Today’s reading is extremely interesting to Catholic Fundamentalism: Gospel Mk 8:22-26 When Jesus and his disciples arrived at Bethsaida, people brought to Him a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him. He took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village. Putting spittle on his eyes He laid His hands on the man and asked, “Do you see anything?” Looking up the man replied, “I see people looking like trees and walking.” Then He laid hands...
Earth, an Allegorical Structure
The Loving Programmer wrote and downloaded The Creation Program as a mirror of the reality beyond. Just as the punishments of Hell are more painful as one descends, the earth gets hotter toward the middle. The Loving Programmer provided volcanoes for obvious reasons. We see the magma erupting from deep within earth and white-hot lava...
How Does God Judge One Hundred Billion Souls on Judgment Day?
The question, “How are the souls of a hundred billion people going to be judged in one day?” has several possible answers. When we think of God as The Loving Programmer, we may understand that every life was downloaded to put its soul where it belongs for eternity. Believers understand that, in the final analysis,...
How Many Kinds of Viruses/Demons are There?
Catholic Fundamentalism believes there are seven basic types of living viruses that work to corrupt us human programs. Those viruses are living versions of the Seven Deadly Sins; Pride, Envy, Greed, Gluttony, Anger, Lust, and Sloth. The viruses of Sloth would be higher on the list, if they would, contrary to their natures, work a...
How Many Demons Can One Person Have?
As we watch various kinds of lunatic behavior in our fellow human programs, at least two conclusions can be formed: 1. Crazy people have something wrong with their minds. Or, 2. They are possessed by destructive demons that have corrupted their thinking process. A century of psycho-analysis has done little, if anything, to solve the...
Opium Dens: An Early Alternative to the Welfare State?
A century ago, opium dens were popular in every large American, Asian, and European city. Those whose disappointments with life brought them to a state of depression would frequent opium dens until they ran out of money. Then, they died. Opium users sought stupor instead of violence. Their lives did go downhill when they continued...
Stopping Tornados?
If we pull the plug so that water drains, a whirlpool appears with a funnel-shape, just like a tornado. If we stick our finger in the funnel, it collapses. We know we can’t stick our finger in the wall of a tornado and cause it to similarly collapse. But, a concussion bomb, or, several, with...
Different Species or Merely Different Breeds?
When we look at dogs, we see several thousand years of breeding at work. We see dachshunds, able to go down badger holes and fight underground wars. Huge elkhounds run down the prey they were bred to hunt. All the basic breeds were brought into existence by human beings who specialized in selective breeding. Selective...