Before You Accuse Me - Take a Look at Yourself

PSYCHOLOGICAL TEST FOR JEWISH MESSIAH ASPIRANTS

Do you believe you should stab one boss in the back in order to cut a better deal with a new employer, as if he will be impressed by your treachery?

Do you ever have personal doubts about yourself - - on anything?

Do you believe others whom you have frictions with, would be be better Christians if they were all a little more humble. Do you believe "humility" is a cure-all for unsuccessful Christians?

If it more important to "Have a successful mission" or that every action by every person pass muster with your own personal moral check list to see that I's are dotted and T's are crossed?

Which to you is a more violent act? Pointing a sword at an enemy government official, or the burning of a young woman alive at the stake?

Are you disinclined to believe any Bible verse quoted by another if it contracts some theological writing by a cleric whose been dead for ten centuries?

Do you believe in drawing attention to yourself as the "Star" of a team, even at the expense of the overall efficient functioning of the team as a whole?

Do you believe there is any danger in debasing the value of the currency if one employer floods the market with a lot of extra money and jacks up prices for everyone, even ones that weren’t paid by the employer who flooded the market?

What good and noble act or acts have you done for your country in the past year. The last three years?

Are you given to throwing tantrums when your message isn’t understood?

When people bow down to you in adulation, do you encourage such conduct?

Do you believe it's a good thing for commanding officers to speak to the troops in confusing, ambiguous terms and "leave it to them to sort it all out later?"

Have you ever been known to harbor a convicted murderer as a secret follower?

If there were a dispute between a countryman and a citizen of the occupying country, would your first instinct be to side with the enemy?

Has any word come out of your mouth that skeptics say remains unproven?

Are you given to making dire prophecies of doom concerning your nation?

If your wife bought pepper spray because she says she’s afraid of being raped in a parking lot, would you chastise her for her “violence stance”?

If you saw one kid bullying another would you tell the kid being abused that if he’s passive then the whole problem will go away. If you saw a husband beating his wife would you give a likewise message to the wife concerning submission?

Do you believe in a god who is so secretive about “rewards” they remain secret even to the so called “recipient”? Do you believe that a basic theme of the Hebrew scripture is that most of what God does is so secret, nobody knows it?

If you saw a young boy being raped in the shower by a college coach, would your first impulse be to “Give the situation over to God and pray about it?”

Do you regularly pray for the well being of government & religious leaders?

If you saw your comrade in arms about to be fired upon by the enemy would your first impulse be to shoot that enemy or “think about it a while”?

Do you believe your own private moral views take precedence over doing what is best for your country?

Would you interrupt an ongoing religious service to make some private moral point even if it could have waited till later. If you were invited to a dinner by a religious leader, would you tell him off and embarrass him right in public?

Do you find that most of the interactions between you and others always end up revolving around how great of a person the other individual thinks you are?

Would you refuse to heal someone if you could do so on the grounds that this illness is there to “teach them a valuable lesson” and not to interfere?

If someone were drilling holes in a boat you were in and the boat began sinking would your first impulse be to rescue a sinking ship filled with convicts that happened by, or would you first look for the guy that’s drilling the holes.

Do you have the basic philosophy that “Nothing is anybody’s fault”, unless, of course - - one of the people happens to be a Jew?

Are there long periods of your own life you’ve said nothing about?

Do you believe quoting fragments of scripture out of context is OK?

If you know something evil is going to happen, do you try to prevent it?

Do you believe good results can come from imperfect means, or do you believe that good things only come from perfect means, but if you “Have a good reason for what you’re doing” then nothing can possibly go wrong?

Do you believe in unconditional Trust? I’ll repeat the question. Your teenage daughter is in a back seat with a sex hound. Do you believe in unconditional trust?

Thom Hartman ticked me off with his rapsidies of non violence. The line about “good ends can only come from good means” can’t be counted on. You’ve heard another adage that goes “The road to hell is paved with good intentions”. I’m sure all the Penn State people are saying “I really didn’t mean for such and such to happen”. The ultimate example is Jesus Christ who spoke in such lofty terms. Unlike Martin Luther King and Ghandi, Jesus was only out for himself, and that’s all he was interested in promoting. He never advocated violence- - at his own hand. All the tens of millions who died at the hands of the Catholic Church or Conquistidors or the Nazis were just proxy killings or something- - in the name of God. So I guess the Dr. Phil line “How’s that worked out for you?” shouldn’t be asked of the nation of Israel when it came to “delivering” that nation from oppression of any sort. Isn’t it funny that the Jews had to learn the lesson the hard way that you need to fight back when picked on.

Sixty Minutes had congressmen and women who routinely trade on insider information. No congressman is obliged to set up a blind trust but is free to dabble in the stock market to his heart’s content. I never knew this. If they aren’t millionaires to begin with they soon become millionaires while there with all this inside information on bills that may or may not be passed. If you’re Nancy Palosi you can prevent a credit card bill from coming to the floor because it would adversely affect your stock holdings. Personally I don’t know if I’ll ever believe another word that comes out of Nancy Palosi’s mouth. I goess 9% trust isn’t a low enough poll number for Congress. But Republicans profited from knowing the stock crash of September 2008 was coming. The tea party used to pretend they cared about stuff like this. But now we know they ARE the corruption. And then it was the TASER story, which stands for Thomas A Swift Electric Revolver. (?) Cops may overuse it at least in the beginning from lack of training and experience but people agree that it makes cops a lot safer and prevents suspects from either dying or being hospitalized. They said it’s over a million volts but only a fraction of am amp. I know what that means in the abstract, but not really. Then it was some Black guy named Robosky, who is Polish and is a math and electronics wizard, and runs a school that turns out only the brightest graduates.

I would like to speak more on the subject of Atheism. If I were to turn Atheist altogether I would do it on scientific grounds, and not as some act of “committal to a religion”. Perhaps others view Atheism as a religion. Perhaps in our culture one cannot legally come to the logical conclusion that there is no god based on scientific research. It would seem one is free to come to any other intellectual conclusion he pleases, except that one. Certainly people have abused science. They have at times favored eugenics, and such bogus sciences as saying you can spot a “criminal type” by such features as a criminal brow, or narrow, beady eyes. We were just discussing these things in Dr. Levy’s class. Some say that men should be dealt with and judged based on various DNA traits predisposing them to certain undesirable traits from schizophrenia to homosexuality. But because science has been abused in the passed this is by no means any indication one should “jump to the other side”. This is what the tea party did. After three months they told us all “If you distrust Obama then trust us and we’ll get rid of Obama for you and all your trials and problems will be solved”. It’s too true the adage that goes “The best defense is a good offence”. Religion can’t control their own demons, (one would suspect at times, literally) and so they are in no position to pass moral judgement on us scientists. Just because their may have been a few bad apples on our side in the past such as Dr. Hyde or Victor Frankenstein, does not “make their God good” as some kind of a corollary. I tried today to pin Dr. Levy down the distinction between “trends” and traceable cause and effect, otherwise known as a Nexis in Law Enforcement. When people are shown directly the shortcomings of the Christian God, the Christians will say “Well- - our God is Bigger and Better than anything else in the Universe so this trumps all other arguments”. But if you take their claim away, which would not be admissible in court because there is no evidence to support it, then their god looks just like another man-demon crazing adulation and attention and undeserved devotion. Clearly there is example after example in scripture of- - if God were judged by the same common sense standards you would use to judge a stranger on the street, God would fail miserably. I think of that Star Trek episode (yes, another Star Trek example) of this demon alien with all these power he got from electronic gadgets, and he lured Captain Kirk into his palace where he was all decked out in eighteenth century French attire in some rococo fashioned setting. But clearly the guy had made a number of mistakes and these became increasingly frequent and apparent. Finally captain Kirk says to him “You know - - you need to learn a lot of things- - - about a lot of things”. We value the military highly now. How do you think Jesus Christ would fare on a psyche test on whether he is “mentally and emotionally suitable for the Israeli army”? How would Jesus score on a patriotism test between 1 and 100? I can’t resist closing with a Matthew 25 parody. “In the last day the Jews will arise and accuse this Messiah saying - - we only wanted to run a business but Germans through bricks through our window. When we sought justice in the courts we were told that we had no property rights. And when the trains to Daccau were rolling on their way, you did nothing to intervene and stop the inevitable from happening”. We will get on Coach Mc Queery’s case for not taking action when he was fully able to, but we will give God a pass on even bigger issues with even bigger things at stake.

I guess Alicen Sweeney wins the Newt Gingrich hypocrite of the day award. Sometimes you wish people would just “come out and Say it” - - you know they are thinking it. If you put sodium pentathol in Evangelists’ water glass what sort of things would come out of their mouth when they got on stage? Remember when Sammy said she had “some doubts” about John’s innocence- - like maybe he was someone elses’ pawn or something or mentally incompassitated. Now she is coming flat out saying she resents Marlena and John’s decades long relationship and she never liked John and never will and wishes he’d just go away, and if Marlena hangs around with John then she’s no good either. We all remember how she kidnapped her own baby sister when she was a teenager and how she tried to alter the paternity tests because she was outraged as the “sexual infidelity” of John and Marlena- - who after all had only known each other eight years. All this from a teenage girl who was herself to become pregnant within a year & a half and didn’t even know for a long time who the father of her baby was. This is classic Gingrich. She thinks she is such a paragon of virtue but loves to thrown stones at others.