In light of Missouri Republicans proposing a pregnancy registry to track pregnant females, what is next? Blood hound GPS tracking collars? You could hunt deer and track your pregnant woman. You could even post your captures on X! You never know what that girl might do while you in your deer stand sit. Keepin’ her out of shoes makes it a fair chase. Girls are faster runners due to all their free time, not workin’ and all. To save money, DOGE would add a pregnancy tag to the existing Game and Fish app. Season is limited to 9 months. https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5151439-missouri-bill-registry-pregnant-women-abortion/
The Privacy Hunt
Papa Goes Hunting
My next blog will discuss the importance of protecting our freedoms and the privileges associated with freedom, such as privacy. As I consider this, we are parked in an RV park in Birmingham, AL. Today we visited the 16th Street Baptist Church where four black children died in a church bombings. Reflecting on the rights of women and people of color, may we be reminded of the St. Paul’s words, “Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery” (Galatians 5:1).
After firing thousands of epidemic medical experts at the Department of Health and Human Services, the newly appointed MAGA Director of HHS hired his own expert who specializes in divination of primate bones and chicken entrails.
See Luke 4:23 where Jesus read from the Scriptures, applying the prophecy to himself. The local crowd of his home town was not satisfied unless Jesus created a miracle carnival act. The same crowd then tried to murder Jesus when he wouldn’t jump like a trained poodle through their hoop.
So it is today, when we are tempted to beg our leaders to outperform one another with voodoo science and conspiracy politics. The old Baptist saying holds true, “It’s not how high you jump … but how straight you walk that matters.”
In Proberbs 22:28, “touch not the ancient landmarks” means do not tamper with or change the established boundaries or rules set as safeguards by the previous generations.
Lord, give us leaders who walk the humble straight path that leads down the path of truth.
“It is finished!” “Jesus is Gold!” “JESUS SAVES us from them.” We sing we are,”Whiter than snow” and “Safe and secure from all alarms”! And other lies.
DOGE efficiency AI converts Lincoln Memorial into a drive thru burger joint with Diversity, Equity, Inclusion replaced with Pride and Prejudice. Speaker in Lincoln greets customers with, “Howdee!” Slogan is, “Only white breads proudly served here. Others, please kindly pick up burger at back window.”
The executives of the new “White House Burger” joint proudly announced, “Our new white glove business model will make a killing!”
This Gemini AI generated image I created captures the rise of radical Dominion Theology to usher the Kingdom of God in by force, if necessary. Also known as the “New Apostolic Reformation,” this ideology preys on Government, churches, schools, Healthcare, and religious freedoms in the name of a militant savior created in the image of zealots. This was the temptation Lucifer gave Jesus Christ – “It belongs to you. You earned it. Seize it and have your own kingdom now!” Christians must take care that, in believing about a future Battle of Armageddon between good and evil, they don’t create an apocalypse as a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Christians must take care that, in believing about a future Battle of Armageddon between good and evil, they don’t create an apocalypse as a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Pastor Jim
I’m reminded of a fanatical pastor in a Baptist church in Phoenix who seized control of his congregation, claiming superior spiritual authority. Under his leadership, the church never roofed the Sanctuary to give a clear view of rafters and the heavens. When I visited the aftermath and the closed church, pigeons also loved the open rafters. Pigeon guano piled as a stinking memorial of the only lasting impact that pastor left.
At another congregation meeting in a school building, the women sit at a table separate from men. Only men are allowed to preach and serve as deacons. “Our job is to protect women,” says the pastor in his sermon. “This divine protection flows down from God to the man, man gives protection to the women, and the children receive protection from women.” “We believe that a woman can work … as long as she works under the protection of the man’s business.” In other words, a woman’s dream of working as a microbiologist becomes studying the microbes of the kitchen sink while homeschooling her 8 children. “We don’t tolerate any woman working ‘Woke’ outside her husband’s lordship. A loving man will ensure that his wife has the weekly allowance needed for the woman to buy the crafts and beads needed to keep her mind from straying from the home and pleasing her husband.” Not long into the hour long sermon, one might ask, “Are shoes optional to keep the woman from straying from the house?”
The Zealot Jesus Loved
St. Luke named Simon as “The Zealot” – 15and Matthew, and Thomas, and James son of Alphaeus, and Simon, who was called the Zealot” Luke 6:15.
”Simon the Zealot”
Simon was born in Cana of Galilee and was one of the Twelve Apostles. Tradition tells us this was the same Cana where Jesus turned the water into wine and where Simon hosted that feast (John 2:1-11). Because of that miracle, St. Simon left his home, parents and bride to follow Christ. After Pentecost, he also traveled to many places from Britain to the Black Sea, Africa, proclaiming the Gospel of Christ. He ended his missionary work in Georgia. St. Simon was tortured and crucified by the pagans in Abkhazia (See https://mannaghaziabad.com/churchCalendarEvent/16/feast-of-st-simon-the-zealot for this discussion and image).
The beauty of grace shows both Matthew, tax collector for the Romans, and Simon, the zealot who was committed to aggressive overthrow of Roman government, sitting in peace at Jesus’s feet as his disciples. Simon the Zealot remains as one of the most obscure of the Apostles, reinforcing that Jesus came as Prince of Peace and not to encourage overthrow by sword –
52But Jesus said to him, “Put your sword in its place, for all who take the sword will [j]perish by the sword. 53Or do you think that I cannot now pray to My Father, and He will provide Me with more than twelve legions of angels? 54How then could the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must happen thus?”– Mathew 26:52 – 54
In the above passage, Simon Peter, not Simon the Zealot, handled the sword. Imagine if Jesus had said, “Ready your swords! It’s time.” Simon the Zealot would have charged out of obscurity hacking and slashing his way through Judas Iscariot first, then the angry crowd. But this was not the way of the cross, which Jesus described as 45 For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many” – Mark 10:45. In contrast, the Roman destruction levied against the Jewish zealots and population in AD 70 shows the fruit of zealotry, “Those who live by the sword die by the sword” (Matthew 26:52).
How Dominion Theology Overthrew the United States
Dominion Theology believes in a God-given manifesto to clamp its view of religious guidelines over society and government and to establish God’s kingdom on earth, and if necessary, use force. The present reelection of Donald Trump did not occur as battle between Democrat and Republican, rather as a holy war between the religious militarized right versus the rest of the population. The goal of Dominion Theology is to raise an image of the Christian Patriot, its patron saint, in the Temple of U.S. Government.
Q: “How could you say that, Pastor Jim? Is the U.S. not a Christian nation? We are simply and humbly reclaiming what the framers created but later became corrupted by the unbelievers.”
A: The patron saint of Dominion Theology is a distorted view of Simon the Zealot, strapping the sword to his hand, encouraging the militant over the penitent. The Dominionists fight to return the United States to a militant religious utopia on earth, where white males supplant women and where people of color are returned to their rightful place as servants of their white overlords.
The Dominionists fight to return the United States to a militant religious utopia on earth, where white males supplant women and where people of color are returned to their rightful place as servants of their white overlords.
In the religious utopia of a Dominionist United States, there are no human or civil rights afforded to immigrants, the LGBTQ community, or people of color, as the right to life has morphed into living under the condition established by the dominion of male white elders.
The Dominion movement recognized that for a majority of Americans their politics consist mainly of reposting clever memes while waiting for their iced lattes, hypnotized by the streaming news channels. Politicians’ opinions sway in rhythm with those few with the most money exchanged for influence. The Dominionists struck straight at the U.S.’s jugular of influence and money, promising to give politicians the “crack cocaine” of oligarch money in exchange for influence and the establishment of an earthly kingdom. Thus the Dominionists realized they didn’t need to move an entire nation, rather strike a key political pressure point to create a cascade of change, like a pit viper striking a big toe.
MAGAchurch: A Revival of Wealth and Power
While some have compared MAGA to Hitler’s rise or to a cult, they miss that which was hidden in plain sight … MAGA is a religion that used the political machinery that combined the elements like that of Billy Graham Stadium Crusades with those of Prosperity Gospel Preachers to fervently call converts down the sawdust trail * to surrender their hearts and minds to their MAGA Prophet while tapping the Prosperity Preacher techniques to empty the followers’ wallets. The difference is that while Rev. Billy Graham called the U.S. to surrender to Jesus Christ, MAGA’s political evangelist Prophet beckoned his followers to surrender to him, as evidenced by entering into ecstatic states of conspiracy theories and launching economic crusades against the infidels who are non-MAGA. While Jesus spoke the Sermon on the Mount, the MAGA’s Prophet in Chief declares a gospel of hate and chaos, as the MAGA Prophet said, “MAGA is very unforgiving.” The apostles of MAGA are sent with a commission to condemn and to destroy, in contrast with the words of Jesus, “10The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full” (John 10:10). It is not without irony that some of those closest to the MAGA Prophet today once sat in stadiums of evangelism crusades and led Bible lectures but who now have traded the gospel of Jesus Christ for the tin idols of power and wealth of an earthly kingdom, with the unholy trinity of the MAGA Prophet, the Businessman, and the King’s Court, with MAGA Congress commissioned as MAGApostles, given the sign of speaking conspiracy theories as evidence of their anointing. The beauty of the U.S. is that one can choose to worship in his religion of choice, even if it is MAGA. The problem with MAGAchurch is its quest to force its tenets on all by using the U.S. Government to prefer MAGA over other faiths.
(*Tent preachers in the U.S. once poured sawdust in the isles inside their tents that were erected in open fields, which were often muddy. Walking the “sawdust trail” to the altar was declaring evidence of their commitment.)
Caution: Snakes in Area
On our ranch in Rimrock, Arizona, we became accustomed to dwelling in the habitat of enormous Blacktailed Rattlesnakes. We learned some lessons dwelling among then that apply to Dominionists:
Be aware of where you step. Rattlesnakes typically lie terrifically camouflaged with their surroundings. You would be tempted to tromp around and announce, “There are no snakes here. We are free of the problem. What is the issue?”
Don’t get bitten. Usually one is bitten by sticking a hand in their hiding place or stepping on them. Could you identify some Dominionists in the news who have reacted with a vicious strike when their view is “stepped on”? “We will primary you!,” “This will be your last Sunday as pastor!”, “You are fired as professor!” “Quit or or be fired if you won’t sign our creed!”, reflect Dominion stake burning leadership.
Crotallus Molossus – Black-tailed Rattlesnake
Q: “I think you are fabricating things. What makes you think that there are Dominionists in U.S. Government?”
A: Jesus taught, 15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16 You will know them by their fruits” (Matthew 5:7:16). St. Paul wrote, “22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 [g]gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law” (Galatians 5:22-23). Paul’s greatest test was groups of legalists who followed him, known as “Judaizers,” who attempted to follow Paul and replace his teaching of being saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ with a religious extremism of following the strict law. Where have you seen someone calling for forms of government devoid of the fruit of the Spirit? Consider someone who spouts “the right to life” but who shouts to drop-ship an immigrant teen to a third-world where she is jailed and stripped of human rights. Is that the spirit of love and grace?
A First Aid for a Wounded Nation
Sadly many readers have experienced the phrase “he is meaner than a cut snake,” which portrays how we are unprepared to deal with the onslaught given by Dominionists who apply a new Crusade style savagery to their religious conquests, whether it is a local church or government office. We have seen local churches, denominations, and now a U.S. political party conquered by this movement, resulting in utopia built on law and shame versus love and grace.
As Jesus taught, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees,” we will need to steel ourselves to sweep the snakes out of the room. While we do not need to respond with the same savagery, we can with firmness and love reclaim balanced boundaries and dwell in respectful cohabitation. The New Testament calls us to be a Simon, who once was a Zealot, versus a Simon, who became a Zealot, to force the establishment of an earthly kingdom. Even as there was room for us to dwell safely in the habitat of Arizona vipers, so we can live with the Dominionists, appreciating their strong faith. There is room at the Christian table for Dominionists, without their chopping up the table to convert it into an altar for an earthly utopian king.
Describe how you have encountered religious extremists in your life, church, and community?
How can you safeguard your church or school board without becoming an extremist yourself?
What could you do if your church faced an extremist takeover?
Compare the Dominionists to the Judaizers who plagued St. Paul. How has grace set us free from legalism? Read Galatians 2 and discussion how legalism infiltrated their ranks to “make them slaves” again.
How does the final Battle of Armageddon of Revelation differ from a human created apocalypse (See Revelation 14 and 16)? How can you tell the difference?
How could community leaders restore balance to U.S. Government, living out the phrase, “The heresy of the extreme and the orthodoxy of the balanced”?
What does “salt of the earth” mean in Matthew 5:13?
How does extremism transform us from “salt of the earth” to “salt cakes” that force feed society? How do you remain “salt of the earth” if you are a minority in a batch of “salt cakes”?
Read Genesis 3 and Luke 4. Compare the temptation and Fall of Adam and Eve with the temptation of Jesus. What are common themes? What are the pros and cons of trading faith for access, power, and money? How can Christians be deceived in thinking wealth is synonymous with God’s blessing? How did Dominionists deceive themselves when they learned their twin they exalted into Government control is the “Prosperity Gospel,” with its high priestess of wealth in the image of one like a god?
How do we deceive ourselves that money, power, and politics will advance the Kingdom of God? What are the unintended consequences?
A tariff is a form of financial self-mutilation in which one country delights in punishing another to force them to raise their import prices.
In the 1930’s, the over 900 tariffs levied by U.S. Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act worsened The Great Depression. During The Great Depression 44 percent of the U.S. population lived on farms. Today’s U.S. population lives 2 percent on farms.
My wife and I owned a small 7.5 acre ranch in Rimrock, Arizona, where we raised as many as 15 chickens at a time. Gathering eggs was as simple as opening a hatch and collecting breakfast. But raising chickens was not easy, as the game camera photo of our coop shows below. We needed to keep the chickens cool in summer and protect them from predators, such as the Bobcat shown circling our chickens in the photograph.
Bobcat Circles our Chicken Coop in Rimrock, Arizona
The United States is but three days away from food riots … if its supply chain is disrupted. While farmers produce 130 percent of what Americans eat, the food must navigate a complex, international supply chain to get food to the table of the 98 percent of Americans. Tariffs don’t need to disrupt what farmers are growing, rather disrupt one link in the supply chain to empty grocery shelves. The masses don’t get their eggs from a coop, rather as shipped in from 1,000 miles then fried and inserted between a toasted muffin slathered with buttery-like lab-grown spread, processed tinted cheese, and sliced 3 inch ham circles, wrapped in waxed paper printed with happy images, stuffed into a recycled paper to-go bag also printed with smiling marketing, all shoved out a glass portal to a Tesla that will drive its servant back home the 2 miles to her home cell, where her head will be wired into an AI network for task monitoring. Today, she exceeded expectations by returning with her happy bag in less than 10 minutes; thus, the AI gave her a dopamine rush by injecting a 30 second kayaking video into her work cycle. Those of us who have worked remotely know that the walls of tomorrow’s gulags will be virtual.
”Work Faster and Have a Happy Day!”
While the radical right cheers the building of walls and internment camps for “illegal aliens,” history shows that the walls and gulags countries built to keep the enemy out later became the tools to control the citizens in the event of political disruption, such as food riots. Who remembers Ronald Reagan’s speech to East Berlin and Russia, “Mr. Gorbachev, Tear down this wall!”? Who remembers Russia’s bare grocery store food shelves? The words of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the Russian dissident who suffered eight years in the Russian Gulag, remain true to the political milieu in the U.S. today-
Q: “Pastor Jim, what Pollyanna rubbish are you teaching? We need a Border Wall, high and tight. Don’t you want to be safe and secure?”
A: The Eastern Gate of Jerusalem has been sealed since 1541 AD. In Jewish tradition the Messiah will enter the Eastern Gate through the Mount of Olives. Christians also sing of meeting the Messiah just inside the Eastern Gate. We embrace the hope of the opening gate and the return of the King of Kings.
Lessons learned – 1. Gates sealed tend to remain sealed for a long time. 2. Considering point one, if a wall must be built, build it with a beautiful thousand gates of entry that portray hope, security, and new beginnings. Even Jesus taught, “I am the Door” (John 10:9). As ambassadors for Christ, our mission is to open doors to the shutouts. Some have morphed Jesus’ words into a Chernobyl mutation, “I have a door. It is locked. Go away! I got mine.”
The Eastern Gate of Jerusalem, also known as the Gate of Mercy. In Arabic — Gate of Eternal Life. Prophecy tells us the Messiah will return and enter through the Eastern Gate.
This blog morphed from a humorous quip about tariffs to an emergency flare how interconnected we are as a nation and with our allies, with whom we need to build alliances and not enemies.
13 “No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.” – Luke 16:13
My father was a gracious man, born in Mobile, Alabama in 1917. My grandmother, a Bible believing Christian, at times used racial slurs to refer to people of color without a pause or sense that such language typecast groups of people as “other than us.” The South, with its “Southern Gentility,” replaces an overt tirade with a smiling, “I love your dress!” and a head-turned, “But I hate your guts.” “Woke!,” “DEI Hire!,” and “Illegal!” reflect the neobigotry of genteel racism.
Neobigotry’s genteel racism walks a path racism one step removed. This was the same scorched earth policy launched by the U.S. Army following the Civil War as it then waged war against the Plains Native Americans with a “one step removed” eradication of the Buffalo. Without one shot fired at Native Americans, they took away their food and life essentials by killing their symbol of life — the Buffalo! Buffalo skull mounds served as bleached tombstones for the Plains Native Tribes.
Buffalo Skull Mounds Tombstone for the Plains Native Tribes
The attack against the “Woke,” the “DEI Hires,” and the “Illegals” is nothing short of “Buffalo Hunting” that creates disparate treatment and harassment for protected classes of race, gender, sex, religion, age, and orientation. Before eradicating human groups, humans like to ascribe subhuman names to them that lessen the guilt of eradicating real people. The genteel terms given to “Woke”, “DEI Hires” and “Illegals,” while one step removed from historic racial slurs, are symbiotic with protected classes of people. Those seeking eradication of these classes may boast they shot not one word of hate against people of color, age, or sexual orientation, while at the same time these neobigotry attacks result in the scorched earth destruction of the sources that feed a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace and culture in a truly fair and free America.
The attack against the “Woke,” the “DEI Hires,” and the “Illegals” is nothing short of “Buffalo Hunting” that creates disparate treatment and harassment for protected classes of race, gender, sex, religion, age, and orientation.
Pastor Jim
The Buffalo Hunt
The Parable of the Good Samaritan
25 On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
26 “What is written in the Law?” he replied. “How do you read it?”
27 He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’[c]; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[d]”
28 “You have answered correctly,” Jesus replied. “Do this and you will live.”
29 But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
Read Luke chapter 10 for the parable.
– Luke 10
“…l’d love to wear a rainbow every day And tell the world that everything’s okay But I’ll try to carry off a little darkness on my back Until things are brighter I’m the Man In Black.” ~Johnny Cash
“Day One of Cat’s Plan to Eliminate Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI)”
