That We Are Underlings
Cassius is famous for saying, "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves." It seems most times this quote is shared, the last key part of it is omitted. Cassius closes by saying
That we are underlings.
He acknowledges that they've allowed Caesar to do that thing he does so well, crack heads of evildoers. What most just don't get is that if they are an evildoer, then Caesar is going to crack heads. Don't like it, tough darts.
On the front page of today's Los Angeles Times was an article about a Catholic priest with a book out about how Rome needs to get cracking and really do something about the sex abuse scandal. Turns out top Catholic guy in LA, Roger Mahoney, is joining a few other top Catholic big-shots to discourage the guy from going on his book tour.
"Ooo," many will gleam, "The Catholic Church is reeling! The jig is up! This guy is on to them!"
The fact is, this is a great publicity move by these guys. It persuades so many to think that this guy, his name is Geoffrey Robinson, has really got the goods about the Catholic Church and that if everyone would just listen to him, the Catholic Church would be all good again.
What a ruse. The Roman Catholic Church will always be a demonic institution through-and-through, but one set in motion by God Himself to manage the sin of those who refuse to come to Him by His Son. God will destroy it on the last day after serves its purposes, which means that nothing anyone does to try to change it, reform it, improve it or any of that is futile.
The Robinson-Mahoney tiff is just culture war skirmishing, precisely calculated to get people to throw their support to the church one way or the other.
Interestingly, in the Op-Ed section was a piece about how Scott McClellan took the red pill and saw the truth about George Bush and Iraq and all the lies oh all the lying! I chuckle at the way so many use The Matrix metaphor to boast about how someone now sees things their way.
The fact is George Bush is out to crack heads because he has so many underlings, including Mark Dery the author of the piece. Dery thinks he is out of the Matrix, but he's just in another nice looking room within it. He goes around blithering about how evil George Bush is and all that we should be doing to oppose such badness.
Hey, he kind of sounds like Brutus, really. Yeah, you're right Cassius, I coulda taken him down, I coulda.
I was just in the Matrix the whole time, duh, stupid me.
If Dery or any of those being played by Mahoney were to actually be out of the Matrix, they'd understand a few key things.
One, there is a World and there is a Kingdom. People in the World are no different from those in the Matrix. It is just there are so many who spout about their stuff in that place, and a lot over there doing the same, and the two just hate each other and do what they can to rail about it.
Two, those in the Kingdom are only there by One Way. Jesus Christ. Oh, excuse me, the Jesus Christ, the one who has the real vibrant universe in His hands but won't deny someone their choice to eat steak and drink wine in their pathetic little world with their pathetic little Jesus puppets.
And three, by making Jesus their Lord, Kingdom dwellers cannot be the underlings of Caesar, and as such have nothing to say about what he does in his job. He does his job as he will, and all his minions do their jobs well when they get more and more people to be tempted by the lie.
Geoffrey Robinson by pretending brilliantly that the Catholic Church can be salvaged.
Roger Mahoney by protesting a bit much deftly drawing attention to the neat spiffy things in the Matrix.
Scott McClellan by getting more people impassioned about an agent of Caesar no one can do a thing about-- oh but it feels so good!
Mark Dery by valiantly painting himself and other righteous crusaders as the ones on the side of truth only because it is so obvious how much Bush lies.
We should give a big kudos to these underlings, doing their jobs so well. Maybe they will do their jobs so well that
People will actually see the horror of this body of death and want to get out of it.
And perhaps there will indeed be some followers of Christ around who bear the wounds of love He did, and who will touch them with His love.
That we are underlings.
He acknowledges that they've allowed Caesar to do that thing he does so well, crack heads of evildoers. What most just don't get is that if they are an evildoer, then Caesar is going to crack heads. Don't like it, tough darts.
On the front page of today's Los Angeles Times was an article about a Catholic priest with a book out about how Rome needs to get cracking and really do something about the sex abuse scandal. Turns out top Catholic guy in LA, Roger Mahoney, is joining a few other top Catholic big-shots to discourage the guy from going on his book tour.
"Ooo," many will gleam, "The Catholic Church is reeling! The jig is up! This guy is on to them!"
The fact is, this is a great publicity move by these guys. It persuades so many to think that this guy, his name is Geoffrey Robinson, has really got the goods about the Catholic Church and that if everyone would just listen to him, the Catholic Church would be all good again.
What a ruse. The Roman Catholic Church will always be a demonic institution through-and-through, but one set in motion by God Himself to manage the sin of those who refuse to come to Him by His Son. God will destroy it on the last day after serves its purposes, which means that nothing anyone does to try to change it, reform it, improve it or any of that is futile.
The Robinson-Mahoney tiff is just culture war skirmishing, precisely calculated to get people to throw their support to the church one way or the other.
Interestingly, in the Op-Ed section was a piece about how Scott McClellan took the red pill and saw the truth about George Bush and Iraq and all the lies oh all the lying! I chuckle at the way so many use The Matrix metaphor to boast about how someone now sees things their way.
The fact is George Bush is out to crack heads because he has so many underlings, including Mark Dery the author of the piece. Dery thinks he is out of the Matrix, but he's just in another nice looking room within it. He goes around blithering about how evil George Bush is and all that we should be doing to oppose such badness.
Hey, he kind of sounds like Brutus, really. Yeah, you're right Cassius, I coulda taken him down, I coulda.
I was just in the Matrix the whole time, duh, stupid me.
If Dery or any of those being played by Mahoney were to actually be out of the Matrix, they'd understand a few key things.
One, there is a World and there is a Kingdom. People in the World are no different from those in the Matrix. It is just there are so many who spout about their stuff in that place, and a lot over there doing the same, and the two just hate each other and do what they can to rail about it.
Two, those in the Kingdom are only there by One Way. Jesus Christ. Oh, excuse me, the Jesus Christ, the one who has the real vibrant universe in His hands but won't deny someone their choice to eat steak and drink wine in their pathetic little world with their pathetic little Jesus puppets.
And three, by making Jesus their Lord, Kingdom dwellers cannot be the underlings of Caesar, and as such have nothing to say about what he does in his job. He does his job as he will, and all his minions do their jobs well when they get more and more people to be tempted by the lie.
Geoffrey Robinson by pretending brilliantly that the Catholic Church can be salvaged.
Roger Mahoney by protesting a bit much deftly drawing attention to the neat spiffy things in the Matrix.
Scott McClellan by getting more people impassioned about an agent of Caesar no one can do a thing about-- oh but it feels so good!
Mark Dery by valiantly painting himself and other righteous crusaders as the ones on the side of truth only because it is so obvious how much Bush lies.
We should give a big kudos to these underlings, doing their jobs so well. Maybe they will do their jobs so well that
People will actually see the horror of this body of death and want to get out of it.
And perhaps there will indeed be some followers of Christ around who bear the wounds of love He did, and who will touch them with His love.
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