Day: July 21, 2012

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

Catholic Fundamentalism, the Holy Alliance. Its People.

The First Covenent, between God and Abraham, took place about 4,000 years ago.  It resulted in the Israelites, under David, taking over part of the Western end of the Mediterranean Sea between Egypt and Syria. The successful Kingdom began to tax its people after it became too expensive to loot those nearby.  The Northern part […]
Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

Weekly Reading, July 21, 2012

  Reading, 1 Jer 23:  1-6   Woe to the shepherds who mislead and scatter the flock of my pasture, says the LORD.  (Today, this passage leads us to think of “enlightened” clergy who embrace sins like abortion, birth control, and the rest.  Then, it was the Pharisees and those who twisted God’s word to […]
Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

Waging war on the middle class.

The middle class is not in the middle of the bell curve.  It’s to the right of the middle, and only extends a little bit to the left. Collectively, the middle class has a lot of money.  The devil does what he can to take it.  He orders his seven tribes of corrupting viruses, pride, envy, greed, gluttony, anger, […]