Plastic bags are not environmentally hurtful.  No one has ever seen a helpless bird stuck in one.  And, if someone did, so what?  But, though plastic bags are not environmentally hurtful, they are easily taxable.   Collectively, plastic bags offer billions of opportunities  for bureaucrats to pick up a nickel, dime, or quarter for each one.

The fact is, most plastic bags are re-usable.  Several years ago, this author saved every plastic bag he received from every store for one year.  Unbelievably, an entire year’s worth of plastic bags could all be squeezed into one plastic bag!

We should save our plastic bags and send them to those in need, those who are viciously and unfortunately oppressed by liberal tyrannies.  It’s one way that decent, caring people can help each other.  We, who love our neighbors, have a duty to help our friends and families escape this punitive tax-grab. 

It’s easy to avoid the onerous tax.  When shopping, one can easily carry a couple of dozen plastic bags, wadded up like a hanky in purse or pocket.  Everyone in the check-out line will look enviously upon those who pull out their own bags.  “It’s important to recycle.”, we may say, smugly, nodding as self-righteously as any liberal. Rehearse saying this when you pull out your bags to the astonishment of those around.  It so very enjoyable that we may get a sense of the self-satisfaction that leftists get from publicly worshipping their many idols.

Punitive taxes on plastic bags are coming your way, as well.  While we should save our plastic bags and send them to those in need, it’s also necessary to look out for ourselves.  We should keep a few bagsful at home. 

Plastic bags can be worth their weight in copper.

There’s another reason to hold on to plastic bags.   Depending on how high the tax-addicted drive their value, a plastic bag can be worth its weight in copper.  As the leftests drive up the value, future generations will say, in utter astonishment, “You mean, you used to throw away your plastic bags?”

So, we should save our plastic bags and send them to those in need as well as keeping plenty for ourselves.

We see Jacob’s Ladder as an allegory.  How do we get into Heaven?  We must climb Jacob’s Ladder, taking the first steps to Heaven. 

The first step:  Fearing God and living in an upright manner.

Second:  Believing and being baptised.

Third:  Not going backwards.

This will get us to step two, which seems to be sufficient for salvation.  There are steps beyond, but we must get up at least these two steps, without backsliding.  Why?  We must climb Jacob’s ladder, taking the first steps to Heaven.  We want to spend eternity with God and joy, avoiding the eternal pain inflicted on those who do not try to save themselves.

Some centuries ago, the Roman Catholic Church in Sweden was replaced by a state-supported Lutheran denomination.   The whole country is a bunch of long-lapsed Catholics.

Abortion is easily available in Sweden.  That, and birth control pills, have reduced the population.  Sweden is the perfect example of what happens to a modern state that intentionally ignores God and His commandments.  This picture looks like what the scourge of God looks like when it falls on those who turn from His protection.  The scourge of God is coming soon to a neighborhood near you.

This woman has the misfortune to live in a nation that sunk so far into sin that  God is punishing it with His scourge.   Every time we hear of something similar, we must each remember that the scourge of God is coming soon to a neighborhood near you.

This is what it looks like.  We can tell it’s coming when our officials give preferential treatment (as a result of bribes) to those whom God is using to punish we who have turned from Him.  A faithful remnant may be saved.

Today, Moslem invasions of Christian nations are demographic.  Christian nations make more technological progress.  They have invented new birth control methods.  That has been accompanied by an attack on traditional morals.   Fewer couples have children.  We are all guilty.  Most of European descent are lapsed Catholics, are being paidMoslems, the scourge of God.  Christendom has been “hoist by its own petard”.

God is angered when His once-favored people choose to use abortion and birth control to destroy His beloved children.  When He is displeased, He pulls His angels  back from the front lines.  He allows bribes to public officials to punish the people He once cherished.  He lets those officials be bribed to allow and encourage unrestrained Moslem migration.  These lapsed Catholics are being paid the wages of sin by Moslems, the scourge of God.

As a result, rapes and murders, particularly of European women, are increasing.  The rapists are rarely arrested, rarely prosecuted.  God has turned His face from the women who have “liberated” themselves from Him and from Mary.  Ever more lapsed Catholics are being paid the wages of sin by Moslems, the scourge of God.

They have exposed themselves to Moslem violence because they have lost their moral compass.  They were zealous to destroy traditional values, in which a man defended his wife and children.  Now, the women who have liberated themselves have no protectors, except the state.  We see how well the state is watching out for them.  Most of them do not understand that lapsed Catholics are being paid the wages of sin by Moslems, the scourge of God.  He is letting them destroy those who have rejected God and His Church.

It is inevitable in history that Christian intelligence in freer nations produced technological advancements.  The vanity that follows such accomplishments separates people from God.  They become centered on themselves, and cease to obey His command to “be fruitful and multiply”.  Vanity prompts them to leave The Church.  First, they drop down to the less demanding denominations.  They then stray so much farther into sin that death is inevitable.

In our time, lapsed Catholics are being paid the wages of sin by Moslems, the scourge of god.

For the umpteenth time.

Every nation that declines does so because its birthrate has dropped.  Why do birthrates drop?  When too large a percentage of the population makes a living by taxing,  middle-class young couples are automatically among those too heavily taxed to have children.

The culture of death hates for people in loving families to have children.  The anti-life segment rejoices at ever smaller families, and is happiest with no children at all, unless they’re raised by those who hate every decent tradition of the West.

All those who’ve joined in the culture of death are united in discouraging people from having even one child, let alone one more child.  In our day, couples with one child are admirable.  Those with two children are heroes.  Three or more?  Absolutely triumphant!

When we look back, we see how quickly our last twenty years have have flown.   Those years are nothing compared to a child’s soul who will live forever.

And, no one ever has enough sisters and brothers.

Catholic Fundamentalism thinks we can understand how money gives people access to energy and things by using our imagination.  We picture a small settlement, a few thousand years ago.  Each of the twenty residents needed a plot to raise their food.

One of them catches a cow.  He turns a shovel sideways, and calls it a “plow”.  He hooks the plow to the cow.  He plows and plants more land than the other nine villagers combined.

His inventive use of energy has left the settlement as food-rich as it ever was.  The only difference is that, now, nineteen people can now go do something else for a big part of every day.  How does the food get from the early Super-farmer to the non-producers?

Our imaginary super-farmer may be very idealistic:  “With me doing all the food producing, you can sit around more than ever.  I like producing food.  You like sitting around.  We’re all happy.”

His neighbors will think that’s a far more brilliant idea than inventing the plow and hooking it to the cow.

But, there’s still work to do.  Villagers need to carry water, so there’s an ongoing need for clay jars and pots.  People spend some time making them.

One of them invents a potter’s wheel.  He makes all the pots the community needs.  “I like making pots.  The rest of you can take a break.  Sit around for awhile.   I’ll make all the pots we need.”  Another villager invents a loom, and takes over clothing production.  Wagons replace human carriers.  Pretty soon, there is absolutely nothing left for most of the people to do, and they’ve gotten so used to sitting around there’s not much else they can do.

How do the non-productive people  get the food, pots,  clothing, and everything else they need if the producers don’t want to give things to them?

Someone takes charge.   “Look”, they explain to the producers, “if we don’t give money to the horde of non-producers, they will organize and kill us all.”  Then, they carefully explain to the non-producers, “If you guys get mad and kill the producers, then you’ll have to go back to doing hard,dirty work.  For now, be happy with what you’re getting.  Producers are getting more efficient.  Every time they do, we’ll get more for you.”

So, a balance is reached.  Colored paper, electronic chits, shiny rocks, metals, beaver pelts, “stamps” that can be exchanged for food, and lots of things have been used to give people access to energy.  In successful countries, a balance is reached that lets the producers produce and give growing numbers of non-producers enough money to keep them off the street.  Money gives people access to energy and keeps them calm.

As producers get more efficient, they must give more money to non-producers.   Most non-producers are reasonably happy, within limits.  There are disagreements.  Producers always think they should get to keep more.  Non-producers always think they should be given more.  Some non-producers make a living by keeping other non-producers fired up and fighting for more.

As fewer people are needed to produce things, the better the distribution systems must become.  Today, smaller nations are no longer in a position to obtain the financing to make anything cheaply.  They have to arrange for other, larger nations to provide energy and things to their growing numbers of non-producers.  Greece, for instance, is looking for help from anyone.

When governments controlled by non-producers collapse, their people find that their “right” to get the money that gives people access to energy is not as universally respected as they would prefer.

There have been lies about Rising/Falling Sea Levels.  They have been accompanied by lies about carbon dioxide, Expanding/Shrinking Ice Caps, and near-infinite pollution of earth, air, and water.

There have been lies about Ozone Holes, the efficacy of wind and solar power, and lies about various foods we should and should not eat.  There are even lies about plastic bags, billions of which are alleged to be circling in a giant, mid-Pacific “gyre”, causing the death of countless animals.

Those who believe the latest lies are all around us.   There is one  near-universal lie they believe:  Those who believe in all the latest lies also believe that public education is working.

Catholic Fundamentalism believes it’s incredibly important to re-translate the words and concepts of our faith into the new, more universal language that reflects modern technology.  We don’t live in the Iron Age anymore.  That’s why we need new terms to help those in our age to know God and find eternal joy.

“The Father”, to Catholic Fundamentalists, is “The Loving Programmer”. With the help of His angelic programming assistants, among the first beings to be programmed, He wrote and downloaded The Creation Program.  It’s God’s version of  a computer-generated movie, but vastly larger, in lots of dimensions, and a very long run in an absolutely huge theater.

“The Son”, in Catholic Fundamentalism terminology, is “The Creation Program” He took human form and came among us.  He did so to separate His beloved free will programs (that’s us!) into two groups.  One group of human programs  who would use their free will and  understand, believe, and obey His Operating Instructions.  The others are the sad, lost souls who chose love of self over love of God.

“The Holy Spirit” is “The Holy Wireless Connector”.  He joins together The Loving Programmer, The Program, while also joining the human programs who ask to be connected to The Loving Programmer and The Program.

The Holy Trinity in Catholic Fundamentalism may be seen as the Loving Programmer, The Program (Who took human form and came among us, and The Holy Wireless Connector.

He also programs energies.  Some of His programmed energies are alive, such as His Angelic Programming Assistants.  They help Him by writing and downloading the programs He assigns to them.  Some angels program and download the various Gas Programs.  Other provide solids and liquids.  Others put them into complicated, energized, moving systems, like the sun, moon, and planets.

The most able of His Heavenly Assistants program and download the plant and animal programs.

The Loving Programmer’s most complicated programs are His beloved human programs.  He writes and downloads our individual human programs within The Creation Program so that some of us will have the joy of finding Him.

It’s important to remember that The Loving Programmer could program and download enough Programming Assistants to write and download The Creation Program in the time described in The First Programming Log (Old Testament).

Most professional Christians do not like Catholic Fundametnalism.  Catholic intellectuals sniff haughtily, announcing:   ”Catholic Fundamentalism is too simple.”   Professional Protestants don’t like it because:   ”Catholic Fundamentalism gives too much authority to The Catholic Church.”  Non-Christians have their own reasons for disliking it, most of which become very obvious on the slightest reflection. 

None of those who dislike Catholic Fundamentalism can disprove its basis:  God programs in three dimensions.  He programs particles.  God and His Angelic Programming Assistants wrote and downloaded The Creation Program.  Each of us human programs was downloaded in it.

When one reads:  “If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.”  the instinctive reaction is to wonder “What bitter, unhappy person that?”  

It does, and does not, come as a surprise to realize that England’s Prince Philip described that he  feels this way about his neighbors.

Furthering the bewilderment, we realize that Prince Philip believes himself to be saying something intelligent.  He feels that he is “enlightened”, and wishes to let people know that he is so enlightened that he wants many, or most, of them to be dead.

Prince Philip has no real power.  He must be angry that his life is, basically, a charade;  one made even more meaningless because his wife won’t give him any real power.  It is easy to satisfy oneself with being “the power behind the throne”.  It is impossible to be satisfied “wearing a costume near the throne”.

Like most people angered because they are do not have the power over those around them that their untrammeled vanity would like, Prince Philip has embraced the bitter person’s newest excuse for murder.  Environmentalism is as popular among today’s angry as Communism was to the fuming fringe in earlier generations. Environmentalism is the bitter person’s newest excuse for murder.

Environmentalism gives him all the cover he needs to say that he’d like to kill as many people as he wants.  If he said that without the respectability of being an environmentalist, he’d just be another homicidal maniac.  He gets away with such repulsive, vicious thoughts because environmentalism is the bitter person’s newest excuse for murder.