Christians Skew Biblical Verses To Make Invalid Points

This is a pic that a Christian conservative friend placed on my Facebook Timeline this past week.  He knows I have a good understanding of scripture and he also knows that I'm a Libertarian.  I think he wanted to provoke some kind of response from me...  Well, I reposted it for all my friends to see and thought I should also share with you...

Take a good look at this and think about it... This is what is known as ambiguous association of two different pieces of subject matter that ARE NOT relevant to one another...

The Bible verse being quoted, is a good one. It talks about taking action, hence most people during the time that the scripture was written, took action using their right hands (left handed people were sometimes accused of being heretics or maligned in some kind of way, considered unnatural or passive)...

But the terms Left Wing and Right Wing actual stem from a time during the French Revolution. You had the liberators (i.e. the common folk) who chose to sit on the left hand side of the assembly hall) and you had the Nobility (or the Establishment) who sat on the right side of the assembly hall. The President over the General Assembly sat at the center. They way the seats were positioned in the hall made them appear to be wings that fanned out from the Center seat.

So respect the verse in the Bible. Don't take it out of context to try to justify a holier than though attitude over those with an opposing politicial ideology. It's smacks of self righteousness. I do not mean to offend anyone, but in truth, to say that your party is back by God when both parties in the US pass so many laws together that GO AGAINST GOD, is hypocritical...

That being said, I'm a Libertarian... I believe in a smaller government as ordained by the founders of our Country through the Constitution and the Bill of Rights... That makes me "right winged", or ultra Conservative on MANY of our nations issues...

But I'm not holier than you because I'm ultra Conservative. I believe in Freedom and Liberty... More importantly, I believe in Truth, not deception of self indulgence through ambiguous association.... 

NOW....

Let me add something to what I didn't on FB.  We could also apply this to left handed and right handed people.  However, a person who is left handed has been scientifically proven to use their right side of the brains and right handed people (over 90% of the population) use the left side of their brains...

I can make an ambiguous association with this bible verse and state that Left handed people follow God's path and all right handed people are fools...  Why, because "heart" as used in this verse means conscience, which scientifically is stored in the brain, not the organ that pumps blood through your body....


But then again, is calling someone a fool really an insult?  I mean, the Bible does state that you should never call someone a fool (Matthew 5:22).  But another old term for fool was "jester", or court entertainers...  Successful "fools" were the most entertaining ones that successfully garnished admiration from Monarchs and Nobility alike through wit, displays of amazing dexterity (like juggling) and satire...  Entertainers, who were some of the most craftiest people of the land...

So don't be foolish and pretend to be witty and make Biblical references to things that are not relevant to history.  We know the history of where the terms left wing and right wing came from and it is heavily documented...

Suppressing Ego and Universal Connections

This morning, The Witches Voice posted an article on their FB page about a recent study of shrooms, you know, the kind that people use to "trip".

In this study, it was discovered that the hallucinogen found  in the mushrooms, psilocybin, actually suppressed key activity areas of the brain, in contrast to the belief that it created and activated new connections, thus "opening the mind".

Specifically, psilocybin suppressed an area of the human brain that scientists refer to as the "default mode network", a part that they don't quite understand how it operates, but is responsible for "a balanced sense of consciousness and ego through self-reflection".

This really got my brain whirling.  In a very scientific answer, I saw a spiritual revelation, an epiphany, if you will.  Many religions in the world talk about letting go "of yourself" and letting Divinity take control of the situation in order to "feel" Divinity.

I'm a huge believer in personal empowerment and mind over matter.  I believe that we have that divine spark that dwells within us that allows us to manifest and to create change. 

Is it possible for us to use meditation and essentially suppress this "default mode network" through sheer force of will?  Why not?  Buddhists monks can regulate their heart beats, blood pressure and more utilizing meditation.

So perhaps the problem with us being able to connect to the Universal Conciseness isn't a problem with not having enough personal power, but too much Ego, too much awareness of self?  To much focus and involvement in the local stimuli of our environment that inhibits us from performing what we naturally do, connect with everything around us, intuitively?  Our evolved minds hinder and prohibit our innate connection to nature?

People that use these shrooms describe "a oneness with everything around them and the Universe".  In this study, one individual felt that were kneeling at God's feet.

So the next time you are performing meditation, charging and cleansing your chakras, try visualizing yourself being released.  Try shutting down this center of self.  Let's take this and make it our own spiritual experiment and sacrifice our will for that of Spirit (insert your Patron of Faith here) and let's see what happens...

Spiritual War Is Coming

If you listened to my Blog Talk Radio broadcast today, Magical Truth Today, you heard a very different tone in my voice.

As we look around us, we see the warnings, we see the signs of a change in the tide.  People are becoming more and more spiritually awakened, feeling drawn to discern the meaning of their lives, seeking salvation, hope, peace and rest.

And our government sees this as well and begins its campaign to disrupt and corrupt our system, to slowly strip away our freedom and privileges and pit us against one another.  People are polarizing in all the religions.  Some for personal gain, others based on fear.

Listen to this show.  Hear what I have to say.  Think about your actions and what you must do in order for us to find balance, not destruction...

Response from Ginger Strivelli about School Bibles

On Magical Truth Today's radio show for January 19, 2012, I talked about the pagan mom, Ginger Strivelli, who opposed the schools of her children's district allowing the Gideons to disseminate Christian Bibles to students and when she asked the principle and administrators about it, they said "we would allow the dissemination of ANY religious group" and then they refused her when she tried to offer pagan books.

You can read the Fox News article (which is where I got the picture from, but please remember that the article is conservative Christian biased).

I did a little research and discovered that Ginger is an active member of the Witch's Voice community.  She wrote up a wonderful article on Appalachian Granny Magic.

I sent her an email, offering my encouragement and support and was amazed that by the time I had finished up the show for today, she had responded with this on how we can help:

"Write letters to the editor of the Asheville Citizen Times and Weaverville Tribune in support (as they are getting and printing many non-support) and you can call North Buncombe High at 828-645-4221 and leave a message for Principal Evans that you are concerned about a public high school having a football team chaplain, much less one (Pastor Rusty Smart) who is leading a harassment mission against other faiths...by bashing me and my kids online in those media Facebook pages and letters to the editor and news paper articles he is bragging about being he chaplain in and bashing me and my case in....Also the North Buncombe Middle School's wrestling coach arranged a big protest having all his team and their parents and him (a paid teacher) wear 'got Jesus' Shirts...to harass non-Christians last night at a meet and today at school....you can call them to voice concern at  828-645-7944.  Both issues could be addresses at the central office 828-255-5921"

I would encourage each and every one of my readers (and listeners) to please contact these phone numbers because Ginger is under personal and spiritual attack.  I'm so PROUD to see a Pagan standing up for the rights of her and her children.  And as she does so, she is also standing up for OUR PAGAN RIGHTS!!!

Blessed Be,
Will

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