"Evangelical": generally, that means part of, pertaining to, or the preaching of the Gospel. A PSA I received in today's generic mass-mailing including my name informs me a new definition may exist.
 
Today, "evangelical" is used by some as if a New Age Christian banner; as if they are the true and exclusive authority on theology, and everyone else cannot possibly be preaching the Gospel at all...um, sounds not very democratic, religiously or secularly.
 
Among those so opining appears to be the "Evangelical Climate Initiative", which says only those who believe global warming is real can truly be children of God, Christian or not, all others vessels of wrath; further, that the only good works needed are amazingly similar to those already accomplished in the USA re emissions controls...from there on, God will provide, and only those interfering with officials exporting the fight for global emission checks will suffer horribly in personal lives, be poor, or otherwise incur woe.
 
It's like asking me to believe that if I'm told I have no right to earn income or practice religion or whatever and also have a cold, as long as officials see to it my tangential issue of a cold (real or imaginary) is fixed, all good works are fulfilled...and though political/legal redlining would still confront me, God will punish me if I do anything any official or "evangelical" prefer I not.
 
In fairness, I'll leave it New Age "evangelicals" to opine if that's truly what's meant, and if they believe all anybody, including God, has ever cared about is say-so powers to officials as His peers so that a never-ending world regenerating itself via "Big Bangs" won't keep doing its eons-old thing...all Big Bangs have to trace back to a single source, matter itself not ab initio spontaneously generating, so where did that come from if not a Creator, and that first world sure has kept renewing itself in space. I'm the type of old-school evangelical who doesn't doubt God and Heaven exist under all the talk, and so I don't lock myself to uber-attachment beyond reason to worldly ambitions..."what'll we do if global warming isn't all we worry of, it's our only world"....that's Christian philosophy, is it?
 
As to Lake County Illinois Comcast about two weeks ago joining ranks this year with other cable systems dropping EWTN, the Global Catholic Network which gives its programming for free and pays little or no fees, I don't think it's a thirst for the PAID programs still on Comcast which reduce the New Testament to "you're saved without good works for accepting Jesus as Lord, all you have to do to not incur God's wrath is seed-tithe to your televangelist who openly admits (at least ) he's gonna use it on himself only...you want God's adman to look good so other souls can be so saved, right?"; nor do I think many shun EWTN-type universal application of faith, citations to good works, and higher commitment of "seed" as one might find if they knew about or spoke more about, say, the Beatitudes of Jesus, or His other words directly.
 
This Labor Day, 2008, I was part of the Lake County Right To LIfe unit in the Zion Illinois Labor Day parade; at the front was a big float for Roman Catholic Our Lady Of Humility, at the end was our Right To Life unit. Nothing but applause for OLHC, and many other entries; a total of one heckler against Right To Life; and we ran out of thousands of stickers and collateral before we made it halfway through! So many diverse people standing specially to salute, cheer, and encourage us, all the way to the last parade review seat...one senior veteran in VFW gear and hat stood to salute as we passed, and I returned that salute. A number of people asked me if I'd heard why EWTN had been yanked, especially for seniors and shut-ins losing out on the only Masses they can make, and I said I did not have a Comcast reply.
 
Also in today's mail was a Comcast reply to that question, and I here cite it verbatim in its entirety: "The Executive Customer Relations Department is following up with you regarding your Comcast accounts. Unfortunately, we were unsuccessful in our attempts to contact you. If you should require assistance in the future regarding Comcast products and services, please call our Chicago Customer Care Center on their toll free number (here omitted)". There you go...a truly Illinois way of answering: invidiously infer through unsigned text the recipient is a loon deadbeat who must've been disconnected to why believe the loser...EWTN's still on, nyahhhh...it's just unconnected deadbeats ain't gettin' it, sees? Probably, EWTN conflicts with cable operators' "evangelicals"...who all PAY to put their shows on...in some coincidental "saved by Christ AND good works/saved by Christ and just sending cash to the preacher" tension.
 
In summation, try as I might, I earnestly report I can find nowhere near manifest majority support in my locality for so-called evangelical liberalism, including euthanasia of full-term or older persons as if any mom or bin Laden can "retro bort" on personal or theologic whim. Myself, I'm still trying to factor how on one one hand many politicians want to legislate away non-evangelical liberal relgion strands for treating homosexuality as if just a learned/reflexive post-birth response to stimulus, and on the other insist that all children third grade up must be taught to experiment with homosexuality or they'll never learn it...ah, the contradictions in an environment full of contradictory mere expedients, detached from everything except will to rule.
 
   

Recently, a number of media, politicians, and their supporters have been making much...in the broad, rhetorical, and emotional senses...of the term "hope". In and of itself, it is never a bad idea to abandon hope in life.
 
I know that many secularists, including psychiatrists and even former NIH Chairs, have opined directly and through their published works that the world's clergy are right insofar as prayer: it is borne of hope, it seems to have positive benefits even to those not aware they were being prayed for, prayer works better the more involved in the same intentions and prayers thereon, and religion appears to empower prayer even more so; such secular parties and authorities admit they do not quite understand by their own sciences WHY prayer is generally peacefully positive to its practitioners, but say their science does support everyday clergy remarks re prayer...especially where God is included as the praying party knows same.
 
There are those politicians and officials today who state, tacitly demur, or otherwise infer that they must defer to media, celebrities, and PACs as the manifest voice of the public, even if Hollywood lluminaries have no special knowledge or training with anything, media can be self-censored/manipulated under martial powers/directed by advertisers, and all independent polls indicate most people are not part of a or group of PACs or are not at all simpatico with PAC-speak; the rationale seems to be: "sigh! They're going to just run nothing but RealSex, Maher calling Catholics Nazis, PFAW's Kathleen Turner griping the country might go Christian again, GossipGirl, Dexter, f-bombs, teach our kids to explore homosexuality right now and forever, an endless list...again, sigh! What can we do but accept this? If forces beyond even political control demand an end to public prayer or religious expressions of any nature, or demand God is some fairy tale ogre who must be crushed, who are we to argue? Come on, eventually, if that's all our special interests want to do they'll do it anyway, what can we do but accept it, and become the society they want? After all, so many of kids will be brainwashed that way by the end of eight more years, we have to BE the society specialists want and start doing it now...anyway, it fits with that gap between money supply and consumer debt that never shrinks no matter what anyone does, who comes, who goes...face it, God stuff only gets in the way of what kind of 'look out for me alone' seductions and maneuvers little folks will be doing forever after to scrape for what cash we toss them...you know, like moms deciding to abort after a nine month regular delivery, and why stop at THAT age if it's easier to liquidate than think, private party or otherwise?".
 
Odd especially where such a nature of speaking official or candidate is also very pro-healthcare; again, even the secular medical world has upheld that peaceful and community prayer does work benefits and likely cuts incidences of epidemics.
 
Not to forget, again, the very peaceful hope the Absolute and prayer manifest within the large majority of earth's people.
 
At any rate, the Constitution says I can practice my religion, and so does the recently renewed 1948 U.N. human rights declaration in regard to religious freedom; moreover, the USA Supreme Court has been a supporter of such freedom. Wherefore, even if it becomes non-Court administrative and media policy across the land to smack down any public expressions or tacit indications of faith in God, despite their vaunted cries of "hope", I will continue to simply peacefully follow faith until such time, if ever, God's permissive Will allows some scoundrel to "get lucky" and smack me down for good...I know I shall never be embarrassed nor in need of feeble obfuscations before God when my time comes, unless of course I'd have to explain why I would bend knee and deny Him in favor of far inferior beings.
 
 
 

Random nation "A", typically of many small and large around the globe (not to mention bona fide terror groups like Janjaweed in Darfur, Hamas in Syria), looks at a world which for eons has seen attacks on one country by another, and which has known this or that one to twist re this or that other one, and of general sentiment only sets about simply letting any would-be loons seeking to harm it without cause by standing defenses (with public support) thusly (remember, this could be ANY random non-Western place): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbjQeW8KRn0&feature=related .
 
After numerous WTC pipe bombings and assasinations by al-Qaeda in the 1990's, the WTC bring-down by Qaeda in 2001, after Al Gore and many Democrats 1992-2001 prated on and on America MUST remove Hussein on non-Qaeda terror support reasons, and after the Iraqi people themselves sentenced Saddam Hussein to death and themselves then executed him, here is what the leaders of the USA say to people who openly express hostility to the USA, attack it, or both: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDZ8seg4Nr4 .
 
Interestingly, the only "defense" our officials anticipate is deepening the domestic status quo infinitely, as if all waiting for 2 Senate terms and 4 House terms to lam out with life retirement; the security plan seems to be in the nature of : insist China makes anything stamped "Made In China", and that 90% of all USA goods are there made, even if nobody really sees all those necessary mass caravans from our coast...what with China making it all BUT NOT IN LATIN OR NORTH AMERICA; build a big spinner wheel, place the names and leaders of every country on earth on the many slot spaces, spin occasionally to find REAL reason...this time for sure...our officials "have" to act as they do, and tehrein "keep us safe"; hope the rest of the world blames everybody but your nation (even where, in the case of some, the point is to be homicidal if every nation were Nirvana or Eden); shrink media, via Google et al filter all public data, pull CSPAN inter alia from cable/dish, outlaw shortwave, use planted stories to satisfy any new story, sit hard on your people, and encourage that good works are unnecessary in religion, or secular life, or public service...even have States and towns prohibit Churches from seeling candy bars, firemen from running "fill the boot" for MDA, whatever you have to in order to make illusion Americans hate giving even they have plenty of money and are just racists keeping immigrants from same.
 
Now, the "just in case" backup against foreign attack is: on the Left, a demand for no draft, and closure of recruitment offices; on the Right, no draft, full speed ahead BRAC until every possible place to put recruits is gone.
 
Perhaps during the Fall debates, someone will adduce from the candidates WHAT exactly, if anything, anyone specifically wants to change, together with HOW...I mean, it;s fun to accuse the Roman Catholic Church of smuggling all these immigrants in and all, as if States and Federal agents were merely incidental, stuff like that, but what is the change that in bipartisan concordance nationals and immigrants will go forward from, and exactly HOW will we...as a diverse nation...stand ready against attack, like most other nations do? Or is "it's what other countries are doing" also just another cop-out relativism?      
 

If to Comcast EWTN isn't a matter of anti-Vaticanism or anti-Catholicism elective to Comcast, it's just that Comcast finds EWTN "dangerous psychology" or whatever similar or else, it doesn't hold water...especially where "God is a trouble-maker".
 
If Comcast (or government) worries about "Tennessee Church shooting-like links ala Hannity, O'Reilly, Limbaugh", odd Comcast still carries the FOX affiliate sporting such men.
 
Odd that Comcast hasn't cut "Jack Van Impe Presents" from channel 3, or on WGN Tuesday late night; Van Impe was a protege of Jerry Falwell, and is a Liberty University alum.
 
Odd that Comcast hasn't pulled "Pastor Melissa Scott" on channel 15 at midnight Central time every weeknight followed for hours by "Inspiration Ministry"; nor has Comcast pulled a litany of preachers from faith healers to Baptists running nightly on channel 3...nor weekend inspirations on BET channel 46.
 
Um, won't we be "unsafe" with so many Christian programs left on Comcast, in presence of FOX to boot? I don't believe the "squelch God for safety hoodoo, but if Comcast does, why? Come on, that TN shooting was a loon alleging against liberals in a Unitarian Church, some say liberal feminism triggered the loon, so the reason Comcast leaves collar-wearing "PASTOR Melissa Scott" on air is...? Oh, and I forgot to mention those public access channels 17 and 19 with all their weekly Christian and Islamic shows...still on Comcast.
 
Oddly enough, none of these other Comcast shows seem more "liberal" in content than EWTN. One could say other evangelists have no Church buildings "in danger", but Pastor Scott has the largest Protestant Church in downtown LA and tapes at it; and many Comcast shows are filmed in Churches.
 
Pull EWTN as it urges viewers to politically comment, or makes comments ala Father Pacwa and Corapi, Fulton Sheen reruns? Again, how about Van Impe? CLTV channel 53 swoons for Cardinal George and UCC Pfleger, no "powderkegs" there.
 
The only Comcast difference between EWTN and all other Comcast evangelists is that EWTN actually acknowledges immigrants and the poor in programs specific to them, together with all others as one family of man...every single other show is geared to English-speaking only; Comcast thus simply adds invidious innuendo the Catholic Church is responsible for all immigration (q.v., e.g., Lou Dobbs), that they use the Eucharist as mind control for such purpose(q.v., MSNBC), and that they work with Bush as Nazi Crusaders to get oil for immigrant cars (q.v., e.g., Bill Maher)...odd Comcast pulls EWTN in favor of that mindset or despite it, unless Comcast has a plausible other theory it cares to reveal; I admit I'm at a loss to estimate one.
 
McCain and Obama are actually one in the same on foreigners, making polemics are hard suspicion: Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) favors HR 1955 and mass visas, Virgil Goode (R-NC) calls ALL Muslims the enemy, and McCain won't commit otherwise or to MEANS of overcoming status quo; House Dems introduced and passed HR 1955 last year, hide behind global warming as a reason for less jobs, and via saying tons of bin Ladens now exist tacitly agree with Goode that ALL Muslims are enemies even if out of Iraq, so we need totalist supervision run by States to keep us safe...while Obama offers no MEANS to overcome status quo. However, Obama distinguishes his platform with the belief "good works" are unnecessary in any faith or in secular life or service.
 
Might explain why even in solid Democrat areas such as Illinois, by such context easy Dem majority vote results showing voters as universalists themselves (electing, e.g., Roman Catholics like Daley, Durbin; electing stricter-than-EWTN-Eastern Orthodox Catholic Gov. Blagojevich; and electing Muslim turned UCC Obama), the only advice offered to OBVIOUS universalists like the Vatican and Universal Life Church or Unitarians is "shut up, move, or both". The within concludes all I can say re prior video missionary work for EWTN...I want to be clear why such missionaries as myself didn't/don't "push" de facto anarchy or sedition, nor is EWTN reflective of religiosity intolerable to the Comcast viewing, and State manifest population, majority.
 

1. "There are thousands, yea, unto millions, of bin Ladens, and whether due to Bush or the European Union and some USA officials offering money and homes to jihadists who even carry on once in new homes, just about ALL Muslims are violent killers. Whatever we propose in significant part is to atone to or placate 2/3 of the world ready to kill us". Um, just via Lou Dobbs, border and port security isn't reported near sterling; if such multitude of killers lurked, surely more would have gotten through; it seems nonsensical to villify so many because a few or some foreign GOVERNMENTS such as Iran flap formal nuclear wings.
 
2. "Your Christian expressions very likely are offensive to Hispanics, Muslims, atheists...aw, somebody; yeah, if was just atheists, the Constitution alone would trump things, so it's national security (wink, wink) that demands we silence or regulate USA religion to not provoke oceans of Muslims and others or Iran". Um, don't CRUSADERS call ALL Muslims killers, and the Soviet Union alone was a much more gigantic nuclear threat than Iran could dream of being...yet, who squelched religion then? Perhaps it's a coincidence such voices tack onto such thought there's nothing wrong with mass abortions or euthanasia, nor with poverty not due to paying off or giving resources to MUSLIMS. Akin to European Union saying as long as jihadists exist, they and all Muslims are "Hispanics of Europe" causing similar cultural idioms there...USA officials saying "Europe's doing it, me too", Europe saying "um, USA's doing it, me too", it seems that not THAT much is making mass global migration an end-all, be-all unto itself.
 
3. "AmberWatch, Child Abuse Prevention Months, VAWA, AIDS, Hepatitis C, STDs, Lyme, West Nile, Global Warming, everyone needing somethingazine to live, no one able to safely lose weight yet they must, an infinite list of woe showing any normal person they'd be crazy to trust or care about grown-ups or neighbors at all...or to venture away from a car (likely to be stolen, I betcha) or home. Oh-oh! ANOTHER news story from shrinking media actually reporting somebody hurt somebody in a land mass as huge as North America...that could be hundreds if not thousands of individual conflicts a year! Better lower hearsay standards and pass HR 1955". Gosh, the whole nation must be a cluster of "nutcases" who "can't" be swept off streets unless States enact witchhunt-level powers...and, if generally "the masses" don't care about or trust anyone but themselves, in fact fear strangers and family alike at all times in every case, then ALL "the masses" would be targets eventually of say-so detention actions.
 
4. "Gosh, another police officer, any race, used lethal force even against uber-armed perps; well, crucify the scoundrel cop! Doesn't he or she know it's racist or Uncle Tom to shoot a perp even if they shot civilians, officers, or both?". Um, but multi-tazering, applying Savate et al, and such to less violent subjects...all other factors equal...ISN'T racist or Uncle Tom? Oh wait...of course, whites and others aren't experiencing that because it's not on the "Today" show or something; sounds more like manicuring material for the U.N.'s Doudou Diene to use against the USA in racism reports, so we can be "caught" and HAVE to snag in all of Latin America since their governments are right about lousy America...we HAVE been keeping them from a worry-free economy and stress-free life (that still needs status quo at home and HR 1955 here). And what if Diene were to conclude USA officals were just "racist" against Muslims because of Bush, Bush opponents calling Muslims a powderkeg collective, or both?
 
5. "Hispanics are victimized by 287g and home mortgages". True or not, the public realm indicates that 287g is invidious to Hispanics (MORE people to distrust), in that it's reported as a farrago which usually results in detainees getting the same ITINs and social welfare/credit as do mass immigrants here in orderly fashion per Congress and States' choices; if Diene carped re Hispanics, it could only be that it's invidious to suggest most Latins are atheistic, pro-Socialist, or both...or that by Christian expressions lay people "risk harm" due to compassions shown Hispanics and other immigrants "in times of economic reconfiguration" inferred to be handmaid work of religion.
 
I grant that I have limited faculties compared to full-time pundits, but I respectfully submit such is the tin I hear through the mega-hype of permanent campaigns, which seemingly do little more than raise doubts and fears, but only as if office seekers where expecting economic declines to continue notwithstanding their own bureaucratic and charismatic brilliances. It's what I get after being a Townhall blogger for one full year as of today.
 
All that societal gnashing of teeth, just for objective of avoiding the kind of toothless Diene knock just about every nation chronically gets?
 
 
  

When Democrat President John F. Kennedy took us into Vietnam to protect Asian rights, and later Democrat President Lyndon Baines Johnson escalated that war, a wholly Democrat Congress...epitomized by Democrat Senate Majority Leader Fulbright...DAILY whined and moaned about what "bad, evil, rotten, scum of the earth" America was doing to poor little Vietnam, as if MAKING Chairman Mao "have" to destroy our troops together with the South Vietnamese as South Vietnam, like anything else near Russia or China, is just "manifest destiny" of those big nations, ipso facto, de facto.

That kind of thinking now carries over to Democrats re Iran...see, Iraq et al are Iran and militant strand Islam's "manifest destiny"...that's why, ya see, even everyday Muslims will have to accept that when killer jihadists are treated like diplomatically immune invitees in the USA (q.v. Los Angeles Mayoral program to do just that December 2007; inter alia); just like the European Union's "Socialist Group In The European Union Parliament" (PSE) reminds us in demanding all Europe continue with said Parliament's Article 13...the one that invokes "special powers" to step on nationals AND peaceful immigrants in Europe to make way for jihadists.

Anyway, somehow today's Democrats tell us NIXON got us into Vietnam, and that under pressure from Congress he was forced to withdraw...I agree, Democrats ARE the "heroes of myth and legend", all right.

Now, Al Gore, Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL), and so many others from 1992 to 2001 kept a mantra that NON-AL-QAEDA terrorism was known by them to be aided and funded by Saddam Hussein, and that he should be removed by military action of the USA, U.N., or both; Bush intended to go BEFORE 911, and "rushed" when all we needed was at least TWO KINDS of terrorism separately or together lashing out at the globe from the Mid East; Democrats were ecstatic to sign the 2002 AUMF against Hussein, and to this day have never once attempted to CANCEL it....the ultimate "impeachment".

But Congressman Kucinich (D-OH) today via e-PSA reiterates all the House should do this Fall is IMPEACH BUSH FOR GOING TO IRAQ based on saying "ditto all the 1990's Democrat warnings, and post-911, what if....since Hussein won't cooperate with the U.N.'s own inspector, Hans Blix, re WMD?". No, Kucinich to date won't move to cancel the Iraq AUMF, no, he won't say Gore and Durbin et al lied about non-WMD Hussein threats sufficient to warrant USA military action, no, Kucinich won't say he doesn't want to clone the European Union Parliament so USA nationals can "atone" to jihadists and others "previously harmed by Nixon inter alia".

I respectfully submit that Congressman Kucinich and any other officials of any nature can express whatever they think is representative of their own district voters' wishes, but doing so should not involve sacrifice of explaining how all such bureaucratic excellence will take all USA nationals and immigrants together and elevate them in the status quo; as it is, some vote to make cigarettes "drugs" to ptotect children, then vote to fund NEA insistancies even third graders EXPERIMENT right now with homosexuality...many States are voting to lower their evidence standards on everyday cases, yet Congress withholds zero law enforcement funds if used only for autocracy...many officials say religion should be treated as psychology and non-Divine, so it can be regulated...and my favorite, we must not drill our reserves, we must have a gas tax increase to artificially inflate prices and must ala LOST give our oil to U.N. shady types, so that like oil-rich Norway we might give away our resource, then buy it back at pumps at $9.65 USD a gallon or more.

Mindful that secularists won't share with us where, tracing back all Big Bangs to "day one" amid otherwise a then void, the then first atom came from if not a Creator, I make the following observations.

I note the plausible and probable following: the Creator would be aware of the "second law of thermal dynamics" (entropy in closed systems of any nature) afoot in the Creator's own Creation; a "world without end" could mean the original Creation which has originated so many galaxies to infinity; life in such infinite Creation will be wherever a Creator wills it; the Creator would know what we perceive as abstract human structures is subject to entropy; entropy in human abstractions includes errors and non-Creator-inspired totalism and egoistic objectivism (Antiocus re Judaism, Leo at the time of Luther re Christianity, bin Laden re Islam, Cotton Mather re Puritanism, as but four of myriad such world examples); and the Creator would inspire as many peaceful faith beliefs as the Creator alone deems fit to counter errors, so that as many as choose to may continue to respond to the Creator's spiritual and orderly plans...each where the Creator calls to peaceful service.

Thus, even though I myself am now in the Universal Life Church, we respect all peaceful faiths...and see even ULC as part of the Creator's plans in peacefully constantly expanding opportunities and paths to faith in overcoming spiritual entropy, without sacrifice to the brotherhood (and sisterhood!) of all mankind.

May God continue to bestow grace, mercy,  and the protection of Heaven upon us all.

 

Bemused by today's Dennis Kucinich e-PSA saying he's looking to impeach Bush this Fall, apparently as if nothing else mattered and for Bush ACTING on Al Gore and Durbin's 1992 forward assurances all kinds of NON-QAEDA were aided by Saddam Hussein, I was then put in mind about how many secularists tell us Fulton Sheen et al brainwashed whole generations of "future problems"; I then received a USPS PSA from Family Research Council, telling me how small children are stopped by State teachers from singing Christian ditties, and of the now nationalized school regimen of having third graders urged to experiment with homosexuality and right now (really confuses that "April Is Child Abuse Prevention Month" feelgood signage at all schools); it may seem curious to urge small children to immediately try their hands at ANY sex, but that's modernist education for you.
 
Immediately I became confused by secularists yet again. First they say they WANT Western religions, but only if pro-commonplace abortion on whim and pro-homosexual; yet they vehemently continue to call say the Universal Life Church, already open to civil union blessing, a Church worthy of ignoring.
 
Then, for many years secularists and modernists have wailed that homosexuality is NOT a learned "condition". Yet today, secularists claim that without mass educational requirement that those who will be 18 or older in eight years (voters) MUST themselves admit of irreligion and same-sex practice or not be acceptable/graduate/found mentally stable, it seems some ARE trying to create a future adult population believing all homosexuality IS learned and IS widespread.
 
For some, this may "explain" why in Darfur, for example, come to think of it, no U.N. or similar action need be taken...sure, it LOOKS like terror group Janjaweed eternally murders Darfur people, but what if loose morals swingers, including same-sex, "dying of AIDS", super-AIDS, and such were...um...the "REAL" causes of most deaths, no need for intervention? Phew! Danced out of the Darfur rodomontades again, on to "Duh, why'd Bush go to EyeRack?" impeachment spinaway for some, perhaps. "Come on," they may say, "EVERYBODY tries it at least once even with epidemics, right?".
 
Now, imagine by eight years' time a Western culture of largely idle young and older adults without much commerce or jobs, with a stagnant economic outlook, preached to by secularists so many young adults ADMIT homosexual conduct it's entirely possible a new mega-super-duper AIDS must be passing through their nations, a disease wiping out many coincidentally idle or strapped people. One wonders, as given the current ballyhoo re STDs, it seems patently insane to suggest...let alone DEMAND...today's kids indulge in morals-free or any omnisexuality, and as often as they can.
 
Sidebar on same-sex unions: as long as the law says so, yes; spiritually only God could know the heart of a true homosexual or anyone else, and I've seen a number of homosexuals in both genders make even heroic sacrifices for their communities and nation. But as with ANY proposed couple, if the point of the union would simply be voiced as revenge or desperation, perhaps pre-marital counselling by licensed parties would better help the couple choose better fulfilling endeavors and timings.
 

Appropos of those who will not offer to us where, say, the first atom of atoms came from before the first Big Bang ever, if not a Creator.
 
Most publicly, but hardly exclusively, the Western Roman Catholic Church is undergoing tremendous secular pressue...from an amorphous set of squeaky wheels influential enough to command media hype yet seemingly way less than a majority of the global population...to "democratize" its entire theology and clergy; such secular pressure demands laity elect Bishops, laity perform as Sacerdotal ministers, laity establish or influence local catechisms, women and gays be ordained, gays be allowed to marry in faith; too, "laity" should be broadly enough defined that anyone, even atheists who casually attend or people of other faiths, can be deemed as having an influential voice in shaping the contours of any faith. Indeed, say some officials, such are the type of practices due government aid (for now) in an age religious beliefs of any kind are invidiously discouraged.
 
I note the Universal Life Church, founded in 1959 in Modesto California by an ordained Baptist minister, for decades has been doing exactly what such aforesaid secular pressure today demands of all other Western faiths. But it does not appear ULC is the eminence griese of modern secularism.
 
For decades up to date, many of the same secular voices demanding uber-inclusiveness of older faiths insist ULC cannot be a real religion, at best being a one-horse Church capable only of issuing credentials indicating mass conversions to its one-line catechism: "Do the right thing". Grounds? ULC ordains any peaceful religious viewpoint; respects that all people are called by God to some degree of ministry; respects that even atheists have a right to speak in re religion; believes all legally capable parties, even same-sex, should be married; respects that each minister it ordains has a duty to obey all laws, yet may establish their own ministries or congreagtions, on "local catechisms" of their own creation, as long as they're peaceful and respectful of other faiths...indeed, there appear striking similarities between ULC and that which is today secularly pressured of all other Western beliefs.
 
But again, the same voices most usually refer to ULC as a non-faith by and through its practices, and often pursue it as a "marriage racket" or unlicensed practice of psychology by ministers of no protected religious beliefs...often, Courts through appellate have sided with ULC insofar as being a "real faith", yet only new angles against it for its practices constantly are plied.
 
This isn't a "plug" for ULC, or for or against anyone else. One simply wonders if the mad dash to overly-secular influence of and within traditional faiths isn't simply an attempt to jockey them into a ULC nature set of practices, and by such measure then pursue each such faith as the mere practice of psychology  wholly subject to regulation by government.
 
On the other hand, the same secular voices...completely separately...do not challenge theologies or demand democratization of non-Western faiths, sometimes going as far as offering to use public and/or private funds to ercet houses of worship for them...even those which curiously as peaceful faith strands trace their basal roots partly or wholly back to the same roots of Western faiths; it would be intriguing to see if democratization would be needed were any non-Western faith to attract large Western congregations.
 
Wherefore, perhaps world atheism or agnosticism isn't the goal of Western secular dynamics, maybe they just don't want it in their own back yards, on ground known only to them. It would seem to be for Courts to fathom if any officials, high or petty, establish any religion(s) through excluding others, or ( I meaning no collusion by any faiths )  unlawfully pre-empt free exercise of peaceful religious beliefs through rooting for or against the non-violent practices therein.