Wonderful Matters

I'd like to put up a brief post as just a follow-up to my last post about the millennia-long world war that wages interminably all about. In my devotional time this morning I was reading the passage that I think does the best in elucidating the ungrafted church's mentality and behavior in the face of the roiling evil that spews regularly from a fully Catholicized World . Here, I cannot go any further without sharing a good part of it with you: Therefore, since through God’s mercy we have this ministry, we do not lose heart. Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God. And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the ima...

In my last post "The New Very Hot Civil War" I made mention of the metastasizing violence marauding across the United States, threatening to split the country apart -- literally, with secession movements and everything. I do consider serious qualifications about that whole thing that mitigate any of that actually happening, but the fear and loathing is festering and steaming all the same. As much as people try to slough off its lethality, it is resulting in people dying. I could put up an entire webzine piece just to document those ways. In fact I kind-of have, with a rough sketch of the standard-practice institutionalized human sacrificing that occurs on a regular basis... Around the globe. ...And has been going on for, well, several millennia now. Sorry, not new . Sorry, but World War II was just a particularly loud manifestation of the warfare. A couple weeks ago I was thinking about this and thinking about the Twilight Zone  episode "The Howling Man." You may ...