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21 March 2010 By
Reverend Mark Glenn It’s a dilly of a
pickle for us, no doubt…As a family, we’re as inclined
to neglecting keeping the Lord’s day holy as a soldier
is to going AWOL or burning the flag of his own
country… …That was of course
until 9/11 took place and we saw what a dangerous
place church had become… Not dangerous in the
sense that a bomb may go off at the communion rail (as
happened in Lebanon many years ago, courtesy of
Israel’s Mossad, who wanted to blame it on Islamic
terrorists) or that thing taking place recently just a
few miles south where a Jewish couple (posing as
Christians) entered a church in the West Bank pushing
a baby buggy loaded with explosives, intent upon
blowing up the place and everyone in it… Rather, the kind of
danger I’m talking about is of the more insidious,
silent nature…Not the KABOOM at ground zero wiping
everything off the map in an instant, but rather the
nuclear fallout that goes on killing for generations… What I am of course
referring to here is the plague of stupidity infecting
most (if not all) of today’s Christian churches,
making them too dangerous for me and my brood. Like
some highly-contagious, radioactive flu that (rather
than attacking the respiratory or digestive systems,
instead) makes a B-line for the brain, rendering its
victims unable to think rationally or act morally when
it comes to understanding and dealing with the
Jewish-engineered bloodbath taking place in the very
homeland of Jesus Himself, our response for the last
year or so in terms of church attendance has been
“Thanks, but no thanks.” This clearly isn’t
what we wanted, but ever since the same Jewish
interests that helped bring about this thing known as
9/11 and the accompanying “clash of civilizations”
between the Christian and Muslim worlds succeeded in
detonating a huge dirty bomb in the collective mind of
Western Christians the Geiger counters have been going
off the charts and screaming like banshees that these
places of worship have become too toxic to frequent. Like most eye-openers,
it was something I’ll never forget, the day I “lost my
virginity” as far as the idyllic way I viewed my
fellow church folk. It was immediately after George
Bush made good on his end of the deal to the powerful
Jewish interests who got him elected and started Purim
off with a big bang by bombing the be-Jesus out of
Iraq and Afghanistan. The pictures of the devastation
started pouring out of the event, and of course they
were horrific. A dear friend of mine
from church, older gal who went to mass every day, was
perplexed as to why I would suddenly take up the
strange cause of writing and speaking out against what
was taking place. If I “wanted to be a writer,” she
asked, why didn’t I concentrate my efforts on more
“productive” topics such as the saints, great
“doctors” of the church or something dealing more with
“church” issues? I employed all the
usual methods in trying to make her understand why I
would do such a crazy thing as speaking out against
mass murder of millions of innocent people. I used
aspects of our own Christian theology as justification
and asked her to consider what side of the equation
Jesus would be on were He here. I might as well have
been speaking a dialect of Martian for all the headway
I was making with her, so I decided to pull out the
big guns, in this case, a picture. As we all know,
words can be cheap (or at least negotiable in an
argument) but pictures–speaking as they do a language
that the mouth cannot even begin to approach in being
effective–are hard to overcome. I was confident it
would distress her deeply, since only someone with ice
cubes clinking in his or her veins could see such a
thing and not be moved… The little boy in the
pic was no more than probably 8 years old…He was lying
on a dirty blanket of some sort on top of a pile of
rubble… The terror and agony on his face–demonstrated
by the fact he was screaming at the very moment the
picture was taken–were impossible to avoid noticing. The reason he was
screaming was obvious to anyone looking at the
picture, including my friend, the church lady. At
least 80% of his torso was covered in a pinkish,
almost translucent kind of hue. Upon closer
examination you could see it was not blood however,
but rather his exposed flesh, because his skin had
been burned away, courtesy of some bomb dropped on his
home that read “Made In The USA” on it. As terrible as the
picture was, it did not compare with what I saw on my
friend’s face. I looked at her as she looked at the
picture and there was, well, nothing. Nothing
whatsoever. No reaction. No shock. No pity. Her
expression was the same as that of blind people, who,
although they look at you with open and otherwise
normal-looking eyes, nevertheless reveal nothing of
anything that might be going on upstairs. And although I was not
(and am not) a mind reader, I think I have a pretty
good idea what was going through her head as she
looked at the pic. I had heard it many times, both
before, during, and after the start of the war when
folks of the self-righteous variety were discussing
similar situations taking place in other parts of the
world– “He’s not a
Christian…He’s one of those terrible, hell-bound
Mohammedans and whatever it was he and the others
around him are going through, well, we can’t say for
sure, but more than likely this is happening because
God is offended with their non-Christian status and
therefore has withdrawn His divine protection…” Unfortunately this was
to become a semi-regular nauseating spectacle I would
become more and more acquainted with as time went on.
Week after week as the war continued and as more,
more, and yet even more moral outrages and human
suffering were piled up high to heaven, not a blip on
the spiritual EKG from the bulk of the people there,
both shepard and flock alike. Yes, thank God
(literally) there were a few odd birds like me and my
motley crew (wife and kids) but in general there was
no great stampede to join our new clique. Slowly but
surely we became outcasts, no different than at any
typical school in America where geeks and rejects with
interests and hobbies outside the mainstream sat at
their own lunch table and did their own thing. We tolerated it for a
while, quietly grinding our teeth and shaking our
heads in mild disgust as we listened to the “expert
analysis” of recently-self-appointed-such-and-such
specialists on the topics of Islam, terrorism and the
Middle East as they made perfect idiots of
themselves by smugly regurgitating the official party
line regarding “the Mohammedans” scripted for them by
Jewish interests. We watched as our
weekly gathering place slowly but surely morphed from
a church dedicated to the teachings of the Prince of
Peace into a synagogue, complete with brazen,
shameless flirting with the same kind of mindless
bloodlust found in the Old Testament until that moment
of truth indeed did arrive and the threshold between
moderately-intolerable and unbearable had been
crossed. The next thing we knew, we found ourselves
walking away from it all, quoting the cartoon
character Popeye’s infamous “That’s all we can
stands ‘cause we can’t stands no more…” It was not an easy
thing for us, because the truth is, we wanted religion
and still do. We know that without a higher power of
some sort instructing us on the do’s and don’ts of
this insane rat race we call human existence that more
than likely we’ll eventually wind up in some pretty
hot soup of some sort. Despite the abundance of
superficial and circumstantial evidence making the
rounds these days, we don’t buy into the notion that
more bad has come from religion than good.
Historically speaking, pound for pound, real
religion–like real science–has been much more of a
help for mankind than a hindrance, despite the fact it
has been at the center of some real whoppers over
time. Those who argue that all religion is bad and
focus only on the negatives are no different than the
organized anti-gun crowd who see guns only as a source
of evil while discounting all the evil that guns
prevent. Now however, the
seasons have clearly changed…What was once
(presumably) pristine, immaculate and inviolable has
been turned on its ear…Christian churches in the
West–irrespective of whatever flavor they offer on
their menu–have for various reasons and in various
manners become cauldrons of mental illness. Once
sanitariums and sanctuaries from a diseased and
decrepit world, now like Dr. Jekyll turning into Mr.
Hyde they have become breeding grounds for this
seemingly incurable plague that manifests itself in
pathological stupidity not seen since 33 AD in a place
called Calvary. The fact is however,
as anyone can attest, it is difficult to impossible to
quit anything cold turkey. Like a girl who walks away
from a bad boyfriend who treats her like dirt and
cheats on her at every opportunity, eventually she
succumbs to the powerful inducements of his empty
promises and her own string of lonely Friday nights
and goes back to him… And we, being no
different in that regard, were just about at that
point…Lent had just started, and as such we began the
yearly remembrance of what happened 2,000 years ago
when a brave, righteous guy named Jesus went up
against the ADL, JDL, AIPAC and other powerful Jewish
groups of His own day and the price He had to pay by
doing so. And naturally, like
someone turning on a switch, the magnetic pull to
return to our former stomping grounds began…As
inviting as crystal-clear water at the beach on a hot
summer day, we actually started making our plans for
the upcoming Easter mass… And then, just as we
started heading down the beach towards those
cleansing, baptismal waters, I saw it, just for a
second, that tell-tale, unmistakable dorsal fin poking
up out of the waterline telling me it was not yet safe
to take the big plunge… The dorsal fin in this
case was an article forwarded to me by some of my
former church folk. You know how it is when you get on
one of those lists, one person gets something and
sends it, and then it is passed on by others, and so
on and so on. Entitled “Facing
Extinction: Christians in Iraq,” it was an
article written by one Sonja Corbitt appearing on the
www.catholic.org website. Before I had even set eyes
on the opening lines of the text, in the back of my
head I could hear the infamous and foreboding 2-note
“tuh, duh” theme from the movie Jaws heard every time
the main character of that film was about to rip some
poor soul into ribbons. Without getting into
too much of the gory, grisly details, suffice it to
say it is what we would call “showroom quality” in
terms of the stupidity it embodies. Predictably, it
carries the unmistakable odor that all those with
sensitive noses have come to experience these days
when it comes to “news” coming out of the Jewish
mainstream media regarding the “existential threat”
posed by the Mooooozlims to the Christian West. She
cites the “alarming rise in political, jihadist
Islam that is systematically annihilating Christians
all over the world” , characterizing it with all
the same toxic, radioactive duplicity of it being
“a religious war”, replete with the obligatory
misquoting of the Koran that Christians have been
subjected to now for almost a decade Since 9/11. And of course, the
real kicker, which is to pin all of this bloodshed–not
on the powerful Jewish interests that pulled George
Bush’s chain in getting this war started or the fact
that Mossad and CIA have been working for years to get
a religious war started in the very area where all
this is taking place–but rather the fact that Obama’s
TALK of removing US troops from Iraq is “emboldening”
these bloodthirsty Moooozlims into engaging in this
behavior. Well, the rest is,
tragically, all too predictable. The back-and-forthing
taking place between my fellow Christianites who
suddenly found righteous indignation over what was
happening in Iraq was the typical chatter you’d find
amongst a group of fish dumb enough to bite down on
anything, even a bare hook with no bait on it– ”HOW DARE THEY…CAN YOU
BELIEVE THIS???…SOMETHING’S JUST GOTTA BE DONE FOR
THESE POOR PEOPLE” …and of course, the
solution, left subtly in the article with diabolical
cleverness– “Write your
representative in Congress and demand that he or she
put pressure on Obama not to remove US Troops from the
area…” Keep in mind that
these were the same folks who couldn’t give the
proverbial rat’s ass over what was being done to the
Muslims, slaughtered to the tune of–as of the moment
of this writing–over a million and whose collective
response to the whole thing was a mindless shrug of
the shoulders in self-righteous “BFD” fashion. To a certain degree I
can deal with the treachery of individuals such as the
muy estimada Sonja Corbitt writing this piece. After
all, it is not by happenstance that journalists in the
West today are referred to disparagingly as “presstitutes”.
She knows who signs the paychecks these days and as
such is willing to engage in just about any kind of
immoral, dirty behavior in making her customer happy. I suppose I have no
business getting overly angry about it. After all,
there’s an instance described in the gospels where
Jesus, having just given one of his award-winning
sermons to–of all people–His 12 apostles, warning them
about how dangerous the “leaven of the Pharisees” was,
returned a few minutes later only to find them
debating and discussing bread and with Jesus
bewildered at their thickness of intellect. As Paul
said, nothing changes…there is nothing new under the
sun. And likewise I suppose
with those of the flock today, who have proven on a
regular basis they can be seduced and mesmerized into
believing just about anything by the very same Jewish
interests who have waged ceaseless war against the
civilization built upon the revolutionary ideas and
teachings from the same carpenter from Nazareth they
would crucify all over again were He here today. Christians of today,
meet your twin sister, Little Red Riding Hood, who,
while all her senses screamed at her that she was a
mere few millimeters away from her own death,
nevertheless allowed the sweet talkin’ wolf dressed as
grandma to distract her right up to the moment lunch
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