John 3:20

All who do evil hate the light and refuse to go near it for fear their sins will be exposed. (John 3:20) What light do you think Jesus was talking about here? I think he was talking about the light of truth. The light of truth exposes ugly lies. Television in its current form is like a spiritual darkness. It might make you feel good for the moment, erasing all your worldly concerns, offering shelter from reality, but the longer you stay in its darkness, the harder it is to face the light.
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No Kidding

Christ's teaching to become as a child to enter the Kingdom of God actually agrees with scientific theory. I read in an anthropology book a while ago that chimpanzee infants parallel human infants in intelligence until the age of four. After that, the intellectual development in chimpanzees is choked off by their materialistic search for bananas and sex, while human infants continue to indulge in abstract thinking and their brains continue to develop. It is a process called neoteny, by which adults retain childish characteristics, that raises us above other primates. And according to Christ, childish imagination doesn't just give us the Theory of Relativity and heavier-than-air flight, it also gives us the Kingdom of God. June 30, 2017: When I originally posted the above I overlooked an even more important aspect of childhood: it is the most sincere time of our lives. We adore children because they are totally sincere. They only know how to be themselves, having not yet adopted the imitative practices of their elders. Even an unhappy girl is cute as she makes no effort to hide her grumpy face. Since the Kingdom of God is fashioned from your own heart, you cannot find it unless you are being yourself and no one else, like such a child. To assume the air and manner of someone else separates you from the Kingdom of God. I owe La Rochefoucauld for opening my eyes to this insight. July 3, 2017: After being forced to eat raw pasta, as a result of sharing my kitchen with someone who is seventeen years my senior, I am compelled to share this next thought on the importance of entering the Kingdom of God as a child. From what I can tell, a lot of seniors take their advanced years as a kind of license to pass premature judgement on their juniors. Well, God Almighty is timeless, and He certainly outranks us all in age. The very same logic that a senior might use to presume superiority over a junior could be leveled by God against him. I'm sure my young readers would support my contention that such arrogance will be punished by God in the hereafter. God is the oldest and wisest being in the universe and He will not tolerate any sort of arrogance arising from outranking mere mortals in age; take it from a fifty-one-year-old. How old was Jesus at his crucifixion? Thirty-three? God is expecting a child when He meets you. How much have you learned in all your years on earth? If you have learned anything here, it better be humility, at least if you want any hope of salvation in the life to come. Amen!
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Breaking and Entering My Heart

Jesus said to store your treasure in Heaven where no thief can get to it, for your heart will always be where your riches are. I think it's good advice for any songwriters with real talent. If you're a truly creative soul with music inside you, you know who you are. I would urge you to keep your music to yourself. Go ahead and compose it, of course. That's why God gave you the talent. But don't bother sharing it because you'll just end up like me. You can spare yourself an awful lot of grief by just keeping the music private and waiting for your reward in Heaven. There is always the thrill of writing something brand new. And you won't have the ugly public reaction to detract from it. I would accept what happened to me as God's will. He must have known that I lost sight of him and started longing for women and food. No wonder I was punished so severely. But I did gain something good from it. I am now a lot closer to my grave than I would have been without the internet. Closer to the grave means closer to real justice and my Heavenly reward. So it may all work out for me in the end. You see what they think of artists. They would rather rob us blind than strike a deal with us. They would rather pass judgement on us than help us. And even after they're caught, they'd rather leave us in poverty than pay us. They'd rather turn the population against us than let us have any credit for our work. Do yourself a favour and trust in the Lord. He's the only person you can trust.
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Give Me Credit

What I hope to be the last entry to this blog concerns money. It's pretty clear from the gospels that Jesus didn't care for it much. Why, then, are these gospels hammered into the heads of poor, starving men as they wait for a free meal? Wouldn't they be more effective on the wealthy ones who exploit the poor? The Lord said that one cannot serve both God and Mammon. What choice are you making as you sit and watch shows like Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous? What choice are you making when you praise someone's shiny new car or their fancy new clothes? Conversely, what choice are you making when you insult someone for not having these things? Are you sure you're comprehending the Word of God when you allow yourself to think that you are superior to someone else on the basis of your wallet or purse? I don't want to put down the wealthy too much because much good is created from their wealth, whether they share it freely or it has to be taken from them in the form of public taxes. But wouldn't it be better if we could just get rid of money altogether? Judging from what I see around me here in my country, we're all damned to Hell if we don't emigrate to Afghanistan. Money seems to be doing far more harm to people than anything else. It's turning us all into a bunch of greedy, senseless assholes. Maybe this was what the Lord was trying to prevent by telling us to sell our possessions and give the money to the poor. Any of you so-called Christians done anything like that lately? You can sit and vegetate with the all your possessions around you and convince yourself that you're better off than I am, but I bet your blog would be a fucking bore. I'll take my life as it is over yours any time. It seems to me that if the greedy ones with so much money were secure in their wealth, they wouldn't be so Hellbent on spreading their gospel of greed to the poor bastards that must work for them. Don't be so sure that millions of dollars would answer all your prayers. Jesus said just the opposite.
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You Can't Wear That to a Crucifixion

I watched my Jesus video again last night, and it really got me upset. All it does is tell me how pointless his time here was. Jesus said to take no thought for what we should wear. Hey, you guys that made so much money off my work, before you spend another thousand dollars on another new suit for yourself, can I have the price of a plane ticket to visit my dying parents? The clothes make the man, do they? Only in a society that's full of shit! And while I'm at it, I'm still waiting for half the respect and adoration you gave to criminals who were in possession of my work because they had fancy music videos and I don't. Here's a better expression than 'the clothes make the man': appearances can be deceiving. And as long as appearances have a higher priority than truth in this upside-down culture that calls itself Christian, I guess Satan, the father of all lies, rules. Just try to remember Who rules the universe that surrounds it because He has the last say. The Bible is replete with stories of seemingly ordinary men who had godlike power: Moses with his wooden staff against the full might of the Pharaoh's armies, David, the shepherd boy against Goliath the giant, and, of course, Jesus, the humble transient. The ancient myths, too, often tell of gods who disguised themselves as mortals and waited until the best time to reveal their power. Dr King said to judge not by the colour of skin but by the content of character. It follows that we also ought not to judge a person by such things as the fabric of his clothing or the paint job of his automobile.
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Good Advice

My story is not just about music and comedy, it's about God. If you now trust me, you must believe me when I say that life is eternal. There are powerful supernatural forces at work in the world. They can see right through us, but fear not, for they are benevolent. The body is not where life takes place. It is a mere structure. It is a lump of flesh that receives its animation from the hand of God for its duration on this stage of a world. Suicide may be painless, but it is also pointless. God is in control. To picture the future is, in a way, to conquer the grave. What if - hypothetically speaking - Hitler envisioned Hiroshima and if the horror of what he saw prevented him from developing atomic weapons? Hiroshima didn't happen until over two months after his [physical] death. Please be careful how you live your life. Try to be good. And if you don't believe in Satan, there's always the entertainment business. I'm not telling you this to please myself. It makes no difference to me if you are good or not. I'm telling you this to please God.
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It's All God

I wouldn't question God's will for man, but I do have some curiosities about how his Word has been interpreted through the ages. My main difficulty is in how Christians have justified killing non-Christians. Jesus said that no one can come to the Father except through him. Makes sense. He was laying out his personal vision of the Kingdom of Heaven for the world. But how did he win his following? Seems to me that he accomplished it with love. Who put the non-Christians here? Must have been God. How do you guess he feels about you killing them? While it may be irksome for a Christian to see someone praying in a way that is not sanctioned by his holy book, it hardly calls for bloodshed. The only people Christians should hate are Satanists. Other religions may parallel Christianity. Non-Christians may, in fact, compliment Christ, rather than negating him. When the Lord was asked 'Who then can be saved?', he answered that what was impossible for man was possible for God. It follows that, while it is impossible for Christians to redeem other religions with their own, it is possible for God to do so. As for atheists, I was an atheist. Look at me now. Shame on anyone who dared to pass judgement on me. As far as I can gather, the last thing Jesus wanted us to do was to hate. Two thousand years since his appearance, I must pray that we finally get his message straight.
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