Too Big for History

Don't let the lack of secular references to Jesus in the history books discourage you from believing in him. He was here, but the media of his time didn't think he was important. When I look back on the last seven years and I see who's been getting all the credit and glory from my songs and blogs, it's easy for me to see how Christ's greatness would also have been overlooked by the people of his time. Given the lack of integrity of people charged with keeping such records, Christ's omission from the history books might even be considered as proof positive that he was, in fact, here. (I am also doubtful that I am related to Wolfe Tone.)
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Camp Jesus

Before I get into my main topic, I need to clear up something about one of my poems. Some people have taken my 'Sue Ann Grape' as an accusation of fraud against Nancy Grace. I did not list her name at the top of my poem as I did with the ones which targeted copyright violators of my work, but I can understand the confusion. I doubt that Grace would be guilty of any such crimes. I just pointed out a few amusing things I noticed about her to create a fictitious character. I mentioned the following in the past. Sometimes I have this dream about being at an outdoor religious convention where each faith competes in a tent building contest. My team built a rather bare bones structure with plain white canvass. The Satanists, however, had a dazzling tent, featuring elaborate, colorful patterns and expert embroidery, which looked like the runaway winner. But when the judge came by to rate our tent, he was able to project the most beautiful image from his own heart, a flattering mural of his dearly departed mother, onto the plain white field. We won. But that Satanist tent still makes me laugh when I think about it. (Did they use this on any TV sketches?) This, I believe, is what Jesus meant by saying that no one may enter the Kingdom of God except as a child. A child's mind is like a plain white sheet, free and open to receive the glory of God. But human glory, however impressive, presumes perfection and obstructs God's superior hand.
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SNL: Ted Haggard's Allies

I often hear about how the TV 'took my laughs' and I wonder if anyone has yet noticed the subtle but important differences in how they presented these works. They were not all laughs. Some of those poems that they turned into comedy sketches were quite serious. The best example might be The False Prophet, a poem I wrote to illustrate how a wealthy evangelist might end up in Hell for distorting the Word of God. This poem has a lesson to teach. It was not written for a laugh. When the TV turned it into a cheesy comedy sketch, the original meaning of my words were lost. How many other of my serious efforts are laughed away as comedy now as a result of such crimes? I shudder to contemplate it. By reducing my poetic warning about the perils of dishonest preaching to a mere comedy script, it looks like the casts of shows like Saturday Night Live are Ted Haggard's allies. Who would have thought so until now?
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Suicide Note

Last night, as I tried to sleep on my Vancouver bed of plywood and foam, I was overcome by an overwhelming impulse to commit suicide. My solitary condition got the best of me and I broke down. But God gives me hope. As long as I believe in God I can pray and look forward to a happy ending to my life. And God helps me to surrender the grievous burden of my work's ownership, reminding me that all things belonged to Him first and that he may use my work as He pleases. I want my work to help me, but God wants it to help the world. So be it.
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The Whole Truth

The law of entropy is a physical law which conditions (more or less) that the breakdown of matter over time is irreversible. Such laws must not apply to abstractions, such as my songs and stories, for they were torn to pieces and I am in the process of restoring them back into their original state of wholeness here. Since we can contemplate the abstract, unlike any other creature known to us, part of us may be abstract. That part of us could defy scientific laws because it is not bound by matter. Just to be safe, I'd keep an open mind about it.
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Expanded Horizons

I've been enjoying cosmology documentaries at home for the last few days, many of which focus on the question of how the universe began. Scientists are endlessly intrigued by this question. Each time one of them has a breakthrough, it adds more complexity to the problem. The most humorous example was that of a Russian [I will insert his name later] who, along the way to trying to explain the singularity of the universe at the moment of the 'big bang', discovered a mathematical means of proving the existence of a 'multiverse', or an infinite number of universes for every possibility. That'll slow them down. Our laws of nature are impressive and empirical, but they only account for the universe as it is at this point in time. When they theoretically shrink the universe down to how it was in the beginning, these formulas are rendered useless. Darwin's natural selection is an elegant theory and any biologist will tell you that its principles are effective in their experiments. But one aspect of Darwin's natural selection dissatisfies me. It does not wholly explain our sentience and our mastery of this planet. How did we come to rise so far above other primates? Wouldn't it take millions of years for, say, chimpanzees to evolve to our level? I think it is unnatural for primates to be driving cars instead of swinging from the trees. How did this happen? [July 3, 2017: I wrote the following before I learned that our planet would be a lifeless ball of ice without the Moon.] The Moon is another mystery. Our moon is much larger in proportion to our planet than any other moon in the Solar System. It is one fifth the size of Earth, big enough to protect our world from threatening bodies drifting in from the asteroid belt. Look at the craters in the Moon. Maybe that's what the surface of the Earth would look like by now, cold and barren, if the Moon weren't up there. And those solar eclipses are quite remarkable. Such pinpoint positioning, almost impossible to imagine it occurring at random. To top it off, the Moon helps us to tell the time by its quarterly cycle. Is all this natural? One way I have of summarizing God is to call God 'unattainable knowledge'. Even a scientist may resort to using the name of God to help explain a problem which, for the moment at least, is over his head. But I'm sure these gifted intellects will ultimately move forward with their findings in this area and I wouldn't dream of discouraging them. Maybe it will be a scientist who makes the greatest discovery of all: God.
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Soul Reason

It pays to be honest. No matter how physically uncomfortable it might make you, with money often in the hands of corrupt and evil sinners who would rather spend it on hurting you, you can take refuge in your relationship with God. On the other hand, if you put yourself on the wrong side of a moral dilemma, all the money in the world won't comfort you. For this reason I will outlast all of my wealthy adversaries in the shameful war for my online posts.
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