I was born in '57 with the middle name Cheverie, so I am a classic '57 Chevy. The day I was born "Jail House Rock" was the number one song. Anyone who knows me, knows Steve Miller's "Swingtown" is my favorite song on the juke box. I've put down $thousands playing it. We've been working so hard, and we have to get down to Swingtown, where other people's business is their own.
That is
why I've come to call the Religious Right "THE-MEDIA-RIGHT-STORM," a name meant to suggest meteorites flying out of the sky and the Religious Right's divisive stone
throwing about Don't do this; can't you read the sign? (Pun intended.)
What would
happen to the Religious Right, if it acted on the last advice given to John, which was not to be concealed? It's on the last page of
my Bible, in Revelations 22:10-11: "Let him who does
wrong still do wrong. And the one who is
filthy still be filthy. And let the one
who is righteous still practice righteousness, and let him who is holy still
keep himself holy." Wouldn't following that advice stop a
whole lot of divisive crap about abortions, drugs, gay marriage, etc?
If we
could stop all that stone throwing, it seems to me, maybe our
TVs could focus on solutions to poverty and violent crimes, which are the fruits of an
oppressive land. Let me tell you, people. It is Satan who, in Revelations 12, is the accuser of mankind and was
thrown down here to earth.
A quote from Tom Paine applies here:
"An
avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to
misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that
would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he
violates his duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."
If the Religious Right does not start minding its
own business, instead of trying to tell us all how to live, it will end up subject to the unforgettable reproach in Jeremiah [23:33-40], where it is clearly stated: "Do
not hold to the oracle of the lord, for each man's own words will become the
oracle. If you claim the oracle of the
lord there will be an everlasting reproach which will never be forgotten." (This is paraphrased
a bit.)
And you can find in Jeremiah 23:20: "In the latter days you will clearly understand it." So that chapter's huge rebuke of shepherds applies as much now as it did then and also 2000 years ago in Israel. Someday it will be revealed, as we read in Jeremiah 23:15 (and as paraphrased a bit): "From the prophets of Jerusalem pollution has spread throughout the world." Right now, pollution is spreading through America from a Church that blindly supports Israel's oppression of Palestine.
