Doubling down are you, Mr. O’Reilly? Why are you being defensive? According to you, the “stupid” free speech conference lead by Ms. Geller in Garland Texas was legal but not “the right thing to do”. Suddenly, Bill O’Reilly and Franklin Graham are the moral conscience of America? With all due respect to the both of you, some of us question if any of us are worthy of that lofty perch.
Once that claim is made, one becomes accountable for the truth and vulnerable to criticism resulting from the slightest impropriety in what we may do or say. No living human being, no prophet or spiritual leader has earned the right to so speak with the authority of life and limb, except Jesus. You ought to write another book about the prophet Muhammad entitled, “Killing Christians”.
That brings us to your assertion that is the burr under my saddle. Somehow, you assert that Jesus is in your corner and not with those of us who praise Ms. Geller. You must be under a lot of pressure to make that assertion for such an argument denotes weakness. It has been used by the proponents of every new thing that has been dumped upon we believers in Jesus over the last two thousand years. It is the lamest of excuses for an opinion.
Mr. O’Reilly, you assert that Jesus would not go to that conference in Garland Texas. Jesus did not mock others. Mr. O’Reilly, you don’t know your Bible and your history is suspect. Jesus mocked the religious establishment at every turn, on Judean hillsides, at the River Jordan, from a fishing boat on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, around a well in Samaria and on the Jericho road. By standing up for the people, by speaking of the God who loved the little people, Jesus mocked the religious radicalism of his day.
Jesus is here today and asking believers to mock the forces of evil Muslim religious radicalism. Mr. O’Reilly, please reconsider.
G.Goslaw
Landers, Ca
Showing posts with label Church and violence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Church and violence. Show all posts
Friday, May 8, 2015
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
Loving Expressions
President Obama lives in the bushes in order to be the commander in chief. We Americans have been sold a bill of goods for the last six and a half years but Obama slips up regularly. He is a man who is torn between being the man America needs and living as his daddy’s son who carries his fathers documented Muslim and socialist sympathies.
The president’s latest slip up was at the Easter prayer breakfast when he critiqued we Christians for “less than loving expressions”. This critique is akin to calling the kettle black, less than loving expressions? Really? Muslims are chopping off heads on camera, burning captured soldiers alive in cages, murdering 1700 Iraqi troops execution style in the Iraqi desert and killing the vulnerable, defenseless innocents to include men women and children. Killing Christians and holding them for ransom. Iran calls for the annihilation of Israel and death to America, the Great Satan. All of these “less than loving expressions” are perpetrated to make a religious political statement.
The Muslim religion has, from the beginning 1500 years ago, been more of a political animal than a spiritually centered faith in God. There are endless rules and ritual but it would seem little reflection of anything that could be called divine. Is this critique being painted with to broad a brush that holds all Muslims responsible for the violent sizable Muslim minority? Probably, but what choice does the Christian community have, to assist in the slaughter?
G.Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
The president’s latest slip up was at the Easter prayer breakfast when he critiqued we Christians for “less than loving expressions”. This critique is akin to calling the kettle black, less than loving expressions? Really? Muslims are chopping off heads on camera, burning captured soldiers alive in cages, murdering 1700 Iraqi troops execution style in the Iraqi desert and killing the vulnerable, defenseless innocents to include men women and children. Killing Christians and holding them for ransom. Iran calls for the annihilation of Israel and death to America, the Great Satan. All of these “less than loving expressions” are perpetrated to make a religious political statement.
The Muslim religion has, from the beginning 1500 years ago, been more of a political animal than a spiritually centered faith in God. There are endless rules and ritual but it would seem little reflection of anything that could be called divine. Is this critique being painted with to broad a brush that holds all Muslims responsible for the violent sizable Muslim minority? Probably, but what choice does the Christian community have, to assist in the slaughter?
G.Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
Monday, March 23, 2015
calling out the bad guys!
Radical extremist Muslim believers are deluded traitors to the righteous cause of their God, whom they call Allah. Muslims, you may rename God but you can not change who he or she is, you can not change what God is about in this world. You can only make fools of yourselves and your faith for you are killing and dying for nothing of value on this earth or beyond. You may kill a lot of Christians but a God who kills is no God! There is no such God and you are evil.
If any of you take offense to my words, I’m in the phone book.
G.Goslaw
Landers, Ca
If any of you take offense to my words, I’m in the phone book.
G.Goslaw
Landers, Ca
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Where is the fairness?
There you go again, High Desert Star. You are at least consistent, another bigoted anti-Semitic cartoon by Mike Luckovich appears in the February 14, 2015 edition of your paper. His and your latest humorless and dishonest attempt to trash the Jewish national struggle for survival is reprehensible. The High Desert Star echoes the major media outlets by promoting racist messaging while playing hiding games behind your disclaimers of neutrality. You do not practice fair play because you fail to present an intelligent pro Israel, pro Jewish message to your readers. You and your cohorts keep dishing out the trash and then claim not to understand why you are not trusted by middle America. Could not your deceiving ways be the primary reason your circulation is in the pits?
In this present hour, when the radical forces of Islam are once again spreading their “religious wisdom” around the world by the sword, why do you only have space to trash Israel and it’s leader? You and your cohorts are cowards, ignoring the insanity of the killing, shooting, burning and beheading of innocents all around the world and all in the name of Allah. I ask you, who are the bad guys? How can you manage your life and your paper while being silent and therefore complicit with such cruelty? High Desert Star, surprise me by having the guts to print all of this opinion.
G.Goslaw
Landers, Ca
In this present hour, when the radical forces of Islam are once again spreading their “religious wisdom” around the world by the sword, why do you only have space to trash Israel and it’s leader? You and your cohorts are cowards, ignoring the insanity of the killing, shooting, burning and beheading of innocents all around the world and all in the name of Allah. I ask you, who are the bad guys? How can you manage your life and your paper while being silent and therefore complicit with such cruelty? High Desert Star, surprise me by having the guts to print all of this opinion.
G.Goslaw
Landers, Ca
Thursday, January 8, 2015
The Killers
Mohammed heard the voice of God in a desert cave around the year 600 A.D., some fourteen hundred years ago. The first book of the Bible, Genesis, records fifty one happenings when God either spoke verbally, through an unknown visitor or in a dream to fourteen very different people, including murderers, shepherds, bakers and kings. Time and again, through the following four thousand years of human history, these happenings give us direction, spurring our desire to be the people God intended. Are we there yet? No way. We live with our failures, every time a good word comes to us from God, men turn a good word into a religion of this world.
Given the diversity of God’s approach to our world, none of us has the right to the exclusive understanding of God. Given the diversity of God’s approach to this world, no religion can claim exclusivity to the blessings of God. Given the diversity, none of us should be thinking and killing small. Mohammed raised an army to build his political religious kingdom and those who have followed his lead, also used killing to get their way. Every religion on the face of the earth has killed, at one time or another, to build their supposed spiritual reality. In our time, those who kill in the name of their exclusive God, are the mislead radical Muslims. Is this not obvious? After Paris and New York, is it not true that the radical Muslim religion is at war with all other religions and civilizations.
Do you know what is most infuriating to we Americans? Most infuriating to this Landers American is not that the killing happens but the silence of the greater Muslim worshippers. I ask you, is the killing of God? Are you for the radicals or against them? Hello! You of the Muslim faith in the Morongo Basin, speak up, are you for or against the killing? Your silence makes you an accessory to the killing.
Are all of you cowards? If not, say so!
G.Goslaw
Landers, Ca
Given the diversity of God’s approach to our world, none of us has the right to the exclusive understanding of God. Given the diversity of God’s approach to this world, no religion can claim exclusivity to the blessings of God. Given the diversity, none of us should be thinking and killing small. Mohammed raised an army to build his political religious kingdom and those who have followed his lead, also used killing to get their way. Every religion on the face of the earth has killed, at one time or another, to build their supposed spiritual reality. In our time, those who kill in the name of their exclusive God, are the mislead radical Muslims. Is this not obvious? After Paris and New York, is it not true that the radical Muslim religion is at war with all other religions and civilizations.
Do you know what is most infuriating to we Americans? Most infuriating to this Landers American is not that the killing happens but the silence of the greater Muslim worshippers. I ask you, is the killing of God? Are you for the radicals or against them? Hello! You of the Muslim faith in the Morongo Basin, speak up, are you for or against the killing? Your silence makes you an accessory to the killing.
Are all of you cowards? If not, say so!
G.Goslaw
Landers, Ca
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Revolution
These are the words of Leo Tolstoy from the preface to his book, THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU, 1893.
In affirming my belief in Christ’s teaching, I could not help explaining why I do not believe, and consider as mistaken, the Church’s doctrine, which is usually called Christianity.
Imagine that, one hundred and twenty one years ago this great Russian novelist was arrogantly questioning the authority and workings of the church. In his time, as in ours, there was a divide between the faith of a few biblical believers and the doctrine of the church. The issue of his time and seemingly every time was the evil of war and violence. The state, supported either actively or passively by the church, says that it has the right to order the killing of another human being for political purposes. The state says it is the duty of Russian citizens to kill as directed. The church was silent.
The term church may be too broadly defined. The top down institutional church of whatever flavor will not confront any issue that questions political authority even when these politics conflict with divine authority. The institutional church has the status of a mere human religion whose primary focus is it’s own survival. This church always forgets, neglects, avoids or reflects the sad state of the people because the salaries of the institution must first be paid. In addition, the hierarchy of the church would find it more difficult to raise the budget if evil were to be reduced or eliminated by calling the people to action. Far better is to preach an other worldly spiritual salvation of non-action.
This was the state of spirituality in the time of Jesus. Judaism had long been mired in religious priorities despite a long history of God sent prophetic voices who were silenced by the religion. Jesus was one of these voices who began a revival of Godliness condemning the failure of man centered Judaism. Before you begin that anti-Semitic mumbo jumbo, the same degeneration is equally valid for Christianity, Islam or a religion of any other flavor. There is more that we could say about Jesus that is grounded in scripture but we must first begin with Jesus the religious revolutionary.
G.Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
In affirming my belief in Christ’s teaching, I could not help explaining why I do not believe, and consider as mistaken, the Church’s doctrine, which is usually called Christianity.
Imagine that, one hundred and twenty one years ago this great Russian novelist was arrogantly questioning the authority and workings of the church. In his time, as in ours, there was a divide between the faith of a few biblical believers and the doctrine of the church. The issue of his time and seemingly every time was the evil of war and violence. The state, supported either actively or passively by the church, says that it has the right to order the killing of another human being for political purposes. The state says it is the duty of Russian citizens to kill as directed. The church was silent.
The term church may be too broadly defined. The top down institutional church of whatever flavor will not confront any issue that questions political authority even when these politics conflict with divine authority. The institutional church has the status of a mere human religion whose primary focus is it’s own survival. This church always forgets, neglects, avoids or reflects the sad state of the people because the salaries of the institution must first be paid. In addition, the hierarchy of the church would find it more difficult to raise the budget if evil were to be reduced or eliminated by calling the people to action. Far better is to preach an other worldly spiritual salvation of non-action.
This was the state of spirituality in the time of Jesus. Judaism had long been mired in religious priorities despite a long history of God sent prophetic voices who were silenced by the religion. Jesus was one of these voices who began a revival of Godliness condemning the failure of man centered Judaism. Before you begin that anti-Semitic mumbo jumbo, the same degeneration is equally valid for Christianity, Islam or a religion of any other flavor. There is more that we could say about Jesus that is grounded in scripture but we must first begin with Jesus the religious revolutionary.
G.Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
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