Youth Crisis.

There is a Mental Health crisis in our youth. 

Numbers of anxiety and suicide are rising.

I believe this is because the messages that kids get from the media and the Internet are materialistic, negative, and destructive.

The Internet will direct you to product advertising or dubious information sites.

Computer Games are violent, evil, and sadistic.

Sports feed you with win at all costs/work harder mantras.

Talent quests and reality TV push worldly success and money motivation.

All this on top of massive expectations and little support at school.

But children are not taught to be human.

And ethics and principles are not presented to them. 

In fact most reality TV shows actively undermine any ideals or propriety.

Evil is entertainment.

And corruption is the norm.

None of these things leads to happiness or even satisfaction.

We are addicted, obsessed, and manipulated.

What is needed is a return to the humanities in education.

And some sort of philosophy that will lead to meaning in their lives.

The Church is no longer seen as a positive influence.

In fact the Church is viewed as suspicious, intimidating, and sinister.

And ideals are denigrated and dismissed.

So that leaves you with nothing.

There is nothing to live for.

The time has come to find a new way.

To rehumanize our youth.

Education is not just work training.

History, Philosophy, and Literature give us valuable life lessons.

And Comparative Religion broadens our outlook.

Clear Thinking gives us discrimination of the information we are presented with.

And Current Affairs encourages critical thinking.

This is one way to help our youth.

And set them on the path to meaning and happiness in their lives.

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Poison.

Part of the historical context in which we live is the phenomenon of Satanism in rock music, sports, and entertainment.

This toxic influence is hidden beneath a mask of popularity, celebrity, and glamour.

But the fact remains that much of our popular culture is infected with this poison.

It mostly takes place on an unconscious level through backtracking, subliminal messages and images.

Have you noticed that everything is going up in flames?

The association of the flames of hell with sex is rife.

And stars make the sign of the horns and poke out their tongues.

This is also a subliminal message associating sex with the devil.

It is not true.

But they persist none the less.

Songs about death* and suicide are common.

Not to mention broken hearts and cynicism.

This all amounts to a flood of poison which sabotages our well-being and our mental health.

They try to addict you to pleasure and sin in the hope that you will be damned like them.

So be more discerning in your listening and watching.

We are being deceived.

  

And we are being poisoned.

(*This is death to God as cited by St. Paul.)

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Historical and Eternal.

What I write is partly historical and partly eternal.

When I write about social and cultural issues I am speaking historically.

My generation is the Baby-Boomers and I lived through the 1960s and 1970s of peace and love and gay liberation.

I have also lived through the 1980s which saw the AIDS crisis and the rise of Fascism. 

The 1990s saw a resurgence of gay rights and a revival of Liberalism.

The Millennium continued this trend but the 2010s saw Trump and Covid-19.

The 2020s are emerging from Fascism and Evangelical insanity.

So I have seen the vicissitudes of History.

But when I write about God I am speaking eternally.

God exists in all times and places.

But His Presence is in the Eternal Present.

His Mercy is infinite.

And His Forgiveness is forever.

He is non-violent, transcendent, and sublime.

He cannot be manipulated.

And His Salvation is eternal.

All goodness comes from God.

He is Light, Life, and Love!

But His inmost nature is Love.

And His Love is Eternal.

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Do-Gooders and Bleeding Hearts.

The Kingdom of God is made up of do-gooders and bleeding hearts.

Idiots and fools to the world.

The cynical and pragmatic speak disparagingly of anyone with principles or ideals.

Don't they realize?

But I don't want to live in a world that is unjust and unforgiving.

I want to live in God's Kingdom where there is goodness and love.

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Good.

Whatever happened to Good?

We are inundated with evil.

Evil challengers, evil cooks, evil chasers. evil heroes.....

Our role models are: beasts, monsters, scoundrels, rogues, and criminals.

And we have Generation X to thank. 

The Bad Generation: delinquents, no angels, pure evil....

They have normalized evil.

Because they are evil themselves.

They think evil is funny.

And they call evil entertainment.

We are drowning in sea of corruption and vice.

They have invited the devil.

And they pass it off as a joke.

But God is Good.

His Mercy is infinite.

His Forgiveness is forever.

And His Salvation is eternal.

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The Blackshirts.

Generation X are the Blackshirts.

The are the Reagan youth.

They want money, power, and sex.

And just as the Hitler youth betrayed family and friends so the Blackshirts blew the whistle on the Hippies and Boomers - their parents generation.

Reagan used judgement as a weapon.

And Generation X grabbed it with glee.

They are the self-appointed judges of humanity.

But their judgement is a lie.

"Don't have no Hippy chicks."

"Show no mercy."

It is political.

And it is evil

They have taken the law into their own hands.

And they have committed a great crime.

Reagan's image of God as the judge and punisher of his political enemies is false.

And his Last Judgement was invented. 

It was expedient and corrupt.

"An unconventional weapon" in his political war.

But it is based on hate and prejudice.

It relies on right-wing media propaganda.

And it is lies.

So tell the truth!

Reagan was wrong.

And his Blackshirts are criminals.

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Sex Magic.

Just because Satanists practise sex magic does not mean that all sex is of the devil.

The notion that the devil presides over sex is ridiculous.

God invented sex.

And we are meant to enjoy it.

Ultimately sex is love.

And as such it is intimately related to God.

So don't believe the hype.

Sex is good.

And it is from God.

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Maya - Illusion and the Devil.

Satanists in our popular culture have appropriated the Indian concept of Maya - illusion or magic - in order to conceal their activities.

Satanists in rock music. sports, and entertainment project an image which hides their true nature.

Therefore they can continue to poison and sabotage our spiritual quest without being seen.

Maya is falsehood or lies.

Its aim is to confuse and deceive you.

These concepts appear in the writings of Aleister Crowley on magick which include perversions of Gnosticism and Yoga.

But I would advise you not to read them unless you want to be confused and deceived.

These things also appear in the writings of Lawrence Durrell.

His book Monsieur or The Prince of Darkness includes a Gnostic mass where the devil appears and a subsequent metaphysical discourse ascribing the Kundalini as a snake to the devil.   

These are lies.

Cosmic deceptions.

And as such they are Maya - illusions.

So the antidote is the truth.

The truth about God.

And the truth about evil.

The truth will dispel the illusions about rock musicians, celebrities, and sports men and women.

And it will reconnect us with God.

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Heaven.

When God comes to us we experience a Benediction.

God's Presence is a Blessing.

We experience Mercy, Forgiveness, and Grace.

And He turns our thoughts to Heaven.

But most of all we know that we are loved.

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The Wedding Robe.

In the Parable of the Wedding Banquet a king gives a wedding banquet for his son.

But the invited guests make excuses not to come.

So the king sends his servants out into the streets to invite anyone who will come.

But in Matthew's Gospel the king notices a man who is not wearing a wedding robe.

He rejects him and throws him out.  (Matthew 22:1-14)

I believe that this passage (which only appears in the Gospel of Matthew) is intended to refer to our attitude.

The wearing of a wedding robe is a sign of respect - an attitude of reverence and devotion - due to God.

"For many are called, but few are chosen."  Matthew 22:14 (NRSV)

[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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Fear.

The AIDS crisis inspired fear in the heterosexual religious community which caused them to judge and punish gay men who were already in distress due to the illness.

This when the compassion and love of Jesus was most needed.

And this fear still survives today.

Fundamentalist and Evangelical Christians persist in their condemnation and hate of gay men despite the fact that AIDS is virtually cured.

My prayer is that they will overcome their fear and open their hearts to gay men.

And that they will cease from using homosexuality as scapegoat.

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The Truth.

Tell the truth!

Generation X are bad, they are "no angels", delinquents, and "pure evil".

Their color is black.

And they love the devil.

But they were whitewashed by Ronald Reagan who created a scapegoat of left-wing thinking.

And so Generation X were able to think of themselves as good by default.

This is what Hitler called "Moral Ease".

It is created by embracing a scapegoat.

It covers up their crimes.

Generation X used violence - psychic, spiritual, emotional, verbal, and physical - and they used intimidation, hate, and evil to win.

But Reagan was a politician not a priest.

He used right-wing Christians to achieve his ends.

He said: "Christianity contains unconventional weapons."

These were: demonization of your political enemies, damnation of your opposition, blaming and shaming, and moral hypocrisy.

And so he encouraged his Last Judgement of all left-wing thinking.

This was backed up by right-wing media moguls who claimed "things have changed forever."

This was all planed by right-wing think tanks in the 1980s.

And it still persists today.

But it could not be done without the hypocrisy of Generation X.

So tell the truth!

Generation X are bad.

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Conversion Therapy.

Conversion Therapy is illegal in Victoria.

But religious groups persist in their attempts to change gay men.

Even against their will.

They threaten and pressure gay men to change their sexuality.

And they blame and punish anyone who will not submit.

All in the name of God.

But the time has come to refute this blasphemy.

And to assert that God loves gay men as they are - sexually active homosexuals.

And that Conversion Therapy is an abomination.

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Boomers.

The Boomers are innocent!

But our rock stars betrayed us.

They turned Peace and Love into sex and drugs.

And our dream was ruined.

The covert Satanism of our rock legends was set out in the writings of Aleister Crowley.

Instructions about how to make pacts with the devil appear in his works.

And the rock legends of the 1960s and 70s made no secret of their admiration for Aleister Crowley.

Crowley was a black magician and Satanist who was accused of sacrificing babies to the devil.

Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin lived in Crowley's house.

And this still goes on in rock music today!

But the guilt of rock stars does not make their fans guilty.

Boomers and their descendants did not get involved in Satanism.

At worst we are their victims.

And so accusations against our generation are without foundation.

And we should be returned to our rightful place of prominence in history.

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Smacks.

In order to spite the Boomers Generation X insisted that parents should smack their children.

And as the ultimate parent God should chastise men and women.

Despite the fact that there is absolutely no evidence at all that God punishes us this was backed up by Fundamentalist Christians who aspired to being the world's strictest parents.

And so they judged and punished their political enemies - the Boomers - in a faux Last Judgement.

They used psychic and spiritual violence to bash and reconstruct a whole generation of non-violent peace advocates.

But this is not true. 

God does not punish men and women.

God is non-violent and forgiving.

God's Face is Mercy.

And God's Heart is Love.

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Satanism.

The threat of Satanism in rock music, entertainment, and sports is not spiritual but mental.

There is no devil in reality and no dark powers.

But Satanists in our popular culture tell you to do all the wrong things and inculcate the unconscious.

They sell vice and tell you to sin in the hope that you will be dead to God and damned to hell!

But God will not judge you for things of which you are unaware.

God is merciful.

God is forgiving.

But the damage done by Satanism remains.

And it causes untold suffering.

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The Reality.

So, if the Orthodox theology taught by the Church is wrong, what is the Reality?

Richard Rohr has said: "The people who know God well - mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God - always find a lover, not a dictator."

And so it is!

God does not judge us.

God does not punish us. 

God loves us.

God forgives us.

God saves us.

God's Face is Mercy.

And God's Heart is Love.

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The Surplus.

When we reach the Throne and are vindicated by God there will be a huge surplus.

And this surplus will be distributed to the needy not the greedy.

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Easter.

In the Northern Hemisphere Easter is at the Spring Equinox.

But in the Southern Hemisphere Easter is Autumnal.

Reflecting Jesus words:

"'Verily I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains a single grain; but if it dies it bears much fruit,'"  John 12:24 (NRSV)

[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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Great Boomers.

The Boomer Generation has been much maligned because of their political views and activism.

But many of this generation were ground-breakers and trail-blazers in their fields.

The Boomers actually consist of two groups:

The Proto-Boomers (born 1937 - 1945) whose original ideas and creativity began a revolution.

And the Baby-Boomers (born 1946 - 1959) who put those ideas into practice.

Below are two lists of people who were prominent in each group and the fields in which they excelled.

The Proto-Boomers:

Jane Fonda 1937 (Acting/Activism)

David Hockney 1937 (Art)

Jack Nicholson 1937 (Acting)

Vanessa Redgrave 1937 (Acting/Activism)

Tom Stoppard 1937 (Playwright)

Margaret Atwood 1939 (Novelist)

Fritjof Capra 1939 (Science Theorist)

John Cleese 1939 (Comedy)

David Frost 1939 (TV Journalist)

Germaine Greer 1939 (Feminism)

Sheamus Heaney 1939 (Poetry)

Michael Kirby 1939 (Law/Gay Activism) 

Ian McKellen 1939 (Acting/Gay Activism)

Lily Tomlin 1939 (Comedy/Gay Activism)

Bret Whiteley 1939 (Art)

Matthew Fox 1940 (Religion)

John Lewis 1940 (Civil Rights)

John Lennon 1940 (Music)

Al Pacino 1940 (Acting)

Nancy Pelosi 1940 (Politics)

Joan Baez 1941 (Music)

Bernado Bertolucci 1941 (Cinema)

David Crosby 1941 (Music)

Bob Dylan 1941 (Music)

Paul Simon 1941 (Music)

Joe Biden 1942 (Politics)

Billy Connolly 1942 (Comedy/Acting)

Aretha Franklin 1942 (Music)

Stephen Hawking 1942 (Science)

Jimi Hendrix 1942 (Music)

Carol King 1942 (Music)

George Lucas 1942 (Cinema)

Susan Ryan 1942 (Women's Rights)

Martin Scorcese 1942 (Cinema)

Rupert Sheldrake 1942 (Biology)

Barbara Streisand 1942 (Music)

Peter Carey 1943 (Literature)

Mick Jagger 1943 (Music)

Joni Mitchell 1943 (Music)

Richard Rohr 1943 (Religion)

Karen Armstrong 1944 (Religion)

Bob Brown 1944 (Politics/Gay Rights)

Ray Davies 1944 (Music) 

Angela Davis 1944 (Civil Rights)

Alice Walker 1944 (Literature)

Mia Farrow 1945 (Acting)

Bette Midler 1945 (Music/Comedy)

Baby-Boomers:

Benny Andersson 1946 (Music)

Bill Clinton 1946 (Politics)

Liz Green 1946 (Astrology)

Liza Minnelli 1946 (Music/Acting)

Steven Spielberg 1946 (Cinema)

David Bowie 1947 (Music.Acting)

Hillary Clinton 1947 (Politics)

Elton John 1947 (Music)

Jenny Kee 1947 (Fashion)

Steven King 1947 (Literature)

Salman Rushdie 1947 (Literature)

Arnold Schwarzenegger 1947 (Body-Building/Acting/Politics)

King Charles III 1948 (Royalty/Climate Activism)

Cheryl Kernot 1948 (Politics)

Andrew Lloyd Webber 1948 (Music/Theater)

Ian McKewan 1948 (Literature)

Caitlyn Jenner 1949 (Transgender Activism)

Meryl Streep 1949 (Acting)

Richard Branson 1950 (Music/Business)

Graeme Murphy 1950 (Dance)

Richard Tarnas 1950 (Astrology/Cultural History)

Bob Geldof 1951 (Music/Activism)

Robyn Williams 1951 (Comedy/Acting)

Peter Tatchell 1952 (Gay Activism)

Tony Blair 1953 (Politics)

Hugo Chavez 1954 (Politics)

Louis de Bernieres 1954 (Literature)

Alan Hollinghurst 1954 (Gay Literature)

Angela Merkel 1954 (Politics)

Oprah Winfrey 1954 (TV Journalist)

Bill Gates 1955 (Computers/Business)

Steve Jobs 1955 (Computers.Business)

Colm Toibin 1955 (Literature)

Ellen de Generes 1958 (TV/Gay Activism)

So it is evident that the Boomers have made a considerable contribution to the evolution and enlightenment of humanity.

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Winning.

Winning is the way of the world.

And winning at all costs is evil.

That is why some sports men and women sell their souls to the devil.

They believe that the devil can grant them worldly success and fame.

And so they addict us to their sports.

And they generate million dollar incomes from our obsession.

But their philosophy is brutal.

They write themselves off when they celebrate victory.

And the punish failure with a world of pain.

So be aware - sports obsession is evil.

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The World.

The world teaches us to value: success, wealth, fame, possessions, status, sex, pleasure, authority, and power.....

But as disciples of Jesus we are to reject these values in favor of: compassion, honesty, non-violence, mercy, love, peace, and faith.....

These are the values of the Kingdom of God as set out in the Beatitudes.

And we are called to embody them.

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Salt.

Jesus said to his disciples: "'You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how can its saltiness be restored?  It is no longer good for anything, but is thrown out and trampled under foot.'"  Matthew 5:13 (NRSV)

I believe that this refers to what Dietrich Bonhoeffer called cheap grace - this salt that has lost its taste.

It refers to those who receive the Good News and accept the blessing but do not do anything in response.

They live their lives as everyone else does and don't think twice about it.

But Bonhoeffer asserted that more was necessary and that this came at a cost - costly grace.   

And that cost entailed a renunciation of worldly values in favor of the values of the Kingdom of God as set out in the Beatitudes.        

[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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Love.

Love is a spiritual quality.

The source of love cannot be located in the body, mind, or nervous system.

And yet we feel love.

We feel love through our spirits.

And, just as the heart is the center of our body, so the spiritual heart is the center of our spiritual body.

The Soul or the Divine Spark is located within our spiritual heart.

And it is from the soul that love flows through our spirits and bodies.

And so love is a spiritual quality.

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Spirit.

Spirit is the animating principle of life!

It gives life to inanimate matter.

It is symbolized by God's Breath - The Breath of Life!

"then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being."  Genesis 1:7 (NRSV)

The Breath of Life is God's Spirit.

It permeates and supports all life.

And so we have a spiritual body.

And even plants and trees must have spirits.

This may help us to understands the Sacred Sites of Aboriginal people.

Our spirits discern the peace and presence of God in a particular place.

There may be extraordinary beauty and silence in a forest or a waterhole and this becomes a 'thin place' where we can encounter God.

Trees and plants breathe in what we exhale.

And so we are partners in a larger ecology.

[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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The Heart.

The heart is the center of our being.

The air we breathe and the food we eat pass through the lungs and the stomach respectively to the heart.

And blood from the heart passes to our brain and our spinal chord giving them life.

The brain and the spinal chord generate the nervous system which governs our bodies.

And; even though taste, smell, hearing, and sight neurons pass directly to the brain and our sense of feeling from our nervous system travels to the brain; the brain could have no life without the blood generated from the heart.

And so the heart is the center of our being.

Without the heart we could have no life.

Our soul is located in our heart.

And so love is the wellspring of life.   

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The Church.

There is homophobia in the Church.

Many Christians persist in condemning homosexuals.

They will exclude us from God's House, cut us off from God, torture us, and condemn us to hell for eternity.

But the irrational anger of their attacks betrays their fear.

The fear of God's punishment.

The fear of death.

But their fears are no longer valid.

AIDS is virtually cured.

And Gay Marriage is legal in Australia.

So they are fighting their own shadows.

And persecuting a delusion.

Homosexuality is love.

And "those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them."  1 John 4:16 (NRSV)

So they are wrong!

Gay men and women abide in God's Love.

And we will all go to Heaven when we die.

[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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