Even when you’re minding your own business, your enemy feels threatened.Sometimes we perceive things to be threats even when they are entirely innocuous. An enemy sees vicious plotting even behind the most innocent stroll. Sanhedrin 95b.
I was floored by the Readings for today the 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time. I am Catholic attend Mass at St. Stanislaus Kostka Catholic Church in Michigan City, Indiana. Biblically prophetic, they be. We not only ignore history, but the Holy Writ in favor of flannel mouth jerks like Joe Scarborough and David Brooks.
America is in the Bible.
America has not been so divided since the time of the Civil War. That did not end well, given the fact that this nation continues to allow race alone to guide the emotions.
America is so much more than a nation forged in hate, but given the Howard Zinn narrative adopted at the highest levels of American thought and academia and the shrill moralizing secularist sockdologers dominating the national platform one might expect no less.
Americans in 2020 know more about the Kardashians, Fantasy Football and theri neighbor' s lack of COVID-19 PPI protection than they do of the Electoral College, or the worth of political candidates. Instead, Americans are polarized into two camps - The WOKE Globalists and the Deplorables, to paraphrase Joseph Joffre. Each group is intractable.
I count myself a Deplorable, due to the fact that my birth Party, the Democrat Party, has rapidly morphed into a Gulag of closed-minded bigots, snitches and tale-tellers.
The Republicans turn my stomach, in the way that cauliflower brings up a solid retch in any of its culinary manifestations, but it will not kill me, nor GOP the nation.
Republicans tend to be cowardly go-along milquetoasts, bullied by paper-thin chested dweebs and harpies taking orders and talking-points from the DNC, George Soros and Bill Maher.
I am a JFK, Harry Truman Democrat - about as plentiful these days as the triceratops in any zoo.
What I base my social deportment and generally benevolent view of individuals of all creeds, races and conditions is rooted in my Catholic upbringing.
I believe in ONE God and etc.
I celebrate Mass, because if you belong to anything, you are obligated to attend the meetings. I choose to belong - it is the core of my belief system. Christ died to save Man. The altar and NOT the pulpit is what the Mass is all about. Today, the pulpit seemed to take first chair.
Today's readings were dire, especially 1st reading from Isaiah5:1-7:
The vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel,
and the people of Judah are his cherished plant;
he looked for judgment, but see, bloodshed!
for justice, but hark, the outcry!
After the death of King Solomon, the nation became divided between North and South: Israel -North and Judah - South.
The southern kingdom consisted only of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin and thus became the kingdom of Judah, with Jerusalem as its capital. The northern kingdom consisted of the remaining tribes and was called Israel. After the establishment of two short-lived capitals at Shechem and Tirzah, King Omri established his capital at Samaria, where it would remain for the duration of the northern kingdom’s existence. The kingdom of Israel was larger in size and controlled more significant trade routes than did Judah. Territorial boundaries expanded and contracted over time as Israel and Judah engaged in conflict with one another and their neighbors. Evidence from outside the Bible suggests that Israel was more powerful than Judah. However, Israel was the more ephemeral kingdom of the two. Israel was destroyed by the Assyrians in 722 B.C.E., whereas Judah, though severely damaged, narrowly escaped the dreadful onslaught of the Assyrian war machine. But Judah's escape from imperial domination would be brief. Jerusalem eventually fell to the Babylonian Empire and was destroyed in 586 B.C.E (emphasis my own)
Now, the Talmud tells us that " example is not proof," but America sure looks Biblical Israel is WOKE and Judah is Deplorable., to this observer.
The tenant built a vineyard (America)with a magnificent watchtower ( US Constitution), but yielded in 2020 very sour grapes of wrath after, Revolution, Manifest Destiny, Civil War, Reconstruction, Global Expansionism including two World Wars, many Cold Wars and endless Globalist Wars in the Mideast ending in The Howard Zinn Purge of the Nation Heart.
The Gospel of Matthew is much more direct and frightening
But when the tenants saw the son, they said to one another,
'This is the heir.
Come, let us kill him and acquire his inheritance.’
They seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.
What will the owner of the vineyard do to those tenants when he comes?"
They answered him,
"He will put those wretched men to a wretched death
and lease his vineyard to other tenants
who will give him the produce at the proper times."
Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the Scriptures:
The stone that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone;
by the Lord has this been done,
and it is wonderful in our eyes?
Therefore, I say to you,
the kingdom of God will be taken away from you
and given to a people that will produce its fruit." MT 21:33-43
We are less than a month away from a Presidential Election. Police officers are being assasinated while thousands of black youngsters continue to be slaughtered by thugs who become WOKE icons if shot by Law Officers.
Huge cities and some States are readying for a second pandemic shut-down.
The greatest transfer of wealth has taken place globally since the start of this pandemic.
Teachers pray that the President dies of COVID 19 .
The convicted murderer of Officers Fahey and O'Brien goes free on a politically calculated ruse.
The American vineyard is being set up for the new Babylonians. Upon the death of Solomon, the self-interested, the self-ansorbed, the venal, the carnal and the cowardly have Balkanized their nation. We have done the same and will serve up this great nation to the highest bidder and the most threatening.
The WOKE have served up the innocents ever since 1973 and will continue to do so - Jeroboam offered sacrifice to false gods - NBA,NFL, HBO, NBC, NRA, DNC, GOP. The Deplorable will take anyone who opposes the Woke.
Israel the WOKE and Judah The Deplorable have picked camps. The ephemeral Woke America, like Israel will vanish having sparked the disunion. I pray Deporable America will soldier on - defend the unborn, the elderly, the helpless and somehow hang on to universal truth.
God help us.
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