1. GAY MARRIAGE IS WRONG EDITORIAL
If God or his word the Bible or Heaven or Hell have any meaning, then the Gay life style is wrong. Read Leviticus 18, 22. It clearly states that, "You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination." Also Leviticus 20, 13. It clearly states that, "If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall be put to death, their blood is upon them.
I do not know if there is a place in the Bible that puts restrictions on a woman lying with another woman as she would lie with a male. Is it possible that the Bible inferred the same restrictions for women that it stated for men? It is odd how we can interpret things to fit "our definition" of the life we want to live.
Some place in the Bible it states that a man shall take to him a "Wife." The choice is yours, abide by his laws or you will abide by his punishment. God will not abide by your feelings.
I have a small book, 114 pages, "Understanding The Fear Of The Lord" written by Floyd D. Martin from Minneapolis, ISBN1-886158-18-5. Humans do not understand that we should Fear God. I think we bring him down more to our level and that we feel he will understand us. The reverse is true, we need to take ourselves up more to his level and understand him, his power, his laws and his way of dealing with us after death.
We do not know what a Soul is, we can not comprehend what God can do with our Soul to cause our punishment for not following his laws. I think God could cause your body to feel the pain of being burned alive and for eternity he would not let your body ever be consumed and turned into ash. We should fear God for what he can do to us after death, and in his world.
I think if we fully understood God and his ability to punish us, we would all turn to angles over night. Note the comments after the next story that a man wrote back to me, apparently he has no fear of God, any idea what God will do with him? END.


2. ATHEISTS, ARE NOT TRUE ATHEIST EDITORIAL
Have you ever really thought about an atheist and their beliefs?They try every chance they get to remove any trace of God or Religion from the American way of life. They try to force their beliefs on us by arming themselves with ammunition taken from our own Constitution and using that ammunition to shoot down our own beliefs. I sometimes find that the ones who complain the most, are the ones that have the least to complain about in the first place.If we are to believe an atheist and his sincerity, we must ask one question. How can you live in America? An atheist is not a true Atheist. His statements are only used for his personal goals. I think you will find atheists do not object to every thing about God, almost every town has a Ten Commandments monument on public property. They do not make sure that every single one of them is removed in the United States.If an Atheist is a true believer, he or she could not have a copy of the word "God" on his person. If you check his clothes, I am sure he would have many copies of the word "God" on him. He could not eat, pay bills or purchase any thing. He could not work or receive any Social Security when he retires. In general he could not do any thing that requires the use of American Money, since all American money has the word God on it.Would he ever leave America because of the problems his beliefs are causing him to endure, in America, because God is everywhere. "I don’t think so"Take a look at the lady and her family that were operating an Atheist Origination in the United States. She had collected several million dollars, each with the word God on it. As I understand it, her and her family were killed for all those copies of the word God.I have always wanted to ask an Atheist this question. If by chance there is a God and there is a judgment day. Will you say to God? When I was alive on earth I had the choice to believe in you and abide by your commandment's. "I chose not to believe" Now, God, I will accept any punishment you have for me with out complaint or excuse for my actions. Could any one of them give me the simple answer, "YES"? END.
3. Comments to the above:
Leo said... Your religion has taught you false things about what atheism is. You say that atheists are hypocrites for not trying to purge themselves of all things related to god. Unfortunately you miss the entire point of atheism, atheism is not about hating god or being free of god. It is about not being fanatical about your beliefs and tolerating those of other people. Unlike a religion, there is no clause about atheism being the only correct belief, so it does not bother us in the least that we continually interact with things related to god.So what if there is a god? Firstly, I would be very surprised, and then I would say to him:"As you know, I did not believe in you while I was alive, however, I led a good life, I was fair to others, helped those less fortunate, and did not do unjust things. If you send me to hell now, how are you better than a petty dictator like we have so many of on earth?" END.
4. Answer, Fanatical! Tolerating! Atheists are the ones removing the 10 Commandments from public property when the majority of the people want it there. Who is not tolerating the beliefs of others? END.

5. SENTENTIAL WISDOM
THE following is a collection of sentential sayings (sayings in a single sentence) which may give you food for thought
Every kind of effort is useful except worry.
Ignorance is the hardest thing in the world to discover, especially your own; only the very wise can see it.
As most insane people think they are sane, so the fool is surest of his knowledge.
The best mirror in which to see yourself is your Work.
The seed of all Tragedy is a failure in Courage.
"To the hero there is no tragedy" (Maeterlinck).
"Butterflies are the souls of torn-up love letters" (Victor Hugo).
Only the great realize their littleness.
The only way to get anywhere is to start from where you stand.
"It is never too late for the soul of man" (Olive Schreiner).
Appreciation is to the human soul what the rain from heaven is to the plant.
The only practical use of Death is to show us what is worth while in Life.
"It takes two to tell the truth" (Thoreau).
There is but one sensible prayer it is to know the Will of God.
All there is to Efficiency is to know what are Essentials and do them, and to know what things are Nonessential, and let them alone.
You cannot prevent Evil Thought from knocking at your door, but you need not let him in.
Being Good is as much a matter of practice as playing the violin.
There is but one quality we are to hate. It is Egotism. And it has a thousand disguises.
Only the useful is beautiful. Only the beautiful is useful.
Love is not blind. Love is the only thing that can see.
Man is like a bicycle; he is safe from falling off only as he keeps going on.
The best antiseptic is health.
The best way to kill a lie is to keep on telling it.
Sincerity is more convincing than eloquence.
The bitterest pessimists are the young. For one soured old man I can show you ten soured young men.
The first and easiest noise to make is crying; and people can criticize, complain and croak who cannot do anything else.
No one is so much a slave to habit as Nature; the sun never rises in the West.
Success may be an accident, but Failure is always a habit.
There is no intelligent Faith that has not grown out of honest Doubts.
A fault acknowledged is half cured.
Do unto yourself as you would that others do unto you.
Education consists in correcting the errors of Common Sense.
No good literature was ever produced by one who wrote about people or things he did not know and did not love. END

6. THINGS YOU CAN LIVE WITHOUT
RUSKIN once said people could live without pictures, but they could not live so well. There are many things in life without which people can live, but not so well. Man is a creature of infinite want, but of remarkably few needs. The machinery of his life is immensely complicated, but surprisingly little keeps it running. The animal needs that keep life in his body are soon met. But it is in the margin beyond these that all that makes man a higher being takes place.
The beauty of music is one of the things you can live without. Life goes on even if the soul is never touched by the tenderness of song. Life goes on, but it does not go on the same. Something irreplaceable is lost.
Travel broadens and enlarges a man's life, but it is not necessary to it. The writer once talked to an old woman in the Kentucky mountains. She had lived in the same spot for over sixty years and had been only twice to a town five miles away.
Education is one of the things you can live without. A man may never have read a sentence in his life and yet may live longer than one who is widely read. He may live longer, but not so well!
Fine, worthwhile literature, the real food of the soul, can be entirely neglected. You can live all your life and never hear the name of Shakespeare. All the richness of the great minds of the past, the real legacy of older days, may never be heard of, but life goes on. Man can exist without religion. His body goes on living even though his soul is never awakened. The love and appreciation of flowers, of birds, of the wide, clean beauty of nature, can be entirely left out of his life, and still it continues.
One of the chief evils of poverty is that it means that "the things you can live without" often have to be discarded for the bare necessities. Like those born blind who cannot conceive of color or those born deaf who cannot imagine sound, those who never experience "the things you can live without" rarely miss them. They live on without them. But they do not live so well. END.

7. GOD'S PHONOGRAPH
ONE time, in my dream, a man showed me God's phonograph. It was a little box made of time and light and feeling, all wrought of gold and lily work. He told me that this phonograph contained a record of every word I had ever uttered, of every thought that had ever found place in my consciousness, of every love and hate that had vibrated from my heart.
"Whenever you talk," he said, "you are not speaking into empty space, but there is a spirit by your side which holds before your lips this machine. The recording apparatus in it turns unceasingly, and every emotion of your being is caught and held.
"Here is a row of keys. Press the appropriate key and you can hear again what took place at any period of your life."
This was curious. I pressed one key and heard myself crying and babbling at the age of six. I pressed another key and heard my recitation in school at the age of ten. By pressing other keys I heard my former episodes of anger, of love, of aspiration and of folly.
After I had listened a while I had a strong feeling of depression.
"Take it away," I said. "It makes me sick."
And the man asked, " Why do you say that?"
I answered, " My chief sentiment is pity. I am sorry for the soul to whom I have listened. He was so ignorant, so mistaken, so lacking in foresight, and there are few feelings worse than self-pity."
"Do you think, then," he said, "that God's feeling towards all men is one of pity, perhaps contempt? "
" I do, now," I replied.
"But," he answered, as he put the instrument away, "that is where you are mistaken. You have partial wisdom; God has perfect wisdom. Your difficulty is that you judge what took place at a former time as if you had done it at your present age. But the quality of any act depends upon the period of growth at which the person is who does the act. To you life is a series of errors; to God it is a continuance of growth. The gardener is not disgusted with a tree because it was once a sapling, nor with a flower because it was once a bud. Neither is the Creator angry with men because they were once more imperfect than they now are. Growth is the law of life, and growth implies imperfection. The Creator does not make any life perfect; he makes it to become perfect. Whatever is alive grows. Cling to that word 'growth,' it is the key that unlocks the Universe.
The Creator is not displeased with the human creatures He has made. He makes no mistakes. Our apparent mistakes are a part of his plan."
For all that, I should not want to listen often to God's phonograph. END.

8. DUST
WHEN I go along the crowded street I am greeted everywhere by whirls of dust. I find my shoes covered with it. Horses kick it up and it is everywhere, even in my lungs. This dust, however, is a remarkable thing. Out of it comes all that grows; the trees, the flowers and the crops all spring from it.
What is it? The decayed and disintegrated results of former life. All that lives must find its final abiding place in dust. The death of all things, however, is not so remarkable as the birth of new things out of this common element.
I myself am a product of dust, for He who created me made my body out of the dust of the ground. A man is just as much a growth of the soil as a tree. His evolution has only been a little longer. By and by he must return to the dust from which he came.
This dust, therefore, contains in itself the potentialities of all being. In it are the trees, birds, flowers and men of the future. How many times in the past has this Dust been a man, tree, animial, flower or any other living thing ?
It is a symbol of myself. For what is personality but a something or other composed of things, we know not what?
What are ideas and thoughts but things that have found lodgment in us and have floated to us from somewhere?
I have no original ideas. The very words I use are the detritus from others' ideas. And the very passions of my body and soul are but a temporary grouping of certain sensations that belong to the human race.
It is an interesting spectacle to watch human beings and all the growths that surround them, whether of plants or animals, rhythmically rising from the dust and settling back again. All life and growth as we know it, is but an episode. If there were no new births, all things would go speedily back to the dust from which they came.
Dust, therefore, is a remarkable substance, containing in itself not only the death of all living things, but the potentialities of their regeneration. END.