A FALSE GOD VERSUS THE TRUE GOD                                         

     There are 21 times in the Old Testament when God tells us not to have false gods.  Vladimir Putin seems to have missed all of them in his Sunday School lessons as a member of the Russian Orthodox Church. This severely disturbed man has created his own god, i.e., himself.  

       He was born in 1952, seven years after the end of World War II which had Murderously devasted his country..  And he is now acting as if he has never heard of the morally insance German leader Adoph Hitler.  Even worse, he is acting just as horrifically as Hitler did. 

       Putin, In his moral insanityhas created his own world, of which he is god.  I recently saw a picture of this false god standing alone, no doubt in one of his golden palaces, which serve as his heaven, watching a television screen which was showing the insancely immoral deveastation that he was inflicting on men, women and children of Ukraine.  There was a look of satisfaction on his face.

   Putin's life story tells of of a severely impoverished childhood. For a time he lived in a rat infested apartment, and was even attacked by a rat which he had cornered.  He was a major obedience roblem in school until a teacher helped him to change his attitude.  He then flourished intellectually.

   Later he joined the KGB, the Russian Intelligence Agency.  And that opened his path to becoming President of Russia.

                                           

  Dear Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, please hear the prayers of the Ukrainian people and of people throughout the world for peace in Ukraine and in the heart and mind of Vladimir Putin.  Amen      .  .  

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Quo Vadis 

 

   In 1896 Polish author Henry Sienkewicz wrote a book that contains this story:  It is the 300's and Emperor Nero is carrying out a persecution of Christians in Rome.  St. Peter is fleeing from Rome.  On the road he meets Jesus coming from the opposite direction.  He asks Jesus, "Quo vadis?"  i.e., "Where are you going?"  Jesus answers, ""To Rome, to be crucified again."

   Today, we can tell the same story with a crucial difference.  "Jesus can say, "I am going to America to be crucified again."  

    in fact he has already arrived.       

1.    Here in America Jesus is being crucified again

   - -by every American who chooses to act with aggressive ignorance rather than with peaceful understanding and genuine patriotism. . 

   - -by political leaders who pledge to preserve and protect the Constitiution and then openly betray their pledge. .

  --  by a broken educational system that almost guarantees failure for too many children. In Christ, we cannot tolerate a system in which a School superintendant said, "Our goal this year is to try to see to it that our graduates can read their diplomas."

-- by continuing racism that is literally lethal to Black Americans.

-- by a financial system that permits corporations to pay little or no taxes that could help alleviate poverty and hunger for the poor.

_--by a still overly clericalized Church that is losing members every day who should be applying their vocations to help make our society more human by making it more luminously alive in the way Jesus actively taught and empowered us to be.

I  -- In sum, Jesus is being crucified here in America, by everyone of us who are not using our God-giving gifts to do all that we can to fulfill Jesus' great prayer, "Thy Kingdom come, on earth as it is in heaven." 

    Now we should ask ourselves, "Quo vadimus?"  Where are we going?

    I humbly advise all of my readers from the other 106 countries where I thankfully have readers, to make your own list for your own country.  .

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