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BBB:Turn Backward, O Time, in they flight by Dr. Peter S. Ruckman
From Time Magazine of 1933 we find these "interesting" items:
1. "This Sunday Pius XI {THE POPE WHO SIGNED A CONCORDAT WITH ADOLPH
HITLER} will reopen the `HOLY DOOR' while Cardinals do likewise at the
basilicas of ST. JOHN LATERAN, ST. MARY MAJOR, AND ST. PAUL WITHOUT THE
WALLS. In solemn, robed procession, the Pope will move from the Vatican
to the front portico of St. Peters. Thrice {not "three times," beloved,
but "thrice"!} he will knock with a golden hammer on the Holy Door.
Within, SAN PIETRINI {St. Peter's workmen} will lower the door away.
The Pope will pray while prelates sprinkle the aperture with HOLY
WATER. Then all will enter, KISSING THE DOOR JAMBS as they pass.
Thereafter the PUBLIC may enter through the year."
That didn't come from 1000 A.D., or 1200, or 1400, or 1700, for that
matter. That is what Adolph Hitler's buddy was engaged in, in 1933,
when Roosevelt was inaugurated President: kissing doors, sprinkling
"holy water," and pretending THAT ST. PETER LETS YOU INTO THE "HOLY
DOOR." That's Catholicism at its BEST. And what was this superstitious
egomaniac telling his priests in America in 1933?
"Father Coughlin claims the backing of Pope Pius XI, who has said
that `every minister of holy religion' {his own: the rest aren't holy}
must throw himself heart and mind into the CONFLICT FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE"
(April 10, 1933).
2. (July 17): "Scot MacDonald, Prime Minister of England, invited
Professor JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES to lunch. They discussed the `Keynes
Plan' to devaluate all the world's currencies between 20 and 33%. This
would permit PAPER MONEY to be issued against basic stores of gold, and
this `money' would be used to promote PUBLIC WORKS and cover treasury
deficits. PROFESSOR KEYNES declared that PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT is
`magnificently right' and called his message {to get rid of your gold
and replace it with paper!} `a challenge to us to decide whether we
propose to read the OLD, unfortunate paths {Jer. 6:16!!} or to EXPLORE
PATHS NEW TO STATESMEN AND TO BANKERS."
Recognize the line? Remember the doctors in Abe Lincoln's day,
recommending WHISKEY as good medicine for "diphtheria" due to the "VAST
STRIDES in medical science"? So what's new?
Keynes bankrupted ENGLAND (1945- 1960), so their best income was
from drug traffic.
Keynes bankrupted HITLER (1939- 1945), and the German people didn't
get their gold back until 1970.
Keynes bankrupted the UNITED STATES (1965-1985), and she is now
$3,000,000,000,000 in debt with a paper dollar that is not even
redeemable in COPPER.
It takes a COLLEGE PROFESSOR to fix things up right. One other
ingredient: it takes some dumb, stupid sucker who is looking for
"something for nothing" to abandon the "old paths" and "boldly step
forward" into the future with "progressive positivism" to open "new
vistas" of blah, blah, blah, blah. Result? BANKRUPTCY.
3. From February 27 we see how Swaggert and Bakker "got into the
act." Here is the original Charismatic "star." Here is the original
"full Gospel," baptized "IN the Spirit," tongue- speaking nut who
believed you could lose your salvation. What is she doing? Just what
Bakker and Swaggert and Goreman and any other 80,000 Charismatics would
be doing: LIVING IN THE FLESH.
After faking being kidnapped so she could spend a week with a
boyfriend, Aimee Semple McPherson, the woman preacher (who preached in
evening dresses) dumped her missionary husband (Semple) and a grocery
clerk (named McPherson) and married a man named Hutton. She swooned and
cracked her skull after learning that he was being sued $5,000 for a
breach of promise to marry a Pasadena nurse. The nurse won the suit.
The woman preacher died at 58, "after years of litigation involving
MONEY GIVEN HER BY HER SUPPORTERS."
4. "Pope Pius XI has elaborated in many a pronouncement, denouncing
Communism, rejecting Socialism. Pius XI has come out for: minimum wage
{he never worked a day in his life}, old age pensions, private
property, government REGULATION OF BUSINESS {i.e. Communism}. Without
attempting to promote these ideas by direct political action, and
without reducing them to concrete proposals, Pius XI offered them to
the world as SUPREME ECONOMIC WISDOM, DIVINELY INSPIRED, AND BACKED BY
THE SUBLIME AUTHORITY OF GOD'S EARTHLY VICAR" (April 3).
(We quoted it verbatim as Time printed it, with the exception of the
parentheses.)
A bachelor wino professing to be divinely inspired in telling Europe
and America how to set up their economic systems is as hilarious as
Laurel and Hardy trying to set up a computer network. The Pope's
SHOWPLACES for economic "know-how" are Central America, Cuba, South
America, Mexico, Spain, Italy, and South Ireland. Imagine the "head" of
those populaces (ALL SEVEN OF THEM ARE ROMAN CATHOLIC) giving us
"supreme economic wisdom"!
Ain't that the cat's meow?
So here we are up in 1989. What's "new"?
NOTHING in any newspaper or on any television network. The clowns
still think that paper is "money." The clowns still think the Pope is a
spiritual Christian. The clowns still think he is intelligent. The
clowns still think that Welfare States are the best forms of
government. The clowns still support Oral Roberts and men like him to
the tune of $4,000,000 or more a year. The clowns still say "baptized
IN the Spirit" instead of "BY" the Spirit. The clowns still have
confidence in women preachers, or men who look, act, and talk like
women.
SO WHAT'S NEW?
The clowns still think that college professors have brains. The
clowns still follow their advice. The clowns are just as goofy today as
they were in 1933, or 1943, or 1953, or 1963, or 1973, or 1983. Have
you heard the "latest"?
The "latest" was in print more than nineteen hundred years ago: IT
WAS PRINTED IN A BOOK (Eccl. 1:9-11).
All the clowns are not in the circus; they never were. America is a
circus without a tent. No amount of information or dcumented historical
facts has ever converted a clown into anything but a clone. It is as
proper and acceptable to reject truth today as it was in 1000 B.C. or
900 A.D. or 1400 A.D. Turning the clock backward only shows one thing
over and over and over again: it shows that light rejected becomes
lightning, birds of a feather flock together, the bigger the belfry the
more room for the bats, use big words and people will think you know
what you are talking about, people enjoy being fooled, people will pay
to have their ears tickled, the greatest impostors on earth are
religious leaders, and "IF YOU BRAY A FOOL IN A MORTAR AMONG WHEAT WITH
A PESTLE, YET WILL NOT HIS FOOLISHNESS DEPART FROM HIM" (Prov. 27:22).
Time Magazine was just as misleading and archaic in 1933 as it is
today. It recommended foolishness, wickedness, hypocrsy, and disastrous
courses of action THEN exactly as it (and its twin sister Life) does
NOW. You can rely on it like you can rely on a tissue paper parachute.