Month: March 2019

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When I was in the seventh grade way back in the 1900s, kids today think the 1900s was a long time ago, of coarse that was before were born and come think about it, 1973 was a long time ago. Seventh grade meant I went to Ramsey Jr. High so it was quite a change from elementary school where we had the same teacher all day. There were seven periods with seven different teachers. Ramsey was a lot bigger with over 1,000 students. In the seventh grade one of these periods was divided up to three twelve week classes. My first twelve week class was drafting the next woodworking and the last was a music class. I liked music class best because there were girls in it. The other twelve week classes for girls were sewing and cooking you know girl stuff. Remember this was way back in the 1900s! Music class was not like chorus, we sat at desks and the teacher, who was the chorus teacher Miss Duvall, taught about music. One lesson was on today’s song Hava Nagila (who says you’ll never use what you learned in school again!) it turns out it’s Jewish! That’s why they sung it in the bar Mitzah scene in The Godfather. Here is one translation I found on the internet it turns out even the translation is controversial yes you can find great arguments on the internet on how to translate the song.

HAVA NAGILA (Literal English Translation)

Come let’s dance, come let’s dance,
Come let’s dance, and be merry!
Come let’s dance, come let’s dance,
Come let’s dance, and be merry!
Come let’s whirl, come let’s whirl,
Come let’s whirl, and be merry!
Come let’s whirl, come let’s whirl,
Come let’s whirl, and be merry!
Rise, rise, brothers!
Rise, brothers, with a glad heart.
Rise, brothers, with a glad heart.
Rise, brothers, with a glad heart.
Rise, brothers, with a glad heart.
Rise, brothers!
Rise, brothers, with a glad heart.

Just imagine that I’m back in the seventh grade way back in the 1900s and their was a boy that went to Ramsey and his name was Abel, that’s right he’s Adam’s boy. There was another boy who was the biggest bully in the whole school and let’s call him Donny. Well in turns out that Donny decided he would make fun of Adam’s boy Abel name. Abel’s last was Schiff, so Donny, with the mind of a seventh grader started calling Him Abel Schitt! All of the other kids thought that was funny so they started calling poor Abel; Schitt just like Donny taught them to do. One boy that really loved to call Abel Schitt, let’s call him Timmy, anyway his dad found out about it and it turns out little Timmy’s dad was a Southern Baptist pastor and when his dad found out little Timmy was in BIG trouble. He told little Timmy that he had never been so ashamed of him, that he should never make fun of anyone by calling them a name like that. Then Timmy’s dad said you do know that Schiff is a Jewish name and Donny was calling him that because he was Jewish? Little Timmy had no idea that was why Donny was always making fun of Abel. The principal found out and called Donny’s dad, let’s call him Freddy, into his office. But as it turns out Freddy had been arrested at a KKK rally before Donny was even born! He told the principal that his Donny never did anything wrong and there’s nothing wrong with calling a filthy Jew Schitt!

I just made that story up it seems that little Timmy didn’t learn his lesson on how to treat Jews, or for that matter people in general. Now it turn’s out that little Timmy followed in his father’s footsteps and became a Southern Baptist pastor. But maybe because this story didn’t really happen little Timmy posted on Face Book, for the world to see, a picture of Senator Chuck Schumer with a distorted face and a what Trump supporters would call a funny meme under it. I have remained silent with for the past Trump years with all his unChristlike posts. But I could not remain silent any longer, when a Southern Baptist pastor posts a picture of the most powerful Jew in the United States of America, and distorts his face in order to make fun of him, and I wish little Timmy would give me chapter and verse where making fun of anyone is alright with Jesus. But if little Timmy wants to see distorted faces and bodies of Jews the Nazis have already provided the world with thousands of pictures of millions of bodies. I then made on first comment on one of his posts, I said; Is a pastor of a Southern Baptist church making fun of a Jew? I waited a while and yes I was just getting madder by the minute. So I made another post this time I posted: Is it wrong that Trump called Rep. Adam Schiff Adam Schitt? That must have got the attention of one of his members of his church, and he posted how great of a man and cares for everyone and other stuff along that lines. Did I reply to that comment? Yes I did, I replied; A pastor should share the truth and love of Jesus Christ not the lies and hate of Donald Trump. After that little Timmy removed the post.

This is America people have the freedom of speech and if your an American our country gives you the right to almost anything you want . But if your a Christian Jesus does not give you the freedom to say anything you want. There’s an old saying I heard in church a long time. Jesus doesn’t give you the freedom to do what you want. Jesus gives you the freedom to do what you should.

I’m sure little Timmy will tell how much he loves and support the nation of Israel but it appears that love does not extend to the Jewish people. I’ll have a lot more to say about that in the future. Thanks for reading this and if you have a pastor on your Face Book feed share this post with him.

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Back in the late eighties I worked in a convenience store. This was back when gas was $1.16 a gallon. People would hand me a five dollar bill and say “I’ll take five on pump number whatever. After this happens a few hundred times a day the five dollar bills make very impressive stacks. This was long before debit cards or pay at the pump so we took in large amounts of cash. Behind the counter the owner placed a sign that I read all the time . Never count money or have cash where customers can reach it. and in big letters LETS KEEP HONEST PEOPLE HONEST! Or in other words it said let’s not lead people into temptation! There’s a lot in the Lord’s prayer but today I want to focus on the line and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. But while we’re praying to remove temptation for us remember not to temp others.

Working at a convenience store not only involves a large amount of cash there is always the chance that you can kill someone. If someone comes in to rob the store then you can take the gun from under the counter and shoot him. Not only could this fulfill your dreams of killing somebody, but it will make you famous, you’ll make all the local news and you will become a hero. My problem was there wasn’t a gun behind the counter. The only gun we had was in the bottom of the drop safe and it was locked. Every morning the owner’s daughter would open the safe empty the money into a bag and take that the pistol with her to the back office. She would count the money at the desk with the gun on top of the desk which was probably a good idea since there would be several thousand dollars of cash on top of the desk. This meant if I was going to be a hero I would have to take away the gun from the robber. But I always asked myself this question; if I wanted to rob a convenience store would I pick the store with me behind the counter? I don’t think so! Sticking a gun in my face would only get me mad. And I don’t think that would be a good idea. I worked there a little over a year and I was never robbed. But I thought about it a lot. Suppose someone did try to rob me and I took the gun away I could shoot him, I would have the legal right to do that, but the more I thought about it yes I would make a name for myself and be looked up to by a lot of people. Would killing someone over a few dollars in the register be right? After all they weren’t robbing me they were just after a few dollars in the register, although I would probably that it personal, I realized that I shouldn’t take it that way. As time went by, I decided if I ever was robbed and I took the gun away, I thought the best thing to do was to point the gun in the robbers face until his eyes got really big, then take the gun and pull it away from him and tell him to get out! don’t do this again. That wouldn’t get me on the news, but I thought that would be the right thing to do. You mean I would just let him go, maybe it would be the right, I don’t know you may say he would just rob someone else, then again maybe not. Nothing like ever happened, and if it did I would probably been the one shot.

Why wasn’t there a gun underneath the counter? Shouldn’t there been one there just in case? A lot of people believe they should sleep with a gun nearby, just in case. Could this be a lot more about a fantasy about being a hero than self protection? Isn’t that gun there just to make you “feel” better, more safe? If there was a gun beneath the counter those scared girls would shoot no telling how many people or they might shoot their self in the foot. The same thing has happened where scared people have shot and killed family members with that gun by their bed that was there, just in case. Put yourself in my place working in a store that’s being robbed or if your in your bedroom, do you pull the trigger if he’s just standing there? Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil? If you yield to the temptation and pull the trigger, are you doing evil? I’m not talking about man’s laws. Should a Cristian pull the trigger just because he’s sacred or for the thrill of it? You may say that I have given this way too much thought, but my job of working behind the counter, by myself, till 1 am it was a real possibility. If you have a gun in your bedroom you really need to think about all and I talking about all the things that could happen. It’s more likely that something you had to protect you will instead be something that will cause a tragedy. My advice would be to put your faith in God to keep you safe and not in your gun and your own abilities. Now I know a lot of people will laugh at me for saying that. What would a Southern Baptist pastor tell you to do? Are Southern Baptist pastors teaching what the Bible has to say about guns or what the Republican party and the NRA believes about guns? Are they leading their followers into temptation?

I was inspired to write this today by a comment on Face Book from a Southern Baptist pastor in Oklahoma. His dad used to be my pastor back in the day, OK back when I was a little kid a long time. From what I can see on Face Book he pastors a large church. I’m proud he’s my friend on Face Book and also so far he has not unfriended me. Why would a pastor of a Southern Baptist church unfriend me? Well that’s a short story. After a couple of years of posts praising Trump, I was compelled to write a comment. I’m not going to say what he posted that made me so mad until I make another post totally on that subject. But last week I made another comment on his very inappropriate post for a Southern Baptist pastor to make about New Zealand banning assault rifles. I decided I would comment on that. It wasn’t a very long comment, all I said on my comment was: It appears your hope for your treasure in heaven is a AR15 made of gold. What kind of response did I get from that comment. Well it turns out I received the greatest response anyone would ever hope for. I just went to his timeline, both posts that I commented on and other similar posts were REMOVED. I just now found this out and I’m still not quite over it. Could it be that my comments started this Trump loving Southern Baptist pastor to start thinking about what he is spreading on Face Book. On his first post which I’ll give my thoughts on tomorrows song, it was removed. All of the pro-gun post were removed. It is possible to reason with a Trump worshipper? I didn’t think so but it sure appears that’s happened or at least I hope that’s what happened.

Now back to lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, does posting pro-gun views lead others into temptation and maybe commit evil? The Apostle Paul mentions the “feeble minded” and what about those people do they not read Face Book posts? Is it good that a feeble minded person has a loaded gun in their house? The NRA will say it’s everyone’s right to have guns. Maybe today’s post will at least make one person think, at least a little.