The Fight in The Church

Everyone wants to defend Harry Potter and accuse Lord of The Rings; or, they want to defend LOTR and condemn Harry Potter. I believe its time to stop playing pick-up-sticks and get to the point.

No one will deny that there is witchcraft in Harry Potter, the books are based upon him becoming a wizard. Some people want to accuse these books/movies of promoting witchcraft, and based on some people I've met, yeah, these books open the door for it. However, people who are weak-minded enough to make these fictional books reality probably need to see a doctor. And there are countless other media publications with much the same problem, Aladdin, Snow White, The Wizard of Oz and so on and so forth. The reading of the book or watching of the movie is not what we really need to be concerned about. It is that it opens the door to these things.

Likewise LOTR does also open many of the same doors. But look beyond Gandalf's pointy hat and tall staff and find the source of his power, Illuvetar, the creator of Middle-Earth. And the term wizard in England during Tolkiens day simply meant a master of illusions; therefore, Gandalf is not meant to be a sorcerer. Saruman and Sauron who abondoned that path are explicitly portrayed as sorcerers and necromancers. The big problem is most people don't look that far into it, they look at a guy with a beard and pointy hat and automatically think "withccraft".

I do not think that people are necessarily sinning by watching LOTR or reading Harry Potter. What I would advise is going into both of them knowing they are fictional books and be careful of some of the concepts presented in these books/movies.

My next big point is LOTR, Harry Potter, and other movies with witchcraft are the only ones taking any heat, what about the movies with murder, stealing, lying? Those things are just as much sin as witchcraft is, and they also open peoples minds to those concepts, they can make people think nothing of those things, and there are some people (and I've met some personnally) who are negatively effected by those things.

Its time to stop squaking "there's withccraft" when we are not likewise gonna squak "there's sexual immorality". Its all equally sin, and simply watching something with witchcraft or stealing or murder or whatever is not a sin of itself, as long as you can do it in faith knowing its not sin, if you think it might mess you up, don't watch it!

Why read?

My brother asked me what the point in reading the Bible was if I didn't remember it. I answered that the Word of God does not come back void; I've also thought about this, in 16 years I've eaten alot of meals, and most of the meals I don't remember the menu to, but every one of those meals fed me when I was hungry and nourished my body so that I would stay in good health. Likewise, I don't remember alot of what I've read in the Bible, but every chapter has in some way given me spiritual food and helped keep me spiritually healthy.

By the way I wrote a quote in the front of my Bible that reads "This book will keep you from sin; and, sin will keep you from this book".

Post NO.100

Hey, if you've seen the link to the American Patriot Party page on this site I would advise not clicking on it. The entire party seems to be in disarray due to what I gathered to be internal fueds between national and regional leaders. Certain sects are even splintering of to form their own parties I think, just goes to show you that some third parties don't even make it to an election. By the way the APP was less then 3 years old. God bless

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas, mine was wonderful. Not much else to blog right now, God bless.

Happy B-day Jesus

The Strength Of A United Church

What if the Church would stop bickering amongst itself and unite? How would that influance our country? Lets have a look.

The church could become the most powerful political force in the U.S. with 35% of the vote, while that is not the majority with three major political forces; The Church, Democrats, Republicans, she would be strong enough to: Elect several senators, split the electoral vote, be well represented in the House of Representatives, and possibly elect a president.

She would be strong enough to take care of most homeless people, fight to improve education, and make sure everyone has equal rights.

If the Church took its place we would not have state-sponsored religion, we would have a state that took care of all members equally, weather Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, or whatever.

On that note how many homeless shelters and community based organizations are sponsered by religins other then Christianity? Not many, an overwhelming number of Boy Scout Units are located in Church buildings, Christ-based rehab and homeless shelters are numerous, and several Christian colleges and schools.

These examples don't even scratch the surface of what the Church could do united, we would be strong enough to win the war for Christmas, end abortion, and everything else we want our politicians to do for us. God bless!

Corporate Christmas Awards

Here are companies that have recieved some awards for this Christmas that I've come up with:

Target: Mr. Scrooge Award.
For complete exclusion of the term Christmas from your advertisements, and your employees greetings and farewells. Not allowing Salvation Army bell ringers. Hum-Bug!

Lowe's: The Grinch Award.
For using the term "Holiday" instead of Christmas in all advertisements (except in Spanish). Even though holiday means holy day we believe you are using it to avoid saying Christmas, and have no backbone. "Lowe's hated Christmas, the whole Christmas season!".

K-Mart: Santa Clause Award.
For using the word Christmas in advertisements,and having a Christmas section. This is a good award, unlike the two above, Merry Christmas!

Wal-Mart: Jack Frost Award.
For using Christmas in advertisements, and allowing Salvation Army bell ringers.
Merry Christmas!