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Sins, especially of the weaknesses of the flesh, are human and not avaristic, not mean spirited, a desire for love or a reasonable, temporary indulgence until love can be found. (See John 4:4-42) All the sins of mutual lust after flesh are not born of greed, but of lust and desire, especially when spontaneous. In some cases, even adultery is mitigated by circumstances like a non-physical marriage and especially one in which is born of a marriage of convenience, where there is a mutual understanding about such things. A common, understandable human foible, but only if one of those involved is betrothed to or married to another. The "sin" then is not one of sexuality, but of loyalty, broken. The Military Speak Out On The "War" Let us see what some military experts think of the Bushite, "inspiration" of mass-murdering Muslims and stealing their oil: Retired Major General John Batiste has criticised the Bush excuse that he was, "...only listening to the commanders on the ground..." in Iraq. Since Bush has either fired or forced into retirement all of those generals who disagreed with his plans, General Batiste responded, " Mr. President, You did not listen " Retired General Wesley Clark, retired NATO Supreme Allied Commander and a presidential candidate in 2004, said; "The fact is, the president has never listened to the soldiers on the ground... This administration is not listening to the troops and is not supporting them." General Sir Michael Rose told the BBC's Newsnight program that the USA and the United Kingdom should "admit defeat" and stop fighting "a hopeless war" in Iraq. He said Iraqi insurgents would not give in, "I don't excuse them for some of the terrible things they do, but I do understand why they are resisting." Great Britain's, General Sir Michael Rose has written a book comparing a parallel between the tactics of insurgents and George Washington's men in America's War of Independence. Rose said to Newsnight: "As Lord Chatham said, when he was speaking on the British presence in North America, he said 'if I was an American, as I am an Englishman, as long as one Englishman remained on American native soil, I would never, never, never, lay down my arms'. General Sir Michael Rose said, further, "The British admitted defeat in North America and the catastrophes that were predicted at the time never happened. The catastrophes that were predicted after Vietnam never happened and the same thing will occur after we leave Iraq." Former NSA director Gen. William E. Odom (U.S. Army retired), says, "Congress is the only mechanism we have to fill this vacuum in command judgment. The challenge we face today, is not how to win in Iraq; it is how to recover from a strategic mistake, invading Iraq in the first place: Articles in Common Dreams and elsewhere state that General William Odom says Bush has gone AWOL. That has a ring of truth because Bush went AWOL his final year in the Air Force reserve for more than one reason; he was frightened of flying and he feared failing the mandatory drug tests, which could have earned him a Dishonorable discharge. He further says, "Most Americans suspect that something is fundamentally wrong with the President's management of the conflict in Iraq. And they are right." (72% does not support the "war") In several articles, including one by AP, by Associated Press Writer Philip Elliot, he quotes retired Major General John Batiste telling reporters, "I am outraged, as are the majority of Americans. I'm a lifelong Republican, but it's past time for change," "Our strategy in Iraq today is more of the same, a slow grind to nowhere which totally ignores the reality of Iraq and the lessons of history," Batiste said. "Our president ignores sound military advice and surrounds himself with like-minded and compliant subordinates." One last tidbit is that several reports have arisen claiming that Bush wanted to assassinate the entire Al Jazeera Arab TV Network, which serves 50,000,000 or more Arabs in several nations. That would be akin to bombing CNN in the USA. Is this insanity or what? A number of stories had previously claimed that the deaths in battlefield conditions of reporters critical of Bush war tactics were intentionally killed, are they true. Bush wanted to bomb the bejeepers out of Al Jazeera studios and offices, but when he brought the matter to the attention of Tony Blair, Blair, to his eternal credit, was reputed to have said, "NO!" Are we, or are we not dealing with a maniac? A maniac who without the support of "men of the cloth" would not be in office. I speak here of the current pope, who sent letters while still a Cardinal essentially telling American bishops to tell American Catholics that voting for a candidate which party accepted abortion, was ipso facto, cause for excommunication, a not so veiled threat. He did this before the 2000 and 2004 elections; fortunately, he was ignored in 2006. In essense, he slandered some good men and women, as well as a good Catholic, John Kerry, in the pope's zeal to elect megalomaniacs and demoniacs to the White House and Congress. There is no counting how many Christian Right ministers supported the Bushites. It has apparent painfully become to many who listened to unenlightened, uninformed or ill informed, panderers of Corporate Organized Religions, that they were wrong. Their congregations have seen the light, even if their spiritual advisors have, not. However, We have not heard one word from the pope about whether or not he is burying himself in sackcloth and ashes in penance for his horrific error (only one of many errors and insults to those of other religions if you have been following his career). Infallibility seems not to be possessed either by this pope, or those who elected him. Nor does it seem that God is in any sort of agreement with him or them on much of anything of late. He, and they, the college of cardinals, Fallwell, Robertson and the rest of the Christian Right, appear, especially after the elections of 2006, to be a non sequitar, a post hoc ergo propter hoc, argumentum ad ignorantiam, a bifurcation, a tu quoque, a hypothesis contrary to fact! I do not know whom the pope will support in 2008. I do know that he and I stand against one thing strongly, abortion, but I unlike him also stand against; torture, preemptive war, slander, lying, mass-murder, capital punishment. What I have just said in the three lines, above, are an unfair stretching of reality, a distortion, but is the equivalent, of what the pope said about voting against those who did not condemn abortion. That abortion is evil, I do not dispute, however, there are greater evils and I can tell the pope that God will not excommunicate those who were clearly able to see that while they opposed abortion and still, as I, do, there are greater evils and they saw clearly as did I, that the Bushites embodied all of them. I pray that either this pope becomes enlightened and apologizes to the Iraqi's and their nation, or retires. He along with those evil ones who supported the Bushites with hypocritical and blasphemous commentary about God and their speaking back and forth with him either are liars or need psychiatric assistance. God does not support killing. Thes must be speaking to Satan, he favors, abortion, torture, preemptive war, stealing a nation's natural resources, slander, lying, mass-murder, capital punishment, framing the innocent and blaspheming. Hmm. One out of ten, that is a batting average of .100, not so hot for those about to have eternal residency in a place that is very hot, unless the refute their evils and repent. Repent, Jerry Fallwell, on your knees on public TV, or face Divine Punishment! Repent, Pat Robertson, on your knees on public TV, or face Divine Corrective Measures!! Repent, Pope Benedict, on your knees on public TV, or face Divine Corrective Measures!! Your penance? Give enormous alms to the people of Iraq and to the people in the USA who lost loved ones or whose loved ones were wounded or injured in connection with the "war" in Iraq, or face Divine Corrective Measures!!
http://www.BagnoloArt.com Professor Bagnolo is a Renaissance man: Cultural Anthropologist, Architectural designer, painter, writer, novelist, theologian. As a child prodigy, abed with polio for almost two years, with an off the charts IQ, reading at the graduate level by 5th grade, offered an opportunity to skip three grades at age 8.
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