Post by Admin on Oct 4, 2018 1:29:14 GMT
Decades ago I realized that there was a huge problem developing. The news media had done a good job of taking down Jim and Tammy Baker. But that was a scandal involving money and sex. So if there was no such scandal, does that mean it is all okay?
Sure, our Constitution grants religious freedom, but except for the 1964 Civil Rights Act, that mostly just applies to the government. We are not obliged to refrain from critique of religion.
So what I saw then was that the news media did not know how to critique it, not unless is was about money and sex.
What was really alerting me to this problem was the local emergence of this 'Jubilee Christian Center'.
Website seems down:
www.jubilee.org/
Dick Bernal is their founder:
www.facebook.com/DickBernal
Sounds like Bernal is involved in this, and there must have been some changes:
jubileelegacyinternational.org/
It used to be Jubilee Christian Center, but I guess now it is this:
www.myredemption.cc/locations/bayarea/
Yes
www.myredemption.cc/locations/bayarea/
Okay so continuing, I started seeing more and more bumper stickers for this Jubilee Christian Center. I knew nothing about this sort of church. They talked about spiritual warfare and prayer warfare.
I started reading about it in the newspapers. People were angry because Bernal would host this weekend even, Pray For The Bay. It was about Satan, and clearly targeted at the gay community.
And I met people involved with it. One was going on about how Satan made the landlord raise the rent to stop she and a neighbor from praying together and having fellow ship. And she talked about how Satan would stalk her in the apartment, and about how she once caught him trying to get his fingers around her neck. She said that the only way she could stop him was to 'put on a Christian tape'.
It would be years later that I finally realized that all the problems she was having with Satan were just her own sexual desires.
But I was mortified after listening to her. Other than in Stephen King stories I had no idea that such people actually existed. And this one was engaging with people who were experiencing economic troubles, encouraging them to start interpreting in her ways, and to start attending Jubilee Christian Center.
Now you could tell that news media did not like Bernal and Jubilee. They wrote about how he had this big event where he burned the artifacts of this "San Francisco Gay Pagan Witch". But they showed that Bernal had actually been paying this guy all along.
The news media was trying to do what it could, but unless tax laws were being broken, they did not how to stop him. And he was pumping out poison, usually to the poor and vulnerable.
And I knew nothing about it really, 'Prayer Warfare', and the entire religious body of thinking he was appealing too. Jim and Tammy had been alien to me as well. I knew nothing at all about that sort of religion, not until they became a national scandal.
So I decided that it was necessary to learn, and to learn how to criticize.
I remembered having read about the mythologist Joseph Campbell, always keeping diaries, and starting around age 12, critiquing Roman Catholic Sermons. I thought this was outrageous. In doing this, Campbell was pulling back and keeping a critical distance. Mostly his diary entries were like theater criticism, how good the guy came across doing it. But this also implies that Campbell did not necessarily go along with any of it.
www.amazon.com/Fire-Mind-Life-Joseph-Campbell/dp/0385266359/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1538612716&sr=8-3&keywords=joseph+campbell+biography
SJG
Memory Lane, Baker Gurwitz Army
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u1jQpB_Ej8&index=3&list=PLVPGzOHIIgz9nqc1qNG3h3jXMgG7eLnfc
Some might want two guitars. But you could never get all the quasi orchestral effects without the keyboard, like a modern theater organ.
TJ Street
i.ytimg.com/vi/x9DUqhAne44/hqdefault.jpg
Sure, our Constitution grants religious freedom, but except for the 1964 Civil Rights Act, that mostly just applies to the government. We are not obliged to refrain from critique of religion.
So what I saw then was that the news media did not know how to critique it, not unless is was about money and sex.
What was really alerting me to this problem was the local emergence of this 'Jubilee Christian Center'.
Website seems down:
www.jubilee.org/
Dick Bernal is their founder:
www.facebook.com/DickBernal
Sounds like Bernal is involved in this, and there must have been some changes:
jubileelegacyinternational.org/
It used to be Jubilee Christian Center, but I guess now it is this:
www.myredemption.cc/locations/bayarea/
Yes
www.myredemption.cc/locations/bayarea/
Okay so continuing, I started seeing more and more bumper stickers for this Jubilee Christian Center. I knew nothing about this sort of church. They talked about spiritual warfare and prayer warfare.
I started reading about it in the newspapers. People were angry because Bernal would host this weekend even, Pray For The Bay. It was about Satan, and clearly targeted at the gay community.
And I met people involved with it. One was going on about how Satan made the landlord raise the rent to stop she and a neighbor from praying together and having fellow ship. And she talked about how Satan would stalk her in the apartment, and about how she once caught him trying to get his fingers around her neck. She said that the only way she could stop him was to 'put on a Christian tape'.
It would be years later that I finally realized that all the problems she was having with Satan were just her own sexual desires.
But I was mortified after listening to her. Other than in Stephen King stories I had no idea that such people actually existed. And this one was engaging with people who were experiencing economic troubles, encouraging them to start interpreting in her ways, and to start attending Jubilee Christian Center.
Now you could tell that news media did not like Bernal and Jubilee. They wrote about how he had this big event where he burned the artifacts of this "San Francisco Gay Pagan Witch". But they showed that Bernal had actually been paying this guy all along.
The news media was trying to do what it could, but unless tax laws were being broken, they did not how to stop him. And he was pumping out poison, usually to the poor and vulnerable.
And I knew nothing about it really, 'Prayer Warfare', and the entire religious body of thinking he was appealing too. Jim and Tammy had been alien to me as well. I knew nothing at all about that sort of religion, not until they became a national scandal.
So I decided that it was necessary to learn, and to learn how to criticize.
I remembered having read about the mythologist Joseph Campbell, always keeping diaries, and starting around age 12, critiquing Roman Catholic Sermons. I thought this was outrageous. In doing this, Campbell was pulling back and keeping a critical distance. Mostly his diary entries were like theater criticism, how good the guy came across doing it. But this also implies that Campbell did not necessarily go along with any of it.
www.amazon.com/Fire-Mind-Life-Joseph-Campbell/dp/0385266359/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1538612716&sr=8-3&keywords=joseph+campbell+biography
SJG
Memory Lane, Baker Gurwitz Army
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u1jQpB_Ej8&index=3&list=PLVPGzOHIIgz9nqc1qNG3h3jXMgG7eLnfc
Some might want two guitars. But you could never get all the quasi orchestral effects without the keyboard, like a modern theater organ.
TJ Street
i.ytimg.com/vi/x9DUqhAne44/hqdefault.jpg