GOD'S GET-REAL COMMISSION FOR OPENED EYES

Preacher (James) Robison:

With all due respect, I believe you have some explaining to do at Judgment. You being "Commissioned" and all, to "proclaim Truth and Liberty" "from the rooftops," etc. And as you "see through the eyes of God" it must be so very easy to know the right course on public policy. It's not POLITICS, mind you, it's just knowing, as you do, God's will, right? And, since God speaks through you--you who were "called"--we can just read your words for God's message.


In your other message you thankfully give us specifics: God is against government auto makers, government climate regulations, government energy policy, government handouts...government...government...government! Whew! God HATES government!

Thanks to God's message channeled through you I now realize how incensed I am that there are sidewalks being built at this very moment in a part of my town in which many people are probably on government handouts! How fair is that? I demand my tax money be withdrawn from such a bad policy. I'll probably never use those sidewalks!


I'm glad you mentioned "sustainability," because that's a hint you will get around to preaching about the consumerism that is the dominant dynamic of our era, leading to destruction of God's Earth, and engendering the delusional self-contained individualism that is at the core of each of us. And when you mentioned "sound principles," that leads me to think you will preach in a later message (after you finish with government) about the overriding influence--yes, control--of gigantic corporations on our very lives and souls.


Get it? Consumerism (as much more than just lifestyle), self-contained individualism (as our delusional personal construct), corporatism (as the most powerful spiritual force in the world), and destruction of God's Earth (as suicidal project)--they all go together.

God is speaking to you at this very moment about these issues. Pray about it. There might even be some public policy involved. But, first, rant, as you did, against government favoritism to unions!


As I said, you will have some explaining to do. This question will be asked, Who convinced you of your Great Commission and what does it really say? You might start your explanation with how you needed (since you were "commissioned") to institute God's anti-government program before you could turn attention to the really big issues.
At that time, don't bother to open your eyes--because you don't have them open now.


--Peace

SPIRITUAL CARTOGRAPHY

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/18/AR2011011807034.html

I share the concerns of the ADL and the Birmingham Islamic Society about whether the Alabama Governor can be truly fair and equally concerned about other communities (non-Christian) in Alabama. Would the Governor be concerned equally about rhetorical bashing, even violence, that is Islamophobic or anti-Semitic? After all, those communities do not fall within his spiritual cartography, as non-Christian people, who, according to the Governor, are bereft of God and do not have the Holy Spirit.

We should expect better from public officials, especially in a State that has a long history of lynchings. Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center lists 32 hate groups in Alabama, many of whom claim Christianity as part of their ideology (such as the several neo-Confederacy groups). On the world stage, this kind of thinking has been the source of pogroms.

Admittedly, it is a long way from a mild statement of inclusion/exclusion to pogroms, genocide, Crusades, and hate crimes. But, in the climate of political/cultural rhetoric we have today, the Governor's statement could go some way to give further permission to a hate group or two. There are lots of groups--e.g., in the Patriot movement--who blame "World Jewry" for what they see as the Federal Reserve conspiracy of Jewish-banker control over every aspect of American life, the New World Order, and even 9/11.

Once the boundary is drawn for inclusion/exclusion, it is easy to begin to place on the outside any other groups who would have no inherent characteristics that would warrant that exclusion according to religion. For example, in terms of fighting poverty, would the good Governor be lacking in concern for communities of poverty--part of the citizenry that the Governor might say is mostly non-Christian? The Governor unconsciously might be imbued with the idea that the poor are essentially bereft of God, thus the cause of their plight. This is, after all, a central view of traditional Social Darwinism, which I believe is still extant: The poor deserve their (self-created) place, because God is not on their side.

And, what of anti-gay/lesbian groups, all probably casting some of their beliefs in rhetoric of Christian ideology. Would the Governor be sympathetic to laws against anti-gay crimes, with his beliefs? In Alabama, Supreme Court Justice Tom Parker ran an election ad that said that a federal judge who temporarily ordered the military to accept openly gay recruits should be added to a list of "America's biggest security threats," along with Al-Qaeda terrorists.

As postmodern cartography informs us, the map proactively helps to create the territory. By the same token, a spiritual cartography that draws a line--a border of brotherhood!--between the anointed and the lost creates a conceptual structure--a mental map--of brotherhood and otherness, its opposite. I contend that the boundaries on our conceptual maps should, when they deal with people, be erased of those political and spiritual divisions of inclusion/exclusion.