I like to wonder “what could Jesus see that we cannot see” when he said “you have eyes but cannot see and ears but cannot hear.”
I think Jesus could see Abba and we might know them as acts of (science based) love. We can define acts of (science based) love as “acts which sustain life, acts which enhance life, and/or acts which make life possible.”
We can “be still and know that I am (science based) love.”
We can become aware of all the (science based) love within ourselves and every other living thing.
What acts of (science based) love can I experience when I am still?
When I am still, I can feel my heart beat. Every beat of my heart is an act of (science based) love, for every beat of my heart sustains my life and makes my life possible.
When I am still, I can feel my chest rise, and air coming into my lungs. Every breath is an act of love. Every breath helps sustain my life and make my life possible.
When I am still, I can move my fingers, and every move of my fingers can be an act of love for my fingers can help feed me and sustain my life.
To best recover from the fires, we must focus on all our acts of (science based) love.
For those not closely tied to the fires, they might define “Our (science based) Satan” as “the desire to emit CO2 and greenhouse gases for our own comfort and convenience or to make money without regard to Our (science based) Father’s Creation Mother Earth.” This is similar to the Satan that Jesus the Hunter Gatherer saw in Peter in Matthew 16:21.
Matthew 16: 21 says “From that time on Jesus the Hunter Gatherer began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed..
22 Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. “Never, Lord!” he said. “This shall never happen to you!”
23 Jesus the Hunter Gatherer turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”
Our (science based) Satan is all about human concerns.
Our (science based) Satan is the desire to emit CO2 and greenhouse gases for our own comfort and convenience or to make money without regard to Our (science based) Father’s concerns which are protecting Mother Earth from global warming, climate change and the (science based) Curses in the Book of Deuteronomy.
We can say that Jesus the Hunter Gatherer lay down his life to overcome the Satan within him. Jesus the Hunter Gatherer did not want to be crucified, but he thought Our (science based) Father was commanding him to lay down his life to protect his hunter gatherer sheep.
We know this from the Bible’s John 10 which reads: “I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me— 15 just as Our (science based) Father knows me and I know Our (science based) Father—and I lay down my life for the sheep. 16 I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen…The reason Our (science based) Father loves me is that I lay down my life—only to take it up again. 18 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from Our (science based) Father.”
To help us “see” Our (science based) Satan, we can know that whenever we spend $1, we are emitting about 0.6 pounds of greenhouse gases. We can know this by dividing the per capita greenhouse gas emissions of the United States by the per capita Gross Domestic Product of the United States.
When we sing “We Shall Overcome”, what shall we overcome?
We shall overcome the mindset of our self centered agricultural societies best described by Jared Diamond in his article about agriculture being the worst mistake in the history of the human race.
Thus with the advent of agriculture and élite became better off, but most people became worse off. Instead of swallowing the progressivist party line that we chose agriculture because it was good for us, we must ask how we got trapped by it despite its pitfalls.
One answer boils down to the adage “Might makes right.” Farming could support many more people than hunting, albeit with a poorer quality of life. (Population densities of
hunter-gatherers are rarely over one person per ten square miles, while farmers average 100 times that.) Partly, this is because a field planted entirely in edible crops lets one feed far more mouths than a forest with scattered edible plants. Partly, too, it’s because
nomadic hunter-gatherers have to keep their children spaced at four-year intervals by infanticide and other means, since a mother must carry her toddler until it’s old enough tokeep up with the adults. Because farm women don’t have that burden, they can and often do bear a child every two years.
As population densities of hunter-gatherers slowly rose at the end of the ice ages, bands had to choose between feeding more mouths by taking the first steps toward agriculture, or else finding ways to limit growth. Some bands chose the former solution, unable to
anticipate the evils of farming, and seduced by the transient abundance they enjoyed until population growth caught up with increased food production. Such bands outbred and then drove off or killed the bands that chose to remain hunter-gatherers, because a hundred malnourished farmers can still outfight one healthy hunter. It’s not that hunter-gatherers abandoned their life style, but that those sensible enough not to abandon it were
forced out of all areas except the ones farmers didn’t want.
At this point it’s instructive to recall the common complaint that archaeology is a luxury,
concerned with the remote past, and offering no lessons for the present. Archaeologists studying the rise of farming have reconstructed a crucial stage at which we made the worst mistake in human history. Forced to choose between limiting population or trying
to increase food production, we chose the latter and ended up with starvation, warfare,
and tyranny.
Hunter-gatherers practiced the most successful and longest-lasting life style in human history. In contrast, we’re still struggling with the mess into which agriculture has tumbled us, and it’s unclear whether we can solve it. Suppose that an archaeologist who had visited from outer space were trying to explain human history to his fellow
spacelings. He might illustrate the results of his digs by a 24-hour clock on which one hour represents 100,000 years of real past time. If the history of the human race began at midnight, then we would now be almost at the end of our first day. We lived as hunter-gatherers for nearly the whole of that day, from midnight through dawn, noon, and sunset.
Finally, at 11:54 p. m. we adopted agriculture. As our second midnight approaches, will the plight of famine-stricken peasants gradually spread to engulf us all? Or will we somehow achieve those seductive blessings that we imagine behind agriculture’s glittering façade, and that have so far eluded us?
We must begin preparing Mother Earth for the meek hunter gatherers who will inherit the Earth.
We must begin safely storing nuclear weapons as soon as possible.
Dear Michael Kinman, With the Southern California wildfires of January 7, 2025, does the sky look bronze as in Deuteronomy 28:23 that says “The skies overhead will be like a bronze shield that no rain can penetrate, and the land beneath your feet will be like iron that no seeds can sprout through.”
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) scientists and National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA) scientists and scientists are the California Air Resources Board (CARB) are having trouble communicating the gravity of climate change.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change should be renamed the Intergovernmental Panel of Scientists, District Attorneys, Prosecutors, Mayors, Rabbis and Priests on the (science based) Curses in the Book of Deuteronomy.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency should be renamed the United States Panel of Scientists, District Attorneys, Prosecutors, Mayors, Rabbis and Priests on the (science based) Curses in the Book of Deuteronomy.
The California Air Resources Board should be renamed The California Panel of Scientists, District Attorneys, Prosecutors, Mayors, Rabbis and Priests on the (science based) Curses in the Book of Deuteronomy.
Every agricultural society citizen should be spending 20 minutes a day chatting with ChatGPT about their role in transforming our agricultural societies into hunter gatherer societies.
Rabbis priests and pastors should be discussing how to prepare Mother Earth for the Meek Hunter Gatherers who will be inheriting the earth.
In Section 5 and 6 of his sciencedirect article Our Hunter Gatherer Future John Gowdy predicts global temperatures will continue to rise until crops cannot grow food and there is a catastrophic collapse of world population.
We should program ChatGPT or other computer right now to chat with every agricultural society citizen about their role in transforming our agricultural societies into hunter gatherer societies.
District Attorneys and Prosecutors around the world should charge their agricultural society citizens with Child Endangerment for emitting greenhouse gases, contributing to global warming and rising temperatures and increasing the likelihood of nuclear war.
As Jesus was about to be crucified Luke 23:27 says “A large number of people followed him, including women who mourned and wailed for him. 28 Jesus turned and said to them, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep for yourselves and for your children. 29 For the time will come when you will say, ‘Blessed are the childless women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’
Jesus the Hunter Gatherer was thinking of the Curses in the Book of Deuteronomy 28 that says “You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country. Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed. The fruit of your womb will be cursed, and the crops of your land, and the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks. You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out”
“What Curses in the Book of Deuteronomy are supported by peer reviewed articles and the findings of the IPCC (the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.)?
ChatGPT may answer: “Certainly, if we define a (science-based) God or (science-based) Father as "the laws of science" and "that which established the laws of science at the beginning of time," we can consider the (science-based) interpretation of the Curses in the Book of Deuteronomy in the context of human greenhouse gas emissions. It's important to note that this is a creative reinterpretation, and traditional religious interpretations may differ.
1.Deuteronomy 28:15 (NIV): "However, if you do not obey the Lord your (science based) God’s (laws of science) and emit greenhouse gases when your (science based) God’s Creation Mother Earth already has enough greenhouse gases to end the Little Ice Age of 1850) “all these curses will come on you and overtake you."
2.Deuteronomy 28:23-24 (NIV): "The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron. The Lord will turn the rain of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are destroyed." (Science-Based) Interpretation: The increased greenhouse gas emissions lead to climate change. The smoke from forest fires makes the sky opaque like bronze. Increased greenhouse gas emissions will lead to climate change and droughts that make the earth hard like iron. Increased greenhouse gas emissions will lead to climate change and droughts that turn the earth to dust, and the dust will come down from the skies until crops will no longer grow food. John Gowdy predicts global temperatures will increase until crops cannot grow food, there is world wide starvation and a catastrophic collapse of world population. (3)
5.Deuteronomy 28:62 (NIV): "You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left but few in number, because you did not obey the Lord your God." (Science-Based) Interpretation: Failure to address environmental issues, such as climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions, may lead to population decline due to the resulting challenges, including resource scarcity and conflicts.
Question to ChatGPT: In Deuteronomy 28:62 (NIV): "You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left but few in number, because you did not obey the Lord your God.”
Questions to ChatGPT: If I were Jesus would I think God was commanding me to lay down my life to protect my hunter gatherer sheep and all hunter gatherers and all of life and Mother Earth from the (science based) Curses in the Book of Deuteronomy that will be caused by my greenhouse gas emissions?
Jesus said “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep...
14 “I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me— 15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life for the sheep... 17 The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life—only to take it up again. 18 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.”
Scientists of the IPCC and NOAA and the California Air Resources Board should be telling agricultural society citizens that they cannot live in agricultural societies without emitting greenhouse gases. To abide by the Paris Agreement and end global warming and greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible agricultural societies must transform into hunter gatherer societies. Those who read Mathew 5:5 "Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth." must know that meek hunter gatherers should be inheriting the earth by 2030.
The 2019 United Nations Environmental Programme Gap Report page XIII states “to get in line with the Paris Agreement, emissions must drop 7.6 per cent per year from 2020 to 2030 for the 1.5°C goal.”
World greenhouse gas emissions did not drop 7.6% in 2020, but rose 5%.
World greenhouse gas emissions did not drop 7.6% in 2021, but rose 6%.
Now is the time to prepare Our (science based) Father's Creation Mother Earth for the meek hunter gatherers who should be inheriting Mother Earth by 2030
Two weeks late in getting to this, but... I never thought of this scripture that way (shows that most preachers don't even get it; or if they do, don't want to go there.) John was, it appears. speaking to a mixed crowd; but here, he's addressing the religious leaders. He's calling THEM a brood of vipers, not everybody. And, while the wrath to come is almost always couched today in apocalyptic terms- by those who think our religion is all about some great future outside of this world- it makes a lot of sense to put it in the context of what was going on at the time with groups like the Zealots and Iscariots. And also, the misunderstanding most people had of Jesus, who was not one of them. Those violent movements continued until the Romans finally destroyed the whole country. I think the nascent church (to use your term) survived because it was not that, and was more powerful in its humanity.
The revolution I’m living in my later years is partnership. The dominator narrative needs to be retired. All the music I compose is based in partnership starting with my choral piece Good Trouble. Peace!
You strike again! Bravo. Solid piece that puts the whole matter in perspective, beyond the usual lamentations about people cheering murder. Supporting the health care strikers certainly equips one to understand the stakes.
You strike again! Bravo. Solid piece that puts the whole matter in perspective, beyond the usual lamentations about people cheering murder. Supporting the health care strikers certainly equips one to understand the stakes.
Dear Mike,
I like to wonder “what could Jesus see that we cannot see” when he said “you have eyes but cannot see and ears but cannot hear.”
I think Jesus could see Abba and we might know them as acts of (science based) love. We can define acts of (science based) love as “acts which sustain life, acts which enhance life, and/or acts which make life possible.”
We can “be still and know that I am (science based) love.”
We can become aware of all the (science based) love within ourselves and every other living thing.
What acts of (science based) love can I experience when I am still?
When I am still, I can feel my heart beat. Every beat of my heart is an act of (science based) love, for every beat of my heart sustains my life and makes my life possible.
When I am still, I can feel my chest rise, and air coming into my lungs. Every breath is an act of love. Every breath helps sustain my life and make my life possible.
When I am still, I can move my fingers, and every move of my fingers can be an act of love for my fingers can help feed me and sustain my life.
To best recover from the fires, we must focus on all our acts of (science based) love.
For those not closely tied to the fires, they might define “Our (science based) Satan” as “the desire to emit CO2 and greenhouse gases for our own comfort and convenience or to make money without regard to Our (science based) Father’s Creation Mother Earth.” This is similar to the Satan that Jesus the Hunter Gatherer saw in Peter in Matthew 16:21.
Matthew 16: 21 says “From that time on Jesus the Hunter Gatherer began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed..
22 Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. “Never, Lord!” he said. “This shall never happen to you!”
23 Jesus the Hunter Gatherer turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”
Our (science based) Satan is all about human concerns.
Our (science based) Satan is the desire to emit CO2 and greenhouse gases for our own comfort and convenience or to make money without regard to Our (science based) Father’s concerns which are protecting Mother Earth from global warming, climate change and the (science based) Curses in the Book of Deuteronomy.
We can say that Jesus the Hunter Gatherer lay down his life to overcome the Satan within him. Jesus the Hunter Gatherer did not want to be crucified, but he thought Our (science based) Father was commanding him to lay down his life to protect his hunter gatherer sheep.
We know this from the Bible’s John 10 which reads: “I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me— 15 just as Our (science based) Father knows me and I know Our (science based) Father—and I lay down my life for the sheep. 16 I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen…The reason Our (science based) Father loves me is that I lay down my life—only to take it up again. 18 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from Our (science based) Father.”
To help us “see” Our (science based) Satan, we can know that whenever we spend $1, we are emitting about 0.6 pounds of greenhouse gases. We can know this by dividing the per capita greenhouse gas emissions of the United States by the per capita Gross Domestic Product of the United States.
When we sing “We Shall Overcome”, what shall we overcome?
We shall overcome the mindset of our self centered agricultural societies best described by Jared Diamond in his article about agriculture being the worst mistake in the history of the human race.
https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/classes/188/materials/Diamond-TheWorstMistakeInTheHistoryOfTheHumanRace.pdf
Thus with the advent of agriculture and élite became better off, but most people became worse off. Instead of swallowing the progressivist party line that we chose agriculture because it was good for us, we must ask how we got trapped by it despite its pitfalls.
One answer boils down to the adage “Might makes right.” Farming could support many more people than hunting, albeit with a poorer quality of life. (Population densities of
hunter-gatherers are rarely over one person per ten square miles, while farmers average 100 times that.) Partly, this is because a field planted entirely in edible crops lets one feed far more mouths than a forest with scattered edible plants. Partly, too, it’s because
nomadic hunter-gatherers have to keep their children spaced at four-year intervals by infanticide and other means, since a mother must carry her toddler until it’s old enough tokeep up with the adults. Because farm women don’t have that burden, they can and often do bear a child every two years.
As population densities of hunter-gatherers slowly rose at the end of the ice ages, bands had to choose between feeding more mouths by taking the first steps toward agriculture, or else finding ways to limit growth. Some bands chose the former solution, unable to
anticipate the evils of farming, and seduced by the transient abundance they enjoyed until population growth caught up with increased food production. Such bands outbred and then drove off or killed the bands that chose to remain hunter-gatherers, because a hundred malnourished farmers can still outfight one healthy hunter. It’s not that hunter-gatherers abandoned their life style, but that those sensible enough not to abandon it were
forced out of all areas except the ones farmers didn’t want.
At this point it’s instructive to recall the common complaint that archaeology is a luxury,
concerned with the remote past, and offering no lessons for the present. Archaeologists studying the rise of farming have reconstructed a crucial stage at which we made the worst mistake in human history. Forced to choose between limiting population or trying
to increase food production, we chose the latter and ended up with starvation, warfare,
and tyranny.
Hunter-gatherers practiced the most successful and longest-lasting life style in human history. In contrast, we’re still struggling with the mess into which agriculture has tumbled us, and it’s unclear whether we can solve it. Suppose that an archaeologist who had visited from outer space were trying to explain human history to his fellow
spacelings. He might illustrate the results of his digs by a 24-hour clock on which one hour represents 100,000 years of real past time. If the history of the human race began at midnight, then we would now be almost at the end of our first day. We lived as hunter-gatherers for nearly the whole of that day, from midnight through dawn, noon, and sunset.
Finally, at 11:54 p. m. we adopted agriculture. As our second midnight approaches, will the plight of famine-stricken peasants gradually spread to engulf us all? Or will we somehow achieve those seductive blessings that we imagine behind agriculture’s glittering façade, and that have so far eluded us?
We must begin preparing Mother Earth for the meek hunter gatherers who will inherit the Earth.
We must begin safely storing nuclear weapons as soon as possible.
Dear Michael Kinman, With the Southern California wildfires of January 7, 2025, does the sky look bronze as in Deuteronomy 28:23 that says “The skies overhead will be like a bronze shield that no rain can penetrate, and the land beneath your feet will be like iron that no seeds can sprout through.”
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) scientists and National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA) scientists and scientists are the California Air Resources Board (CARB) are having trouble communicating the gravity of climate change.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change should be renamed the Intergovernmental Panel of Scientists, District Attorneys, Prosecutors, Mayors, Rabbis and Priests on the (science based) Curses in the Book of Deuteronomy.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency should be renamed the United States Panel of Scientists, District Attorneys, Prosecutors, Mayors, Rabbis and Priests on the (science based) Curses in the Book of Deuteronomy.
The California Air Resources Board should be renamed The California Panel of Scientists, District Attorneys, Prosecutors, Mayors, Rabbis and Priests on the (science based) Curses in the Book of Deuteronomy.
Every agricultural society citizen should be spending 20 minutes a day chatting with ChatGPT about their role in transforming our agricultural societies into hunter gatherer societies.
Rabbis priests and pastors should be discussing how to prepare Mother Earth for the Meek Hunter Gatherers who will be inheriting the earth.
In Section 5 and 6 of his sciencedirect article Our Hunter Gatherer Future John Gowdy predicts global temperatures will continue to rise until crops cannot grow food and there is a catastrophic collapse of world population.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016328719303507
We should program ChatGPT or other computer right now to chat with every agricultural society citizen about their role in transforming our agricultural societies into hunter gatherer societies.
District Attorneys and Prosecutors around the world should charge their agricultural society citizens with Child Endangerment for emitting greenhouse gases, contributing to global warming and rising temperatures and increasing the likelihood of nuclear war.
As Jesus was about to be crucified Luke 23:27 says “A large number of people followed him, including women who mourned and wailed for him. 28 Jesus turned and said to them, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep for yourselves and for your children. 29 For the time will come when you will say, ‘Blessed are the childless women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’
Jesus the Hunter Gatherer was thinking of the Curses in the Book of Deuteronomy 28 that says “You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country. Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed. The fruit of your womb will be cursed, and the crops of your land, and the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks. You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out”
We might ask ChatGPT at the following website:
https://chat.openai.com/auth/login
“What Curses in the Book of Deuteronomy are supported by peer reviewed articles and the findings of the IPCC (the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.)?
ChatGPT may answer: “Certainly, if we define a (science-based) God or (science-based) Father as "the laws of science" and "that which established the laws of science at the beginning of time," we can consider the (science-based) interpretation of the Curses in the Book of Deuteronomy in the context of human greenhouse gas emissions. It's important to note that this is a creative reinterpretation, and traditional religious interpretations may differ.
1.Deuteronomy 28:15 (NIV): "However, if you do not obey the Lord your (science based) God’s (laws of science) and emit greenhouse gases when your (science based) God’s Creation Mother Earth already has enough greenhouse gases to end the Little Ice Age of 1850) “all these curses will come on you and overtake you."
2.Deuteronomy 28:23-24 (NIV): "The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron. The Lord will turn the rain of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are destroyed." (Science-Based) Interpretation: The increased greenhouse gas emissions lead to climate change. The smoke from forest fires makes the sky opaque like bronze. Increased greenhouse gas emissions will lead to climate change and droughts that make the earth hard like iron. Increased greenhouse gas emissions will lead to climate change and droughts that turn the earth to dust, and the dust will come down from the skies until crops will no longer grow food. John Gowdy predicts global temperatures will increase until crops cannot grow food, there is world wide starvation and a catastrophic collapse of world population. (3)
5.Deuteronomy 28:62 (NIV): "You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left but few in number, because you did not obey the Lord your God." (Science-Based) Interpretation: Failure to address environmental issues, such as climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions, may lead to population decline due to the resulting challenges, including resource scarcity and conflicts.
Question to ChatGPT: In Deuteronomy 28:62 (NIV): "You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left but few in number, because you did not obey the Lord your God.”
Questions to ChatGPT: If I were Jesus would I think God was commanding me to lay down my life to protect my hunter gatherer sheep and all hunter gatherers and all of life and Mother Earth from the (science based) Curses in the Book of Deuteronomy that will be caused by my greenhouse gas emissions?
Jesus said “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep...
14 “I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me— 15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life for the sheep... 17 The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life—only to take it up again. 18 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.”
Scientists of the IPCC and NOAA and the California Air Resources Board should be telling agricultural society citizens that they cannot live in agricultural societies without emitting greenhouse gases. To abide by the Paris Agreement and end global warming and greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible agricultural societies must transform into hunter gatherer societies. Those who read Mathew 5:5 "Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth." must know that meek hunter gatherers should be inheriting the earth by 2030.
The 2019 United Nations Environmental Programme Gap Report page XIII states “to get in line with the Paris Agreement, emissions must drop 7.6 per cent per year from 2020 to 2030 for the 1.5°C goal.”
https://wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/30797/EGR2019.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
World greenhouse gas emissions did not drop 7.6% in 2020, but rose 5%.
World greenhouse gas emissions did not drop 7.6% in 2021, but rose 6%.
Now is the time to prepare Our (science based) Father's Creation Mother Earth for the meek hunter gatherers who should be inheriting Mother Earth by 2030
Two weeks late in getting to this, but... I never thought of this scripture that way (shows that most preachers don't even get it; or if they do, don't want to go there.) John was, it appears. speaking to a mixed crowd; but here, he's addressing the religious leaders. He's calling THEM a brood of vipers, not everybody. And, while the wrath to come is almost always couched today in apocalyptic terms- by those who think our religion is all about some great future outside of this world- it makes a lot of sense to put it in the context of what was going on at the time with groups like the Zealots and Iscariots. And also, the misunderstanding most people had of Jesus, who was not one of them. Those violent movements continued until the Romans finally destroyed the whole country. I think the nascent church (to use your term) survived because it was not that, and was more powerful in its humanity.
The revolution I’m living in my later years is partnership. The dominator narrative needs to be retired. All the music I compose is based in partnership starting with my choral piece Good Trouble. Peace!
You strike again! Bravo. Solid piece that puts the whole matter in perspective, beyond the usual lamentations about people cheering murder. Supporting the health care strikers certainly equips one to understand the stakes.
You strike again! Bravo. Solid piece that puts the whole matter in perspective, beyond the usual lamentations about people cheering murder. Supporting the health care strikers certainly equips one to understand the stakes.