Waging the Same-Sex Marriage Culture War
Last night I caught the tail end of a PBS Newshour conversation between a gal representing the same-sex marriage proponents and a guy representing the traditional marriage proponents. What I caught was a verbal boxing match over the constitutionality and legality of the issue, and what struck me was how much the guy appealed to Obama as one who supported this claim or that claim they'd made, while the gal merely trumpeted all the same pap about certain lawful protections of one's supposed rights claims.
Here were two eloquent ambassadors duking it out in the culture war, showcased on national television as if it was Friday Night Fights. Thing is, they both belong to the same team.
They're both megaphone holders for the World System.
In one corner was the guy, representing the Devout Romanists, eager to denounce same-sex marriage, but doing so from the ministry of condemnation. In the other corner was the gal, representing the Radical Selfists, talking up the idea that people should be able to do aaaaanything they want and anyone who tries to stop them are bigoted narrow-minded intolerant homophobic Neanderthals.
Right there under the lights for all to witness, the only two options of belief about the way things should be, displayed in all their glory. Just those two. You're one or the other. That's them all right.
The problem is that they will never share the third way, well, sometimes I write those kinds of things in caps because The Third Way (there ya go) is a person, simply that -- He is simply Him.
Jesus Christ.
There's that guy again. Huhyump. What's He got to do with it.
It is easy for so many to dismiss Him and what He says about these kinds of things. The Devout Romanists have their version of Him, often depicted as limply hanging dead on a cross. Other versions include the one who is just a statue or picture or mental image for us to give lip service to when in church, but really having no impact on things that really matter. The Radical Selfists have their version, one they either dismiss as a ponderous fairy tale or extend the slightest respect because some of the things he said were kind of like the things Gandhi or Martin Luther King Jr. said.
In fact I came across this piece written by Ronald Reagan's son, and the piece is quite telling. His call to have the church rise up and say something about this same-sex marriage thing is extraordinarily plaintive. Yes, homosexual activity is a cruel evil, and the now widespread celebration of it is just as wicked, but the fact is churches are pretty much impotent in having any impact because they themselves have sold out to the World System from which the culture war festers.
The amazing thing is that Reagan closes his piece with a call to churches to give up their 501c3's if it means standing on principle in all this.
Please excuse me for a minute: "Ahh-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!"
Sorry, but I do feel it a bit when it comes to churches that say they're Christian but clutch their 501c3 obligations like, well, like a god. I'm not disrespecting them at all if they say they're Roman Catholic and live out Cain's agency of condemnation as good, dutiful little minions must. And if you are a 501c3 and accept all the goodies that come from it, you are doing the work of the Roman Catholic Institution. Sheez, so many are so intractably mesmerized by the World they don't even know what that means. "But we like the Roman Catholic Church! [Insert gigantic smiley face emoticon here]" I shake my head, but then, there it is. Can't disrespect them for doing what their heart truly tells them to do.
It is those churches who proport to contain people who have Jesus' name on their lips that think they have any impact on people's lives when they're just doing the work of Devout Romanists. They don't know diddly about what to think or say about homosexualism and just slink back while catatonically beholding a world of young people get sucked into the most wretched sexual enslavement.
And the appeals to the U.S. Constitution. How much "Christian church" people think that is their savior. It is pukifying. For one, it is quite ironic that the Supreme Court has been hearing these arguments about what is really at the core of this discourse: what is sexuality and how can it be governed, something that they absolutely cannot use the Constitution to do. Look at the abject confusion by all trying to define it describe it explain it comprehend it -- it is a joke! All these people trying to weigh a planet with a ruler!
What we do with sexuality is a moral issue. Nine old people in black robes can't do it. Ironically the Constitution does say something about the way people behave, though, and that is relevant. And just as ironically, if the World System is all there is, then same-sex marriage should indeed be legalized, because the law is wholly necessary to moderate people's sin. Homosexual activity and the widespread endorsement of sodomy is a sin, so yes, let's bring that law in here for this.
I'm almost waiting for a Supreme Court justice to ask, "So, is the homosexual activity that you want sanctioned, is it anything that is criminal?" If the proponents say no, then the justice should reply "Why are you here then?" If they say yes, then the justice should be replying, "Then what are we waiting for? Let's apply the full force of the law on this, and let's go to lunch for goodness sake!"
It's just...
Jesus is not about any of this.
That is, unless the putrid body of death seen in it all brings people to Him, and to His love and mercy and forgiveness and salvation and joy.
_
In my last post I'd listed a number of brief things that get to the heart of what the same-sex arguments are missing. In my last webzine home page, I wrote about the meaning of the Constitution. I've also written a bit about the real deal with 501c3's.
Here were two eloquent ambassadors duking it out in the culture war, showcased on national television as if it was Friday Night Fights. Thing is, they both belong to the same team.
They're both megaphone holders for the World System.
In one corner was the guy, representing the Devout Romanists, eager to denounce same-sex marriage, but doing so from the ministry of condemnation. In the other corner was the gal, representing the Radical Selfists, talking up the idea that people should be able to do aaaaanything they want and anyone who tries to stop them are bigoted narrow-minded intolerant homophobic Neanderthals.
Right there under the lights for all to witness, the only two options of belief about the way things should be, displayed in all their glory. Just those two. You're one or the other. That's them all right.
The problem is that they will never share the third way, well, sometimes I write those kinds of things in caps because The Third Way (there ya go) is a person, simply that -- He is simply Him.
Jesus Christ.
There's that guy again. Huhyump. What's He got to do with it.
It is easy for so many to dismiss Him and what He says about these kinds of things. The Devout Romanists have their version of Him, often depicted as limply hanging dead on a cross. Other versions include the one who is just a statue or picture or mental image for us to give lip service to when in church, but really having no impact on things that really matter. The Radical Selfists have their version, one they either dismiss as a ponderous fairy tale or extend the slightest respect because some of the things he said were kind of like the things Gandhi or Martin Luther King Jr. said.
In fact I came across this piece written by Ronald Reagan's son, and the piece is quite telling. His call to have the church rise up and say something about this same-sex marriage thing is extraordinarily plaintive. Yes, homosexual activity is a cruel evil, and the now widespread celebration of it is just as wicked, but the fact is churches are pretty much impotent in having any impact because they themselves have sold out to the World System from which the culture war festers.
The amazing thing is that Reagan closes his piece with a call to churches to give up their 501c3's if it means standing on principle in all this.
Please excuse me for a minute: "Ahh-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!"
Sorry, but I do feel it a bit when it comes to churches that say they're Christian but clutch their 501c3 obligations like, well, like a god. I'm not disrespecting them at all if they say they're Roman Catholic and live out Cain's agency of condemnation as good, dutiful little minions must. And if you are a 501c3 and accept all the goodies that come from it, you are doing the work of the Roman Catholic Institution. Sheez, so many are so intractably mesmerized by the World they don't even know what that means. "But we like the Roman Catholic Church! [Insert gigantic smiley face emoticon here]" I shake my head, but then, there it is. Can't disrespect them for doing what their heart truly tells them to do.
It is those churches who proport to contain people who have Jesus' name on their lips that think they have any impact on people's lives when they're just doing the work of Devout Romanists. They don't know diddly about what to think or say about homosexualism and just slink back while catatonically beholding a world of young people get sucked into the most wretched sexual enslavement.
And the appeals to the U.S. Constitution. How much "Christian church" people think that is their savior. It is pukifying. For one, it is quite ironic that the Supreme Court has been hearing these arguments about what is really at the core of this discourse: what is sexuality and how can it be governed, something that they absolutely cannot use the Constitution to do. Look at the abject confusion by all trying to define it describe it explain it comprehend it -- it is a joke! All these people trying to weigh a planet with a ruler!
What we do with sexuality is a moral issue. Nine old people in black robes can't do it. Ironically the Constitution does say something about the way people behave, though, and that is relevant. And just as ironically, if the World System is all there is, then same-sex marriage should indeed be legalized, because the law is wholly necessary to moderate people's sin. Homosexual activity and the widespread endorsement of sodomy is a sin, so yes, let's bring that law in here for this.
I'm almost waiting for a Supreme Court justice to ask, "So, is the homosexual activity that you want sanctioned, is it anything that is criminal?" If the proponents say no, then the justice should reply "Why are you here then?" If they say yes, then the justice should be replying, "Then what are we waiting for? Let's apply the full force of the law on this, and let's go to lunch for goodness sake!"
It's just...
Jesus is not about any of this.
That is, unless the putrid body of death seen in it all brings people to Him, and to His love and mercy and forgiveness and salvation and joy.
_
In my last post I'd listed a number of brief things that get to the heart of what the same-sex arguments are missing. In my last webzine home page, I wrote about the meaning of the Constitution. I've also written a bit about the real deal with 501c3's.
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