WHITE GUY RANT REGARDING WHITE PEOPLE WEARING DREADLOCKS GONE WRONG

This post absolutely shows white people do not have a clue when they are being racist and offensive. See if you can see what I mean about a white guy being clueless.

                                              
                                 White people need to stop trying to have Black hairstyles.  
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Seriously, this is one of the things that pisses me off most in the world. If you’re white and you’re thinking of getting cornrows or microbraids or dreadlocks, STOP NOW. Your hair is just plain not suited for it! White people’s hair is fine and holds a lot of moisture. If white people get dreads, their hair molds! And that can cause serious scalp infections! And if white people get their hair braided, it can cause their hair to fall out. Literally, it is just not healthy for your hair.

But besides that—IT’S NOT FUCKING COOL. Like, if a black person wants to do their hair these ways, they will be branded a “thug” or otherwise judged as a dangerous person because of racialized and reified (if you don’t know what reified means, look it up) stereotypes. And so you want to get a hairstyle that is NOT EVEN SUITED TO YOUR HAIR TYPE, while a person whose hair is actually suitable cannot get that hairstyle without being judged, you’re completely ignoring your privilege.
Like wtf. It’s not as simple as, “I thought it was cool so I did it,” because the cold hard truth is that if that’s all you thought about, then you’re admitting that you didn’t bother to think about a) whether your hair was right for it, b) whether you would be treated differently because of your hair and c) how your race affects the way that your hair is received/viewed by others. You have the privilege of not having to think about your race, you have the privilege of not having to worry that you will jeopardize your job by making this (bad) decision.

Black people’s hair is coarse and well suited for dreads or braids and these styles are viewed as signs of a thug or a dangerous body because in our society we have invented and reinforced the idea that black people are dangerous and violent. Black people are often forced to make their hair look more “acceptable” to white people and are often criticized for natural looks. And when you decide to take on those hairstyles—even thought they are wrong for you—you’re ignoring their struggle and being an asshole.

Basically—stop trying to take something that doesn’t belong to you. Stop deciding that race doesn’t matter. Think about shit before you do it and stop insisting that being a white person with dreads or braids is not racist. It is and you look like an idiot.

**If I read this correctly, the writer was admonishing white people for throwing their white priviledge away by wearing a hairstyle that makes them a thug. Was that what you gleaned from this post and how he tried to say it was offensive to blacks for white people to wear the hairstyles because they were appropriating their thug status??? REALLY???? Get a bleeping clue. You should be angry about your false sense of wisdom and total lack of ability to speak on behalf of a black race/culture. Stay in your lane PLEASE. Face the fact that your race is leaving the herd going after all things black; which is truly what your rant is about.

Sack Cloth and Ashes are no longer in Style

I don't care what you say about me; even bad publicity is good publicity 

1 Timothy 2:9 ESV 

Likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire,

The Bible holds so many rules and regulations for women. For me my style is an expression of who I am or at times who I am striving to be. I have said, my apparel speaks to others, including strangers, long before I utter a word. How many times have you heard a man complain how long it takes a woman to get dressed? How many times have you changed outfits when getting ready for an event?

Social media has joined in the STYLE game with men and women posting pictures of their outfits. The people go wild hitting the like buttons on cutting edge fashion. The outfits alone do not draw the masses. It is a combination of clothes and attitude that sells the onlooker on the clothing items.

Photographers and models get in various twisted positions to get the perfect picture. And when everything falls into place you have a perfect picture selling anything and everything to the populous beginning with just the right clothing items. Need a family car - put the people in the pitch in everyday general outer wear. Need to sell a sports car - put the people in the pitch in classy upscale clothing. Need to sell a motorcycle - leather clothing items required.

What do the style described in the Bible passage tell you about the person? I say it screams PAY ME NO ATTENTION. I know others will argue it is modesty, purity, or humbleness. I say invisibility is the goal. How invisible must a woman be. She has also been instructed not to speak in church 1 Corinthians 14:34 "Women should be silent during the church meetings. It is not proper for them to speak. They should be submissive, just as the law says".

What is self control clothing items? Are there clothing items that MAKE you lose control when you wear them? I know you are saying there are clothes that say HERE I AM AND I AM SEXUAL, but is demonstrating sexuality being out of control? I would argue people who are color blind and mix the wrong colors or patterns together can be someone who lacks self control. I mean come on how hard can it be not to clash like that? Lacking self control is adding another piece of jewelry like Mr. T. is showing a lack of control.

How do you avoid costly attire? Inflation man. I remember when I was a child and my family would go shoe shopping for back to school. Back in the day my mom could find a nice pair of shoes for me costing $5.00. Now, shoe prices do go to the extreme. Should the woman wearing designer shoes be seen as sinful? Do her shoes tell you of her sins? Is the woman in the $20.00 pair of shoes a modest, self controlled woman?

Gold and pearls belong to the wicked? Are we supposed to use the guidelines of biblical attire to judge the person's character and heart by a gold ring or string of pearls. It would seem we should. If I am to decipher this passage on face value it would seem wearing poverty is an outward symbol of how religious one may be. Is the look of poverty, what we who believe, be clothed in? Should our street style be "I choose not to draw any attention by fashion but to draw attention for the lack of fashion?" No matter what you wear a statement is being sent.

I have become jaded with these outward appearances because everybody is trying to pitch (sell) something to the masses through clothing or style. What is being sold is completely vain. Clothing manipulates whether it is for good or evil. A person can be selling a fantasy or lie with clothing. I find it strange the clothing code is not for both men and women. It is the woman who must put forth the effort to use her body as her billboard. It is not self control through clothing choice but power through clothing choices. a person has the power to say who they are through clothes.

My mind begins to wander when I see the dressed down look of lack of color or accessories on a woman. I wander what is she trying to sell with nothing. Yes, my impression jumps to religious connections when I see a woman without makeup and wearing orthopedic shoes just to make me want to steal her shoes and burn them. I also wander if she is abused or have been abused in her life to want to hide behind drabness. Modest clothing makes me wonder what scar is being hid.

Oh stop pretending that when you see women in prairie clothes you don't assume they belong to a cult.

I have to search my bias and ask myself do I recoil at this biblical fashion statement because I myself am not a woman who desires to wear respectable clothing or am I offended because my respectability does not rely on my outer garments? Either way, just as I am judging one's appearance, I am being judged for my appearance. It all boils down to judgement and if you are going to base your expression of your being solely on what others decide to label you as.

Take time to howl at the moon screaming yes, my clothes initially define me, but never believe I am the summation of items of clothing.

Give me points and adulation for my style because your opinion matters that much to me - never.

*****side note: prostitutes were recognizable because they braided their hair and wore jewelry. Surely that does not still hold true in our psyche in this day and age.*****

AMBER ALERT YOURSELF

I had a melt down. I felt it coming.

Now that I am writing about my emotional state or to be accurate, most anticipated recovery, my melt down should be correctly referred to as my melt up.

Let me begin at the beginning. My beginning begins with the always, never disappointing, wretched Facebook.

Yes. Facebook is wretched. Facebook is the extension - continuation of that all so beloved high school experience we have come to know and overtly ignore. The always easy to access experience of the low brow yet titillating to the leader - social group. The social group or clique is known by all with pain and loathing. Social groups or cliques are not only for our youths, but also for the adult who dabble in this wolf in sheep's clothing social media called Facebook.

It was around July when I started noticing with unbelievable boredom, how people I had friended on Facebook spent hours on end saying stuff without saying anything. Posting cute quotes, wise sayings, and the ever never ending "Like if you love Jesus." I tried to find the cyber definition of these posted and reposted sayings; which do not fall into the definition of meme or gif, but, do fall into the realm of aggravating as hell.

I love Jesus. I am for Jesus. But, I hate seeing over 75 posts a day insisting I demonstrate publicly, by clicking on a like button or on a share button, my true spiritual leaning and gut feeling each second about Jesus each day all day every day. I am comfortable enough to declare right here and now: my love for Jesus does not change every five minutes and I do not to prove it to others in any way.

It was this one day when 75% of my friends on Facebook had Jesus it up for hours on end in rapid fire: Jesus loves you, Jesus died for you, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus to the point where I felt like I would be some how looked down upon for not liking, sharing, or posting in like manner.

There it was the nexus of my melt up. I was about to start wanting to belong to the Jesus clique. I began to wonder what group would the Jesus kids (by kids I mean adults) put me into if I did not do as they did? Would I be considered a nonChristian? Would I be shunned as Satan's spawn and if any one liked anything I posted would they surely catch fire or believe they had soiled themselves in some way by sharing a thumbs up with me? Would anyone like anything I said at all that was not Jesus-esque?

I began to think about FAKING IT to fit into the group. And yes, that is when I felt like saying "You know what - I do not have to belong to your group. I am grown."

But my last post was a final attempt to reach just one person, (who in a wonderful twist of my never dull fate turned out to be myself), before self was sacrificed. It was me who was in danger of self sacrificed and being replaced with another voiceless member of the cool kids page constantly saying (posting) something and yet saying nothing. My final post was wrapped in a last gasp of defiance to be different proudly. My last post asked; "Do you ever feel like just taking the mask off and howling at the moon?" To me the mask is the action of copying, following mindlessly a crafted ideal of acceptability. The mask perpetuates a day spent on Facebook being validated by likes and shares of a clique generated sense of being loved. Truth be told we have used Jesus as our cover for many things. Can our need for attention to belong become a pretense of liking Jesus when each like Jesus gets makes us feel some kind of way? Is it the account holder, who does their best to generate hundreds of likes for Jesus a day, that mean girl or jock who has found a way to separate as was done in high school?

I met the slippery slope. I stared the slippery slope in the eye. I refused to lose my little girl who wants to belong and yet yearns to follow her own path. The vulnerable high school girl who lingers still - escaped being sucked up into the world of reposting generalized verbiage. Verbiage Facebook users use to send  smoke signals dictating  who belongs where continually guided by high school standards of operation. I refused to let my essence to be kidnapped by the insidious nature of wanting to belong or to feel loved even if it is love by "like"generated by 4,000 plus cyber friends. 

So, today I say I had a melt up. I decided to get rid of Facebook and make sure to take every opportunity to howl at the moon and have people just stop and stare at me and declare openly I could never be a part of their social group whether it is on Facebook or in any ecohigh school type climate plopped down anywhere.

I felt my little girl inside of me being lured away to some place forever lacking security and genuine love and I Amber Alerted myself refusing to be carried off. I must howl and hear my voice whether or not I have well formed words at the time of my pending demise of my autonomous thought, feeling, belief. I will howl at the moon to remind myself to remain free.

I howl at the moon for those who do not have the courage or strength today to how. I howl at the definition of the word CLIQUE. A clique is a social group most often seen in junior high or high school settings, and generally more often noted among girls than boys. However, adults can certainly belong to a clique as well, and one might see these characteristics displayed particularly in the upper echelons of society. The adult group might also be called a “set.”

Generally, the clique is organized among younger children by those who appear to have enough in common to befriend each other. Unfortunately, friendship can quickly give way to power struggle, peer pressure and ostracization of those outside the group. In fact, outsiders targeted by a clique may be subject to insults and bullying, which can be psychologically damaging.

Often the group has a defined leader, though leadership may change from time to time. The clique may extend informal membership to younger girls in order to perpetuate it beyond the original members remaining in a particular school setting. This group may be seen as the “in crowd," and may have a corresponding male group with which they exclusively socialize.

LOVE RIHANNA STYLE

The twisted journey of love is hard enough. Constantly questioning does he or she love me back or in the same way, will it last, and why does love hurt with all it's insecurities and yet feel blissfully beautiful at the same time?

Now think of having all of these same feelings for some one who family, friends, and the world at large deems the WRONG person for legitimate reasons: he's married with children, he's abusive, he's a jailbird, etc., etc., etc.

Listening to the words of Rihanna's song "Stay" has to resonate with everyone in a 'shameful' 'guilt-ridden' full on love of the heart, spirit, and soul secret dying love affair with the WRONG person. There is no doubt the brain is in a state of utter confusion and despair.

                                                All along it was a fever
                                        A cold sweat hot-headed believer
                           I threw my hands in the air and said, "Show me something,"
                                     He said, "If you dare come a little closer."

                                 Round and around and around and around we go
                                Oh now tell me now tell me now tell me now you know

                                              Not really sure how to feel about it.
                                                  Something in the way you move
                                           Makes me feel like I can't live without you.
                                                     It takes me all the way.
                                                     I want you to stay

                                              It's not much of a life you're living
                                             It's not just something you take – it's given
                                        Round and around and around and around we go
                                    Oh now tell me now tell me now tell me now you know

                                              Not really sure how to feel about it.
                                                 Something in the way you move
                                         Makes me feel like I can't live without you.
                                                     It takes me all the way.
                                                        I want you to stay.

                                                     Ooh the reason I hold on
                                                 Ooh cause I need this hole gone
                        Funny you're the broken one but I'm the only one who needed saving
            Cause when you never see the light it's hard to know which one of us is caving

                                                Not really sure how to feel about it.
                                                 Something in the way you move
                                            Makes me feel like I can't live without you.

                                                    It takes me all the way.
                                                    I want you to stay, stay.
                                                     I want you to stay, oh.

Is there a person out there who cannot relate to the words of this song? If there is, consider yourself blessed.

When people tell you there are high points and low points in a marriage you can use the lyrics to this song because even in marriage there are times when YOU believe the person you love and took vows with is not now 'this' person filled with flaws and has let you down in ways that sometimes seem cruel and almost criminal. Now the ADVICE is to STAY at all costs - to make the marriage work. And yes, while there are good reasons to leave, memories of love tug at you; a relationship filled with hurt, with all it's insecurities and let downs; yet you feel blissfully loved at the high points, you now have to remember, at the same time?

Yes, all along love is a fever that makes you believe he or she is the one and it's love. You decide to take the chance and love them and then all the unexpected ugly rears it's head. Round and around you know what you cannot accept in the relationship: the cheating, he's married, he doesn't know how to communicate, and he just doesn't know how to love you the way you need him to.

The whispers in your own head becomes a pounding as everyone around you add to trying to tell your heart, spirit, and hormones you don't feel euphoria when you are in his presence and you just want HIM to stay until you can truly figure this thing out to the end even if it means hurting yourself and others.

You are not a fool, you know self inflicted wounds are about to occur along with hurting others around you you love and innocent people. But there is just something in the way he moves. That one simple thing that sends you to that place only you go - solo by yourself. That dark lonely place that makes you believe you cannot live without him.

What does a person do in this kind of bad love affair? Thankfully we have Rihanna to put this painful dilemma into words in a song for us. Even though my daughters hate me using YOLO (you only live once) I have to say it here.

Some people only get the chance to love once and become so battered and bruised from that first time burning love they build walls around their heart so they will never feel the pain of loving and losing again. The pain was too great without any reward. But to have loved and to have lost is a great reward. The adrenaline from insecurity and the butterflies and racing heart from just hearing their voice is a life experience worth experiencing at least once in your lifetime.

There is going to be that wrong man or woman in your life at one point or another unless you are that lucky one who gets it right the first time. And yes, abuse is the red line in the sand. But, there still can be that something about that WRONG person that makes you want to stay. For people on the outside looking in, you should know, being in that place of wanting to stay hurts like hell. But to have lived and loved someone Rihanna style with passion, pain, and confusion is an intoxicating, addicting poison filled with a blissfulness that rips a heart apart.

Bleeding Heart Flower

I am torn because I have loved someone Rihanna Style without the abuse, but so WRONG for me and made me feel the world was RIGHT when I was with him. I want to tell my daughters love can sometimes hurt without them ever having to actually experience that type of love. But I know they will somehow be robbed of something that in the long run will make them a stronger person who experienced an all consuming love that confused them and made them float on clouds at the same time.
The heart wants what it want. What a magnificent organ; so vital for life.

2012 Political Conventions filled with LIES and the people who love the lies

A lying tongue is not only something God hates, it is also something that is an abomination to Him.

But, it seems we have decided homosexuality is more of an abomination to God than a lie is. Man has taken it upon themselves to determine a hierarchy of what is an abomination to God and this is turning off a lot of people looking at the actions of Christians and Christianity as a whole

The RNC kicked off it's convention with TS Isaac dampening the turnout but not the spirit of the "Yes I Did Build It Theme."
Just over a month ago I called into AFR (American Family Radio Station) and I made a general comment that a Politician or Lawyer should not be in either professions because they have to lie. The host was quick to ask me "So, you are saying all politicians and lawyers are liars?"

Of course I had to retract and say most of them are liars and have to pander to their audience for votes or lie to get a known criminal off because they are bound by law to provide them with a good defense leaving it to a jury to make the final decision.

After each night of the RNC broadcast, pundits quickly pointed out the lies that were told and the audience's indifference to the lie. After both conventions are finished, the American public will be be bombarded by lies while each candidate touts their Christian beliefs. This lead me to question what does the Bible have to say about lying.

Prov 6:16-19


16 There are six things which the LORD hates, Yes, seven which are an abomination to Him: 17 Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood, 18 A heart that devises wicked plans, Feet that run rapidly to evil, 19 A false witness who utters lies, And one who spreads strife among brothers.

So, if a lying tongue is something that is an abomination to our LORD, then would it not behoove us to understand what constitutes a lie?

Let us first give a definition as to what a lie is according to Webster’s dictionary: To make a statement that one knows is false, especially with the intent to deceive. To give a false impression or action or false statement, especially with the intent to deceive. To make a false statement in order to evade the truth. The invention of a false story or excuse in order to deceive.

Even with clear cut definitions of what lying is; people still choose to LIE. When are you “lying”? When you make, or purposely convey, a statement that you believe to be false, a statement intended to deceive someone to gain, or not lose, some advantage, and which must in fact be false. You can also lie by naming (“the job creators,” “death panels”) or by purposely evoking a false framing of a situation.


If accused of lying, you have excuses available: an understandable mistake, a white lie (harmless, technically false, intended to help), an uncharitable interpretation (not what I meant), a disagreement about word meaning (what is a “lobbyist”?), a misstatement (an innocent mistake in word choice), a social lie (What a pleasure to be here in Iowa in midwinter!), a technically true statement that indirectly entails a lie, a false statement you believed to be true at the time, a rhetorical statement (an innocent exaggeration, understatements, metaphor, etc.), an alternative framing, and so on. These can be either honest, or lying to get out of a lie.

In politics, politicians are willing to throw the lie out there and then retract it the next day. But the lie has been eaten up and beginning to be spread to others hungry for the lie.   Politicians lie to protect or advance what they see as a moral endeavor, like invading Iraq or cutting off 'welfare queens.'All politics is moral. Politicians advocate positions that they claim are right, not wrong or morally neutral. Like anyone else, a politician may lie to protect his or her own skin. But more often politicians lie to protect or advance what they see as a moral endeavor (e.g., the invasion of Iraq, Reagan’s war on nonexistent “welfare queens,” Johnson on the Tonkin Gulf). In the conservative moral system, the highest value is protecting and extending the moral system itself. When conservative icons or ideas themselves are threatened, it is not uncommon for conservative politicians to lie in their defense (Reagan never raised taxes; there’s no evidence for global warming; “government takeover”).

Voters tolerate lies they see as serving a moral purpose, or as having a reasonable excuse. They give more latitude to politicians they identify with.

One thing I found interesting is that the liar has to be 'All In' in their decision to lie:

Make peace with your decision to lie. Good lying means you've already crossed any moral or ethical hurdles, and justified to yourself that the lie in question is now a necessity. A poor liar often trips up through continuing to struggle with the morality or faith issues behind the decision to lie. Regardless of the reasons, if you want to lie successfully, you need to reach a place of internal equilibrium where the lie is adequately justified in your own mind. http://www.wikihow.com/Lie

lie (li) noun A false statement deliberately presented as being true; a falsehood. Something meant to deceive or give a wrong impression.

Verb lied, ly•ing (li ing), lies

verb, intransitive To present false information with the intention of deceiving. To convey a false image or impression: Appearances often lie.

verb, transitive To cause to be in a specific condition or affect in a specific way by telling falsehoods: You have lied yourself into trouble.(1) de•ceive de•ceive (di-sev) verb de•ceived, de•ceiv•ing, de•ceives

verb, transitive To cause to believe what is not true; mislead. Archaic. To catch by guile; ensnare.

verb, intransitive To practice deceit.

So now you are prepared to receive what the Bible has to say about lying and liars and I hope you take this to heart as you choose your candidate for President in 2012. People have said the position on abortion and homosexuality are the two issues to consider for a Christian. But, I also pay attention to the LIES the candidate tells and what is behind the reason he is lying.

Col 3:9-10

9 Do not lie to one another, since you laid aside the old self with its evil practices, 10 and have put on the new self who is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who created him

Lev 19:12
12'And you shall not swear falsely by My name, so as to profane the name of your God; I am the LORD.

Prov 25:18
18 Like a club and a sword and a sharp arrow Is a man who bears false witness against his neighbor.

Zech 8:17
17'Also let none of you devise evil in your heart against another, and do not love perjury; for all these are what I hate,' declares the LORD. "

Prov 14:5
5 A faithful witness will not lie, But a false witness speaks lies.

1 Kings 22:16
16 Then the king said to him, "How many times must I adjure you to speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of the LORD?"

Prov 19:5
5 A false witness will not go unpunished, And he who tells lies will not escape.

Deut 19:17-19
17 then both the men who have the dispute shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who will be in office in those days. 18 And the judges shall investigate thoroughly; and if the witness is a false witness and he has accused his brother falsely, 19 then you shall do to him just as he had intended to do to his brother. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you.

Rev 21:8
8 "But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."

Prov 19:9
9 A false witness will not go unpunished, And he who tells lies will perish.

Prov 24:28
28 Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, And do not deceive with your lips.

Ps 58:3
3 The wicked are estranged from the womb; These who speak lies go astray from birth.

James 3:14
14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth.

Ex 23:1
1 "You shall not bear a false report; do not join your hand with a wicked man to be a malicious witness.

Prov 12:19
19 Truthful lips will be established forever, But a lying tongue is only for a moment.

Prov 6:16-19
16 There are six things which the LORD hates, Yes, seven which are an abomination to Him: 17 Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood, 18 A heart that devises wicked plans, Feet that run rapidly to evil, 19 A false witness who utters lies, And one who spreads strife among brothers.

"Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour" (Exodus 20:16, the eighth Commandment).

"…true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth" (John 4:23-24).

Leviticus 6:1-4, "And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie unto his neighbour…or hath deceived his neighbour…and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein: Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty,"

Leviticus 19:11, "Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another."

Job 11:3,5, "Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed? But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;"

Job 13:4, "But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value."

Job 24:25, "...who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?"

Psalms 24:4-5, "He…who hath not…sworn deceitfully. He shall receive the blessing from the LORD,"

Psalms 31:6, "I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD."

Psalms 31:18, "Let the lying lips be put to silence;"

Psalms 40:4, "Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies."

Psalms 52:2-4, "Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah. Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue."

Psalms 58:3, "The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies."

Psalms 59:12, "For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak."

Psalms 62:3-4, "… ye shall be slain all of you…they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly."

Psalms 63:11, "...the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped."

Psalms 101:7, "He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight."

Psalms 109:2, "For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue."

Psalms 119:29, "Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously."

Psalms 119:69, "The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart."

Psalms 119:163, "I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love."

Psalms 120:2, "Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue."

Proverbs 6:16-19, "These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren."

Proverbs 8:7, "For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips."


Proverbs 10:18, "He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool."

Proverbs 12:19, "The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment."

Proverbs 12:22, "Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight."

Proverbs 13:5, "A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame."

Proverbs 14:5, "A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies."

Proverbs 14:25, "A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies."

Proverbs 17:4, "A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue."

Proverbs 17:7, "Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince."

Proverbs 19:5, "A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape."

Proverbs 19:9, "A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish."

Proverbs 19:22, "The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar."

Proverbs 21:6, "The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death."

Proverbs 26:28, "A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin."

Proverbs 29:12, "If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked."

Proverbs 30:6, "Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar."

Proverbs 30:8, "Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:"

Isaiah 28:15,17, "Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement;…for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:…the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place."

Isaiah 30:9, "That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:"

Isaiah 32:7, "The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right."

Isaiah 44:24-25, "…I am the LORD…That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad;"

Isaiah 59:2-4, "But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. For…your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness...they trust in vanity, and speak lies; "

Isaiah 59:12-13, "For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them; In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood."

Isaiah 63:8, "For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Saviour."

Jeremiah 7:4, "Trust ye not in lying words,"

Jeremiah 7:8-9, "Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit. Will ye…swear falsely…and walk after other gods…?"

Jeremiah 9:3, "And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD."

Jeremiah 9:5, "And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity."

Jeremiah 14:14, "Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart."

Jeremiah 15:18, "Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?"

Jeremiah 16:19, "...Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit."

Jeremiah 23:14, "I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies:"

Jeremiah 23:26, "How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart;"

Jeremiah 23:32, "Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD."

Jeremiah 27:10, "For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land; and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish."

Jeremiah 29:23, "Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the LORD."

Ezekiel 13:8, "Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord GOD."


Ezekiel 13:19, "And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies?"

Ezekiel 13:22-23, "Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life: Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations: for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall know that I am the LORD."

Ezekiel 22:28, "And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken."

Ezekiel 24:12, "She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire."

Daniel 11:27, "…and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper:"

Hosea 4:2, "By swearing, and lying…they break out and blood toucheth blood."

Hosea 7:3, "They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies."

Hosea 10:13, "Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men."

Jonah 2:8, "They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy."

Micah 6:12-13, "…the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth. Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins."

Nahum 3:1, "Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies"

Zephaniah 3:13, "The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth:"

Zechariah 8:16, "These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour;"

Zechariah 13:3, "...Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the LORD: "

Malachi 2:6, "The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips:"

Matthew 15:19, "For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts…false witness…These are the things which defile a man: "

John 8:44, "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it."

Acts 5:3, "...why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, "

Acts 26:25, "But he [Paul] said, I am not mad, most noble Festus; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness."

Romans 1:24-25, "…through the lusts of their own hearts…Who changed the truth of God into a lie,"

Romans 9:1, "I say the truth in Christ, I lie not,"

2 Corinthians 11:31, "The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not."

Galatians 1:20, "Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not."

Ephesians 4:25, "Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another."

Colossians 3:9, "Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;"

1 Timothy 1:9-10, "…the law is not made for a righteous man, but…for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;"

1 Timothy 2:7, "Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not)"

1 Timothy 4:2, "Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;"

James 3:14, "But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth."

Titus 1:2, "...God…cannot lie, "

Hebrews 6:18, "...in which it was impossible for God to lie, "

1 John 1:6, "If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:"

1 John 2:4, "He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him."

1 John 2:21, "I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth."

1 John 2:22, "Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son."

1 John 2:27, "But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him."

1 John 4:20, "If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?"

Revelation 2:2, "…thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:"

Revelation 3:9, "Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which…do lie;"

Revelation 21:8, "…and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone:"

Revelation 21:27, "And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life."

Revelation 22:14-15, "Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. For without are…whosoever loveth and maketh a lie."

Judgment

In the New Testament books, there is an example of two people lying, Ananias and his wife Sapphira. Both of their lives were taken away by the Lord for lying. We should take to heart this example and understand how much God hates lying.

Acts 5:1-11, "But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet. But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God. And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things. And the young men arose, wound him up, and carried him out, and buried him. And it was about the space of three hours after, when his wife, not knowing what was done, came in. And Peter answered unto her, Tell me whether ye sold the land for so much? And she said, Yea, for so much. Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out. Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying her forth, buried her by her husband. And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things."

Lies and the Conservatives Who Love Them

George Lakoff, a professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author of, most recently, "The Political Mind: A Cognitive Scientist's Guide to Your Brain and Its Politics."

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/01/22/why-politicians-get-away-with-lying/why-conservatives-lie-about-iraq-and-global-warming

http://ecclesia.org/truth/lying.html

Todd Akin; What About The MAN Juice part in RAPE

MISSOURI WOMEN - WE'RE WATCHING YOUR VOTE. LOVE YOURSELF.

RAPE is considered to be such an ugly subject until we allow it to live and thrive because we don't want to be exposed to ugly? RAPE is now part of the 2012 political race.

I wrote a poem that placed in a national poetry contest: "Every Three Minutes" which dealt with the subject of rape. Now, it seems we must be informed as women what the word RAPE means. Todd Akin has brought to our vocabulary the words 'Legitimate Rape' and 'False Rape' and a little known fact that a woman can 'shut down a pregnancy' resulting from rape. Even the rapist are laughing. But, the Christians are standing with Akins. I say "Someone needs to walk a mile in someone else's shoes." Evangelism is DEAD and was murdered by the GOP in 2012.

Will women be silent and stand by for the sake of Party loyalty and let a man tell her WHEN she is raped. I'm sorry to say this and I know it may be offensive; but a woman's vote for this man is an assault on women by women. SHAME!!

This is a subject women should take the lid off of and empower themselves and their daughters to guard against as they live and grow. Understanding the beast is the first step and that those targeted are not to blame. Know the truth, know the myth. Teach the truth and teach the myth.
Myths: Rape is sex, Women incite men to rape, There is a "right way" to respond to a rape situation, etc. Here is a site where you can separate fact from myth: http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/jhamlin/3925/myths.html

I encourage every woman, every friend of a woman, and mothers to down load this page to keep and refer to at least once a year to remind yourself that rape is real and still happens. To be informed is just another part of loving yourself.

To hear someone say that a woman's body makes some kind of JUICES to prevent pregnancy during a rape is the height of ignorance and a sick depraved mind. What JUICE power does a woman have and can activate while someone is entering her private parts against her will. If any juice can be activated it should be LYE to burn the hell out of the man's penis.

MUSCULAR CHRISTIANITY I hate this phrase everytime I hear it on the intro to a Christian broadcast. Why are all of these muscular men blaming women for everything. Don't the rapist have JUICES!!! Oh, this is one case where men will say women are stronger than them. Women JUICES can trump men Juices. How sickening!!!!

Has Obama made the men on the Right feel so impotent until they have to beat up on women to feel like men again? There is a WAR ON WOMEN. The emasculated man is kicking the dog when he gets home and yes, it is women. This would be domestic violence since definitions are so important.

As with all of the evils in the world, be wary of how this subject is approached so you will not instill anxiety and paranoia in our young girls. Awareness is a key weapon in the battle against rape.

Womens_eNews posted 25 Facts about Rape in America and I wanted to share them with you.

1.The FBI’s definition of “forcible rape” in their Uniform Crime Report (UCR): “The carnal knowledge of a female forcibly and against her will.”

2.What that definition leaves out: anal, oral and statutory rape; incest; rape with an object, finger or fist; rape of men

3.Number of men raped in any year, according to the UCR: 0

4.Estimated number of men actually raped each year, according to the Dept. of Justice: 93,000

5.Number of women raped in 2007 under the UCR definition: 91,874

6.Number of sexual assaults in 2007–which includes rapes the FBI leaves out–according to the National Crime Victimization Survey: 248,300

7.Dept. of Justice estimate of how many women are actually raped each year: 300,000

8.Number of arrests for rape in 2007 (UCR): 23,307

9.Percentage of rapes that result in incarceration: 0.35 percent

10.Number of murders/manslaughters in 2007 (UCR): 17,157

11.Number of arrests for murder/manslaughter in 2007 (UCR): 13,480

12.Percentage of murders that result in incarceration: 20 percent or more

13.Average number of rapes to every murder committed annually: 5 to 1

14.Two of the top five cities in the U.S. with the most “unfounded” (i.e., false or baseless reports, according to police) rapes: New Orleans and Baltimore

15.Percentage of rape reports deemed “unfounded” by New Orleans police in 2008: 60 percent

16.Percentage of rape reports deemed “unfounded” by Baltimore police in 2009: 32 percent

17.Percentage of actual estimated false rape reports in any given year according to research studies: 2-8 percent

18.Percentage of rape reports deemed “unfounded” by the FBI in 2006: 5 percent

19.How Baltimore police once explained their “unfounded” rape rate: “One of the things we know is that victims do lie.”

20.Percentage of rape reports deemed “unfounded” (i.e. falsely reported) by Philadelphia police in 1983: 52 percent

21.The year Philadelphia was forced to clean up its rape reporting practices: 1999

22.Percentage of rape reports deemed unfounded in Philadelphia in 2007: 10 percent

23.What a Philadelphia police officer once called his city’s sex crimes unit: “The lying bitches unit.”

24.“Reasons” women lie about rape, according to Philadelphia’s police department in 1984: revenge; free abortion; covering up truancy, pregnancy, infidelity, lost money, sexual precocity.

25.Number of people who have signed a letter urging the FBI to change its definition of rape: 2,019 (and counting)

Mr. Akin, you have exposed you are willing to be led by the nose into the land of untruth and lies. You apologized for your choice of words. But, have you apologized to the right person? Don't lose your soul to win power.

Christianity Stabbed in the Back: The Ides of Politics

I am a Christian and I know my head is spinning around just like Linda Blair's head did in the movie the Exorcism as she spewed out green pea soup vomit. My head is only spinning, others are and have been spewing the pea soup. Let me make it perfectly clear. My head is spinning at the flip flop of the Church in its attempt to shape the outcome of the 2012 election covering their motives in Christianity, going against their own teachings and beliefs; thus losing their integrity and bringing suspicions on Christianity as a whole. My heart bleeds for the Christians who are left in a stupor of confusion.

"Therefore let us stop passing judgement on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumb- ling block or obstacle in your brother's way." Romans 14:13

"Be careful, however, that the exercise of your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak." 1 Corinthians 8:9

Why have I pulled these two passages from the Bible (and not go into the context of which they were spoke) to make a foundation for my post? Because these words speak so well to what is causing my head to spin and my concern for other Christians, those who are babes in Christ, and for the secular world who are watching Christians.

For years, rightly or wrongly, Christianity has taught congregations or warned them in depth about other religions in which they consider to be cults:

The Four Major Cults: Christian Science, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormonism and one is missing to this list isn't it? The reason it is missing is because I wanted to draw attention to the fact many Christians believe it is a cult.

"For decades evangelicals have diligently and faithfully attempted to identify, analyze and warn the church against cults. Included in the standard list are Mormonism, Jehovah's Witnesses, Christian Science, Unity School of Christianity, Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, etc. Yet the most seductive, dangerous and largest cult (many times larger than all of the rest combined) is not included in the list! Most cult experts refuse to identify this horrendous cult as such! Instead, they accept it as "Christian."… facts of which I myself was ignorant years ago when I, too, failed to identify the Roman Catholic Church as the cult it is… Were Luther, Calvin and the other Reformers alive today, they would denounce Roman Catholicism as the largest and most dangerous cult on earth!... Mormons must blindly obey Joseph Smith and his successors;" http://www.reachingcatholics.org/cult-cult.html  A Cult is a Cult,  Dave Hunt.

Did you catch the 4th denomination many Christians believe is a cult? Yep. Catholicism.

In the pews of many Sunday Schools or in the early evening of Bible Studies, and yes, in Seminars across the United States, it has been drummed into the Christian mind that there are cults and you should do everything to evangelize these lost people and bring them to Christ.

But, the political arena of 2012 has changed this teaching/preaching. For the first time in history, we will have a Republican ticket that does not have a Protestant running for the office of president. We have a Mormon and a Catholic. What is a Christian to do? There must be some kind of conflict occuring in their spirit? They must be deciding: "Have I been lied to for years or does my Christian faith have to go along with the teachings of my denomination?" Heads everywhere must be spinning or even exploding.

Evangelism of Jews has always been hampered by the fact Jews believe Christians seem not to be able to decide if they worship 3 Gods - God, Jesus, Holy Spirit and the vast number of denominations they have. Now throw into this mix the changing opinions about Catholics and Mormons in the name of politics, Christianity has stabbed their own selves in the back in their ability to be taken seriously about their belief in Jesus. INTEGRITY has been lost in the 2012 Election.

1. A great challenge confronting the church is denominationalism...

a. According to one account, there are more than 38,000 different denominations!

b. Different religious organizations, bearing many different religious names

c. Hindering the spread of the gospel ("Why, you Christians can’t even agree!") we should not be surprised when unbelievers are slow to accept the gospel coming from a divided church

2. Many point to the divided condition of those professing to follow Christ...

a. Atheists and agnostics use religious division as an excuse not to believe in God

b. Muslims, Jews, etc. often use denominationalism reasons not to believe in Christ

3. Denominationalism has also given support and encouragement to the cults

a. Mormonism started in reaction to the denominationalism of Joseph Smith’s day

b. Those who call themselves "Jehovah’s Witnesses" use religious division to encourage people to follow their own strictly-controlled organization.

This is what the faithful have been told for years. But no more. All of these beliefs are being turned on their head while the pea soup spewers are calling Democrats people who hate God and are evil, lost, and sinfulmpeople bound for hell. The president, who has been called a Muslim, receives no such 'blind eye' by the Christian Right. Or has he? As far as hypocrisy is accounted for.

"… Jerry Johnson and his role in formulating a document calling on Christian leaders who decide to back Mitt Romney to also make clear that Mormonism is a cult. As Johnson explained, he personally will not be voting for either President Obama or Mitt Romney because that is like having to choose between "voting for the Beast or the False Prophet."…. As we have noted several times before, Religious Right radio show host Steve Deace has made a habit of inviting openly anti-Mormon activists onto his program to make the case that Christians cannot vote for Mitt Romney purely because of his faith…. Bryan Fischer has a long history of criticizing Mormonism, saying that it is not protected by the First Amendment and warning that electing a "spiritually-compromised candidate" like Mitt Romney will weaken the nation and threatens its spiritual health…. Isn’t it interesting how right-wing personalities like Bryan Fischer and Janet Mefferd consistently say that no one on the Right attacks Mitt Romney over his Mormon faith…and then go on to claim that Mormons are under Satan’s deception and don’t care about public office because they are waiting to become gods, respectively. And Fischer and Mefferd are far from the only ones who are trying to make the Mormon religion into an election issue."


"On a Monday edition of Crosstalk, Vic Eliason of Voice of Christian Youth America advised listeners against supporting a Mormon candidate for president because they are praying to “the wrong God.” Eliason in 2008 hosted a presidential candidate debate with other Religious Right leaders that you will not be surprised to learn Romney did not attend."

"Channeling Mike Huckabee, Eliason said that “Mormons do believe that Jesus and Beelzebub, or the devil, are kid brothers.” He went on to say that Mormons “believe that someday God is going to put you on your own planet and you will be a God in charge of your own planet,” warning that “if those things happen, who knows, we might have a president who would suddenly evacuate the White House and go to another planet and become a God!”:  the above three paragraph can be found at http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/topics/mormonism

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The Christian Right is seizing the day to take their country back and it does not matter what is sacrificed in this effort: INTEGRITY

Let's imagine for an instant Christianity is against the American government (made up of the three branches guided by the Constitution) crowning itself as the one and only true leader of the free world, America, instead of Christianity. What can we parallel to this self crowning (which the founding fathers actually established with every citizen of the United States voting their wishes as to who would have these powers)? Yes, I know. The Great Caesar.

A more well known occurrence on the Ides of March, in 44 B.C., Julius Caesar was assassinated, at the foot of a statue of Pompey where the Senate was meeting. Before Caesar went to the theater of Pompey to attend the Senate meeting, he had been given advice not to go, but he didn't listen. Biographers describe tension between Caesar and the Senate, and his possible claims to the title of king. These events were the principal motive for Caesar's assassination by his political opponents in the Senate.


Brutus began to conspire against Caesar with his friend and brother-in-law Gaius Cassius Longinus and other men, calling themselves the Liberatores ("Liberators"). Many plans were discussed by the group, as documented by Nicolaus of Damascus:

“ The conspirators never met exactly openly, but they assembled a few at a time in each other's homes. There were many discussions and proposals, as might be expected, while they investigated how and where to execute their design. Some suggested that they should make the attempt along the Sacred Way, which was one of his favorite walks. Another idea was to do it at the elections, during which he had to cross a bridge to appoint the magistrates in the Campus Martius. Someone proposed that they draw lots for some to push him from the bridge and others to run up and kill him. A third plan was to wait for a coming gladiatorial show. The advantage of that was, because of the show, no suspicion would be aroused if arms were seen. The majority opinion, however, favored killing him while he sat in the Senate. He would be there by himself, since only Senators were admitted, and the conspirators could hide their daggers beneath their togas. This plan won the day."

The result unforeseen by the assassins was that Caesar's death precipitated the end of the Roman Republic. The Roman lower classes, with whom Caesar was popular, became enraged that a small group of aristocrats had sacrificed Caesar.

People are calling for smaller government, but it actually seems like they want to kill government. It is the rich aristocrats of the 21st Century plotting the demise and the 99% who are enraged. Will this attitude have some unforseen consequences?

Christianity is stabbing itself in the back and have been doing so for years. It has culminated and shown it's true self; which is the lust for POWER and GREED. The flip flop on their teachings of cults and which denomination is the only TRUE Christian religion and who belongs in it, has been heading to this outcome: The Ides Of Politics; which we witnessed during the Republican debates.

So, I am looking for more serious wounds as we get closer and closer to the day when the vote is cast. Will our ability to be taken seriously as those living Holy lives and an example for others who would want to follow Jesus continue after 2012? Or will our venom and loss of integrity turn off the world to Christianity?

All I know is - my head is spinning from listening to the Christians as they engage in politics. I look for the love, grace, and mercy of Jesus as he changed history through his ministry and I can't see it.

I'll leave you with my main point from my book The Politics of Prayer: "Judas demanded revolt; Jesus commanded love."