Contemplating
the failure of American public education to provide the alternative
of private school vouchers I stumbled across a deeper insight into
the origin of mankind. Adam and Eve of course perpetrated the
original sin having intercourse without being actually married and in
so doing producing bastards named Cain and Abel who married the local
girls of Y'Earth. Thus humanity was established by bastards creating
the bastard line mankind. Mankind needs the intervention of Jesus
Christ to be renormalized unto God-and that cost the Lord His mortal
life. Jesus Christ was the sole man born of woman who wasn't a
bastard since his Father is God.
Schoolchildren
today primed by the devil in public schools are mass produced with
the mark of the beast about them. That view is perhaps not so rare in
people as they age and note the pervasive trend of humanity toward
works of evil if not folly. Perhaps it's folly for repeating the same
works in line with Solomon's observation that there is nothing new
under the sun. Politically speaking humanity seem to be naturally
bent toward imperialism as rulers forced to share power in oligarchy
reluctantly or be hierarchialy placed followers working for the
corporate-government evil empire of choice.
Yet
Pope Francis recently said that man and woman are the divine form for
marriage. So I guess he is right more or less. God created man and
woman in a relationship that is a natural marriage with Eve as close
to Adam as a rib during their life together. Humanity can bastardize
any institution though so even marriage is endangered by the brave
new world.
Martin
Luther said (quote from Schaff Vol. 7 History of Christian Church)
that
“matrimony
(is) a gift of God, wedlock the sweetest, chastest life, above all
celibacy, or else a veritable hell.” He had it right. Yet I think
the devil attacks virtually anbything that works, and prefers
conflict and conquest in human affairs to innovation of better, newer
paths.
Well
to not leave this post on that note in this poetry month I will quote
Schaff about Luther again from Volume 7 of Schaff's history,
“He
played the lute, sang melodiously, and composed tunes to his hymns,
especially the immortal, Ein feste Burg," which gives classic
expression to his heroic faith in God and the triumph of the gospel.
He never lost his love for Virgil and Cicero, which he acquired as a
student at Erfurt. He was fond of legends, fables, and proverbs. He
would have delighted in the stories of old "Mother Goose,"
and in Grimm’s "Hausmährchen."
He
translated some of Esop’s Fables, and wrote a preface to an edition
which was published after his death. He enjoyed the beauties of
nature, loved trees and flowers, was fond of gardening, watched with
wonder the household of the bees, listened with delight to the
singing birds, renewed his youth with the return of spring, and
adored everywhere the wisdom and goodness of nature’s God.
Looking
at a rose, he said, "Could a man make a single rose, we should
give him an empire; but these beautiful gifts of God come freely to
us, and we think nothing of them. We admire what is worthless, if it
be only rare. The most precious of things is nothing if it be
common." "The smallest flowers show God’s wisdom and
might. Painters cannot rival their color, nor perfumers their
sweetness; green and yellow, crimson, blue, and purple, all growing
out of the earth. And yet we trample on lilies as if we were so many
cows."
He
delighted in a refreshing rain. "God rains," he said, "many
hundred thousand guilders, wheat, rye, barley, oats, wine, cabbage,
grass, milk." Talking of children, he said, "They speak and
act from the heart. They believe in God without disputing, and in
another life beyond the present. They have small intellect, but they
have faith, and are wiser than old fools like us. Abraham must have
had a hard time when he was told to kill Isaac. No doubt he kept it
from Sarah. If God had given me such all order, I should have
disputed the point with Him. But God has given his only begotten Son
unto death for us."
