Christianity QA

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Your capacity to find Troll material amazes me. Tell me, do you ever get up from your machine? Or, do you just sit there, and ‘get fucked’. Storm

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Gods Also Die By John Brand, D.Min., J.D. 1-1-3

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God is the great spirit. Idols or objects are not God or Gods. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – He is the author of <http://www.yt.org/gifts.php"Shaking the Foundations."]

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This is a great essay about America. I would contend that many Americans worhsip dead or false gods, too. The GOP appears to be trying to capitalize on a dead gods to get votes. It is curious that a party that has done the most ungodly things to Americans and people in other countries would be advocating "faith-based" politics. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Your capacity to find Troll material amazes me. Tell me, do you ever get up from your machine? Or, do you just sit there, and ‘get fucked’. Storm Gods Also Die By John Brand, D.Min., J.D. 1-1-3

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You worship the gods of conspiracy. You idolize blame. Your faith is in anger and bitterness. Your a sad man, Ronn….. Storm

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – This is a great essay about America. I would contend that many Americans worhsip dead or false gods, too. The GOP appears to be trying to capitalize on a dead gods to get votes. It is curious that a party that has done the most ungodly things to Americans and people in other countries would be advocating "faith-based" politics. Your capacity to find Troll material amazes me. Tell me, do you ever get up from your machine? Or, do you just sit there, and ‘get fucked’. Storm Gods Also Die By John Brand, D.Min., J.D. 1-1-3

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conspiracy what conspiracy. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – You worship the gods of conspiracy. You idolize blame. Your faith is in anger and bitterness. Your a sad man, Ronn….. Storm This is a great essay about America. I would contend that many Americans worhsip dead or false gods, too. The GOP appears to be trying to capitalize on a dead gods to get votes. It is curious that a party that has done the most ungodly things to Americans and people in other countries would be advocating "faith-based" politics. Your capacity to find Troll material amazes me. Tell me, do you ever get up from your machine? Or, do you just sit there, and ‘get fucked’. Storm Gods Also Die By John Brand, D.Min., J.D. 1-1-3

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Gods Also Die By John Brand, D.Min., J.D. 1-1-3         My suspicion about the death of gods became confirmed in the latter part of September 1998 when my wife and I visited Vienna, Austria. I took her to see the great Karlskirche, a magnificent Baroque church. I often visited that church in the 1930s. The side altars were always aglow from the light of hundreds of votive candles lit by the faithful at the shrine of their favorite saints. The flickering lights bathed the nave with a soft glow. A lingering scent of incense, left behind from a hundred masses, filled the church with a mysterious presence of The Other. A priest scurrying through the transept added an authoritative mark communicating in the stillness of the church that this was, indeed, a holy place.         Some 60 years later, on that September day, a few lonely candles kept a forlorn watch in front of the images of the saints. Gone was the aura of mystery and awe. There were more tourists, visiting the church as though it were a museum, than there were worshippers on their knees before their god. There was no sense of a holy presence. Only the reminiscence of a world lost long ago flooded over me. I experienced the same sense of the loss of The Other while visiting the St. Rochus church in Vienna’s Third District. Both churches were relics of what once was vital and alive but now seemed to be sepulchers of a dead god.         A visit to St. Stephen’s Cathedral only heightened the sense that even that venerable church had become more of a museum than a symbol of the presence of the divine.         It dawned on me that gods do indeed die. We are living in a time of a wake for god. Thus, it has always been in the history of humankind. We worship our gods. They die and others gods take their places.         Mighty Zeus, once believed to have reigned from Mt. Olympus, has been reduced to nothing more than a mythological figure from classical antiquity. We know Zeus never really existed. None of the ancient gods or goddesses ever actually lived. They were only abstract ideas. It is a shame that Astarte, the Canaanite fertility goddess, is not alive today. A statue depicts her with seventy breasts. She was the wife of the Canaanite Chief God El and bore him 70 little sub-gods. I guess she had a nipple for each one of her offspring. With the male penchant for female breasts, Astarte might win every beauty contest in America. I am sure John Ashcroft is glad that she was not behind him when he spoke in front of a bare-breasted statue of Justice. At a cost of $8,000 to shroud one measly mammary gland, taxpayers would have had to shell out $560,000 to cover Astarte to protect American morality.         Gods and goddesses come and go. Odin, Frigga, Ceres, Persephone, Marduk, Timat, Xpiyacoc, Xmucane, and many more gods are all dead and gone. All were worshipped with sincerity and devout piety by countless thousands. To have suggested to these humble, although bloodthirsty, folks that these gods were mere figments of their imaginations would have caused them to kill the messenger.         Who is America’s god today? What is the status of our god whose name is printed on every single dollar bill, marked on every coin, plastered on placards, bumper stickers, and even T-shirts? Do we not proudly proclaim his name when we swear allegiance to our flag? Who is the god whose life and mighty deeds are proclaimed in the Bible?         The existence of a thousand different and differing churches, sects, denominations, assemblies, fellowships, etc. provides a mute witness that there is no agreement about the nature of the biblical god. We say that we worship the god of the Bible. But money and power are the gods of our civilization! Where is god when corporations cook their books in order to show a bigger profit? Where is the god of the Bible when corporate lackeys, posing as the elected representative of the people, pass laws enabling corpgreed to inflate the value of their stocks? Where is god when individuals find ways of cheating on their income taxes? When push comes to shove, who is Kenny Boy’s god? Todd Geiger, a former energy trader, in a story appearing in the Houston Chronicle, December 16, 2002, admitted that traders provided false information in order to push up natural gas prices. Who is their god? Most of the rest of us join in the adoration of the greenbacks in our wallets. Most of us are members of the choir along with politicians, business tycoons, and the Wall Street Journal adoring the god of Mammon. Profits, stock options, corporate mergers, and R.O.I.’s, are the names of our gods.         We grovel before the C.E.O.s, C.P.A.s, lawyers, bought legislators, et al who are the popes and priests, the parsons and preachers, the rabbis and rectors of the god of Mammon whose name is capitalism. In past centuries, the money-gods were known by different names: Imperialism, Feudalism, and Mercantilism. They are all dead now. The god of Capitalism will also die. Our god lives by stock frauds, insider trading, enslavement of an entire population to a disintegrating health care system, faulty manufacturing problems protected by special legislation prohibiting lawsuits for negligence, and a hundred other schemes to make our god a symbol of fiscal obesity, an emblem of monetary overindulgence. Such a deity must eventually choke to death on his own vomit or die because of a blocked bowel since all that fecal matter backs up in his intestinal tract.         The god of Eternal Youth is another postmodern deity. Plastic surgeons tuck in tummies, lift sagging breasts, bellies, buttocks, and remove face and neck wrinkles. But we know that the gods of Eternal Youth are just temporary deities. They are gods of fraud and sham. Time marches on and everything lifted will again sag. The wrinkles will return. It used to be that women mostly worshipped that idol. Now we find men in ever increasing numbers bring their offerings to the surgeon’s scalpel. Botox is the name of the new god. Yet, deep down inside, we surely know that the smiles of this god will eventually turn to the wrinkles of an old man whose death is just around the corner.         Now comes the real shocker. America really does worship the gods of the Bible! Only it is an array of gods we hardly ever recognize as the official pronouncement of the good book. While I do not believe in using the Bible as a proof-text, there are profound insights about life in that collection of 66 books written over about 1,000 years. You know the scenario of the Adam and Eve story. The damnable snake, who really has always gotten "dissed," talked Eve into taking a bite of the fruit that God had forbidden either Adam or Eve to eat. The snake said, "

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