CONFLICT

AS A SOCIETY, conflict has us in the process of fracturing along every conceivable line. The wheels are not so quietly coming off. It's been a great run but the end is around the corner. Now don't get me wrong. I'm not a "Chicken Little" kind of guy. I'm a realist. What was it he said? "You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows." Well it's howling! Are they slaughtering each other like chickens in certain darker parts of your city while they're all living high off the hog in the lighter parts? That's classic, world wide conflict. What about downtown? It's getting hard to tell if the bums are preying on people with money or visa versa. Have you seen that new game show where the they hook the husband up to a lie detector and ask him if he'd cheat on his wife if he thought he could get away with it? He is forced to answer with the wife sitting there looking! They both win money if he tells the truth and lose if he lies. They're in a "damned if they do/damned if they don't" situation and the audience loves it! How's that for conflict? It almost has a predatory flavor to it.

THERE'S ANOTHER MORE silent form of conflict. The kind inside. The kind that comes upon you in the night. It's the difference between you when you're being looked at and you when you're alone. The true measure of character is what you do when you think no one's looking. It's the inner conflict your boss feels when he's at work playing the professional and then finds himself cruising the streets on the other side of town looking for a whore. It's the inner conflict mother's get when they sit their children in front of the television rather than read them a story because they're physically tired from working to pay the daycare bill. You're trying to be who you are while the world around you is trying to mill you like wheat. It's when what reflects back at you when you're with other people disturbs you and you wonder what it all means. It's a feeling of impending danger in your gut telling you this is only the start . You're instincts are alerting you that you are the malignant intruder in your life. That your way of understanding is the true enemy.

THE VIOLENCE HAS percolated down into our societal DNA altering our Republic's identity. A Frankenstien monster walks among us. Generations of conflict has introduced division to our culture. We have arrived at the season of reaping the fruit of what we have sown. The national monkey has climbed up the pole and is now showing it's ass. The hoof beats of destruction are bearing down on us as we whistle through the graveyard of huberus to proud to embrace our personal challenges. We stagger through the darkness having robbed ourselves of our national, moral compass. We shouldn't be surprised. The fatal flaw, even from the origin, when the organic documents of our society were being crafted, has been in our failure to embrace the ideals upon which this Republic was founded. In the end - we will mourn the fact that we had it made but for our inability to look into our brother's and sister's eyes and see the image of God reflected back at at us. Instead, we couldn't resist the temptation to sell each other out for the short end money. Peace and Love - Citizen 1

NEWS FLASH - GOD DEPLORES RELIGION

THERE ARE RELIGIOUS folks and then there are God's elect. Not everyone that says they are of God truly are. For this reason test the spirits to be sure they are of God because the devil comes disguised as an angel of light. And don't go getting all EVIL and HATEFUL when you learn that your religious beliefs have little or nothing to do with God! I'm talking to Catholics, Methodist's, Unitarian Universalists, Protestants, Baptists, Mormons, Lutherans and all the rest. Don't you all know denominationalism fractures the body of Christ just like racism fractures mankind? And don't you all know that the very things that make you different from each other are what separates you from the very God you profess to represent? You fools! The Bible says, "One Lord, one church - one baptism". It is the individual believer in the TRUTH of God's word who are the "living stones" of the church. The church isn't the buildings you own that you have to bleed your congregation to support. God does not need your religious interpretation to be God! You need God; God doesn't need you.


IF YOUR THE kind of person who doesn't believe in TRUTH - move on; this isn't for you. If all you're searching for is an OPINION you can agree with - take a poll. When people try to pass their opinion off to me as truth I say, "What do I care what you think! I want to know what is TRUE." I also say, "Where does it say that in the Bible." WHY? Because only the truth will make me FREE from the lies of this world. If I'm not getting free, I'm moving on. I want the truth. The truth is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. The truth is simple. The truth is also beautiful. Without the truth, there's no right or wrong and no lies. Without right and wrong, no statement can be proven deductively valid. Opinions change with every wind of doctrine like a reed bending in the wind. I need something more than that to base my life on. So do you. "There is a way of understanding which unto man seems right but the end of which is death." (Separation from God.)
SOME OF THESE pastors operate their churches like their own personal fiefdoms. They tickle the ears of their fan club congregations and tell them anything they think they want to hear but the whole TRUTH. They are no more than hustlers. Many of their converts spend four and five days a week in church but spend little time out there in a dying world that is sick with sin spreading the life saving gospel of Christ which boils down to love God, love each other and love yourself. The ultimate shame is people think these religious people with all their chicanery and deceit are God's representatives when they are not. In fact, God takes no pleasure in them but I love them never the less because as errant as they are they too are the children of God.

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