Who Kills History?

Why Kill History?

Why Repaint History?

Why Redefine History?

"History,"  Gk (h)istoría (ἱστορία) learning or knowing by inquiry, history; deriv. of (h)ístōr one who knows or sees

As I close my eyes and look back into the history of time I am only able to depict, in my mind, what I wish to reexamine. Within my mind I visualize the reality of the past with my own form of painting a story. I slowly brush a dark painting. It comes from a painting that I have seen before, and the painting has been repainted with the story that someone else has painted.

She spoke to me in modesty. She uttered before she expressed the words throughout her mouth. It seems as if she had a slight sorrow from what she was not a part of. Yet... she didn’t hold back what she wished to say. She was willing to tell me about the painting that was painted within her heart. She was ready to say something. The one, being I, was the one that she could not stop answering to. With knowing that I had a question she was ready to answer... she was ready to answer to a question from where she would feel guilt, sorry, and an element of despair.

There was a story that had been painted and repainted many times. Though, there parts that she had still not forgotten. She continued to know sections of the story that we painted inside of her over 60 years ago.

For too long she had been holding it back. In the time of history no one asked he the same question that I asked. No one would have needed to ask the question. Everyone that lived in her time of history could no deny the truth of reality. For her... she was not telling me a history tail. She would come out to depict reality within my scrutinized mind.

On that night, she was the (h)ístōr that relived her life. I sat down in awe with curiosity. She was telling me a story that I would never forget. It would be a story that anyone with commonsense could not ignore. She was redefining the (h)istoría (ἱστορία) that will always be alive within my heart.

So, this story that she told me. This story, that she told, brought a glimpse of tears that slowly flowed amongst her cheeks, and agony that crumbled the pride within her heart, and a regret she would always feel. She might have been little child when all of that happened… but it was a vivid truth within her life.

This story that Oma (grandmother) told me was a story that has been forgotten by to many. Yet, I have not forgotten it, and I never will. The only one that is forgetting it is you. You forget a story that has redefined the lives of cultures, societies, and history. It is a story that the ignorant, complacent, dogmatic, irrational, and ungodly are forgetting. They dismiss this story because they only seek to dismiss the reality of a truth. The story that I was told about became something more than a tail of history. This death, this murder, this torment of 11 million people is something that should never be forgotten.

It is time to have an intolerance for the one’s that ignore truth, the one’s that are complacent in their recliners, the dogmatism of the first Vatican, the irrationality in our schools of education, the ungodly Islamic radicals, and so many more…

I would not doubt to think that you live in one of those narrow-minded complacencies. Instead of being complacent to complacency… maybe it’s time to do something, or to just simply know about something.

This is the only thing that is happening. Memorials are being destroyed in Europe, teachers (there is one right here at the Lincoln IL Elementary School) are no longer teaching the truth of history, etc…

Historically, currently and forever… the story of truth will always be true. The trueness from my German grandmother and the truth within the texts will never change!

The painting is always a painting

The story is always a story

…but history lives within reality of our lives.

The tail of the Holocaust should pass away.

'Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses - because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened'

            - Dwight David Eisenhower (WWII US General)

Who Kills Christ?

WE!

My response to ("Focuse of the Family")...

http://www.wittenburgdoor.com/green-homosexuals%2C-newest-threat-american-families#comment-10986

Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy, Lord have mercy on me (we).

It is a song of humbleness, a sung from the Early Orthodox Church (before the Roman Catholic Church and Easter Orthodox was created). It is a song that we need to sing today. Not because of the community that is around us, but because of our own hardened hearts. We are forgetting to love our Lord with the society and nature that is around us. We never try to glorify our LORD (YHWH) in humbleness and lowliness. Instead, we exalt ourselves and by accusing others within our own loftiness.

We accuse to justify ourselves. While we smile at our accusations and pat ourselves on our backs, it is our loving Lord that weeps in tears. He is not weeping because of the homosexuals, adulterers, or scandalous harlots.  He is crying because He sees his Church living within pride and arrogance. It is the Church that we should call ‘Gomer.’

The Church, no longer, accuses itself as being the whore, but it accuses everyone else as being so. Yes, it has dismissed the Word of God. The Church has forgotten all of the logical, empirical, faithful, and transcendental truths. Yes, it is only living for itself.

Look at the arrogance of your accusations. Your accusations against Homosexuals and the Green Party!?!?

1.     Accusation

Why does the Church hate?

I truly believe that there is a bigger problem to discuss than homosexuality. Why is it that we are forgetting to examine ourselves? It is the Church that is killing God, and I believe that Nietzsche was accurate in his writings. The mass of the American population is not Christian. We have to remember that there is something called ‘nominal.’ These nominal Christians create the mass of our population. Too many Americans are a part of Christendom and that is what we need to destroy. That is what we need to be radical against!

Instead of unifying within the nominal (Christian Right, Westernized Christianity), we need to separate ourselves from them. Not a separation of hate, but a separation of our own expressive love. We can only glorify God and exalt His name within His attribute of attributes… love! That is something that “Focus on the Family” seems to neglect. “Focus of the Family” (from Westernized Christianity) loves only within the measure of phileo. Why do you neglect the indefinite and immeasurable agape?  Agape is a love that dismisses accusations, and it is only by that love that God has and is redeeming us.  

2.     Reality

Why is the Church leaving earth?

We can learn something good from the Green Party. It is the Neo-Orthodox Church that respects them and I would have to agree. Yes! I am a follow of Christ and I relate myself with the Green Party! Why?

I am dismissing certain aspects of influences from St. Augustine, St. Ambrose, St. Victorious, and etc. The ‘Christianity’ that is living in the US is not Christian! Yes, these people are Neoplatonic-Christians (aka: Westernized Christians). They are living within the influences of dualism. The spiritual world is separated from the bodies that we live in. Christians, with Gnostic influence, are the ones that are dismissing the importance of Environmentalism. This earth will be renewed and before the fall we were called to care for it. Why do you accuse the Green Party? Why is it that these people of Panentheism (from Hegelianism, Spinoza, Pantheism, etc.) care more about this world than we do? If we claim that there is a God, why is it that we do not care for what He has called us to do?

So where is “Focus of the Family?” Not on earth, not within reality! To me it looks like you do not know what the 21^st century is. The Christianity that I have seen in the “Focus of the Family” is the Christianity of dogmatism, Gnosticism, Neoplatonism, Existentialism, the Christian Right, etc. Where is the true Radical Church that is radical within itself (the bride) and the Divinity (the groom)? Where is the radicalism of the agape love, servitude and duty? To me it looks like you sit in complacency. Yet, instead of reviewing your own complacency, you sit back and accuse…  

Note: You arguments are not logically, empirically, faithfully, or transcendentally based. All that I read was the nonsense of your emotional expressions (existentially speaking!).

What the...

1. If you don't stand behind our troops, feel free to stand in front of them.
   
• response: yada yada, feel free and shoot me!
  
2. Christian Girls are more beautiful because...
• response: are we still in the 3rd grade class?
  
3. Heaven or Hell... You decide
• response: Crap, I never knew that I was allowed to elect myself.
  
4. Krunk for Jesus
• response: Eh? I know that this is in-da-hood talk, but I'm not Roman Catholic (ps: krunk = get drunk, for you that didn't know).
  
5. *~*God made mudd, God made dirt, God made Guys, So chicks can flirt!!*~*
   
• response: 1. 'mudd' means you can't spell 2. Why are 'Guys' with the first letter as all-cap and not 'chicks?' 3. That degrades the intellect of women 4. Oh yeah, we're back to the tradition history of... Men Rule!
  
6. You know you are a Christian when you find parallels in disney films.
   
• response: I know a station worse that Disney... TBN!!! (Trinity Broadcasting Network: For some reason they seem to forget that they're speaking for the 'Trinity.')
  
7. I bet i can find 1,000,000 Christians
• response: What Utopian world are you living in??? I sure as hell would never find that many in the United States.
  
8. I Daily Carry My Cross
• response: Mine is too heavy to carry...
  
9. ABORTION SUCKS!
• response: Wow, too bad that did not changed my life... blah blah... just another (as usual) unintellectual apologetic for the Christian Faith!
  
10. Mike Huckabee for President 2008!
• response: If you're a Westernized Christian, I can see why you would say that... but please... oh please... just try to be a Christian, a Christian with some reason! Just as Westernized Christian President Bush has been destroying Christianity, so would Huckabee..

Currently Reading What Would Jesus Deconstruct?: The Good News of Postmodernism for the Church (Church and Postmodern Culture, The) By John D. Caputo see related

Radical or Traditional

We are pretty sure that we know…

We can affirm that we know a relative truth!

This is the truth, ‘Goodbye to traditions!’ Is that enough? NO! But to act upon that is what we have been called to do. We must set ourselves apart from the traditions of the ol’ folks and we must separate ourselves from the decaying truth of suburban tradition. It’s time to live in something greater than the suburban Christendom. We remove ourselves from the Christian Right, and we dismiss the fairy tails that circles around us. It is time for us to learn something from the “unreligious.”

Is that a fright for you?

We hope not. If it is something that fears you, it is because you call them unreligious. Maybe we should reword what was written, “It is time for to learn something from the people that you call unreligious!” Everyone is religious and we need to step out of our bubble.

We live in the Christendom bubble of accusation. You sit back in complacency and bicker! That’s all that you ever seem to do. You gossip about the whore in the town… and you forget that that is what you are to Christ. You bicker about cuss words that kids say… and in reality it is irrelevant (and you haven’t read the bible, aka KJV)! You complain about a person wearing a hat in the church… oops, where the hell is that text from?

There is more to bicker about that than the little things. Maybe… yes maybe, the reason that you biker about the little things is because you are too afraid of the big things. I must admit… Today some students thought of Relativity, Quantum Paradox, and Deconstruction. All which makes us question the relevance of where the Christian faith comes from. So where is your answer? Help us!!! Oh, what is your wise word Professor/parent/ol’ folk/weekly Christian/etc…?

Your answer is, “Children, please remove your hats!”

Is that all you know? We dismiss your tradition… No, we do not exactly dismiss the tradition of the hat but your tradition confined by Christendom. As for us… it is time to be radical. Do we know where we are going? No, but at least we are going somewhere! We are going somewhere further than the argument of a hat.

Simplicity

Bright shined and bushy tailed!

It's early and I'm wide awake! Crap, I woke up at three and I have been lying in bed for quite a while. While I was laying there I was thinking... yes, the usual of Travis. I thought of so many different things, but I believe that I will only share one. You know, instead of writing an essay with too many irrelevant details…

Proposition: The living of life should be simple, but not the life itself.

Wann ist Einfachheit gut?

I’m glad that you asked! Einfachheit (simplicity) is gut (good) for many reasons. That is, good on the bases of rationality. We need to simplify our rationality and the objective life that lives around us. Maybe that is why God said, “Blessed are the poor and meek for they shall inherit the Kingdom of God.”  A good simplicity is when we can dismiss the authority of materialism. 

Pslam 19.7

The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul;
            The testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple;

Wann ist Einfachheit schlecht?

I think that I like this question even better! Einfachheit is schlecht (bad) for just as many reasons as it is good. It seems as if we can never ‘sit in the middle of things.’ We always have to take one extreme or the other. We have the mentality of either this or either that. We always overlook the paradoxical unity of either/or!

Simplicity is bad when we begin to live lives individualistically and for ourselves alone. This would be the second half of the proposition… There is too much simplicity in our world that relates with a self satisfying individualism. We begin to set ourselves apart from everyone and we ignore the reality around us. It becomes to be a self destructing life of complacency. Das ist warum es ist schlecht. ja!

Proverbs 1.20-22

Wisdom calls aloud outside;
She raises her voice in the open squares.
She cries out in the chief concourses,^[a]
At the openings of the gates in the city
She speaks her words:
“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity?
For scorners delight in their scorning,
And fools hate knowledge.

The living of life should be simple, but not the life that you must express. Live your life with loving the smallest things around you. The beauty of simplicity acknowledges our frieden auf Erden (freedom of earth/ground peace), and by cherished complexity the frieden auf Erden ist unter Menschen (freedom of earth is under mankind).

It is time to sit back and enjoy nature… yet at the same time… it is time to stand up, step forward, and care for the people around us.