The sad reality of this country

Is Money Your God?
By Ted Twietmeyer
tedtw@frontiernet.net
8-2-6

This is what we have been led to believe. I've known many Christians and non-Christians in my time. And also many Jews as well. What's the common denominator? Money. We've all heard the expression that "Money comes between friends. Don't lend anyone money." All I can say is "Did a Jew write that?"

There is a saying in business that "banks only lend money to those that don't need it." And in reality this is true. Ask any small business owner anywhere you live, and I promise he'll confirm this is true.

IS THAT A SHRINK IN YOUR WALLET?

I know a patient of a psychiatrist (who will remain nameless here.) I don't want to force him into psychotherapy by exposing him. His patient owes him a small sum co-payments. Nasty letters were received by that patient from the shrink's work-on-demand "bookkeeper." Now this doctor is so cheap he makes his own appointments even though he's booked solid for months. Yet he drives a Jaguar. These cars are real cheap - only $45,330 MSRP! [1] Perhaps we're all in the wrong profession. My friend told me the doctor won't even set a new appointment for patients unless the co-pays are made - which are a small fraction of his $170.00 for 45min. fee. Can you guess what religion the doctor is? You only get one guess.

Now comes the question - if you saw someone completely down on their luck and you're a Christian, would you turn your back? Knowing the today's paradigm, it's more likely that a non-Christian would help someone more than Christian. It's sad but very true today. Many Christians use the response to someone in distress "I'll pray for you," when asked for even minor sums of money. Having heard from countless rense.com readers over the years I'm inclined to feel the average reader would indeed, help someone if they could.

THE GOVERNMENT KNOWS WHO GOD IS

Now there is the loving, caring government. Oh, how clever they are on who they help and who they don't. There was a founding principle in America, that leaders in government were NOT supposed to be lawyers. But the lawyers found a way around it, and today almost ALL of those on Capitol Hill and in the darkhouse (oops - whitehouse) are lawyers. Even slick Willy and his sometimes wife are lawyers, too. Who did they help the most? The government of Israel received billions of tax dollars for powering their war machine - and China by handing them technology. As of this writing, Israel is now going against the entire world by bombing their neighbor into oblivion with the help of the American worker's. money This is the same worker who can barely survive today enduring a brutally high cost of living, struggling to keep the lights on at home.

Those Clintons really know how to show America's generosity. Some will scream "WAIT A MINUTE! You're wrong! His wife wasn't in office when they lived in the Whitehouse!"

So why was she always there telling him what to do, where to go and when? Looks like the highest form of hen-pecking possible to me.

Suppose you are a hard working man taking care of your family. Some help is needed to buy medicine, for an illness known to be created in a government laboratory. A microplasma to be exact. You're hard working, and are classified in the "middle income" bracket according to government tables. You have no credit card debt or multiple car payments. But 280 million Americans ALL know that low to middle income is still DEEP inside the real poverty bracket. So you ask for government assistance to purchase life-sustaining medicine. And as sure as the sun will rise tomorrow morning, you can be dead certain you'll be turned down for help. As a result, pain and suffering will be yours as you watch someone you love slip away. In fact, I know one woman who was angry when being told this. The government worker responded with "If you have an alcohol or drug problem, we can help you. Otherwise we can't help you."

So we know that if you're a killer government bent on rubbing out your neighbor and the American government has an "interest" in your country, you'll get all the money you want. If you come to America illegally, you'll be sheltered and protected in almost all of the 48 states.
But if you are an ordinary American citizen? Forget it.

So where does money come in about being God? We've replaced the real God with money in the classroom by what we teach our children. On television with "fund drives," by tele-evangelists who forever have their hand out AFTER they tell you you're going to hell, with shows like "Greed" and "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" and many others. All are aimed at making the viewer money-hungry, money-oriented. Casinos are masters at that game.

Do you know what goes on in many "Christian" churches today? It's no longer about uplifting people - it's about controlling them with pure FEAR. You are supposed to FEAR God and his rath, and focus on that. Biblical passages about this are endlessly quoted in hundreds of thousands of churches around the world. The scope of this damage to a love of the true God is impossible to imagine.

But wait a minute - is this not the same God who has historically shown MERCY to people? Didn't he command us to LOVE Him? What has gone wrong here?

A FUNERAL

Ministers, fathers and pastors may stand high in the pulpit, practically foaming at the mouth telling their flock "You're all worthless sinners in the eyes of the Lord." I went to a Lutheran funeral back in the mid 80's (1980's, not 1880's!) in upper NY state. And these were the very words the pastor yelled out. In the room were about 200 relatives from all professions in life, most college educated. A cousin my age, a lawyer, sat beside me on the right. He sucked that derogatory statement in like a plant without water for 2 months. When I heard that lie flow out of the pastor's mouth, I saw red and began to rise up as though a hoist was connected to me. I couldn't stop it. My wife literally dug her tiny fingers into my arm, penetrating my suit-coat and pulling me down with both hands. She whispered, "DON'T do that! Sit DOWN!" The insult had been rendered, and like some kind of Patrick Henry I couldn't take anymore.

Then the plate was passed. AHHHH....there he was...the true God! He materialized before me, dollar by dollar from adults and coin by coin from the little children, as the golden, ever-hungry offering plate went by. If you want comfort from God you have to pay for it, right? Now I finally understand after all these many years why a pulpit is used. It prevents people like me from putting my hands around the necks of people like them.

No wonder organized religion has such a bad name - its worked hard for centuries to earn it. Those Europeans really knew what they were doing centuries ago, and have clearly refined religion into a science. That's why it takes so many years in a seminary school to learn it, and obtain a doctorate to become an expert at dumping guilt on people to make them part with their money.

At the end of the day, those that wittingly or unwittingly use money as their god will be sorry indeed. The will find out too late that it is a house of cards in disguise waiting to fall apart. Pity the mall rats - all the plastic in their wallet will not bring them one nanosecond of true happiness...

Ted Twietmeyer
www.bookonmars.info

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