I am aware that the above referenced quotation is and has been a periodic recurring reading in Roman Catholic liturgy service for several decades. I am also aware that during those six decades or so, I have yet to hear it or its meaning addressed in any homily. As a matter of usual routine, the selected epistle and gospel readings and their significance are addressed in the homilies with specific application to us, the communicants. Having noticed this aberration has caused me to ponder its reason, and after due consideration, I believe I know the “why”. It has to do with the basic fundamentals of religion.
You will recall that the God of the Jews was a vengeful God who demanded sacrifice to soothe his brow. Those sacrifices were usually burnt offerings which were both provided by and offered by the High Priest for a “pretty penny” –– a real money-making scheme. The Jews thought of their God as residing in some ethereal place called heaven who would send a messiah to restore paradise right here on earth just for them. When Jesus appeared, they recognized him as that messiah but when they ask him when he was going to restore the Kingdom, Jesus told them the Kingdom of God was spread out all over the earth around them and they didn’t see it. Their consternation became really magnified when Jesus told them he first had to die, but before his death at his last supper, he instructed them to recreate his body and blood from bread and wine.
Those Bishops who formulated the Holy Roman Catholic Church in 325 AD, honoring their Jewish heritage, created a new ‘sacrificial religion’ known as Christianity. So, now we have the ‘sacrifice of the Mass’ — still attempting to appease an angry, vengeful God, and awaiting Jesus’ return so he might ‘restore the Kingdom’.
It seems quite clear to me that John recognized God in everyone of us. We, however, are blinded now and cannot see our glory, but when we die and see our reflection which is God, we will know and understand all just as our Father God — we are his children — his reflection. Obviously, John’s understanding is in total conflict with us making sacrificial offerings to ourselves. Both Catholic priests and Protestant ministers alike have nowhere to go with John’s philosophy except to negate the validity of their own existence — so, that reading gets routinely ignored.
Likely, there are many others, but I am aware of only four people who recognized God’s presence in all creation, Jesus, the Apostle John, Francis of Assie, and Meister Eckert, a German philosopher. It took me sixty years of intense study, reading and investigation before I stumbled on a course in Particle Physics which made it very clear to me that everything in this universe is made of identical perfect particles of energy which because of their basic characteristics, already exist in eternity but make the substrate for everything that has a temporal existence. Cumulatively, they form a ‘perfect rationality’ and a perfect ‘truth system’ outside of which there is no truth. That understanding not only allowed but demanded an essential definition of God as ‘A Perfect Rational Being’. When we die, our immortality will be exposed and we will see ourselves in that state of Perfect Rationality just as the One who created us — that will truly be ‘heaven’.
I am aware that the above referenced quotation is and has been a periodic recurring reading in Roman Catholic liturgy service for several decades. I am also aware that during those six decades or so, I have yet to hear it or its meaning addressed in any homily. As a matter of usual routine, the selected epistle and gospel readings and their significance are addressed in the homilies with specific application to us, the communicants. Having noticed this aberration has caused me to ponder its reason, and after due consideration, I believe I know the “why”. It has to do with the basic fundamentals of religion.
You will recall that the God of the Jews was a vengeful God who demanded sacrifice to soothe his brow. Those sacrifices were usually burnt offerings which were both provided by and offered by the High Priest for a “pretty penny” –– a real money-making scheme. The Jews thought of their God as residing in some ethereal place called heaven who would send a messiah to restore paradise right here on earth just for them. When Jesus appeared, they recognized him as that messiah but when they ask him when he was going to restore the Kingdom, Jesus told them the Kingdom of God was spread out all over the earth around them and they didn’t see it. Their consternation became really magnified when Jesus told them he first had to die, but before his death at his last supper, he instructed them to recreate his body and blood from bread and wine.
Those Bishops who formulated the Holy Roman Catholic Church in 325 AD, honoring their Jewish heritage, created a new ‘sacrificial religion’ known as Christianity. So, now we have the ‘sacrifice of the Mass’ — still attempting to appease an angry, vengeful God, and awaiting Jesus’ return so he might ‘restore the Kingdom’.
It seems quite clear to me that John recognized God in everyone of us. We, however, are blinded now and cannot see our glory, but when we die and see our reflection which is God, we will know and understand all just as our Father God — we are his children — his reflection. Obviously, John’s understanding is in total conflict with us making sacrificial offerings to ourselves. Both Catholic priests and Protestant ministers alike have nowhere to go with John’s philosophy except to negate the validity of their own existence — so, that reading gets routinely ignored.
Likely, there are many others, but I am aware of only four people who recognized God’s presence in all creation, Jesus, the Apostle John, Francis of Assie, and Meister Eckert, a German monk and philosopher. It took me sixty years of intense study, reading and investigation before I stumbled on a course in Particle Physics which made it very clear to me that everything in this universe is made of identical perfect particles of energy which because of their basic characteristics, already exist in eternity but make the substrate for everything that has a temporal existence. Cumulatively, they form a ‘perfect rationality’ and a perfect ‘truth system’ outside of which there is no truth. That understanding not only allowed but demanded an essential definition of God as ‘A Perfect Rational Being’. When we die, our immortality will be exposed, and we will see ourselves in that state of Perfect Rationality just as the One who created us — that will truly be ‘heaven’.
When a dam breaks, initially the water flows at a rapid rate with high pressure and speed through channels that existed before the dam was constructed. Eventually, the water exhausts all available preestablished channels and runs in all directions establishing new shallower channels until finally, it seems to flow as one giant shallow wave out over one massive flat with no perceptible boundaries or channels There is a simple reason for the lack of new channels being established and that has to do with lack of a pressure-head which results in reduced speed or rate of flow which creates less friction and erosive effect. That simple, observable, intelligible, analogy may be applied to the plight of Christianity.
There was a near three-hundred-year timeframe after Jesus’ death that his teachings and their interpretations had spread like wildfire throughout the civilized world from the Near east, through all North Africa and southern Europe all the way to the Atlantic Ocean. A hierarchy of sorts had been established whereby bishops had been consecrated through a power transfer from a previously established bishop extending back to James, John, Peter, and likely, the other apostles. It seems that most candidates for consecration qualified for that position by being the most influential man in the settlement. Regardless, after consecration, he was the sole authority in his domain concerning faith and morals.
As time progressed, eighteen hundred such bishops existed. As might be expected, there was no universal agreement among them about what was to be believed nor about how God and Jesus were to be considered. That lack of agreement created friction and, at times, outright squabbles among certain bishops causing a gross lack of production for the empire — the peasants were fighting among themselves rather than working for the Empire.
That situation created the necessity for construction of a dam. Accordingly, the ‘chief engineer”, Emperor Constantine, called the bishops (workers) into a conference (council) at Nicaea. Only three hundred or so bishops attended, but they were sufficient to devise and finish construction of the mightiest dam ever heard of, the Holy Roman Catholic Church.
That newly constructed dam was rock-solid and remained so while Constantine and his son who followed him in power were alive. But, when Rome fell, the dam lost it main support — leaks began to appear. They were small and seemingly insignificant initially but became major with the Greek Schism in the year 1054. That led to the loss of about half the dam’s water.
During the next five-hundred years, the dam deteriorated to the point of final rupture with the release of much of its remaining water when in 1517 Martin Luther bolted the Church. During the next five hundred years the flow of so-called Christian doctrine in both the East and West, but mainly in the West, continued at a torrid pace until now its pressure head has been reduced to a trickle — a massive, creeping flat of forty-five-thousand Christian churches is what remains. In the meantime, the pressure head in Rome has been reduced to near nonflowable levels — and why?
A clear, succinct, answer to that ‘why’ appears to me to be very short and very simple — the dam was built by inept builders using inadequate materials.They constructed their dam ona foundation of fairy tales and hearsay while applying those materials with the mortar of a mythical god who does not exist.
You might ask how or why I am allowed to say that. Well, In the first instance that dam was constructed by bishops (builders) who reluctantly agreed to the final ‘blueprint’, and they were representative of only seventeen per-cent of the builders. More importantly, they had no idea about the nature of the water (God) they were attempting to dam. They could not define the essence of their god, Therefore, there were as many gods as there were workers —each god demanded his own individual domain, church.
The materials used for building the dam in the first instance were laden with mythology, astrology, imagination, ignorance, and magic. The builders, themselves had no realistic concept of the god they were damming up. They could not and did not define the essential nature of that god. Therefore, there were more gods than their dam could retain and restrain.
The flow of water (churches) has slowed into a massive flat but continues to trickle forward in all directions albeit at a slower pace — between 2016 and 2024, the number of so-called Christian religions increased from 35,000 to 45,000. Meanwhile, the head-water in Rome continues to weaken and dribble. The big fish are splashing wildly in their landlocked potholes — the division created by change in Catholic Church philosophy has emanated into major discord worldwide —some are considering schism — other screaming and pulling their hair while hollering, “heresy” — the biggest fish seems not to mind — neither do I.
Had they known that their God is a Perfect Rational Being, their dam would still be intact. In fact, the longer it stood the stronger its building materials would become from the process of coalescence into one rock-solid structure — a Church of Thanksgiving to our all-perfect, all-loving God. Had they known that their dam was constructed of the identical perfect particles of energy as the God they were restraining, not only would their task have been simple, but its effects would also have endured forever.
Regrettably, what we have today is a massive flat of religion built on false narratives with absolutely no understanding of the nature of the god they are worshiping.
Had the early Christians known science, none of this dam breaking would have ever occurred. The word science comes from the Latin word scientia which means knowledge, and knowledge, of course is truth. Since God is all truth, then God is all science, and all science is God — Perfect Rationality. Everything in this universe operates under a cause-effect principle. For every cause there is a perfect effect, and every effect has a perfect cause.
To start the wheels rolling, there had to be an initiating cause, a prime mover. That Prime Mover, we call God. He made one move and only one move — he released his Perfect Energy in the form of Perfect Particles each with its own task. Immediately, they began doing what they were designed to do, and the ‘cause-effect’ wheel was set into motion. That singular event which scientists refer to as the Big Bang is the only action God has ever taken regarding this universe. From that moment on, God has taken a hands-off attitude and has allowed his nature (Perfect Energy) to do what it was designed and commissioned to do.
Had the designers of the first Holy Roman Catholic Church known and understood that science (truth), the dam would never have broken, and we would not have the massive flat of diverse ‘Christian’ churches, each proclaiming to be the only correct one, as we see today. More importantly, we would all be of one like-mind of understanding about the Perfect Rational Being we call God. We all would be reaching to that God, not in quest of favors, but rather in thanksgiving for our lives, our sustenance, and our eternal destination in the bosom of that Perfect rational Being — there would be peace.
Furthermore, the world would not be filled with ignorant people who not only believe, but also expect God to do the impossible, change his nature and perform a miracle, just for them. They would know that God could not possibly change his Perfect nature without self-destructing, and immediately destroying the entire universe. However, today, self-serving religion is still just as active as in Jesus’ day — controlling the minds and pocketbooks of people for its own gain. Jesus was the greatest hero to ever live. He railed against that unjust religion and told the world about the real Perfect God Of Love.
He knew that teaching would get himself crucified but his zeal and determination to liberate us from the terrible persecuting religion of ‘appeasing a vengeful god’ drove him onward. No greater hero ever lived, and I vouch to say, never will.
As many of you know, I have written extensively about this subject which I believe is so important for us to understand. I have written three books and over four hundred blog posts. If you have read my books Wilderness Cry, Peace In Spirituality, and Provocative Catholic, please read them again until you have full understanding — you will regain internal peace like never before.
Mind you, I am not advocating that you cease going to church. I believe gathering is good — gathering in ’one mind’ is perfect. As you go to your individual churches, and listen to your priests or preachers, their words will fall on a different set of ears — you will be gaining an understanding of ‘spirituality’. The Worldwide Communion Of Spirituality is what I called for five years ago. I hope and trust there are more and more acceptors and adherents.
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It seems rather obvious to me that, when Jesus began his public ministry, he was already prepared to accept an ignominious death for his traitorous teachings. Otherwise, he would not have stayed on the periphery of Israeli society during his early endeavors. He knew he must educate his followers and fellow countrymen alike in sufficient numbers about his new concepts of God and God’s perfect love so that after his death they would be able and willing to spread the ‘good news’ despite resistance from the Jewish hierarchy. His plan entailed a vigorous education of his closest associates, the twelve apostles so that after his death they would be equipped with both the understanding and determination to continue his mission — converting the Israeli populous to an understanding that God is all Love rather than the oppressive vengeful God of the Jews who demanded sacrificial offerings as appeasement.
That ‘sacrificial religion’ of the Jews had become a money-making sham scheme for the hierarchy, while simultaneously, created a double whammy of oppression of the poor peasant populous — bilking them of their hard-earned money by virtue of having to pay the High Priest an exorbitant fee for his ‘perfect offerings’, plus oppression from the Roman Empire for whom they were forced to labor.
Likewise, it is clear to me that Jesus had a genius mind. He knew nothing about particle physics (Quantum Mechanics), but he did understand that the Spirit of God resides in every existence — otherwise, nothing could be. For me, that understanding is borne out by his last-ditch effort at enhancing their understanding by telling them at his last supper that the bread he held in his hands was the same as his body. The Gospel of Thomas relentlessly reinforces the idea that not only is the Spirit of God in Jesus’ person but also in everything in existence, and I accept that concept without reservation.
Three hundred years after Jesus’ death, so-called Christianity had spread to all the civilized world most of which was under control of the Roman Empire. There were 1800 Bishops in the Empire and each Bishop was the ultimate dictator in his domain of all things pertaining to Jesus and his teachings. The problem was that literally no two of them seemed to have identical understanding of Jesus, what he said and what he did. There was a great need for copies of the original writings about Jesus and those copies were made by people who were not always either capable or honest about their work. There was much squabbling between various jurisdictions. Consequently, those copies were frequently altered to suit the whims of the bishop. Other times, honest mistakes were made by the transcribers. The net result was (is), we have no way of knowing exactly what Jesus said and did.
What we do know is this; by the year 325 AD, productivity by the squabbling Christians was at a low ebb. Additionally, both the Roman army and treasury had become depleted by the expense of all the foreign wars they had been waging. The official religion of the Empire was called Mithraism which was accepted very well by the populous. However, Emperor Constantine reasoned it would be much wiser to make Christianity the official religion of the Empire rather than further deplete his army and treasury by attempting to coerce the Christians into productivity. Accordingly, he called a Council at Nicaea of the 1800 bishops. He offered to pay for all their travel and lodging expenses. Despite that, only a mere 300 or so attended — Constantine presided. The council lasted from May till August when a consensus was finally established. During the Council some twenty to thirty were excommunicated. The remainder chose to relent to the most vocal and numerous and the Holy Roman Catholic Church was formed and made the official religion of the Roman Empire.
As a direct ‘slap in the face’ of Jesus, they totally ignored his teaching of an ‘All-loving God’ and reverted right back to the sacrificial religion of the Jews which Jesus despised. Just as the King, the High Priest and Sanhedrin had done, they set themselves up in positions of power with Pope, Cardinals, Archbishops and Bishops. The lowly priests and deacons did the ‘scut-work’. So, just as any house built on a rotten foundation, it began slowly crumbling. Seven hundred years later a big power split occurred with the Great Greek Schism, the final blow came a few hundred years later when Martin Luther and others has seen enough of the corruption and bolted the Roman Catholic Church — the Protestant Reformation began and continues incessantly.
The net result of all that activity is this; as of last accounting, there are currently over 45,000 so-called Christian religions and sects in the world — each claims authenticity and righteousness. The larger ones are continuously attempting to ‘steal’ the other’s constituents through the process of ‘missionary’ work — build the empire and power base at all costs. So, what we have today is 2.2 billion Christians in the world each of whom believes in a ‘mythical god’ just as the Egyptians and others did thousands of years ago —not one of them can tell you ‘Who God is’ — I can, and I did.
At this point, I will digress and apologize for being repetitious but, even though many, many of you have seen and heard this before, there are also many ‘new readers’ who have not. So, for their sake, I ask for your forbearance.
Through the process of understanding the fundamentals of Quantum Mechanics (particle physics), I was able to understand that there is a Perfect Rationality in this universe. That Perfect Rationality exhibits a Perfect Truth System outside of which ‘there is no truth’. That recognition and understanding mandated my mission and permission to define the essence of God— God is a Perfect Rational Being. ‘It should be noted again that no one can prove the existence of God — neither can anyone disprove it. However, observing this Perfect Rationality mandates me to accept the presence of God in all existences.
I am aware of no person nor religion who shares this similar understanding. So, for the benefit of new readers and as reinforcement of understanding among previous readers, I will describe a graphic of Trinity God: a perfect Rational Being, God the Father, with his Perfect Intellect reflects upon himself and sees a mirror image of himself. That mirror image, being in the supernatural, is a living being, God the Son. Two Perfect Identical Rational Beings perpetually viewing each other have no choice except to love, choose, will accept each other. That perpetual loving, choosing, willing, accepting each other carries the image of its generators and is The Holy Spirit, the Will of God, the third person of the Trinity — one Godhead, three identical Persons.
In the real world, God the Father’s reflection is registered in all the perfect particles of energy (quanta) which exist in eternity, but which form the substrate of all gravid existences which, themselves are temporal. And what does that mean? It means that those particles of energy which are the Son are Eternal but the gravid objects they make (protons and neutrons) are temporal and will one day (75 billion years hence is best estimate of our most noted scientists) return to the singularity of God from whence they emanated. Who knows how many trillions of times that cycle has repeated itself? Nobody but God himself.
You might ask just how does Jesus fit into that equation? And I would say nowhere except in the imagination and scheming of the Jewish Christians who were determined to have a Vengeful God who demanded sacrifice for appeasement. Those scheming Christians were the three hundred or so Bishops who formed the Holy Roman Catholic Church. They and their predecessors are the ones who dreamed up all the fairy tale stories and ideas about Jesus.
Jesus was a traitor to the Jewish religion. He knew from the beginning that he would be killed for his treason, but his zeal, compassion and love for his fellow man drove him to be my hero. As for his endeavor, he was, in fact, a total failure. He has been totally misrepresented to billions and billions of unsuspecting followers.
All of that means little — God, our Creator has Perfect Love for each of us — none more so than another. We can hurt each other, but we can’t hurt or please God — he is Perfect.
Many of you are aware that I have written extensively about this subject with near four hundred blog post and three books, Wilderness Cry, Peace in Spirituality, and Provocative Catholic. If your interest leads you there, you should read Wilderness Cry – a scientific and philosophical approach to understanding God and the universe, first. Then you will likely want to read the others. In addition I have written an historical and humorous little book, Growing Up In Fancy Farm Kentucky. all are available both paperback and digital from Amazon-Kindle and from me (handg@comcast.net).
Of all the 45,000 so-called Christian religions or sects in the world, I am unaware of a single one that is legitimate. I am not only allowed, but rather mandated, to make that claim for a very simple, straightforward reason – not one of them knows the God of whom they speak. You may protest or at least ask why and how I am allowed to make such a claim – ‘everyone knows who God is’. Do they? I vouch to say just the opposite is true. Just put it to a simple test – ask a friend or two, or, better still, ask your priest or preacher who God is. The likely response will be a look of curiosity that I could be asking such a stupid question. Persist in your query and note the stammering and hesitant talk.
They will likely begin by telling you about all the things God has done or is doing. But just remind them that their explanation in no way tells you who God is. It simply describes some of God’s activities and actions. It fails miserably to defines God’s essence. And need I remind us that, minus an ‘essential definition, absolutely nothing has meaning’.
As helpful background information, it should be noted that throughout recorded history, mankind has recognized a higher power or powers than themselves and have ascribed certain names to their ‘gods and goddesses’. Each of those deities was recognized as controlling specific activities in our lives. Eventually, the Israelites came to recognize ‘one true God’ who was responsible for everything. Through the controlling, scheming character of Moses, their God had many human characteristics. For starters he was male and experienced human-like emotions – he could be pleased or displeased– he could be friendly and loving or he could be angry and vengeful. More importantly, through the cunning of Moses, he could be ‘bargained with’ – Moses had his Israelite subordinates convinced that he, and he alone, could talk directly with God and ‘make deals’ with him.
Of course, all those stories were written by Moses himself. So, we’ll never know their legitimacy. However, the fact is that the Jewish sacrificial religion and all Christian religions which followed stem from ‘the Moses effect’. Of course, when Jesus came along and began preaching a heretical understanding of God, Love, the Jewish hierarchy crucified him. What followed was a seemingly endless conglomerate of differing understanding of Jesus’ teachings which have been, and still are, being used to expand the number of Christian religions worldwide.
It should be noted here that the instigator(s) of those religious generally put themselves in positions of ‘power’. That power has been used to ‘control’ people through fear of eternal damnation, which makes it rather simple to extract their hard-earned money. Many are attempting to ‘build an empire’ through the process of missionary activities worldwide – the bigger the empire, the greater the control, and the richer their coffers.
The net result of all this so-called religious activity is perpetual turmoil with wars and festering hostilities erupting periodically all because of religion and ideology. There is a cause for all this discord and that cause goes right back to my original question, “who is God?”
Prior to 2016, when I published my thesis on this subject, Wilderness Cry, no one had ever defined the essence of God. Utilizing sound logical philosophy and known, provable science, I was able to define God’s essence with six simple words.
God is a perfect rational being.
This definition says it all in irrefutable terms – nothing can be added nor subtracted. This definition stems from my understanding of the following facts. Everything in this universe is composed of identical particles of energy. There are many different types of these particles but each of its kind has the same characteristics – none can change nor be changed, none can be marked or distinguished from its counterparts, each is perfect in form and function, and not one more nor less is in existence now than at the time of the ‘Big Bang’ 13.7-8 billion years ago. Collectively they represent a ‘perfect truth system’ outside of which there is no truth. Furthermore, they present a ‘perfect rationality’. Stated differently they present a perfect cause-effect system. That is to say that there never has been, nor ever will be, a cause which did not produce a perfect result). Likewise, there has never been an effect which was not produced by a perfect cause.
Have we not just described the essence of God, Perfect Rationality? Furthermore, have we not mandated a clear definition and understanding of Trinity God? Yes, yes, yes.
Rationality refers to a state of existence. In a living being it mandates an intellect and a will. The intellect perceives and the will achieves. God, with his perfect intellect reflects upon himself and sees a mirror image, identical and perfect – in the supernatural, that reflection, mirror image, is a living being, the Son. Two perfect beings viewing each other perpetually have no choice except to will, choose, love each other – the Holy Spirit or Will of God.
And, we have been told all our lives that the Trinity was not understandable to us mere mortals and that is certainly true if trying to understand a human-like God. However, a Perfect Rational God is perfectly comprehensible, not in our complete knowledge as he, but in our understand of his basic structure or nature (essence). In conclusion, I would urge you study this intently and try to understand it —you will have a total comprehension of the pitfalls of all religion.
God is real but not human-like as Moses would have us believe. He is Perfect Love which means he can reject no part of himself which each of us represents.
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Have you ever wondered where the idea of ‘free will’ came from? I, like you were brainwashed into thinking there is such an ‘entity’, and for that reason didn’t question it until after years of study and research, I was able to do something never before done — define the essence of God — “God is a Perfect Rational being”. That startling definition of God’s essence ‘blew out of the water’ everything I had ever been taught about God and religion, including the erroneous concept of ‘free will’. In fact, I was forced to reconsider everything I had ever been taught about God, the Bible, religions in general, and specifically, Roman Catholicism. I discovered that Moses wrote the first five books of the Old Testament. So, we are forced to attribute the fairytale stories of creation, Adam and Eve, the Garden of Eden, and everything through the Book of Deuteronomy to his imagination and his ever-present overlording of the Israelites for purpose of control.
The most compelling of Moses’ control methods was his ability to convince the Israelites that he, and only he, could converse directly with God. God gave him the Ten Commandments which, of course, being human, they violated perpetually, and thereby generated a stockpile of God’s wrath — the framework and cornerstone of ‘sacrificial religion’ for appeasement of a vengeful God were laid. That religion would, in fact, eventually become the stimulus which incited the heroism of Jesus of Nazareth to attempt liberation of his brethren from that oppression by instructing them that God is ‘All Love’ and needs no appeasement. The moneygrubbing, power mongering Jewish hierarchy were not about to have their playhouse disrupted — they hung Jesus on a tree for that treason.
Three hundred years later, those who formulated the Holy Roman Catholic Church at the behest of Roman Emperor Constantine totally ignored Jesus’ teaching of an ‘all-loving’ God, but using the fame of his name created a Church patterned exactly after the sacrificial religion of the Jews and set themselves up in position of power and total control— the exact thing which Jesus despised and willingly died for.
So, with that backdrop, we see a Church that put God in Heaven, sitting on a throne with Jesus sitting at his side, overlording his kingdom from which he was totally separated. As time marched on and the Christian theology was gradually being developed, the great Dominican Friar, Thomas Aquinas formulated a philosophy which explained everything the Church needed for understanding. Aquinas recognized a rational person has an intellect and a will. His interpretation of their functions was designed to satisfy the Churches concept of how sin comes about. He reasoned that even though the intellect may think one thing the will was free to choose as it liked at its own discretion —that was his fatal mistake which has shackled the world with erroneous understanding ever since. I have explained this many times before but let’s do it again.
A very simple test will dispel forever the concept of ‘free will’ for you. Let’s use the example of a red-hot stove eye. We must assume two things — we have been burned before and know that it is very painful and to be avoided, and we must assume we are rational (not crazy — irrational). Now, it is our intellect which ‘knows these things’, not the will. So, if I tell you to lay your hand on that red-hot eye, you wouldn’t dare —that is your common-sense rational intellect which tells you ‘That would be a terrible choice and to be avoided’, not your will. The will must always do what the intellect decides is the better of two choices. In this case, quite obviously, the better choice is keeping your hand away.
Likewise, if you’re standing on the edge of a cliff, you have two choices, jump off or stay put. If you are rational, your intellect tells you to stay put and your will must obey. The will is simply the ‘executive’ arm of the intellect. Synonyms for ‘will’ are choose, love, accept. They represent the ‘driving force of the intellect. They are the Holy Spirit or Will of God in the Trinity — they are the perpetual willing, loving, choosing, accepting force between the Perfect Intellects of God the father and God the Son.
The truth of the matter is there is no such thing as’ free intellect’. Yes, we are free to think and analyze but whatever final choice we make must be what our intellect considers to be the better of the final two possible choices. That does not mean nor imply that another rational human might not make a different choice based on previous experiences — that is what makes each of us distinct individuals with no possibility of any two being alike. That is the foundation of Jesus’ teaching of love — Jesus readily saw that peace could never be achieved without love of each other. His teaching has been totally ignored and world strife is ever-present.
Thomas Aquinas was simply attempting to satisfy Catholic Church philosophy. He knew absolutely no science of any kind. That ignorance allowed him to proclaim male masturbation to be the most grievous sin that could be commit because all the babies were in the male semen and were being spilled to their deaths. Aquinas’ attitude is understandable because from Moses’ time till Thomas Aquinas, three thousand plus years, the Jewish and Western world existed in a strict ‘Patristic’ society. Women were little more than glorified slaves. So, there was no way that a woman could have been thought of more than just a simple ‘brood sow incubator’. The almighty male injected the babies into her, and she simply incubated them till birth — such was the ignorance that prevailed from Moses time until Vatican 2 Council.
I still hear the term ‘free will’ occasionally and it makes me cringe because I know that person lacks a proper understanding of rationality. We would be much better off if we replaced the term ‘will’ with ‘love’. We would better understand that we are free to love what our intellect tells us is good (better), and we are free to reject what our intellect tells us which is least desirable.
Most of you reading this already know from my previous discourses and from reading my books Wilderness cry and Provocative Catholic that I have addressed this concept before, but for the few who have not, I feel compelled to visit it again — the cornerstone of ignorance found in every religion with which I am familiar.
If each of us did not have a rational intellect with which to discern truth, we would be like identical robots, all with identical programming. However, since our individual intellects have been exposed to dramatically different stimuli, each has been formulated into dramatically different individuals which allows (causes) us to make decidedly different judgements about seemingly identical information. Just consider an election of any public official. The majority will always vote for the winner but for a multitude of different reasons — each person’s intellect dictates its choice of winner based on a variety of different considerations.
Jesus was brilliant. He could clearly see the blatant scamming of his brethren that was going on by the Jewish hierarchy and their sacrificial religion. He became so incensed that his ire finally drove him to make an onslaught onto the temple — while thrashing the moneychangers with a whip and overturning their tables, he called them a brood of vipers and a den of thieves and demanded them to leave his Father’s house. Jesus was so determined to liberate his countrymen from the guilt driven sacrificial religion of the Jews and supplant it with a no-religion understanding of God’s Perfect Love that his intellectual common sense became overwhelmed by momentary irrational anger which drove him to that final fatal act — it seems apparent that he knew it was going to happen anyway.
My firm belief and understanding are that at his last supper, knowing full-well that he had failed to completely indoctrinate his illiterate apostles to his way of thinking, he made one final attempt at gaining their understanding. He explained to them once again that he, they, and all of God’s creation were of one substance — God is in all, and all is in God— God is All Love and cannot possibly reject himself.
Jesus’ final instruction and advice went totally unheeded by those who formulated the Holy Roman Catholic Church some three hundred years later. As a direct slap in the face, they ignored Jesus’ teaching of an All-loving God and formed another sacrificial church of appeasement, the likes of which Jesus despised. They used their collective intellects to ‘spit in Jesus’ face’ all for their own personal power, control, and money (empire building).
—eternal strife prevails to this day and always will until The Worldwide Communion of Spirituality, which I called for several years ago, is heeded. That means that each of us must understand and accept that we, and every gravid object in this Perfect Universe, are made of identical Perfect Particles of Energy which collectively represent God. Each of us shares a commonality with the Perfect Will of God, The Holy Spirit, which is imbedded in each particle and keeps it Perfect. That understanding stems from the knowledge that there is a Perfect Truth System in this universe outside of which there is no truth, and that truth is exhibited by those Perfect Particles of Energy. That knowledge and understanding mandated me to define God as A Perfect Rational Being.
AS an addendum, a few years back, I came to the sudden realization that I had many, many questions but absolutely no one alive to answer them. That realization mandated me to write a brief history of my life in Fancy Farm, Kentucky. I believe you will find it both informative and humorous.
During the last seventy years, as I have studied history, philosophy, psychology, medicine and religion, I have experienced a gradual evolution of understanding concerning religion — more importantly, Christianity. It seems rather obvious that Jesus of Nazareth was the most notable figure the world has ever encountered. During his lifetime, his apostle, Peter, recognized him as the Christ or King. After his death, his followers continued and propagated that understanding — hence Christianity.
Much has been written and rewritten about Jesus — what he did, what he said, and what he meant. It is the “what he meant” that has been interpreted so many different ways — hence, we have 45,000 different so-called Christian religions, each proclaiming righteousness. Any rational person would be correct in asking why and how that can be.
My study and understanding of Jesus make the answer to that question quite simple — the very first official proclamation about who Jesus was, what he said, and what he meant was biased and overtly incorrect for a very specific reason. The people who formulated the Holy Roman Catholic Church were so ‘hell bent’ on perpetuating a ‘Jewish religion with a sacrificial twist’ to the new Christian religion that they completely ignored Jesus’ basic teaching of love. Not only that but they camouflaged Jesus’ teaching and intent which was to liberate his people from the oppressive, costly, sacrificial religion of the Jews with an understanding that God is ‘all love’ and has no ‘needs’, especially appeasement.
They were very careful in their propagated writings to hide the exact cause of Jesus’ execution for treason — they say only that the crowd was incited to yell “Crucify him. Crucify him”. The hierarchy wanted Jesus dead because they recognized his intent to educate the public to God’s ‘Love’ rather than God’s ‘Vengeance’ as was proposed by the Jewish religion. The High Priest, of course, were making a fortune off the peasants who were forced to purchase ‘perfect offering specimens’ from him, and, in addition, pay him an equally extortionate price to make the offering in their behalf. It was a money-making racket and Jesus perceived it as such. Therefore, the bible tells us Jesus drove the money changers from the temple with a whip and overturned their tables.
Now, fast forward 300 years. During that time Christianity had spread throughout the Roman empire and there were 1800 bishops, each with his own ‘twist’ of understanding about Jesus. They were noted to be constantly squabbling amongst themselves and, consequently, were not producing as desired for the Empire. Constantine, the Emperor at the time decided to solve the problem once and for all — make Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire. So, he called a general council of Bishops at Nicaea. Of the 1,800 Bishops in existence at the time, only 300 or so attended. They pow wowed for three to four months before reaching a consensus — the Holy Roman Catholic Church was formed — and the Jewish sacrificial religion was perpetuated. They set themselves up in positions of power and control with the Pope as official head and with Cardinals, Archbishops and Bishops controlling selected parts of the world. Priests were the workhorses who attended to the day-to- day needs of each parish. That set-up ensured the upper brass lived in luxury, and all the while, Christian (Catholic) philosophy, theology, and liturgy were constantly evolving — a never-ending process.
Soon enough, overt abuses became apparent with bad popes and bishops using their power for evil purposes. Eventually, the power struggle between Rome and the Eastern Church became so strong as to prompt the Great Schism in 1062 or thereabouts. Then, the Medieval Church again became so corrupted as to prompt Martin Luther and others to bolt the Catholic Church, and the Protestant reformation began — it continues incessantly to this day with, with more and more sects and churches appearing annually — and why?
The answer to that question seems very apparent to me — power, control, and money generated basically by the mythological and imaginary wishful thinking of those in control. The Jewish religion fostered an idea that Adam’s long-suffering progeny had been promised a Messiah who would restore paradise just for the Just. The rest would be cast into torturous oblivion forever. This past Sunday, at Catholic mass service, the first reading in the Dioceses of Owensboro was from Daniel where he describes a time when Michael, a great prince shall arise and all the good shall live in eternal happiness including many who shall arise from their tombs whilst, simultaneously, all other shall be in everlasting horror and disgrace (paraphrased). Then, the second reading from Paul suggest that Priests offer daily sacrifices of appeasement, but Jesus offered himself as the ultimate sacrifice for or sins and now ‘sits at the right hand of God’ (paraphrased). Then, the gospel reading taken from Mark depicts Jesus describing the ‘last days’ and saying no one knows when they will happen but the Father, not even the Son. But all will happen before the current generation (forty years) passes. (paraphrased).
Now, lets dissect those readings and compare them with our current Catholic, Christian teachings and beliefs. The last sentence of the Nicene Creed which summarizes Catholic belief, says, –“I look forward to the resurrection of the dead and life of the world to come” — a direct holdover from the Jewish sacrificial, imaginary, mythical religion. Then, concerning Christianity’s propagation of Paul’s suggestion that Jesus sacrificed himself for our sins — nowhere in the bible does Jesus say he came to die for our sins. My understand is that philosophy was gradually developed or several hundred years, but there again, is based on someone’s imagination, and not on anything Jesus said. Now, concerning Marks description of Jesus describing the last days, it seems apparent that whoever wrote that did not comprehend what John had to say and what our Nicene creed has to say, “God from God, Light from Light, begotten not made, consubstantial with the Father; through him all things were made”. Now, if that is true, it would be impossible for Jesus not to know everything just as the Father does. But all that demonstrates the miniscule, imaginary, mythological thinking at the time and has absolutely nothing to do with reality. Consider this, there are no seats or places in heaven as the ancients are continually imagining. Heaven and eternity are a ‘state of being’ where no change is possible. It has no places, no seats, no amphitheaters. It is a state of spiritual being of oneness in God not oneness with God — God is in us, and we are in God.
It is this total lack of understanding which has created the religious morass we see today. Will it ever cease or change? I believe will in time but not for the better. More and more, people are becoming disenchanted with religion. Each person has his own reasons but if asked to explain them, he might find that difficult — he just has a gut feeling of religion’s uselessness.
All that is sad because the world could understand that if there is a God, it loves us each equally because each of us, as is everything in existence, is enveloped in that God — God is in all, and all is in God. With that understanding, we would be justified in gathering asone singing incantations of love, praise and thanksgiving to our God for our existence, our sustenance, and our eternity in him forever.
Everything in existence is composed of identically the same perfect particles of energy which are maintained in their perfection by the Spirit, Will of God. With that understanding, I again call on the world to understand and recognize The Worldwide Communion of Spirituality which means that we and everything inexistence are bonded by the same spiritual commonality in God.
That philosophy is developed and described in detail in my little book Wilderness Cry – A Scientific and Philosophical Approach to Understanding God and the Universe. There I do something never before done — I define the essence of God. That definition has unbelievable implications which are explored and analyzed in detail in its two sequels, Peace in Spirituality and Provocative Catholic. In addition, I have written a semibiographical, semi historical little book, Growing up in infancy Farm Kentucky. I believe you will find it informative, entertaining and humorous. All are available from Amazon-Kindle both hardcopy and digital. and from me, autographed – handg@comcast.net. If you purchase online and would like it autographed, I would be happy to do so free.
We all know what help is — it is an assist of one kind or another. Of course, it comes in ‘all shades of gray’ from overt to occult, from miniscule to maximal, from intended to accidental or incidental, from desired to rejected, etc.
When we interject God into the equation of ‘help’ as the ancient Greeks did, we create a new dimension beyond our control or insight. They are given credit for coining the phrase, ‘God helps them who help themselves’. The obvious implication of such a saying is that one must help himself first before God will ‘assist’.
When I was a child, my mother often repeated the adage that ‘heaven helps them who help themselves’ — a rather obvious reference to the Greek saying. That entire idea centered on the fact that, if one wanted something done, he must apply himself to the task before any assistance from God could be expected. That was a stern admonition to me and my siblings that we were responsible for our success or failure — work hard and God will assist and therefore, success is likely — be lazy and non-applying, God will ignore you, and failure will likely be guaranteed.
So, I learned at a very tender age of five or six that God would not put our seeds in the ground, cultivate the soil to assist their growth, or remove the weeds from our crops — if we did those things dutifully, then God would assist with warm sunshine and rainfall and a successful crop might be expected. Notice, I said ‘might’ be expected — nothing was guaranteed, but experience had shown success to be the norm. The bottom line was ‘hard work, and dedicated persistence’ was the best way of assuring God’s assistance —a lesson I never forgot.
I didn’t know how God’s assistance worked except I could see that most of the time, God provided the essentials of nature which, combined with my hard work, led to success. There were times however, when God did not provide the essentials for healthy plant growth — usually manifested by either too much or too little rainfall. Those were the times when we, as a devout Catholic community, came together in prayer begging God to assist us with proper amounts of heavenly water.
Way too often, to our chagrin, nothing changed, and our crops continued unabated in their torment — I was dismayed. Seeing my mother and father struggle so hard to provide a living for their six boys, and then seeing God not answer our pleading for help was extremely stressful for me. I was twelve years old and good friends with our parish priest. His answer to my question of ‘why wouldn’t God help’ sent my head spinning. He said,” It’s God’s will”.
That statement tore into shreds my mother’s adage of ‘heaven helps those who help themselves’. The obvious question for my maturing, inquisitive mind was, why? Why were we doing all that praying if God would not listen? I had no clue, but one thing was for certain, I would find out.
The first difficulty I encountered was attempting to understand who God really was. I learned in my history lessons that the ancient Greeks and Romans recognized a God for nearly every niche and cranny of human consideration. They relied on those Gods to bring success to whatever endeavor they chose.
Then, I learned that the Israelites discovered there is only ‘one true God’, and all the others are pagan myths. The latter info came by way of Bible studies and Catholic Catechism classes. All of that seemed well and good but still did not solve my dilemma about why God seldom answered our prayers when we most needed him.
As I grew and studied more, I made a very startling discovery — everyone talked about God as though he was their ‘next door neighbor’ but no one could tell me exactly who God is. In fact, I discovered that absolutely no one had ever been able to decipher the God about whom he spoke. Additionally, no one could prove that a God actually existed.
Out of seemingly nowhere, along came Jesus of Nazareth injecting a dramatic new piece into the puzzle of God. I discovered through research of biblical writings that for centuries the Israelites had been expecting a messiah who would restore Paradise just for them. When Jesus began his public ministry, the Jews were being severely oppressed by both their own government with its money-making machine of sacrificial religion, and the Roman Empire under whose ultimate control they existed and for whom they toiled — with that understanding the plot thickened for me.
I am as certain as I am sitting in my chair right this moment that Jesus has been totally misrepresented. I believe without doubt that Jesus’ representation as God’s only Son who was sent by God to die as the ‘perfect sacrifice’ for forgiveness of our sins is a fabrication of untruth intended to perpetuate the total control over human lives as was the custom of the Jewish hierarchy.
Whereas the Jewish religion offered Perfect Bloody Sacrifices of animals for appeasement of their angry God, the new ‘Jesus-religion’, Christianity, would offer a ‘Perfect Unbloody’ sacrifice to that same God in the form of a ‘recreated’ Jesus. Of course, true to form, that recreation and offering could only be done by the ‘priest’. Consequently, the Holy Roman Catholic Church was formed at the urging of Roman Emperor Constantine in 325AD. Things went well until the death of Constantine’s son who succeeded him.
Later Emperors were not as friendly to Christianity as Constantine. There was a rather constant haggling over unsolved religious concepts as various theologians and bishops struggled to define exactly what ‘Christianity represented’ and how it was to be practiced and considered. Many of those were driven and engendered by ascetics such as Augustine and Jerome whose philosophy was so restrictive as to propose that humans should deny their sexual identity — sex became the ‘whipping boy’ of Christian society and persisted as such until recent years. Of course, as might be expected, the proponents of sexual dampening became its greatest abusers.
Eventually, because of differences in concepts about the Holy Ghost as well as power struggles between the Roman Church and the Eastern Church, The Great Greek Schism occurred in 1065 or thereabouts — the cat was out of the bag. I am not as familiar with the continuing history of the Eastern Church as with the Roman, but it is quite obvious that differences of one kind or another existed there also because of the number of Eastern Orthodox Churches that sprang into existence.
Meanwhile, in the Roman Church, there were periods of relative tranquility. However, because the papacy was not only a religious headquarters, but was also an extremely important and powerful political position, prominent powerful families dominated the papal seat, frequently resulting in the many and frequent atrocious abuses. As time progressed, many Christians had seen enough, and the inevitable breakaway of the Protestant Reformation began.
That breakaway set the stage for what we see today — over 44,000 so-called Christian sects, branches and denominations, each claiming superiority of spirituality. Not only those divisions in Christianity, but, just as importantly, the constant tension between the western Christian world, the mid-east Muslim world, and the far-east Buddhist and Hindu worlds generated continual wars and threats thereof.
All that division and hostility has been, and continues to be, generated by one simple cause — not one of them could then, nor can now, define the essence of its God which led directly to the absolute misunderstanding, presentation, and projection of Jesus of Nazareth. Everything from the first word Moses wrote to this very moment has been and continues to be pure mythology —they always have been, and still are, worshiping a ‘mythical god’.
So, When I came to that stark realization, I was ‘forced internally’ to solve and resolve the problem — if there is a God, its essence must be defined — we must know who God is. My encounter with Quantum Mechanics enabled me to understand who that God must be. I understood from that encounter that there is a perfect rationality in this universe which generates and maintains a perfect truth system outside of which there is no truth. Immediately, I knew who God is. God is a Perfect Rational Being. The implications of that definition are staggering — many, many of them are examined and explored in my two sequel books to Wilderness Cry, Peace In Spirituality and Provocative Catholic.
Additionally, that definition of God immediately explained graphically the Trinity as here described. A perfect Intellect reflecting upon itself sees a mirror image of itself, which is the universe and everything in it, The Son. Father and Son viewing each other perpetually and eternally have no choice except to accept, love, choose, will each other—the Holy Spirit or Will of God.
That realization instantly created a major question — what about Jesus? As I backtracked and studied the New Testament more vigorously, it became suddenly obvious that nowhere does it say why the Jews wanted Jesus dead — the bible we have is very careful to hide that fact. Also. I discovered that nowhere does Jesus say he came to die for our sins — my understanding is it took several centuries for the Church to completely develop that philosophy. What I did observe was Jesus saying he would give us two commandments: Love your God with your all and love (accept) your neighbor as yourself. (paraphrased). Then I chanced upon The Gospel of Thomas which was rejected by the Church Fathers as canonical for obvious reasons — it painted an entirely different picture and understanding of Jesus. In it Jesus kept explaining over and over, using different examples, that he, they, and everything in this universe are one in God —we are in God and God is in us. That’s what he told them one last time at his ‘last supper’ — the bread and wine they were eating and drinking were one in him, and them, and God. He advised them to always remember and reflect upon that truth each time they supped.
With that understanding, it rapidly became obvious that Jesus’ purpose was to eliminate the oppressive, illegitimate religion of the Jews and replace (supplant) it with an understanding that God is all love — he needs no appeasement— he needs nothing — he loves (accepts) all without strings. Therefore, our only justifiable prayer is thanksgiving to God for our existence in him.
Jesus plan for supplanting the Jewish religion was to remain in the outlying areas away from the authorities while he indoctrinated his apostle and acolytes so they might continue to spread his doctrine long after his death — Jesus knew he would eventually be crucified as a traitor.
Quite obviously, Jesus’ efforts were totally fruitless. Villains and scallywags, using his name but distorting his teachings to suit themselves, formulated a Church patterned exactly after the oppressive sacrificial religion of the Jews which Jesus despised — a house built on a false foundation will inevitably crumble. And crumble it did— the grains of meal continue to fallfrom the loaf which was rotten from the beginning.
So, where does “heaven helps them who help themselves” come into the picture? Knowing who God is makes that answer simple. God has created for us a perfect universe in which to function. All we need to do is apply it by helping ourselves. If we grow food, we utilize the conditions available to us for growing crops suitable to our climate. If we work at a ‘public’ job of any kind, we are helping ourselves by earning money with which to buy food and other necessities and luxuries of life while simultaneously producing equipment, supplies and technology used by others in their endeavors. It should be obvious that all who are capable must apply themselves to a task or possibly multiple tasks so that all may benefit — God has given us a ‘perfect system in which to operate’ and make our efforts productive. That alone is the sum of God’s interest.
Those who beg God to do this or that and those who expect God to perform miracles just for them have been terribly misguided, but they are not to blame — we all have been brainwashed into believing such nonsense — such are the fruits of irrational religion. Religion benefits only those who perpetrate and perpetuate it. Religion is the biggest money-making, empire building, scheme the world has ever known and it is, equally, the most destructive force the world has ever known.
So, if there were a utopia in this life, which there is not, it would be a world where every capable individual diligently applied himself to a task so that collectively, we all might share in the necessities and luxuries of life. That would be Communism. But there is no utopia. Consequently, brave men with great minds and determination have designed the best system of government yet discovered — Democratic Capitalism. While not perfect, it has proven to be the best yet. It only works because it attempts to control to some degree the God ordained, built-in quality of greed which every living entity possesses and exhibits.
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As I have noted many, many times before, I have published three books on this subject. I strongly urge you to read Wilderness Cry. Likely then, you will want to read Peace in Spirituality and Provocative Catholic. For a little historical and autobiographical humor, you might like Growing Up In Fancy Farm Kentucky. All available Amazon-Kindle, and from me— handg@comcast.net
In my recent writings, I have repeatedly pointed out major, major directives coming from Pope Francis regarding sin and salvation which are diametrically opposed to the teachings of the Catholic Church in prior times of my life. For the most part those changes had to do with prior use of sex by the Church as a ‘weapon’ for controlling us. At times, such as during the Inquisitions, people were tortured severely to near death and then burned to death on a pile of wood while being bound to a stake just for being accused of having pleasure during sex. Like treatment came for being accused of having sex on any elevated structure for fear of causing the earth to tumble into the netherworld below. Simultaneously, people were given the same treatment for being accused of being witches.
In later times, when those treatments became illegal, birth control of any kind except the so-called rhythm method was condemned as a mortal sin which would send one straight to hell if you died before confessing it. Of all possible birth control methods used, deliberately aborting a fetus or full-term infant by any artificial means was considered to be the most heinous of those sins.
Additionally, I have repeatedly noted that the words ‘birth control’ have been totally eliminated from the Sunday homilies for the last fifty years of my memory. In addition, I doubt the awareness of many that Saint Thomas Aquinas declared male masturbation to be the worst of all possible sex sins because ‘all the babies were in the male semen and the babies were being spilled to their deaths’. Two concepts were in play there. In the first instance is total ignorance of the scientific facts — there are no babies in male semen. In the second instance, patristic society was in staunch control of worldwide thinking — only the all-important males could generate babies — women were just the inferior slaves who were used as incubators.
In addition to male masturbation, premarital sex of any kind was scorned as a certain path to hell — enter Pope Francis. One of his first proclamations was that there is no such place as hell. It was just fabricated by the Church to control people. Then he comes along and declares that young people should live together two to three years to determine their compatibility before entering into marriage. When an uproar from the conservatives in the Church could be heard worldwide, Pope Francis calmly stated, ‘None of the rules have changed. We just got to stop talking about them’. (paraphrased).
More recently Pope Francis stated ‘he dreamed of the day when we had a ‘world without borders’ —of course, the Pope would be the supreme ruler of all as was the case during Medieval Europe.
Now to the greatest travesty of all — it began over three years ago. At that time the regular attendance of so-called Catholics at weekly services had declined 40+% during the last 50-60 years— all ages, but particularly the younger set had found the Church’s stance on sex and birth control to be unreasonable. That decline in attendance created a major financial crisis. In addition, the number of vocations to the priesthood had declined precipitously necessitating the importing of clerics from Central and South America as well as Africa to administer the essential services.
If you recall, nearly four years ago, Joe Biden was elected president of the United States and Nancy Pelosi was Speaker of the House of Representatives. Both presented themselves to the public as avowed devout Roman Catholics. Their principal campaign promise was the reversion to some form of Roe v. Wade which had been repealed by the Supreme Court during the Trump administration. So here we have a perfect set-up — an administration dependent upon abortion for reelection, and a Vatican whose coffers are suffering from diminished churchgoers and who saw mass immigration of Catholic migrants to the US where they could have paying jobs with which fill the Sunday collection baskets. So, what happens? Biden and Pelosi go directly to Rome together where Pope Francis personally gives both of them his blessing, and worse yet, commits what I consider a sacrilege of all sacrileges — he personally gives them Holy Eucharist which he is duty bound to proclaim is the body and blood of Jesus and strictly reserved for only those in a ‘state of grace’ with God. That seemed to be of little concern to Francis.
Also, in previous posts I have noted the obvious collusion between the Vatican and the Biden White House. The floodgates of illegal immigrants across our Southern border have been open ever since Biden was elected and are guaranteed to remain so if Biden’s surrogate is elected. Just two days ago, in an overt attempt to ease the conscience of fearful women in the U.S who want abortion with no moral shackles., the Pope commits the greatest travesty of them all. He tells the American public they have the choice of voting for one candidate who supports the deliberate murder of a nine-monthbaby or voting for one who supports the equally ‘grave sin’ of deporting aknown criminalmigrant.Do you believe killing a baby is equivalent to deporting a criminal? I do not accept that. It is an obvious psychological, conscience relieving, ploy aimed at insuring V.P, Harris’ election with resultant four more years of ‘open borders’.
It is quite obvious then that I am at complete odds with the Vatican and its philosophy. I see it as a deliberate interference in our elections with an ultimate aim of enriching the Vatican coffers.
People ask me why I still attend Catholic Mass. I tell them that when I take the communion hostin my mouth, I am both demonstrating and proclaiming that every quantum of energy in my body and in that bread in my mouth are in perfect union with every quantum in existence, all of which, cumulatively, represent God.
I will be ninety-one years old in a few days and during those years I have witnessed the ‘sweeping under the carpet ‘of many of the Church’s unpopular rules under the pretense that they never happened. I respectfully fear there will be no carpet left this time —this is too overtly atrocious.
Now, I ask you again. can you honestly equilibrate the murder of a human being with thedeporting of a known criminal? I say, if you can justify the rationalization of such a travesty, this country is doomed forever with absolutely no possibility of survival or recovery — we will be enslaved by forces just waiting to pounce and it will happen in a flash. The likelihoodwill be a scorched earth with nothing surviving except a few severely genetically alteredblades of vegetation — remember, Nero fiddled while Rome burned.
Because of those observations, I have been forced to declare that all religion is an overt hoax because none has defined the essence of its God. I have — God is a Perfect Rational Being. Just a few days ago while traveling to the South Pacific and visiting sites where Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism are established the Pope declares one religion to be basically as good as another because, in all reality, we are all worshiping the same God, just in different ways. That is an overt ‘slap in the face’ for Christians who have been taught to believe the only way into heaven is through Jesus the Christ.
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Having made such observations over the years (since I was twelve) has forced me to write Wilderness Cry which demonstrates clearly why all religion is a hoax, and Peace in Spirituality and Provocative Catholic which elaborate on many of the ramifications of God’s perfection. You would do yourself a great service by their reading. In addition, you may find my little book Growing Up In Fancy Farm Kentucky to be entertaining. All are available Amazon-Kindle both hardcopy and digital and autographed from me (handg@comcast.net).
All comments are welcomed, and all questions will be answered through the e-mail address above.
WILDERNESS CRY by Hilary L Hunt MD 