AMERICAN BLOOD ORGIES!

“Will you ever begin to understand the meaning of the very soil beneath your feet? From a grain of sand to a great mountain, all is sacred. Yesterday and tomorrow exist eternally upon this continent. We natives are guardians of this sacred place,” Peter Blue Cloud, a Mohawk Native-American.

As a culture of people in America today, we must learn that all things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the children of the earth. As Jimmy Reyna, a Taos Pueblo Indian said; “people live not knowing, all they know is the top of their shoes today. They don’t know the glory, the what we’re living underneath.” The sacredness and spiritual nature of the universe is all connected to us Americans. We must learn to change our unholy ways, to see the world as our Native-American brothers and sisters see it. We must become one with the world, full of love, generosity, peace, and non-violence. We are living upon holy ground!

Salvador Dali, a world famous artist, painted a portrait of America in 1943 called, “The Poetry of America.” It was a painting which revealed the major shortcomings of our American way of life.

Dali said we have an American dynamism which in the painting is represented by the two principal figures, football players. This concludes that our nation then and ever more so today revolves around this abnormal fixation on sports. It, (sports) dominates our high schools, colleges, and pros more than anywhere else in the world. It seems now that our week-ends were made for sports, it dominates our television, radio and lifestyles. Americans spend exorbitant amounts of time and money on sports. Parents run-around all week-end hauling their children from one event to the next. So, what has happened to the worship of God and family, once reserved for week-ends? What does this poor priority of time and especially money say to the other poverty stricken two-thirds of the world? Do you even care?

Another aspect of Dali’s painting is the one black male balancing a ball on his finger, which symbolizes the physical vitality of African-Americans. The painting expresses the difficulties that arise often between whites and blacks in America. This speaks directly towards our racism and bigotry, which is still very much alive and ugly in America today.

Smack dab in the center of the painting is a very obvious Coca Cola bottle, representing our pop culture of immoral capitalism and consumerism. It reeks of the power and wealth, greed and materialism which dominates our society. Where does God fit into all this?

Salvador Dali spoke of Americans in the following explanation: “What the American people like best is, first, blood, (violent people who like wars)… There are always scenes where the hero is beaten in the most sadistic way in the world, and where one witnesses veritable orgies of blood!” Violence in America has been accepted by most, including the schools and churches, while beautiful, natural sexuality and nudity is frowned upon. But, it’s fine and dandy to beat the crap out of the other guy. Remember, Jesus wasn’t against sexuality, but He definitely was against violence!

Second, Americans like watches, according to Dali. Why? Because, they are always looking at their watches in America. Americans have no time for smelling the roses, or seeing their natural surroundings for its pure value. They are always in a hurry, terribly pressed for time. They have no time for God in their busy money-making culture.

Next, the greatest passion of the American people is when they see little children killed. Why? Because, according to the greatest psychologists in the U.S., the massacre of the innocents is the favorite theme, the one which is found in the innermost depths of their subconscious minds, since they are constantly annoyed by children, so that their libido projects itself filling the cosmic surfaces of their dreams. Children have always been least in our society, as a teacher myself, I see this often by the parents, administrators and taxpayers. Children are not taxpayers or voters, so our corrupt government doesn’t care about them at all. This is the main reason more children live in poverty in America than any other group of people.

According to Dali’s painting, one is led to believe that conflict, war, and violence is truly what many Americans like, based on the media, Hollywood blockbusters, corporations, and the evil Pentagon. So, what has happened to all those so-called wonderful Sunday Christians, who run like clock work to church on Sunday mornings, once again continually looking at their watches? Being controlled by time, rather than love! Being controlled with hatred in their hearts, rather than love! For a hour or two once a week, they pretend to follow in Jesus’ footsteps, one’s full of love, peace, and non-violence, then the rest of the week talk and act like pagan beasts of greed. At least that is what I have observed first hand and up close with the immoral and corrupt Catholics in Southeast Iowa, Naples, Florida, and even here in Northwestern Vermont.

Our country was once considered Christian, founded upon by fellow Christians and laws based on Christian principles of love and justice. So, what the hell has happened? (Excuse, my French). Where is your God? Is your God held captive locked up in your architecturally gorgeous buildings of wealth and waste? Has God become your slave for convenience in your busy, and greedy lives of entertainment, sports and shopping? God’s not important these days to Americans, as long as we have a Wal-Marts in Williston and elsewhere to buy whatever we want to fill our empty and void hearts and souls. Greed and convenience are our gods of today!!!

“All governments are today’s Babylon’s and all weapons of war should be beaten into plowshares,” Rev. Daniel Berrigan, a Catholic Jesuit Christian.

Rev. Berrigan, based on scriptures, firmly believes that there are no in-betweens in life. War kills God’s beautiful creations, therefore, no true Christian should participate in any war, no matter how so-called “just” the war may seem to you or your immoral government. The United States Catholic Bishops voted overwhelmingly with their immoral stamp of approval to bomb and kill in Afghanistan. War kills, so the Bishops have innocent blood upon their pedophile hands!

Through his many years of scholarly research and teaching, Rev. Berrigan observed that Revelation is often misused or misunderstood as a gloomy textbook of death, predicting there simply must be a big war to resolve good and evil – that is a HUGE lie! George W. Bush is lying, he is a false prophet of our time. Yet, he is hailed and adored by a majority of misled and ignorant Christians.

For myself, the passage in the Bible: “All the nations were deceived by your sorcery,” reflects our America, which is consumed by the worship of money, power, idolatry, and greed which bring mighty civilizations, like ours, down to rubble. Our current popular President George Bush represents all this evil sorcery today through the massacre of the innocents and children throughout the world. This is why most Americans love George W. Bush (the bloody and greedy) killer, because as Salvador Dali said back in the 40’s through the 60’s, “Americans love veritable orgies of blood!” President Bush, along with the majority of so-called Christians are condemning the U.S. to fall under the enormous weight of our sinful actions towards the environment and God’s most precious creation – human life!

What would Jesus Christ say and do if he was a citizen of the U.S. today? According to his most beautiful teachings, most probable; either we are talking and acting as citizens of an immoral, corrupt political boundary, and true Christianity as Taught by Jesus himself in the four gospels is unimportant to you, OR as people who say and act, “MY FAITH IS EVERYTHING!!!”. Then, we open up to the gospels of Christ, which says to actively love your neighbors and enemies, and do good to all. Clearly, the Christian message is of love, peace, justice, and always non-violence.

We must begin to actively love everyone and everything in God’s created world. Remember, either you are a follower of President Bush, who represents blood orgies, war violence, greed, and eternal death of your soul, OR you are a true follower of God first and foremost every single day of your life. There are no fence sitters, lukewarm spectators and absolutely no in-betweens. The choice is yours! Will it be God or Bush? Hopefully, together we can say, God bless the world!