Well - - - You Try!

Tom Hartman's show has been picked up on KTLK 1150 and two other stations this week. He's a pretty tuned in liberal guy. He pointed out that the median age of that Iraq War Comission report was 71 or something and that the people who participated in that committee had questionable backgrounds. Today Tom Hartman informed us that he was a Christian and that Christ is a liberal. He talked about how the Christmas tree legond goes back to a time ten thousand years ago when mankind was just coming out of the ice age and sometimes "winter" lasted all year. Apparently there's a tribe in Vermont whose oral tradition goes back ten thousand years and they can remember all this. It seems as if one day as it approached the winter solistis and the Priest knew this because he had one of those many callendar stones- - he decided to go to a mountain and set a Christmas tree on fire in an effort to "re-create" the sun. Evergreen trees were held to have magical powers. In Egypt they did not have evergreen trees so they used palm trees. There is a lot of ZAC mythology (that's true) about various trees. Zachery lived on Palm St. when he was born because the Palm stands for new birth in Egypt. Zachery was born on September 5th. which is the maximum flood tide of the Nile in Egypt. On March 3rd. 1977 new live growth sprouted from a dead stump of an orange grove that had been that way at least ten or eleven months, since I moved in. Orange oil as you know is now used to kill termites. So the spirit of Zachery protects from termites. While at the Bosc house the owners had a beautiful Ash tree cut down, and palm tree frons sprouted in its place. This was taken to be a sign from Zachery. In England as you know they burn a Yule log on Christmas eve, which magically turns into a Christmas tree the next morning. My grandmother played off of this myth because after my dad and uncle went to bed my grandmother would trim the Christmas tree and the next morning my dad and uncle would awake and my grandmother would tell them Santa Clause brought the Christmas tree. As you know Mark Hartman is concerned because Santa Clause's home is threatened. If the Arctic Ocean turns to all water in the summer, Santa Clause will have no place to live. Ken Galliger had a guest on KFI last Saturday who said that only four polar bears have actually died in this alledged melting of the polar ice sheet in Hudson Bay. I had been felt that this sudden loss of ice was decimating the polar bear community. If Rush Limbaugh or Larry Elder were to comment on this they would say like an unemployed fifty year old who had been laid off, the Polar Bears just need to learn to adopt alternate hunting behavior rather than allow themselves to be killed off.

When George Burnes as God was asked if he had made any mistakes he said, "Avacados. I made the pits too big". "God" constantly seems to use the phrase, "Well, you try". God is big on the past and the present, but when it comes to things that haven't happened yet, God hasn't a clue, and this is why he's always doing these "tests". Because he doesn't know the outcome. Unlike Tom Hartman I find myself unable to believe in Christianity. Partially evolution is kind of an intellectual block. But more importantly is the FACT of Predestination. As we have said, scientists have now proved predestination as part and parcel of the Big Bang creation process. Under predestination everything God does is perfect in His Own Eyes. Under this theory there is no sin because there is no Free Will. Man is born totally depraved and utterly unable to help himself to better moral karma. That's untill Irrestable Grace comes along to those pre-elected to receive it. Again, though- - this isn't really "Classic Christianity". John Calvin's theology is at odds with the Bible. If you're a relativist you might say "I'm proud of my own morals and it's God that's depraved. Look at the state of the world. If this is the best God can do- - I'll go elsewhere in search of God." You know- - a lot of people think religion is trial and error. You "try something" and see if it works. Tom Hartman was just saying how FDR's slogan in 1932 was "Let's TRY a few different techniques. I'm not an idiolog; I'm a pragmatist. Let's wee what works" John Denver oviously met a God who said "well, you try". I guess Denver's whole role in the movie was TRYING to bring God's word to the masses. I'll leave it to you to decide whether he succeeded. George Bush now says he's on a "listening" tour and he's going to TRY something he hasn't tried before in Iraq. We'll leave it to history to decide whether he succeeds. People who are experimentive usually are not concerned about their place in history. John and Yoco put out a lot of strange albums in their day. They were TRYING out different sounds. I'm more grandiose than John. If I put out an album I'd want it to be recognized as a historical masterpiece in my lifetime. Rush Limbaugh has stated however (contrary to what I think) that "People who are obcessed with their place in History don't have their eyes on the present, the here and now, and don't see what NOW needs to be done about a problem. It may well be that some of the great Profiles in Courage, or profiles in history people, may NOT have been looking at the history books when they did their couragious act but were simply being "Led by the Spirit in the here and now". John Lennon has spoken of a good song as being led by the Spirit" and not a "make-a-song". John was kind of a believer in "If I turn on a tape recorder, the Spirit will Come". (and produce a masterpiece) Having said all this I would now like to describe "Classic Christianity" so you people know what it is.

First of all God when he began creating was as green as grass. He was ignorant about human nature. After all, he hadn't created it yet. God seems not to be in control of his creations but either by happenstance or deliberately- - allows Free Will to come in. God created the Angelic Host to serve and worship him. He created Lucifer as choir director to lead the music, and created him the most beautiful creature of all. You've heard "Pride comes before a fall". John Lennon said it, and the Bible also said it. Listening to an evening Bible Study around Labor Day I was struck by this whole Pride thing and then wondered, "Does that mean that God regards Beauty as a Mistake". Do we have to suffer through inferior worship songs through all eternity merely because the most Tallented person is working for the other side?" Martin Luther alledgedly said, "Why should the Devil have all the good music?". There was war in heaven and the hosts of angels on Jehovah's side outnumbered Satan and his demons two to one, and Satan and his demons fell from heaven. They landed on earth and they set up cities or "dwelling places" as Jeremiah informs us. But they persisted in their sin and God wiped them out and sent the Devil and his legion hosts to Hell. Technically it's called "tarterus" or a "holding place". We are told there there are "mists of darkness". It is to these fallen angels, or departed spirits (or demonic hosts) that Jesus preached to when he "Descended into Hell". There is nothing about "liberating" anybody in this passage in Peter. These were spirit beings and "immortals" as opposed to humans, which are called "mortals". God did not stoop to help immortals when they fell but did reach down to help fallen mortal man and to "redeem the world".

This redeeming of the world began by re-creating or "replemishing" the surface of the earth, and that word "replemish" is used. The whole Universe had become Evil and captive to Original Sin. But in this sea of Evil, God set aside an island of good, which is called Paradise, or the Garden of Eden. God made the animals and man. It is said that creating woman was a mistake. Legond has it the offending fruit was a palmagranet and not the apple. Creating woman did not immediately introduce sexual activity. Sex seems to have come about when man fell due to temptation of the woman and the serpent. God ran an experiment with man and it failed. After the fall it says "Man knew his wife". It would seem that God did not origionally intend sex but that "Man" would be happy there in the garden tending to the animals eating food from the Tree of Life". After the fall of Man, God instituted the Priesthood of Adam. This is something you learn about in really orthodox churches. In this capacity Cain didn't have his sins pardoned because he failed to bring about the right sacrifices to Jehovah. As such Cain wa damned before he even committed murder. Jehovah also instituted at this time the doctrine of blood atonement. This is that the Innocent can be bloodily sacrificed so that the guilty may be redeemed. Without this doctrine of blood atonement Christianity could not exist. Blood atonement was a fact from the git-go.

The angels were referred to as the Sons of God. Jesus shied away from the term "Son of God" preferring the term "Son of Man". This may be because in Genisis we read that the Sons of God had illicit sex with the daughters of man. Lucifer was a Son of God. In Job we learn that Jehovah took counsil from Lucifer. He not only dialoged with him but allowed Himself to be perswaded by Lucifer, even though he was "a liar and a murderor". As a consequence of Jehovah's ill advized behavior the Witness of God was compromized and Job suffered. Scripture was violated that states "Give no place to the Devil". This is yet another "mistake" God made. At the Tower of Babel we learn that God didn't want us working together to build an observatory. Apparently God feared man could get to Heaven where man was forbidden to go. So God caused diverse languages to occur so man would be diverse upon the earth, only to repent later that God had made man at all so decided to wipe him out in the flood. God instituted circumcision even though Dr. Deen Edell says this leads to a desire for oral sex and women prefer the sexual techniques of uncircumcised men. Was this a mistake to order circumcision? God made others. God wanted to see if Abraham would commit an act of murder that was clearly forbidden under Genisis 9:6. After Abraham raised the knife to kill his son Isac God said "I know NOW that you will do anything I say" -even if it's wrong. God made another mistake. Abraham's wife Sarah had told Abraham to get Haggar her hand maiden to bear a son for Abraham so that he have an heir as God promised. And it was so. But now thirteen years later Abraham pulls a "Sean Brady". As you know Sean Brady met a prostitute who helped and conforted him when nobody else did. She came to live with Sean. But now Sean's "wife" comes along (even though they were never married) and says to get rid of the prostitute. So Sean in essence says "I can't have sex with you any more, for you are a prostitute and I've gotten religion. Therefore I'm kicking you out of my house". This is what Abraham did with Haggar and her son Ishmeal. Ismeal was remembered by Jehovah God and he became the father of the Arab nations. So the Jews had to pay the bill for Abraham's sin of ingratitude. Were Sean to get the same deal, Willow, the prostitute should present him with a bill for her two months of sexual services. Let's see. At a hundred dollars a pop and sex fifty fimes that would come to a tidy piece of change- about five thousand dollars". But God made other mistakes. God is spoken of in the plural and in investigating the sin of Sodom and Gamorah says "Let us go down and see if the sin is alltogether as bad as reported, and if not, I will know it". After destruction, Lot's wife was turned to a pillar of salt. That was a mistake. Because the Hebrews believed in racial endogamy and so there was no one for Lot to have sex with. So Lot had to have sex with his two unmarried daughters, one night apart. So you have incest as the bi-product of divine wrath. Lastly I'd like to talk about King David. It is said "God has no grandchildren". I can see why. Because if his children DID have kids they would be so screwed up devolution would proceed at an unbearable rate. David's four children most often referred to are Amnon, who raped his sister, Absolem and Adonijah were rebels. Joab alias "Bones" in the ZAC followed Adonijah but not Absolem. Solomon was into pagon religion and at that time the "Sodomite" was in the land. (In a book the Secret Passage of the Lion, Solomon actually lived prior to David, for those of you mixed up in your history". But it would seem that like God, David had no children who were fit to be a shining example. A prophet said "As a result of your sin with Bathsheba, the sword will never depart from your house all your days". I wonder whether this isn't some curse against Christianity. For Christianity not only sex but children appear to be a mistake. St. Paul said "In these distressed times with Jesus coming back soon, it's better not to marry". This looks to me like another "mistake". It is said that in as much as Melchidizeck, king of Salem (Jerusalem, in Abraham's day) was without father and mother or descendants, so must the Messiah be. This ignores the fact that those in the know say the king of Salem was none other than Shem, the son of Noah and very much IN the geniology. People say Chuck Smith is really cold and detatched once you get to know him- - like his sons do. He's only following in the steps of our example, King David, who is revered, but the one thing he couldn't do is rear children. And yet the Messiah is said to be David's son. According to a Bob Dylan song, Mary Magdolane was pregnent (with a daughter, Sarah) at the time Jesus, the father, was crusified and "left town".