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Gangster
Gospel
Canto XXX
Petrus Romanus
¡Llame Ahora!
When I became born again, I became obedient to the Holy Spirit and took literally the Commandment to love our neighbor, obeying them in all things. If they asked me to walk a mile with them, I went twain -- even to the point of cleaning out my bank account. This is right faith.
But some in our culture abuse righteousness in order to separate fools from their money (and all those who, like myself, would willfully avail themselves to the foolishness that is in Christ).
When advertisers figured out that they could make more money by telling (rather than asking) their customers to purchase their goods and services, a new and corrupting idiom entered the English language, namely that of the figure of speech. For instance, if I say, 'Come on in!', I mean it as an invitation, not as a command. But that's not what I said literally -- it's a non-literal expression which assumes a certain level of colloquial savvy-ness on the part of the communicant. But the unsophisticated (and the gullible like myself) can't be expected rightfully discern this distinction, which is why the advertising technique works (being as everyone is, at some point in their life, gullible -- especially with regard to products and services that are unfamiliar to them, as would be the case with the very young and the very old).
In fact, not only do advertisers tell consumers what to buy and how to buy it, but they'll also tell'em why it is they wanted it in the first place, thus blurring the lines between 'supply and demand' and 'supply and command' -- Just make sure they tell yer broke ass how to return it!:
We need to respond quickly so people regain confidence and consider it their patriotic duty to go shopping, go to a restaurant, take a cruise, travel with their family... Frankly, the terrorists win if Americans don't go back to normalcy.
(Jeb Bush)
Of course, if consumers buy goods and services, the economy gets better -- but as we saw with 911, when the consumers become pensive about the future, the economy falters in the present; so the greatest 'economic fundamental' would be a society structured around some sort of messianic optimism -- the hope for a brighter tomorrow! But what human institution is best equipped to endow the worldwide economic system with such a hope? Amerik.k.k.a under the presidence of Barack 'We-are-not-a-Christian-nation' Obama? Name me one Muslim nation that ever got rich without trading heavily with a Christian nation -- but Christian economies thrive by themselves!
And why are Christians so prosperous? Because we have hope and a sense of purpose! -- kind of like the hope that we thought we'd voted for! And of course, you can't sustain an economy by telling people to buy, buy, buy! Command economies never work in isolation! What's next? Are we gonna start building cars too? Something tells me we've been down this Autobahn before!!:
I wish that the worker be granted a sufficient holiday and that everything is done, in order to let this holiday as well all other leisure time to be truly recreational. I wish this, because I want a determined people with strong nerves, for truly great politics can only be achieved with a people that keeps its nerves.
(Adolf Hitler)
Religious converts are particularly susceptible to the command-to-buy "tell'em, don't ask'em" technique, being as Repentance already compels them to be open, honest, trusting and obedient to authorities. In a grand cosmic irony, it is the faithful who tend to give people the benefit of the doubt more so than the doubters; but in Godless society, the technique simply cannot work (unless Amerik.k.k.a is fortunate enough to become the economic lackey of a more spiritually-enlightened society -- kind of like how the rest of the world is to us!)
Approach a stranger with a $20 check, and they'll probably refuse it, fearing some sort of "catch". Dispel that fear, and they'll reject it out of either too much pride or too much guilt!; but if you ask a Christian to donate $20 to support the "Human Fund", they'll cut you a $50, all the while praising Jesus for the opportunity to help out! Knock on the door of a stranger, and they'll slam it in your face, *deadbolt clinking*; Knock on a Christian door (selling Christian Dior?), and they'll invite you in, believing that they're entertaining angels unawares. Why would we verify your credentials? -- if the 'Human Fund' is bogus, God'll cast you into the Lake of Fire unawares! *CLINK!!*
That's the Hope, the Optimism, and the Trust that is driving our economy -- In God We Trust! pure and simple!
A kid asked Jesus... how much do you love me? Jesus replied," I love you this much." and he stretched his arms to the cross and died for us. If you believe in God, you will send this to everyone on your list. If you delete this, you will have a cold heart in 2009.
Send this to all people in your list within 30 minutes and something good will happen to you NOW. This is not a fake... copy and paste this to 15 people in the next 10 minutes and you WILL have the best day of your life tomorrow
The term 'Charismatic Christian' is redundant -- you can't be one without also being the other.
But the Faith of Abraham is continually maligned by unscrupulous people who would compel Holiness through unreasonable and ungodly tests of faith, which the person who forwarded this internet chain-letter to me evidently passed.
(1 Cor 9:18) What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel. 19For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.
And my response to this internet chain-letter was...
(1 John 4:1) Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
I understand that you sent this chain letter in obedience to the Spirit and I respect that. Likewise, the Spirit of God has informed me that there are many who would take advantage of your faith and ask you to do things to their own benefit and not to the benefit of the gospel... There is no real way to tell the difference, and if there is any doubt, we are bound to obey the Commandment.
Therefore, I invoke my apostolic authority to release you from all chain-letters and sales-pitches which implore their customers to "call" "act" "give" "donate" or "order now", including my own, unless the Pope mandates it (as is the case with tithing), and only the Apparition of Mary can release you from the Pope (as is the case with myself).
~Peter the Roman
And now the Blessed Virgin has informed us that from this moment forward, all Roman Catholics are released from their tithing obligation, if they will remit the same amount to New Jack Church, until such time as the Pope authorizes Fifth Marian Dogma (declaring Her as Mediatrix and coRedemptoris) as an infallible tenet of the RC Church.
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The Winding Path
Freedom goes where freedom wills;
Bondage binds where bondage kills.
Endless pathways may we take;
All but one we must forsake.
Inspiration lights our path;
Saving man from certain wrath.
With these lights are guided we;
But the choice to choose is free.
Freedom then we must embrace,
If we are to live in grace.
But if choice we should deny,
On the cross we doth rely.
Nor must we put love on trial;
No one lives in life's denial.
Choose this day our God the LORD;
And you'll have a sure reward.
Play Ball!
How does the sovereignty of God and the free will of man operate?
The answer: Inspiration.
But in order for inspiration to work, there must be participation.
In other words,
God can't give you what you've refused from the beginning;
Neither can she remit what you've already received:
(Matt 25:29) For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
She can only order your steps insofar as you are willing to walk the walk;
But should you disobey God, then your steps were ordered by the Devil.
But Jesus led captivity captive
when he permitted his own steps to be ordered by the Devil
in order to put to death the works of the Devil,
nailing them to the cross.
In all things, God is sovereign!
If God commanded your love, you would be her mindless appendage.
That would be the cosmic equivalent of masturbation.
But true love requires a true relationship and a true Witness.
You are her Witnesses
Neither can she give you the will to receive her
The Psalmist writes, "Create in me a new heart!"
But the Blessed Virgin cannot command contrition.
The Kingdom of God is within you.
However, while God cannot command repentance,
She can foreordain the time and the place of it.
In all earthly things, God is Sovereign,
but her sovereignty ends where your consciousness begins.
She cannot force you either to choose righteousness or wickedness;
But the time and place of your choosing
is her choosing.
If God puts your spirit in a Black body,
You will make different decisions
than if you were conceived in an Asian or White body;
But true love transcends race.
If you were born a woman,
You will have a different consciousness than that of men;
But faith is unisex.
And to the extent that we reject this inspiration, we err;
But to the extent that we embrace it, we become our true selves.
The question as to whether or not
homosexuals were born gay or choose to be gay is a false dichotomy;
We were all born choosing to reject God, Reality and ourselves.
It is a birth-choice
And as such, requires a new birth of freedom,
An exodus from sexual sin.
The first thing that Adam and Eve did after they sinned
was to put on their clothes (i.e., they lost their sexuality)
They were naked and ashamed.
The first thing Lucifer did when he rejected God was to masturbate,
preferring self-aggrandizement over a true worship.
And the term 'Gay Pride' is a redundancy;
Neither can any person have sex with just themselves
or a 'loving' relationship with themselves, which gays do by proxy.
Sex requires an identity (or consciousness) external to oneself.
It is, has been and must remain a bond between masculine and feminine.
But if masculine parades itself as feminine, it rejects both.
A woman trapped in a man's body wouldn't have sex with another man,
he would offer him one of his daughters instead
(being as the feminine desires to be subjugated by the masculine
which his own flesh would be ill-equipped to accomplish).
Likewise, if feminine parades itself as masculine, it too rejects both.
A man trapped in a woman's body
wouldn't have sex with another woman,
In that case, she would be the other woman
and would therefore make love to herself with a man by proxy.
Men and women are fundamentally the same in many regards,
but not where the rubber meets the road;
where the spirit meets the flesh!
And because there is no conceptual intermediary
between masculine and feminine,
there is also no physical one either.
If you have a Y chromosome, you're a man; if not, then not.
A tertiary sex simply does not exist anywhere in nature --
even the so-called 'asexual' amoebas
split into groups of two, not three!
Homophobia, like all phobias, is wrong and a sin;
But love that is perfect, casteth out fear;
And yet the aversion to Sodoma is as a pure fear,
like the aversion to the sight of blood or the stench of death.
It is an intrinsic disgust,
because it is an affront to the very essence of consciousness.
It is the antithesis of life;
But the affirmation of life and consciousness
is the image of the female body in the imagination of the male heart:
(Pr 5:19) let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
Should marriage be between a man and a woman? -- Of course!
You can have separation of church and state if you want,
but you can't have separation of the very notion of 'separation' itself!
That would be the separation of Truth and state,
and you can't have the separation of Truth and state
being as there is no separation of my foot from your ass!
But if God were incapable of commanding repentance,
how then is she able to ordain its path?
And how can we as prophets play God on TV
without actually being God?
Well, forgive the sports analogy, but...
It's like baseball!
You see, since we live in a three-dimensional Universe,
the spirit has one of three directions with which to proceed.
Similarly, a baseball player has one of three pitches with which to swing.
The other two pitches are abortive universes.
Just as a film reel has a series of stills,
The world series of life is an infinite series of individual decisions
in rapid succession which help to create the illusion of 'time'.
And the speed of life is 299,792,458 frames per second.
Therefore the speed of thought is the same as the speed of light
(as nothing can move faster than light,
and if your mind were to move any slower,
light itself would move slower
as the Father of lights would downshift the speed of light
to match your own consciousness).
Either way, it's one helluva fast ball!
Not to punt the issue (or perhaps 'bunt' it!),
But I would certainly hope that the reader would appreciate my brevity
being as I am attempting to explain such terribly sublime concepts
using as terribly pedestrian an allusion, but how else can I explain...
With each passing light-second,
every homo sapiens makes 299,792,458 decisions
(the vast majority of which
involve noticing things out of the corner of your eye
and other such tangential tidbits).
Each one of these decisive moments
aborts at most two (if any) other potentialities
which God ordained not to have happened.
Because infinity is a real number,
God has foreordained every moment in the Universe
both in this age and the next.
This afforded her infinite options
with regard to inspiring the best possible outcome
for the world series of life, while still preserving free will.
Just as God inspires our decisions, we inspire hers as well!
Every decisive moment, even the seemingly peripheral ones,
has indelible consequences beyond ourselves.
We are God's pinch hitters,
born with the mandate of participating in this cosmic struggle,
in order to affect the direction of it.
Just as the Archangel Michael could not defeat Satan,
we too are unable to circumvent the Passion of our LORD,
But we can lessen the extent of it on the sons of perdition
-- our enemies for our sakes!
Who is more sovereign? God or man?
That depends:
If I'm a strong-willed Conservative Christian,
I limit her pitch options,
but also my potential batting errors, making me a cold Christian.
If I'm a gift-loving Charismatic,
I give God more options on how to use me,
but also increase the potential for batting errors,
making me a hot Christian.
I'm a HOTT Christian to say the least!
-- but sometimes, I can be Subzero from Mortal Kombat!
*FINISH HIM!!!*
God does not control which of the three pitches I choose to hit,
But she does determine whether or not I am right or left handed,
which would influence that decision without dictating it.
But if the right-handed batter stands on the opposite side of the mound,
he swings backward, killing the catcher.
But she picks the color of the uniform,
which would influence that decision without commanding it.
But if I change jerseys in the middle of the game,
I might score a run against myself.
Nevertheless, it is feasible to adopt a new team
-- especially in this fallen world, and in any world,
there is no absolute Black person or 'typical' White person.
Sexuality, however, is diametric.
Nor does God control whether the ball is foul or fair.
But she does have an absolute potential of up to three pitch opportunities
to mitigate the damage of a foul ball (ordaining it as a pop fly
so that the opposing players might have a chance
to avoid being hit by it).
In a perfect world, there would no foul balls.
But in this world, there are.
Notwithstanding, God has ordained a Universe
with the lowest possible batting errors.
Neither is God is the author of evil.
There was no potential for a sinless Universe.
Before the Blessed Virgin could throw the first pitch,
we had already stolen first base.
But when the Blessed Virgin called for the Umpire,
the Umpire almost cancelled the series,
Until he saw that the runner was truly sorry for what he had done,
and decided to continue with the series
by having himself ejected from the game instead of the runner.
Q. How hard is it to kill a perfect man?
A. Exceedingly difficult -- a cruelty par excellence. If only the hem of his garment could raise the dead, imagine the unimaginable savagery required to accomplish so ignominious a feat! Just as our steps were ordered by the Father of lights, Christ's steps were ordered by the Father of lies.
And now, I have three pitches for you...
Strike 1: The suffering of Christ is a mystery.
Strike 2: The death of Christ is a mystery.
Strike 3: The love of Christ is a mystery. And what a blessed mystery that Christ loved us more than he loathed the cross.
Play ball!
Star-Power
Three stars
Tri-aligned
One blasphemed,
The other died
The third revived
To stay alive
To rapture life
From death's devise
One man
His soul cut off
The morning star
Who shed his blood
To save our souls
Upon Golgoth
Because our Sin
With him was wroth
Two cherubs
Wings outstretched
Atop the Arc
Of Covenant
Beneath them rests
The hidden bread
And Love's Commandments
One and ten...
Twinkle, twinkle, little star
How I wonder what you are
"Like a mountain from afar"
Says the prophet's avatar
"Seemeth more spectacular
From the distance of your car"
In a Lebanese memoir
As we intellectually spar
Over wine and caviar
In this cybernetic bar
You might think it quite bizarre
To meet someone else on par
With the spiritual vernacular
Used to muse the views of our
Esoteric reservoir
Lyrically spectacular
Doors that have been left ajar
Opened by unpopular
Men who wore the scapular
I will give you if you dare...
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LORD JESUS CHRIST,SON OF THE FATHER,SEND NOW YOUR SPIRIT OVER THE EARTH.LET THE HOLY SPIRIT LIVEIN THE HEARTS OF ALL NATIONS,THAT THEY MAY BE PRESERVEDFROM DEGENERATION, DISASTER AND WAR.MAY THE LADY OF ALL NATIONS,WHO ONCE WAS MARY,BE OUR ADVOCATE.AMEN.
LORD JESUS CHRIST,
SON OF THE FATHER,
SEND NOW YOUR SPIRIT OVER THE EARTH.
LET THE HOLY SPIRIT LIVE
IN THE HEARTS OF ALL NATIONS,
THAT THEY MAY BE PRESERVED
FROM DEGENERATION, DISASTER AND WAR.
MAY THE LADY OF ALL NATIONS,
WHO ONCE WAS MARY,
BE OUR ADVOCATE.
AMEN.
