My Lord!--last week, Louisiana's two senators didn't even blink when they asked the federales for $250 billion for their state, following Katrina.
Nawlins is a state that simply doesn't care about anything but money and power. Ten years ago I saw documentaries on A&E about Louisiana corruption; I thought, "That can't be true!" But it was. And it is.
Louisiana political and police corruption ranks right up there with Mexico City! During Katrina, Virginia and I saw with our own eyes armed Louisiana police looting Walmart stores in front of live MSNBC cameras! They didn't care!
The likelihood of the gumbo people of New Orleans choosing to clean up the corrupt political and police culture they've endorsed for decades is about as realistic as Fidel Castro taking up market economics.
My Lord!--without safeguards, why in the world should President Bush give $250 billion to the gumbo people?
Thursday, September 29, 2005
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Geo's Musing
A friend sent a personal thought regarding a campus e-mail she received that discussed the benevolent tolerance of lesbians, homosexuals and transsexuals at a Catholic university where she works. I could understand the frustration in her e-mail.
Tolerance is one of the highest virtues in our pop culture, --but, alas, it doesn't extend to Christians.
On college campi Christians are often denied First Amendment rights, and even discriminated for religious beliefs (where is the tolerance?). Political corruptness allows for selective mistreatment of Christians at many of our university campi and throughout public life.
But beware: most so-called “gender scholars” in our universities only have degrees in fields like English or Literature--not biology or other hard sciences. These self-appointed “experts” on sexuality are scientifically illiterate.
Dogma and propaganda are their scholarship.
Tolerance is one of the highest virtues in our pop culture, --but, alas, it doesn't extend to Christians.
On college campi Christians are often denied First Amendment rights, and even discriminated for religious beliefs (where is the tolerance?). Political corruptness allows for selective mistreatment of Christians at many of our university campi and throughout public life.
But beware: most so-called “gender scholars” in our universities only have degrees in fields like English or Literature--not biology or other hard sciences. These self-appointed “experts” on sexuality are scientifically illiterate.
Dogma and propaganda are their scholarship.
Saturday, September 24, 2005
God sees the truth but waits
Virginia and I were invited to a meeting at our church by Pastor Dave Sefton in order to meet a one Vietnamese pastor, Ba Nguyen (Paul Walker), and his small company of Vietnamese who are slated to begin Sunday evening Vietnamese services at Jubilee Christian Center in October.
After our 2 hour meeting, it appears that Pastor Paul Nguyen really seems like a great spiritual man to lead Jubilee's Vietnamese Christian community. His wife, Marylin, is very sweet, his sister Hanh is entrepreneurial and devoted to her brother's vision, and Mai, well she was the source of regret.
Mai is a stunning spiritual Christian. As I listened to Mai, and then as I listened to Virginia's take on Mai's personal experiences at Jubilee -- I regretted, greatly, that Virginia and I had never met her earlier. Mai and Virginia & me crossed paths at Jubilee often but didn't know it, because we weren't told of each other.
Mai explained to us that she would have done anything to serve God, was willing to quit her job to travel back and forth to Vietnam to serve God full time (not the flaky kind of Christian who wants to quit their job to serve God, if you understand what I mean.)
Mai was told no, that it wasn't time yet.
But, Virginia and I were deploying to Vietnam, were smuggling Bibles, were sharing with the Underground church in Hanoi, Da Nang and Saigon during this same time.
Why wasn't Mai put in touch with us? Why was she told it wasn't time? Why did she have to endure such disappointment? She would have entirely changed the outcomes of our experiences in Vietnam for the better had she been with us.
This is the regret to which I refer.
God sees the truth but waits.
After our 2 hour meeting, it appears that Pastor Paul Nguyen really seems like a great spiritual man to lead Jubilee's Vietnamese Christian community. His wife, Marylin, is very sweet, his sister Hanh is entrepreneurial and devoted to her brother's vision, and Mai, well she was the source of regret.
Mai is a stunning spiritual Christian. As I listened to Mai, and then as I listened to Virginia's take on Mai's personal experiences at Jubilee -- I regretted, greatly, that Virginia and I had never met her earlier. Mai and Virginia & me crossed paths at Jubilee often but didn't know it, because we weren't told of each other.
Mai explained to us that she would have done anything to serve God, was willing to quit her job to travel back and forth to Vietnam to serve God full time (not the flaky kind of Christian who wants to quit their job to serve God, if you understand what I mean.)
Mai was told no, that it wasn't time yet.
But, Virginia and I were deploying to Vietnam, were smuggling Bibles, were sharing with the Underground church in Hanoi, Da Nang and Saigon during this same time.
Why wasn't Mai put in touch with us? Why was she told it wasn't time? Why did she have to endure such disappointment? She would have entirely changed the outcomes of our experiences in Vietnam for the better had she been with us.
This is the regret to which I refer.
God sees the truth but waits.
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