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The earth is very old
Letter to the editor;
For generations we have pulled the rug out from under ourselves, devoutly believing that the earth was created ex nihilo (out of nothing) in the year 4002 BC. (And as a certain cynical atheist added, “on the fourteenth of October, at 9 o’clock in the morning.)
In the beginning G-d created the heavens and the earth.
Adam was created about six thousand years ago.
The Grand Canyon is only one of many mountainous pieces of evidence that The Beginning was thousands of millions of years before Adam.
Our children look at the rocks and hear us say the many layers of the mountains (and the fossils embedded within them) were created just a few days before Adam.
They know better. They can plainly see that this is not true. They may think we would lie to them about other things as well – like about the L-rd or the Ten Commandments.
There is not a solitary word in Scripture that indicates that the earth was without form and void only about a hundred hours before Adam first drew breath. Those numbered “days” of creation just didn’t necessarily have to occur back-to-back with each other.
For those who say G-d created the Grand Canyon and fossils and all that so shortly ago -- will you say He deliberately deceived us? That He manufactured false evidence?
Since the Creator would not lie to us, we can conclude that the fossils in the rocks prove that there used to be other kinds of living things – and that the earth is exceedingly old.
Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Pray for life
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Pray about abortion-politics
Letter to the editor;
We have laws against murder. Every nation severely punishes unlawful killing. Even a violent criminal may not be killed by a private citizen except in the very act of committing a dangerous felony.
Almost two generations ago our Beloved Leaders decided to ignore six thousand years of recorded history, law and tradition – and permit the deliberate slaughter of anyone who has not yet been born.
Now, babies in the womb are not puppies or kittens, but small-size human children.
Since then, all nice and legal, about forty million small-size human children have been killed because the adults who beget them suddenly found them to be, um, inconvenient.
President-elect Obama has vowed that on his first day in office he will sign a law to take away any shred of protection for pre-born persons.
Pray. Pray every day. Pray every day until President-elect Obama becomes President Obama – that Congress will not hand him any such law to sign.
Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona
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Pray about abortion-politics
Letter to the editor;
We have laws against murder. Every nation severely punishes unlawful killing. Even a violent criminal may not be killed by a private citizen except in the very act of committing a dangerous felony.
Almost two generations ago our Beloved Leaders decided to ignore six thousand years of recorded history, law and tradition – and permit the deliberate slaughter of anyone who has not yet been born.
Now, babies in the womb are not puppies or kittens, but small-size human children.
Since then, all nice and legal, about forty million small-size human children have been killed because the adults who beget them suddenly found them to be, um, inconvenient.
President-elect Obama has vowed that on his first day in office he will sign a law to take away any shred of protection for pre-born persons.
Pray. Pray every day. Pray every day until President-elect Obama becomes President Obama – that Congress will not hand him any such law to sign.
Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona
Saturday, January 10, 2009
The Blood Libel is false.
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Not all the Nazis are dead
Letter to the editor;
One of those dreary anti-Semites sent me a long and detailed e-mail condemning Jews.
It contained the regular, standard generic hate-tripe that we have all heard before.
He said “the Jews” are not real Jews, or even Israelites, but degenerate Asiatic Russians.
He said Jesus and the real Israelites were tall, blond and blue-eyed.
He said Jews are the literal children of Satan, part of a separate evil creation, especially created for the purpose of being destroyed.
He said every single Jew of every generation is guilty of the death of Christ.
THIS IS GRADE “A” UNADULTERATED MALARKEY!
Jesus was a Jew among Jews. His mother and step-father were Jews.
His disciples and Apostles were Jews. His friends and His enemies were Jews.
He was learned in the Jewish scriptures and traditions.
He taught Jewish Law and ethics in public, and He was called Rabbi in public.
He did not condemn the Jewish Law: Rather, He condemned those who violated it.
When he came to Jerusalem only a few days before His death, the words of the crowds of admiring believers indicate that they either wanted Him to be King – or possibly that they actually MADE Him King. Pilate thought Jesus might be the king of the Jews.
Yes, there were some Jews – maybe a hundred – who were conspired in the death of Jesus. They are all long dead. Their descendants cannot be guilty of that crime.
The Bible records that they shouted, “His blood be upon us and our children!” But they could not actually bring guilt on their children or on anybody else.
No. The old blood-libel that “the Jews killed Christ” won’t wash. It’s just not true.
Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona
Glenn Jacobs / 130 N. Poverty Flat / Box 954 / Eagar, Arizona 85925 / 928-333-3517
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Not all the Nazis are dead
Letter to the editor;
One of those dreary anti-Semites sent me a long and detailed e-mail condemning Jews.
It contained the regular, standard generic hate-tripe that we have all heard before.
He said “the Jews” are not real Jews, or even Israelites, but degenerate Asiatic Russians.
He said Jesus and the real Israelites were tall, blond and blue-eyed.
He said Jews are the literal children of Satan, part of a separate evil creation, especially created for the purpose of being destroyed.
He said every single Jew of every generation is guilty of the death of Christ.
THIS IS GRADE “A” UNADULTERATED MALARKEY!
Jesus was a Jew among Jews. His mother and step-father were Jews.
His disciples and Apostles were Jews. His friends and His enemies were Jews.
He was learned in the Jewish scriptures and traditions.
He taught Jewish Law and ethics in public, and He was called Rabbi in public.
He did not condemn the Jewish Law: Rather, He condemned those who violated it.
When he came to Jerusalem only a few days before His death, the words of the crowds of admiring believers indicate that they either wanted Him to be King – or possibly that they actually MADE Him King. Pilate thought Jesus might be the king of the Jews.
Yes, there were some Jews – maybe a hundred – who were conspired in the death of Jesus. They are all long dead. Their descendants cannot be guilty of that crime.
The Bible records that they shouted, “His blood be upon us and our children!” But they could not actually bring guilt on their children or on anybody else.
No. The old blood-libel that “the Jews killed Christ” won’t wash. It’s just not true.
Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona
Sunday, January 4, 2009
How to help your nation in its troubles
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“A snowball headed for hell”
Letter to the editor;
The nation is in trouble. Big trouble. (Pick a nation and a trouble: We’re in it.)
A popular song likens this to a snowball rolling down toward the nether regions.
PLAN A: Ignore it. It’ll go away. Or maybe someone else will take care of things.
PLAN B: Trust our Beloved Leaders to fix it. (But they caused at lease part of it.)
PLAN C: Urge the government to hand out lots and lots of money that it doesn’t have, and to decree that it will do more of the same if the trouble continues.
PLAN D: Demand the government get rid of the Jews/ Blacks/ Mexicans/ drug-dealers/ homosexuals/ Socialists. (All of these have been tried at other times and other places and none of them fixed a thing.)
PLAN E: Stage a bloody revolution and wreck the nation’s foundations and build a new one on the basis of whoever kills the most people. (This always gives WORSE results.)
PLAN F: Sit crosslegged and say “Ooooom. Ooooom.” until your mind is calm like water. (This doesn’t fix anything -- but then you don’t care about it anymore.)
PLAN G: Phone and write politicians to tell them a better way to do things.
PLAN H: Demand the government hold a nationwide day of prayer and fasting. (Good. Good. But you cannot make ‘em pray, and they certainly aren’t going to fast on command.)
PLAN I: Repent. Not try to make your neighbors repent. Just repent. Not try to have the government proclaim repentance. Just repent. Seeing that you cannot make anybody else repent, just repent.
Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona
Glenn Jacobs / 130 N. Poverty Flat / Box 954 / Eagar, Arizona 85925 / 928-333-3517
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“A snowball headed for hell”
Letter to the editor;
The nation is in trouble. Big trouble. (Pick a nation and a trouble: We’re in it.)
A popular song likens this to a snowball rolling down toward the nether regions.
PLAN A: Ignore it. It’ll go away. Or maybe someone else will take care of things.
PLAN B: Trust our Beloved Leaders to fix it. (But they caused at lease part of it.)
PLAN C: Urge the government to hand out lots and lots of money that it doesn’t have, and to decree that it will do more of the same if the trouble continues.
PLAN D: Demand the government get rid of the Jews/ Blacks/ Mexicans/ drug-dealers/ homosexuals/ Socialists. (All of these have been tried at other times and other places and none of them fixed a thing.)
PLAN E: Stage a bloody revolution and wreck the nation’s foundations and build a new one on the basis of whoever kills the most people. (This always gives WORSE results.)
PLAN F: Sit crosslegged and say “Ooooom. Ooooom.” until your mind is calm like water. (This doesn’t fix anything -- but then you don’t care about it anymore.)
PLAN G: Phone and write politicians to tell them a better way to do things.
PLAN H: Demand the government hold a nationwide day of prayer and fasting. (Good. Good. But you cannot make ‘em pray, and they certainly aren’t going to fast on command.)
PLAN I: Repent. Not try to make your neighbors repent. Just repent. Not try to have the government proclaim repentance. Just repent. Seeing that you cannot make anybody else repent, just repent.
Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona
Saturday, December 20, 2008
How 'bout all them camels?
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The krizmuz card
Letter to the editor;
Here’s this generic “krizmuz” card: Santa Claus and some magic flying reindeer wishing you happy holidays or some such innocuous greeting.
Here’s this other card, an actual Christian card: Let’s see, the really drafty wreckage of a former shack, camels, sheep, a donkey, a bunch of people in bathrobes -- and a baby. Much better. At least this card depicts what many people think might have happened.
Let us analyze the scene:
The Bible says Baby Jesus was laid in a manger. Not a word about the wreckage of a ramshackle stable. Joseph would have wisely rented someplace better than that. Maybe a stall in a fairly decent barn or carriage house? Anyway, some place out of the weather, with no fresh manure or swarms of flies.
Camels. Scratch camels. By the time the wise men got there, Joseph had rented a house. And, anyway, they were probably rabbis from across Jordan, and would have walked in – so probably no Persian kings and astrologers came in on camels at that time.
Sheep? No. No sheep. The Bible says at that time of year the shepherds were watching their sheep by night in the open fields nearby, not protecting them in buildings.
Donkey? Joseph was a carpenter. What would he need with a donkey to stand around all day eating up his wages? When Joseph bought lumber, he would have it delivered.
All those people in robes? That is fairly certain to be correct. However it is highly doubtful that lots and lots of them showed up all at the same time like that.
The Baby. Ah, YES, the Holy Child. The Son of God. The Savior of mankind.
Muslims know that child as Eess – a prophet of Allah to the Jews.
Jews don’t need to think a thing about that child. Hashem has something else for Jews.
Yoo Hoo, y’all who call yourselves Christians: Forget Santa Claus. Meet Baby Jesus.
Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona
Glenn Jacobs / 130 N. Poverty Flat / Box 954 / Eagar, Arizona 85925 / 928-333-3517
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The krizmuz card
Letter to the editor;
Here’s this generic “krizmuz” card: Santa Claus and some magic flying reindeer wishing you happy holidays or some such innocuous greeting.
Here’s this other card, an actual Christian card: Let’s see, the really drafty wreckage of a former shack, camels, sheep, a donkey, a bunch of people in bathrobes -- and a baby. Much better. At least this card depicts what many people think might have happened.
Let us analyze the scene:
The Bible says Baby Jesus was laid in a manger. Not a word about the wreckage of a ramshackle stable. Joseph would have wisely rented someplace better than that. Maybe a stall in a fairly decent barn or carriage house? Anyway, some place out of the weather, with no fresh manure or swarms of flies.
Camels. Scratch camels. By the time the wise men got there, Joseph had rented a house. And, anyway, they were probably rabbis from across Jordan, and would have walked in – so probably no Persian kings and astrologers came in on camels at that time.
Sheep? No. No sheep. The Bible says at that time of year the shepherds were watching their sheep by night in the open fields nearby, not protecting them in buildings.
Donkey? Joseph was a carpenter. What would he need with a donkey to stand around all day eating up his wages? When Joseph bought lumber, he would have it delivered.
All those people in robes? That is fairly certain to be correct. However it is highly doubtful that lots and lots of them showed up all at the same time like that.
The Baby. Ah, YES, the Holy Child. The Son of God. The Savior of mankind.
Muslims know that child as Eess – a prophet of Allah to the Jews.
Jews don’t need to think a thing about that child. Hashem has something else for Jews.
Yoo Hoo, y’all who call yourselves Christians: Forget Santa Claus. Meet Baby Jesus.
Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Some guaranteed sure-thing 2009 predictions
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Sure-fire 2009 predictions
Letter to the editor;
I, the Great Glenn (“Sees all. Knows all.”) make my guaranteed predictions for 2009.
No matter who is finally inaugurated as President of the United States, hundreds of members of the Council on Foreign Relations (a private club) will be appointed to high positions in that administration.
However much money the government has been wasting, it will squander yet more.
The new administration will continue our illegal undeclared wars.
However many thousands of pages of foolish regulations they have saddled American commerce and industry with, they will write even more.
However many treaties against American interests the politicians have stacked up, they will present yet more for ratification.
Every time the politicians make an agreement to cripple this country, they will hail it on the front pages as a great diplomatic triumph.
They will make progress in their drive to submerge the United States, Canada and Mexico under an unelected and unresponsive continental government.
They will make progress on the highway, rail and pipeline “corridor” from Mexico to Canada right thru the heart of the United States.
And they will make significant progress in outlawing herbs, vitamin supplements, home-grown foods, firearms, ammunition, concealed carry, and/or independent contracting.
Politicians will continue to lie to us.
The majority will continue to vote for the politicians who lie the best.
Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona
Glenn Jacobs / 130 N. Poverty Flat / Box 954 / Eagar, Arizona 85925 / 928-333-3517
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Sure-fire 2009 predictions
Letter to the editor;
I, the Great Glenn (“Sees all. Knows all.”) make my guaranteed predictions for 2009.
No matter who is finally inaugurated as President of the United States, hundreds of members of the Council on Foreign Relations (a private club) will be appointed to high positions in that administration.
However much money the government has been wasting, it will squander yet more.
The new administration will continue our illegal undeclared wars.
However many thousands of pages of foolish regulations they have saddled American commerce and industry with, they will write even more.
However many treaties against American interests the politicians have stacked up, they will present yet more for ratification.
Every time the politicians make an agreement to cripple this country, they will hail it on the front pages as a great diplomatic triumph.
They will make progress in their drive to submerge the United States, Canada and Mexico under an unelected and unresponsive continental government.
They will make progress on the highway, rail and pipeline “corridor” from Mexico to Canada right thru the heart of the United States.
And they will make significant progress in outlawing herbs, vitamin supplements, home-grown foods, firearms, ammunition, concealed carry, and/or independent contracting.
Politicians will continue to lie to us.
The majority will continue to vote for the politicians who lie the best.
Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona
Saturday, December 6, 2008
The ultimate political pressure
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The Angel and the politician
Letter to the editor;
(An Angel comes from Glory to straighten up a politician.)
“Fear Not!” (That's what the Bible says Angels say.)
“Uh, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah – Oh, my GOD! I'm DEAD!”
“No. Not yet. And I’m not God. But I have a message for you from Him.”
“He wants me to stop voting for bills I haven’t read – doesn’t He?”
“Can you think of anything else?”
“Um, and vote no on bills about more than one thing?”
“And -- ?”
“And only bills that the Constitution authorizes?”
“Did someone else already talk to you about all this?”
“No. I, uh, um, er, ah, that is -- Why?”
“Because it didn't take long for you to guess. Have these issues been troubling you?”
“Er, well, a little, I guess.”
“Well, Mister Politician, that's the message. Now, whether you live forty days or forty years, you are responsible for what you said in your own words tonight.”
“Couldn't we talk this over? My party leaders would never understand . . . ”
“Lo, I have spoken.” Thus spake the Seraph, and forthwith ascended into heaven.
However, Angels hardly ever work politicians over like that, so it is up to us. Part of our civic duty is to remind our Beloved Leaders forcefully and often about these issues.
Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona
Glenn Jacobs / 130 N. Poverty Flat / Box 954 / Eagar, Arizona 85925 / 928-333-3517
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The Angel and the politician
Letter to the editor;
(An Angel comes from Glory to straighten up a politician.)
“Fear Not!” (That's what the Bible says Angels say.)
“Uh, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah – Oh, my GOD! I'm DEAD!”
“No. Not yet. And I’m not God. But I have a message for you from Him.”
“He wants me to stop voting for bills I haven’t read – doesn’t He?”
“Can you think of anything else?”
“Um, and vote no on bills about more than one thing?”
“And -- ?”
“And only bills that the Constitution authorizes?”
“Did someone else already talk to you about all this?”
“No. I, uh, um, er, ah, that is -- Why?”
“Because it didn't take long for you to guess. Have these issues been troubling you?”
“Er, well, a little, I guess.”
“Well, Mister Politician, that's the message. Now, whether you live forty days or forty years, you are responsible for what you said in your own words tonight.”
“Couldn't we talk this over? My party leaders would never understand . . . ”
“Lo, I have spoken.” Thus spake the Seraph, and forthwith ascended into heaven.
However, Angels hardly ever work politicians over like that, so it is up to us. Part of our civic duty is to remind our Beloved Leaders forcefully and often about these issues.
Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona
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