and unsullied.

Around this spark is the human personality.

This is made up of factors resulting from birth, environment, education, and experience.

Every person, seen from this perspective, is the same.

Our personalities are the result of our decisions.

And our decisions are the result of our make-up and experiences.

But each person has within them the divine spark.

This spark, however, is not in the mind, it is in the heart.