I guess for me the "bloom is off the Rose" as far as the birth of the nation of Israel is concerned. There's no more moving string music playing in my mind. The founders of Israel no longer have a golden halo around them. It wasn't like they just prayed to God and one day God spoke - - and suddenly all of this free land just opened up and God says "I have given this land to you so now enter therein". I'm heard from multiple sourced a lot of Israeli citizens aren't particularly religious and some don't even believe in God. I would like to think Israel's founding is a fulfilling of Ezekiel 37 - - but when you actually look at the nitty gritty of how the nation of Israel came into being- - you see all the warts and blemishes of various people. I guess some force led me to do the research I've been doing - - and maybe my faith in God is undermined just a little.
A lot of things are
unwraveling such as this University of Virginia thing. When I saw the UVA headline I thought “What? Rape in a tanning booth?” The FOX news coverage of this totally
sucked. The guy was a complete jerk and
the “bubble headed bleach blond” has this “gleam in her eye” as she spoke of
how wrong Rolling Stone was to take up this story or listen to “Jackie”. Personally since this case has been around a
month and been a source of major turmoil and change on the University of
Virginia campus- - I’m not ready to chuck the whole story yet or say that there
IS no issue with Frat initiation gang raping of women on the U of VA
campus. I mean the worst thing we could
take away from this is the idea that there IS no problem with Frat initiation
gang rapes- or that women have to be careful about being drugged on dates. I mean even guys have to watch about being
drugged- - like J J was on Days of our Lives.
J J wasn’t raped but his reputation was “sexually assaulted”. Be careful!
Someone can slip a Mickey in your drink just like that in the blink of
an eye when you’re not looking. The LAPD
is opening its own investigation as to so many women being sexually assaulted by
Bill Cosby. Apparently the word “Rapist”
was spray painted or something on Bill Cosby’s Hollywood Star. But I’m not going to “Go Off” on Rolling
Stone’s journalistic integrity merely because there may be questions about how
material for this one story was compiled.
But FOX news would love it if people started having bonfire parties
burning copies of Rolling Stone, or something- - because their dedicated
journalism has gotten to the root of issues near and dear to progressives.
And then we have Chris
Christy and how there will be no indictment of the New Jersey governor. This should come as no surprise and it’s
another of those “signals” that they have been telegraphing for months. Of course if Christy doesn’t like a
particular prosecutor he just fires them.
If some College goes against him politically- - Christie takes away the
endowment they were scheduled to get. If
you are the major of Hoboken- - then you don’t get your flood relief that had
been in the pipeline. And nobody will
act on a simple phone message “Time for a traffic jam in Ft Lee” without a
pre-arranged plan. To think that such
things occur spontaneously like that is to believe in the tooth fairy. I’d go back to creationist doctrine
here. Things that happen are things that
are “Designed” and planned out with thought ahead of time. A series of purposeful events just don’t spontaneously
occur by chance. Just like in the OJ DNA
thing- - someone else’s DNA wouldn’t spontaneously “degrade” and suddenly ALL
of it would miraculously turn into OJ’s DNA.
It doesn’t happen. I can’t
imagine that anyone would take Christie’s candidicy for President seriously any
more after “Bridge-gate”. (Selah)
Let's talk about space exploration. They say this Orion rocket that was launched yesterday was the first spacecraft in forty years designed to take human beings way higher than a simple earth orbit. And they showed this over-sized capsule lowering back down to earth. But they say it will may be after 2020 before any human beings go up in this craft, to go first to the Moon but maybe on to Mars. But at long last it looks like forward progress has resumed after a 42 year hiatus. Paul talked about this Jim Webb infrared telescope with a solar shield to keep the thing from heating up from the sun. With infrared rays this would assume importance. I wondered how you could look east and see the birth of stars and look west and see a similar thing. Keep in mind all those stars were billions of miles closer to us when that light left them than those stars are now, thankfully for us. Paul thought a major math formula would take a pretty massive computer but I explained that math is the strong point of computers. They’ve always been really good at that. You can pile on - - overlay - - one tricky mathematical formula on another in Excel and the computer has absolutely no problem with it. Kepler didn't have the advantage of computers and had to come up with his three laws of planetary orbital mechanic using just the brain God gave him, and a whole lot of pains taking inductive logic leading to a demonstrable therum.
Let's talk about space exploration. They say this Orion rocket that was launched yesterday was the first spacecraft in forty years designed to take human beings way higher than a simple earth orbit. And they showed this over-sized capsule lowering back down to earth. But they say it will may be after 2020 before any human beings go up in this craft, to go first to the Moon but maybe on to Mars. But at long last it looks like forward progress has resumed after a 42 year hiatus. Paul talked about this Jim Webb infrared telescope with a solar shield to keep the thing from heating up from the sun. With infrared rays this would assume importance. I wondered how you could look east and see the birth of stars and look west and see a similar thing. Keep in mind all those stars were billions of miles closer to us when that light left them than those stars are now, thankfully for us. Paul thought a major math formula would take a pretty massive computer but I explained that math is the strong point of computers. They’ve always been really good at that. You can pile on - - overlay - - one tricky mathematical formula on another in Excel and the computer has absolutely no problem with it. Kepler didn't have the advantage of computers and had to come up with his three laws of planetary orbital mechanic using just the brain God gave him, and a whole lot of pains taking inductive logic leading to a demonstrable therum.
A twelve year old boy
killed himself over the issue that this boy tried out for the position of
Cheerleader. It’s strange. This is in a middle school. I guess the kid was bullied and we never like
that. But I can’t picture a kid just
going off and doing something like this- - either becoming a cheer leader- - or
killing himself when he got flack from other students- - either one. But I guess these stories of bullying
connected with gays are making their way into the general media more and
more. Some Christians would respond that
we ought to eliminate protections for all bullying. This would be wrong. Even if it’s something I personally would
regard as a big joke- - I realize I’m not everybody and certain people are more
sensitive on certain issues than other people are. And these “Tween” years are sensitive ones
for both boys and girls.
My beef with a lot of
these “Religious panel” discussions debating belief in “God” pro and con is
that I resent the notion that the issue is “being at war with God”. After all if I’m an atheist I can’t be at war
with God because I don’t believe in him.
My issue is with human beings and most notably church people. I don’t want to be attacking church people
and their reasoning and being told “This issue isn’t about any particular
religious doctrine but a belief in God himself”. I’ve mentioned before that my Deism has four
components. First of all, required is
the idea that God is eternal- - or immutable and unchanging. He doesn’t “make up the rules as he goes
along” or arbitrarily change the rules for different sets of people. If you’re a Jew or have “a love for the
Jewish race” I guess you are received warmly in Israel. And you will look for all the good things
about Israel such as being pro Democracy and your life being more “normal” as
you’ve come to know it, than it would be in an Arab country. So if you become what they want you to be- -
then they’ll accept you. But Israel is a
nation who kind of makes up their own rules that apply to certain people and
not other people. But I don’t believe in
a God where it’s OK to marry your sister or already inbred first cousin or
something- - and that’s fine- - if you’re in ancient times- - or be a
polygamist- - - if you’re a classic Mormon- - - but if you’re just an ordinary Joe
then it’s NOT OK to be a polygamist. Of
course then there is the whole idea about Jews in the tribulation and suddenly
blood sacrifice offerings are fine and acceptable once more - - if you’re a
Jew. But not for anybody else. With dyspensationalism you get this bifurcation
of all regulations for human condeuct and I reject that. So I’m not a dispensationalist. I am a Deist meaning “There is a God” but one
I can’t approach or schmooze with any time I wish. My ‘’Faith” also requires objectivism,
meaning the existence of this God is not dependant on MY belief in him. By my “Faith” I can’t alter reality or make
Real what inherently does not exist. And
finally of course I am a Determinist- - meaning that I am in basic agreement
with the Baptists and Presbyterians on an amazing number of “theological issues”. I am not a fan of “Free Will” or “Write your
own ticket” – so again my belief sounds fundamentalist.
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