The Okcitykid – A Peaceful Vet

JESUS

First of all, I am neither Jew, Christian or Muslim.

The Jews have different ideas about Jesus. Some say he was a prophet, others he was the Messiah and yet others believe he was a fraud. But the Jews would like you to know that it was the Romans who nailed Jesus to the cross.

The Christians believe Jesus was the Son of God, a third part of God (trinity). God in the flesh visiting us on earth, and they also believe he is the Messiah. Now this can get real technical, churches have broken away from other churches over technicalities of the trinity, it can be a real tricky subject with some people. People have actually been burnt to death intentionally over this and I don’t think this pleased Jesus any.

The Muslims believe Jesus was a prophet, the Messiah and like Christians, believe he will return again, he was born of a virgin, but where they differ is that they don’t believe he died on the cross or that he is the Son of God or the third part of God. God coming to earth in flesh. They don’t believe that.

What do I believe. I question the virgin birth thing, but I wasn’t there, so I can’t say. I would also like to believe in the death of Jesus on the cross, because I happen to believe that I think I understand why he had to die. I find it to be a wonderful example of love for us today, but did it really happen, once again, I wasn’t there. It is even possible that Jesus never even existed, this is slowly becoming a popular belief. To all, even the atheist, I have this to say, “Just read what Jesus spoke in the gospels.” That’s all, just read the words he spoke. The things he spoke was brilliant. He spoke of truths that cannot be found in a telescope or a microscope. Truths that cannot be seen or heard or even touched, but felt in the heart. When you read the things he said, it touches you right in the heart so much so that most people believe in Jesus, they just disagree about the details. Now I know that saying Jesus is a Prophet or Jesus is God in the flesh is a big difference, not a minor thing. But take this to heart, Jesus never said he was a prophet or God in the flesh. So if Jesus didn’t say it, then why should we argue over it. If he thought it was important, he would have told us so. What is important is what he taught us. A truth that can only be felt in the heart and that is the only thing that is important. He taught us a lesson and his death was an example of the lesson he taught. The Romans joked about him being a king of a kingdom because he always spoke of a kingdom in heaven and he taught us to pray that it be on earth as it is in heaven. The Romans called him a dreamer. As of yet it is still just a dream waiting for us to make it come true.

Let it be on earth as it is in heaven.

With Love
Reverend Roger Harkness

To My Enemies

To all my enemies
who find fault in all the little things
and ignore the big things
like love and caring
I am the great one
Not afraid to die
Not afraid to love

By:  Roger Harkness
10/20/09

I was watching a CNN clip and once again reporting to you is this young women.  All anchor woman are young.  I don’t care which channel you turn too, they are all young women.  What happens when they get in their 30s and 40s, do they take early retirement.  Does Fox news go to the older anchor woman and say, because you made all the men happy standing their looking all beautiful these past ten years, we’re going to let you retire, take the rest of your life off on us.  Somehow though I don’t think so.  Do they tell them, well you’re older now and men and or women don’t enjoy looking at you so much anymore, ratings are falling, so, we’re going to have to get rid of you.  I don’t think they would be that mean, we’d here about that I’m sure.  Still, I am a little curious as to how they do that.  And the women’s movement doesn’t even notice, or are they just too happy that women have jobs that they don’t notice.

I bet if you took a census you would discover that it is easier for a women in her twenties and thirties to find a job then it is for a women in her 40s.  I would think that someone in the women’s movement would have some numbers on this.  And for women in their 50s and 60s it just gets worse.

For Those of You on Your Way to Church This Morning …a note from Michael Moore

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

Friends,

I’d like to have a word with those of you who call yourselves Christians (Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, Bill Maherists, etc. can read along, too, as much of what I have to say, I’m sure, can be applied to your own spiritual/ethical values).

In my new film I speak for the first time in one of my movies about my own spiritual beliefs. I have always believed that one’s religious leanings are deeply personal and should be kept private. After all, we’ve heard enough yammerin’ in the past three decades about how one should “behave,” and I have to say I’m pretty burned out on pieties and platitudes considering we are a violent nation who invades other countries and punishes our own for having the audacity to fall on hard times.

I’m also against any proselytizing; I certainly don’t want you to join anything I belong to. Also, as a Catholic, I have much to say about the Church as an institution, but I’ll leave that for another day (or movie).

Amidst all the Wall Street bad guys and corrupt members of Congress exposed in “Capitalism: A Love Story,” I pose a simple question in the movie: “Is capitalism a sin?” I go on to ask, “Would Jesus be a capitalist?” Would he belong to a hedge fund? Would he sell short? Would he approve of a system that has allowed the richest 1% to have more financial wealth than the 95% under them combined?

I have come to believe that there is no getting around the fact that capitalism is opposite everything that Jesus (and Moses and Mohammed and Buddha) taught. All the great religions are clear about one thing: It is evil to take the majority of the pie and leave what’s left for everyone to fight over. Jesus said that the rich man would have a very hard time getting into heaven. He told us that we had to be our brother’s and sister’s keepers and that the riches that did exist were to be divided fairly. He said that if you failed to house the homeless and feed the hungry, you’d have a hard time finding the pin code to the pearly gates.

I guess that’s bad news for us Americans. Here’s how we define “Blessed Are the Poor”: We now have the highest unemployment rate since 1983. There’s a foreclosure filing once every 7.5 seconds. 14,000 people every day lose their health insurance.

At the same time, Wall Street bankers (“Blessed Are the Wealthy”?) are amassing more and more loot — and they do their best to pay little or no income tax (last year Goldman Sachs’ tax rate was a mere 1%!). Would Jesus approve of this? If not, why do we let such an evil system continue? It doesn’t seem you can call yourself a Capitalist AND a Christian — because you cannot love your money AND love your neighbor when you are denying your neighbor the ability to see a doctor just so you can have a better bottom line. That’s called “immoral” — and you are committing a sin when you benefit at the expense of others.

When you are in church this morning, please think about this. I am asking you to allow your “better angels” to come forward. And if you are among the millions of Americans who are struggling to make it from week to week, please know that I promise to do what I can to stop this evil — and I hope you’ll join me in not giving up until everyone has a seat at the table.

Thanks for listening. I’m off to Mass in a few hours. I’ll be sure to ask the priest if he thinks J.C. deals in derivatives or credit default swaps. I mean, after all, he must’ve been good at math. How else did he divide up two loaves of bread and five pieces of fish equally amongst 5,000 people? Either he was the first socialist or his disciples were really bad at packing lunch. Or both.

Yours,
Michael Moore
MMFlint@aol.com
MichaelMoore.com