Doomsday

What is God all about in this our world? We have been trying to answer this question in a multitude of ways for thousands of years as reflected in the thinking within various religions. Every religion has an answer. How would you answer this question? The theologians and philosophers among us tend to complicate the issue making our understanding beyond the reach of we average Joe’s. Could we not use a common sense approach?

Two answers from two different religions are particularly relevant to our time. The faith of the Koran says that God is all about JUSTICE and the spiritual believer should defend God by meeting out God justice. Is it any wonder that Iran’s Khomeini wants nuclear weapons to blow up our Godless world? Blowing up our world is doing God a favor, it is the extreme mission that is taught in some Mosques.

Christianity has its share of dooms day thinking and the Bible does have a few references to the justice of God. This, however, is not the whole story for God is most times pictured as a God of love, God love. You and BoBo really don’t know the full meaning of God Love but we common sense people know what it is not, blowing up our world. God desires our freely given loving respect and all that we experience in this world is to teach us about God love that flows like a river.

We say, thank you God, for this teaching moment.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

 

Juice

Fox News is constantly pandering to the very worst of human nature in the Guthrie case. As humans we tend to gloat over the misfortune of others in order to breathe easier ourselves. Should Fox enable for profit a most negative way to live? The issue is how much coverage is necessary and one would think at this point, very little. The crime was a burglary gone bad and tragically Nancy is probably buried somewhere in the desert.   

Fox, do you not have producers with some creative juice?

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.  

mirky

Republican Senator Lisa “mirky” Murkowski has been the senior Senator from the great state of Alaska since 2002 but plays the political game to the beat of a different drummer. She is always playing hide and seek between the Republican and Democrat agendas. What is going on in the world of “mirky” Murkowski? The Save Act is federal overreach? Why have 50 of the 53 Republican Senators wholeheartedly signed on to the Save Act as co-sponsors? BoBo assumes they would disagree with your overreach claim.

The Save Act is fundamental to American values which means that you, “mirky” Murkowski are being anti American. Please allow BoBo to guess as to what is going on in the world of our lady Senator from Alaska. Lisa has a daddy problem. She was gifted with her Senator ship and the political apparatus in 2002 by her father, then Governor and former Senator Frank Murkowski. This gift is a heavy lift for the next generation, measuring up will always be an issue. Frank Murkowski is in his 90’s and long retired.

President Donald Trump has now become the handy object of Lisa’s love/ hate relationship with her father. This love/hate relationship is normal, natural human workings, no disrespect intended. However, Lisa Murkowski is a United States Senator and as such should rise above her feelings and join herself to what is best for America.

Some of us do not believe “mirky” can make a thought out argument against the Save Act. She has to be noticed and as long as she gives in to this feeling, she will not be a creditable Senator who is worthy of the peoples’ respect.

G. Goslaw

Landers,. Ca.   

    

Jail

There are not enough penalties in the Save Act. Allowing for private lawsuits against election officials is a start but individual voters who cast an illegal vote according to the law should face consequences as well, like jail time.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca. 

 

Buffoons

Mr. President, thank you for your unqualified support for passage of the Save Act that requires a photo identification and verified citizenship in order to vote in federal elections. You stand with 80% of the American people. The Save Act has been passed by the House of Representative and our Senators must do likewise. Passage in the Senate must happen, no excuses, filibuster or not, it must happen.

Mr. President, another Executive Action to protect the vote is not good enough. On Election Day, such an Executive Action will be tied up in the courts and prove to be unenforceable in the Blue states.  This is not a solution. To be enforceable, the Save Act must be the Law of the Land, passed by both houses of Congress.

Let’s give our lawmakers a bit at the apple, do they wish to be known as patriots or buffoons?

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.   

Menu

The historical Christian God statement goes something like the following. Our all-powerful God, the judge and ruler of all worlds, works an eternal future for all believers through the life, death and resurrection of the God/Man Jesus, while sitting on the remote God throne of eternity. Christian theologians call this God statement classical theism. Except for the last hundred or so years, this understanding has been the only Christian God understanding.

Christian theologians have ventured into new territory of late because of the language of science and evolution. Can God belief and our “as is” world coexist? This is “the” question. Some say BoBo is not a recognized theologian scholar so he should just shut up. Maybe so but the classically trained theologians, the experts, are tied economically to Church speak and classical theism, making the possibility of changing language and thinking risky business. Which voice is to be trusted?  

BoBo is only a theologian in the sense that all God believers are theologians, we must tell our neighbors the "why" of our beliefs. Or do we? Maybe this is why Christianity has lost much of its potency. The great tragedy of the Christian church is silence from the pew because asking questions from the pew is also risky business. Some of us do believe that faith is a menu to be talked about and not the blind acceptance of whatever is on the menu.

BoBo and so many others are kind of weird that way.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

  

Big

Social wisdom says, “Don’t speak ill of the dead”. Never being particularly motivated by social convention and because some of our Republican Senators need correction, BoBo speaks to the almost dead. 

Republican Senators with ancient 20^th century politics in mind, why are you blocking the Trump 21^st century America First agenda? Is it only because it is Trump’s agenda and not yours? The America first agenda could also be your agenda. The future is before us as a free country if we face the challenges together. 

Please Senators get with it and think big!

BoBo