​The need for a Congress in the United States has disappeared.  Congressional committees now spend their time investigating the opposing party.  Legislation is drafted in a back room by leadership and not given a public hearing.  Why do we need these clowns?  They claim Trump is becoming a dictator when, in fact, Trump is doing his job – executing the laws.  Congress is the real dictator, thus the need for term limits.

​Godless men and women are perverting our social fabric today through outlandish political statements.  These atheists appeal to racist, homophobic, bigoted and misogynistic fears within society.  The Godless can only criticize, condemn and complain because they have nothing positive and constructive to offer the electorate.  Alt left political positions are immoral because they are not grounded in the Judeo-Christian ethic.  They jeer at the Christian conservatives because they are ashamed at the depravity to which the alt left and democrats have succumbed.  They seek to kill babies all the way to the point of expulsion from the womb.  They favor perverted and discredited social and political realities which have proven not to withstand the historically Christian political foundations such as illegal immigration (law breaking), homosexuality, socialism, radical Islam and communism.  And they get away with this fraud and deception by labeling the Christian conservatives as racist, homophobic, bigoted and misogynistic when they (the Godless), in fact, perpetuate these vices through their own participation.  They are Godless men and women.  Saint Jude described them perfectly.  “Such men sneer at the things they cannot understand; like the brute beasts, they derive knowledge only from their senses, and it serves to corrupt them.” Jude 10.   Hell has an especially hot place for the Godless. 

​We have all heard the phrase “separation of church and state.”  The short definition of the phrase is that a political entity, like a state government, cannot favor or advance a particular religious view. More to the point, state action cannot advance Catholicism to the detriment of other religions, for example. But that does not mean that a state government cannot use religious morals and ethics when making a decision.  In fact, our western culture is derived from the Judeo-Christian heritage and all state decisions are usually based on that Christian ethic.  Compare Muslim countries who use Islam as a basis for their political decisions and communist nations who use atheism. Politics and religion are really joined at the hip, like it or not. The United States Supreme Court invented this phrase and has since applied it to extremes.  The First Amendment to the Constitution states: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” In other words congress cannot pass a law that promotes Scientology and prohibits Calvinism. But the extreme position of the courts today even allows devil worship as a religion.  And the courts are forced to recognize other religions, like Islam, that did not exist when the first amendment was drafted.  (Muslims did exist but Islam was not practiced in the United States.)The broadening of the First amendment right has created the political divide of identity politics in our country, to everyone’s detriment.  For example, the Left picks up and runs with other people’s causes, like the existence of slavery, treatment of Indians, illegal immigration and the shunning of homosexuality, and acts as if the Left cares for those who were or are mistreated when, in fact, the Left only uses others' plight to elevate the Left’s "fake" righteousness and pretend that the Right is the cause of the injustice. The Right care just as much.  (Notice these Judeo-Christian terms.) Can you see how the usurpation and misapplication of Christian moral and ethical values has created the political divide in this country?

​After a reading of 1 Peter again, I am more convinced than ever that the “elect” of which Paul and the apostles speak in the New Testament are the Jews who have become Christians in the first century.  We know from the counsel in Jerusalem around 50 A.D. that Paul was going to be the evangelist to the gentiles and Peter was going to evangelize the Jews.  I have included some quotes in 1 Peter to support my position.  In fact the opening sentence confirms that his audience are Jews.  “Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the elect who dwell as foreigners up and down Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,  chosen in the foreknowledge of God the Father…” 1 Peter 1-2.  God chose a chosen race, the descendants of Abraham, to be the receiver of His Word.  These chosen people were the people of Israel and Judea, the Jews. The word “elect” in every epistle of the New Testament refers to Jews in general terms, and more particularly, Christian Jews. And why would they be called foreigners if they were not Jews living in the land of the gentiles? “Blessed be that God, that Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who in his great mercy has begotten us anew…” 1 Peter 3.  Why were his audience “begotten anew?” This sentence implies that they were begotten a first time by the selection of the Jews as the chosen people through the actions of Abraham and Moses. Then Christ, a Jew, chose them a second time. “What was the ransom that freed you from the vain observances of ancestral tradition?” 1 Peter 18.  Peter is talking about animal sacrifices of the Jews from the traditions of the prophets of the Old Testament.  Why would he make such a statement to gentiles? “Your life amidst the Gentiles must be beyond reproach;” 1 Peter 2:12.  Why would Peter address his audience as living among the gentiles if his letter were to the gentiles?  Peter is addressing his fellow Jews who living amongst the gentiles. “Think how obedient Sara was to Abraham, how she called him her lord; if you would prove yourselves her children, live honestly, and let no anxious thoughts disturb you.” 1 Peter 3:6. Would the gentiles know much about the life of Sara and Abraham in 64 A.D.?  Who are the children of Sara and Abraham but the Jews? “That is why dead men, too, had the gospel message brought to them;” 1 Peter 4:6.  The “dead men” to which Peter refers are the gentiles. The word “too” implies that the gospel was brought to the Jews and also to the “dead men” too. “Do not be surprised, beloved, that this fiery ordeal should have befallen you, to test your quality” 1 Peter 4:12.  What is the “fiery ordeal” of which Peter speaks?  Remember when the Romans completely sacked Jerusalem in 70 A.D.  The Jewish revolt began several years before the final destruction of Jerusalem.  Most Christian Jews fled Jerusalem when the revolt first began (right at the time when this letter was written) and were dispersed throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia. “The time is ripe for judgement to begin, and to begin with God’s own household; and if our turn comes first, what will be its issue for those who refuse credence to God’s message?”  1 Peter 4:17.  The “judgment” is the destruction of Jerusalem and the “time is ripe” meaning that it is happening as he is writing.  Then Peter says the judgment will begin with God’s own household, which is the elect, the Jews. “Our turn comes first” means the Jewish Christians will be persecuted first then the gentile Christians.  Peter is writing from Rome by the hand of Silvanus and Peter’s interpreter, Mark, to their fellow Jews of the diaspora, who were all united by God’s election in the days of Noah and Abraham.

​These few verses by the Apostle Peter sum up the whole of the testament.  “Blessed be that God, that Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who in his great mercy has begotten us anew, making hope live in us through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.  We are to share an inheritance that is incorruptible, inviolable, unfading. It is stored up for you in heaven; and meanwhile, through your faith, the power of God affords you safe conduct till you reach it, this salvation which is waiting to be disclosed at the end of time.  Then you will be triumphant.” 1 Peter 3-6. And what does the New Testament preach?  Christ, sent by God, died on the cross for humans so that sin and death is now conquered.  That one act has made us new creatures in the likeness of God.  Humans can now live a sinless and pure life while we wait for our resurrection.  We are protected from the temptations of the evil one.  That one act also gives us hope, hope in a future life with the trinity upon our death.  And the one act has given us a faith to believe that our salvation is waiting for us in heaven. This faith gives us strength to bear the burdens of this earthly life in love until we reach our final destination on the day of judgment when Christ reappears.  Our waiting with struggles will be triumphant.

​The Lord’s Prayer, or the Our Father as we Catholics like to call it, has a confusing petition.  This is the only prayer Jesus commanded us to pray.  All Christians pay this prayer, whether catholic, protestant or non-denominational.  When we say the prayer, we ask God for three petitions in the second half of the prayer: give us, forgive us and lead us.   This short note concerns the third petition: “Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.”  I always found it strange that Jesus would command us to ask God to lead us not into temptation as if God would tempt us.  God does not tempt us.  Only the devils has that calling and responsibility. The Apostle James confirms that fact in his epistle. “Nobody, when he finds himself tempted, should say, I am being tempted by God. God may threaten us with evil, but he does not himself tempt anyone.  No, when a man is tempted, it is always because he is being drawn away by the lure of his own passions.”   James 1:13-14.  So if God does not tempt us, why do we ask him to lead us not into temptation as if God would lead us into temptation and sin?  I think that when this phrase was drafted into Latin, and then English, a comma was left out.  There should be a comma behind the words “lead us.”  Jesus commands us to pray to the Father to lead us, direct our lives away from temptation and free us from the snares of the evil one.  When you pray the Our Father, ask God to lead you down the narrow path.  You should understand that our natural passions and desires often overtake our thoughts and we seek unhealthy obsessions like sex outside of marriage, drugs, alcohol and money, often to extremes and to our destruction. James confirms this statement:  “passion conceives and gives birth to sin; and when sin has reached its full growth, it breeds death.”  James 1:15.  Ask God to lead us away from the temptations of the evil one.

​Christ says we are his body now that he has redeemed us from sin and death.  He gave the ultimate and final sacrifice, his human life, to overcome our own frailty, human sin and eternal death.  We are not reprimanded to an eternal death any longer.  Christ has provided us with a road to eternal life.  His one act of sacrifice has opened the door for us to enter eternal life.  This was a gratuitous gift and he implies that we received it without any corresponding action on our part.  Yet we must have faith in the gift giver and trust that what he commands is the truth.  Faith is a grace of God. It is free to the one who wants to receive it.  It is an animated incorporeal.  Faith is also an action on our part too. Faith does not just happen within the human mind.  It is an acquired yearning.  And we must work real hard to retain our faith of Christ once acquired.  So death is conquered but humans must play a part for the spoils.  Paul says sin was vanquished once and for all at Christ’s death yet sin still exists in the world.  Why is that? How can Christ conquer sin and death yet sin and eternal death still remain within the kingdom of God on earth?  Has the kingdom of God been created on earth or has only the cornerstone been laid?  Are we the kingdom dwellers?  If, so, we are the labors too.  God through Christ has provided us with the materials and tools to overcome sin, yet we still sin.  God has placed a consequent demand on us in order to receive everlasting life.  We must follow His commands, i.e., avoidance of sin.  So when Paul says that sin has been conquered, he means that sin no longer controls your life automatically and perpetually. But we still sin?  Why is that, if it has been conquered?  We who seek to refrain from sin are the laborers within the kingdom of God on earth today.  We labor for the desire to follow Christ.  All things desired can be acquired.  We can desire sinlessness and remain sinless only through the perpetual presence of Christ and the Holy Spirit in our lives.  Because we are humans, eternal retention of the Holy Spirit is an impossible task.  We lower of defenses, let down our guard, temporarily relinquish our faith and the Holy Spirt flees from us.  Then we sin. We easily let natural desires overcome divine human existence and structure.  But luckily, the final sacrifice also has provided us with a mechanism to rid ourselves of sin, confession. Once we finally decide to banish sin from our lives forever and grab hold of the Holy Spirit and not let go of the salvation Christ has gracious given us through His sacrifice, eternal life is our reward.

​These words must make a protestant cringe when read in bible study.  Here Paul is speaking to the Corinthians in his first letter in chapter ten. “Keep far away, then, my well beloved, from idolatry. 15 I am speaking to you as men of good sense; weigh my words for yourselves. 16 We have a cup that we bless; is not this cup we bless a participation in Christ’s blood? Is not the bread we break a participation in Christ’s body? 17 The one bread makes us one body, though we are many in number; the same bread is shared by all.” (Emphasis added). I feel sorry for the Protestants that laugh at the Catholics who partake in the body and blood of Christ every Sunday.  We Catholics have become a part of the body of Christ through transubstantiation.  Paul changed ordinary bread and wine in the body and blood of Christ when he was building the Catholic Church.  Christ gave him this power just as Christ gives the bishops and priests of the Catholic Church the same power to change ordinary bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ today. This transubstantiation was first accomplished by the master himself, Jesus Christ, at the last supper. And he gave the apostles a command to continue to do this in remembrance of Him. So when you Protestants start passing around crackers and grape juice in your worship service, remember the words of Paul.  You are worshiping idols, crackers and grape juice, and are foregoing the true body and blood of Christ.  You silly heathens.

​Pope Francis has declared that the death penalty is “inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person.” The Church in the past followed the reasoning of Thomas Aquinas who postulated that a murderer lost his human dignity and therefore, lost his right to life. But the question does not regard human dignity. If that be the question, then we are judging, are we not. Rather the question regards love of neighbor. We are to love all as we love ourselves. All life is created by God including human life. If abortion, murder and euthanasia are wrong, then the death penalty is wrong. Pope Francis made the right decision.

​Hey stupid talking heads, you all still cannot see the forest for the trees.  Here is my theory of the Russia investigation.  Why would the Obama administration start a Russia investigation on Trump when they knew Hillary Clinton was going to win the election?  Everyone, including the media, Clinton and probably even Trump himself assumed Clinton was going to win the election. No one thought trump was going to win. Comey, McCabe, Lynch and Obama investigated the Clinton Foundation bribes and her private email server criminality and cleared her of both of these treasonous acts before the election. She was now cleared to rule the nation. Everyone assumed she would take office and all the little criminal players would keep their cozy jobs for the next eight years and their collusion would never see the light of day.  Only one problem emerged.  Trump.  He mysteriously won the election and became President of the United States.  So McCabe calls in the insurance policy, a trump Russia collusion investigation to impeach Trump.  They use Carter Page and lies to the Federal judiciary to obtain FISA warrants to spy on American citizens.  The White house was unmasking names by the dozens.  (When will the FBI reveal the names unmasked by Susan Rice and Samantha Powell who are part of this treasonous act?).  The investigation stalls when trump assumes power and fires Comey and then fires McCabe. Rosenstein tries to salvage the investigation by appointing Mueller. (Rosenstein is a criminal player and a traitor.  He must go.)  I just cannot understand why they would need to trash and destroy Trump when all the criminal players just knew that Clinton was going to win.  The answer is probably vindictiveness.  These people are criminals and hypocritical pompous asses.  They felt slighted by Trump’s treatment of Clinton during the election and wanted to pay him back with indictments and threats of criminal prosecution.  They all need to be hanged from the nearest tree.