The Seeds of Cancer

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Recently my boss asked me to read a new Christian health book, "Setting Yourself Apart from the Seeds of Cancer", by Morris Keller (and in this economy I'd put on a chiffon dress if my employer asked, so reading a book is easy enough). Both the medical and religious aspects of the book are all over the place, with both being anywhere from old school organic to new age weirdness (although the health aspects are fairly sound). Mr. Keller's theology is rather confusing, but it is enough to say that it does minic that of most non-denom Christians out there.

You know the "Jesus is Lord", whatever that means to you
You are "Saved", whatever that means to you
You should be a "servant", whatever that means to you

I do think that is really what denomination most modern Christians belong to,
the "Church of Whatever it Means to You".

While trying to get past the rather muddy theology of the book, I started to realize that if Keller, and most of his readers, would aim that same , and not without merit, distrust for the medical establishment towards their own church's teachings (or lack thereof), they might begin to realize that these unbiblical views are the very cancer trying to attach itself to Christ's body.

Protestantism really is very much like a cancer, in that it in many ways seems like a product of the original body, but is really a collection of mutations which mimic and weaken that which gave it life. A malignancy which constantly changes direction (over 30,ooo denominations!), selfishly growing uncontrollably due to our pride, bad habits and even worse lifestyles.

I am like Dr. Keller, in that I see that to make the body healthy and strong we must give it what God created it to receive, and stop pumping it with artificial ingredients that we've been marketed to desire .

"For My flesh is true food, and My blood is true drink. "
John 6:55
As a result of this many of His disciples withdrew
and were not walking with Him anymore
John 6:66
yep, 666

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Who are you really worshipping?

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This tune so very much sums up one of the aspects of Protestantism that always left me knowing I was serving the right God, but the wrong church. The somewhat insincere , and very self-pleasing, "praise and worship" in a lot Evangelical churches (and sadly trying to invade Christ's church), that was always more vain and repetitive than any Catholic prayer.....and often ended with applause for the band (a "show" that made me almost physically ill).

If we go to church for the music, who are we going for?
If we go for a good "feeling", who are we worshiping?

Jon Foreman "Instead of a Show"

"I hate all your shows and pretense
The hypocrisy of your praise
The hypocrisy of your festivals
I hate all your show
Away with your noisy worship
Away with your noisy hymns
I stomp on my ears when you're singing 'em
I hate all your show

Instead let there be a flood of justice
An endless procession of righteous living, living
Instead let there be a flood of justice
Instead of a show"

Your eyes are closed when you're praying
You sing right along with the band
You shine up your shoes for services
There's blood on your hands
You turned your back on the homeless
And the ones that don't fit in your plan
Quit playing religion games
There's blood on your hands

Instead let there be a flood of justice
An endless procession of righteous living, living
Instead let there be a flood of justice
Instead of a show
I hate all your show

Let's argue this out
If your sins are blood red
Let's argue this out
You'll be one of the clouds
Let's argue this out
Quit fooling around
Give love to the ones who can't love at all
Give hope to the ones who got no hope at all
Stand up for the ones who can't stand at all, all
I hate all your show
I hate all your show
I hate all your show
I hate all your show

Instead let there be a flood of justice
An endless procession of righteous living, living
Instead let there be a flood of justice
Instead of a show
I hate all your show

The question - the answer . . .in song

K-LOVE - JJ Heller "Love Me" LIVE from K-LOVE Radio on Vimeo.

"Who will love me for me

Not for what I have done or what I will become
Who will love me for me
'Cause nobody has shown me what love
What love really means"
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Saints or Salesman?

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"What the Church needs,
which is what the world needs,
is more Saints
and less Salesmen
and especially less of salesmen
who have never tried the product"
D'art
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Seeds of Moral Relativism

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"But since the devil's bride, Reason, that pretty whore, comes in and thinks she's wise, and what she says, what she thinks, is from the Holy Spirit, who can help us, then? Not judges, not doctors, no king or emperor, because [reason] is the Devil's greatest whore."

Martin Luther

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Cranky Convert Humour #27

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Answer: a mega-group of chickens runnin' around with their head cut off?

Question: What's the another way to describe the theology(s)of the Protestant Reformation?
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Go Ask Alice

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"Drinking beer is easy.
Trashing your hotel room is easy.
But being a Christian,
that's a tough call.
That's real rebellion!"
Vincent Furnier
(Alice Cooper)

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So Slow the Fast

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"If the appetite alone hath sinned, let it alone fast, and
it sufficeth. But if the other members also have sinned, why
should they not fast, too?

... Let the eye fast from strange
sights and from every wantonness, so that that which roamed in
freedom in fault-doing may, abundantly humbled, be checked by
penitence.

Let the ear, blameably eager to listen, fast from tales and rumours, and from whatsoever is of idle import, and tendeth least to salvation.

Let the tongue fast from slanders and murmurings, and from useless, vain, and scurrilous words,
and sometimes also, in the seriousness of silence, even from
things which may seem of essential import.

Let the hand abstain from ... all toils which are not imperatively necessary.

But also let the soul herself abstain from all evils and from
acting out her own will.

For without such abstinence the other
things find no favour with the Lord".

St. Bernard of Clairvaux
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Christ without Commitment

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"Jesus, I think we should just be friends"

That's kinda how I translate someone who announces the trendy and very self-centered bromide

"I don't want religion, but relationship"

Seeing that the word religion actually means "to bind", it's as if this new bumper sticker theology is saying to our Lord

"you know, I still see other gods"
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Fatal Distraction

Having a spinal tap does not generally lead to a restful sleep , so I caught a lot of bad TV while flippin' channels at 4 in the morning. Catching an Anne Archer scene from Fatal Attraction, I was reminded of one of the reasons I didn't like that film when I originally saw it in the theater . . . that Michael Douglas would choose Glenn Close over her was ridiculous !!!

Archer's character was not only absolutely stunning, but also warm and loving and faithful and true . . .and Stable!

Close's character, while not being particularly pretty, was flashy and trendy and very very easy . . .but not exactly stable.

Douglas's character's complete stupidity mimics that of cradle Catholics who have the most beautiful bride (are the most beautiful bride), one which is Loving and Faithful and True; and out of spiritual stupidity or moral laziness, leave her for something Flashy and Trendy and mind numbingly Easy . . . but not exactly stable.

. . . .sadly those that fall for the easy morality of the world or the flashy and trendy mega-church down the street, are putting there soul in the pot instead of a bunny.
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Catholic Convert Bad humour #62

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Catholics call bad dogma "heresy",
Protestants call it
"time to find an ol' 7/11 and build a new church" (O:
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Love and Marriage

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"This is in keeping with the very nature of love,

which may be defined as a mutual self-giving
which ends in self-recovery.

All love must be a giving,
for without a giving there is not goodness;
without self-outpouring there is no love.
In marriage, love is first a mutual self-giving
for love's greatest joy
is to gird its loins and serve."
Archbishop Fulton Sheen
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I Need a New

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I Need a new Auto Mechanic,
'cause mine says I can't use tap water instead of gasoline

I Need a new Boss, mine says he expects me to do work in return for my paycheck

I need a new Doctor, cause my current one says if I want my hands to stop hurting
I must stop hitting them with a hammer

I Need new Neighbors, cause mine seem annoyed by my parking my car in their living room

I need a new wife, 'cause mine says I have to live in the same house and only make love to her

I need a new Church, 'cause mine says I can't divorce my wife,

kinda silly, huh?

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Silly Rick

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Didn't somebody tell Rick Sanchez that if ya wanna get ahead in the news biz you insult Christians or the Pope
. . .just ask Joy Behar (O:
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Tolerance leading to Despair

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“In the world it is called Tolerance,
but in hell it is called Despair,
the sin that believes in nothing,
cares for nothing,
seeks to know nothing,
interferes with nothing,
enjoys nothing,
hates nothing,
finds purpose in nothing,
lives for nothing,
and remains alive
because there is nothing for which it will die.”
Dorothy L. Sayers
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