Theocentric Musings

Today many men and women will stand on stages and claim to be speaking for God.   Many of them will share messages that contradict each other. Many will share messages that go against the non violent, enemy loving teachings of Jesus. Many of them won't share a message of beating weapons into plow shares but a message of stocking up in even more weapons. Many won't share a message of reaching out t o our neighbors, but a message to fear our neighbors. Many will share a message not that we have overcame, but that we are under attack and must overcome others by force. Many will place you under laws and bondage that never applied to Gentiles.   Please, don't listen to your emotions, don't listen to political rhetoric, don't listen to fear, don't listen to lies, listen to your heart.   Don't be deceived, your heart will guide you to Love. Love doesn't do what many "men and women of God" will tell you God does. Please trust Love, not the many mess...

They had reached a point in time years before where facts no longer mattered, opinion did. People themselves didn't want to hear facts because with the facts came responsibilities to uphold the "right" thing, and many due to their own biases, bigotry, hatred, or prejudices were clamoring for a way to escape guilt over supporting actions their conscience told them was wrong.  Those in power quickly realized what the public was clamoring for and they placed enormous sums into controlling public opinion, they realized that they could get away with any atrocious acts if they simply manipulated people into believing their lies. The lies became more and more brazen, but the people still wallowed in them like pigs in slop.  A time came where it became an every day occurrence. The worst part was when those who are to have a different mind relished in the whispers of deception and gladly ate of the dark bile they were being fed out of the mouths of serpents. They began to s...

Hope will never come in the form of a politician, in the shape of an animal, nor draped in red, white, and blue. Mainstream Christianity has decided to involve itself quite intimately into war, politics, and nationalism. It's almost like witnessing ourselves in the throes of adultery against the One whom we are married to when we finally open our eyes to where much of our "love" actually belongs. Oh, how we never should have trusted the lies. When I hear that one party or the other is the "Christian party", or that one country or another is a "Christian nation" I throw up a little in my mouth and then I shake my head because we all have gotten sold a bad bill of goods by leaders (of the church) and teachers (of the church) for far too many years. But any destruction of this country has been in the works for more than 8 years, and overlapped both parties, it's not surprisingly represented by gold, and is known by the name of greed. Envision a ser...

One of the biggest lies in modern Christianity in the U.S. is this: That generations that were raised on Bronson, Eastwood, Stallone, Schwarzenegger, and Statham have it stuck in their minds that Jesus is an angry figure with his shirt torn off showing his chiseled chest, glistening with sweat, draped in red, white, and blue, riding on the barrel of a M1 tank, and holding an M60 with the ammo belt wrapped around his arm tearing His so called "enemies" apart. And of course in their mind His "enemies" are the people they don't agree with, politically, societally, spiritually, racially, sexually, or theologically. That is a lie straight from a satanic pit, cleanse your mind of this falsehood and renew your mind. Jesus isn't some single minded, vengeance filled, retaliatory, muscled up, jock type action hero, quick to shoot first and ask questions later. He is so far beyond what our minds, manipulated by Hollywood blockbusters, consider a hero, and...

  It's funny with all the times I share that the bible doesn't make the claims people do about itself, those same people do so many things that are not biblical even though they cling so strongly to this inerrant argument and try to beat me up with scriptures. I seem to hold the words of scripture in higher esteem than they do, knowing it is not inerrant. Ok, if you follow your bible stop crying out for "more" of God, you have the fullness. Stop asking for God's presence, He will never leave or forsake you, or that you are separated from Him, nothing can separate you from His Love. Stop calling yourself a sinner, you are a Saint. Stop holding on to your old man, the old man is dead, you are a new creation. Stop "carrying your cross" you carry it once and then you died with Him, you were buried with Him, and you rose with Him. I could go on and on showing how unbiblical the most biblical claim to be. There are 3 things you need to really understan...

  Sounds good on paper, but there's one thing that gets forgotten. You do have to actually be compassionate to be "compassionate". The definition of compassionate is a deep feeling of sympathy and sorrow for another. Synonyms of compassiona te are commiserate, mercy, tenderness, clemency. Look up the definitions of these words. How many that share a trope like this one actually express compassion? 90%? 75%? 50%? 25%? 10%? 5%? 1%? Based on my experience not many are actually compassionate, that's saddens me because it takes a great message and turns it into an ugly platitude. So maybe there are 3 huge lies our culture has accepted, the 3rd would be that our culture has redefined being compassionate into some kind of caricature of it's true meaning, and have actually redefined it as compassion's antonyms. Our culture, including the Christian culture, loves to speak crass while pointing out other people's shortcomings with vitriol, usually whi...

I wonder how insecure, guilt ridden and scared some people must be to go to such great lengths to ostracize and portray a very nice, well mannered, polite and respectful man as something he's not. Why do some people not question what is clearly an untruth in front of them simply because a friend or family member says it's so? The only way to truly know someone is to get to know that person.

"Obey, Consume, Conform, Breed, Watch T.V., Lies Are Truth, Stay Afraid, War Is Peace, Black Is Bad" - author unknown

We used to share everything from a diamond to a rose, and when somebody asked you, the love for me it showed. Now that I feel the loss of you, I don’t have much of a clue, My world is telling me all the wrong things to do. I feel so confused, but you see something other than my words, I float through a shiny window through a tapestry of birds. If I knew, my life would be merry, I’d be so complete today, But in this world I’m used to, the answer is the wrong thing to say. My world is a desert with heat that never goes away, I wake up to voices that blow my haze astray. Did you know, your hair is like rain drops, your eyes can see right into my soul, My soul is like a bed of flowers, but all you envision is musty coal. We used to dream, so it seemed, about all the things we would try, It seemed the only thing that we’d do right together was cry. Then you walked, and you talked, so normal and routine, the sky got so cloudy, the wind came from nowhere, I remember a wondrou...