Habituation..." Judas had been there with Jesus many times before when Jesus went there to pray because the crowds were milling around him and hanging on to his every word..".

 Habituation? An informer,a paid informer that is,who has agreed to betray you for the round sum of £30 or £30 000 pounds,will seek to establish a pattern as to your movements. Of that,you can be sure.

In my case, Paddy Carty received £30 to have me killed from Chief Inspector Ian Elliott of the Police Service of Northern Ireland. I was arrested on the 28 October 2015.

Now we know what Martin Mc Guinness,Gerry Kelly and Gerry Adams signed up to in 2010.

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10.2.2023

"...the disciples were at supper when Jesus said,'I say to you,one of you is...'...then Judas leaned over and Jesus handed the piece of bread to Judas....Judas said ,'Surely, Lord, you do not mean I....'"..

Let us remember that to betray someone,you must be a thief by nature,know where that person is to be found at "a time and place "(Owen Carron) and you must "go to the chief priests and elders "after you have "decided to betray..."

All very fine and well,but remember your fate,"Judas went and hung himself. With the thirty pieces of silver, they bought the Potter's Field which was outside the city walls and buried him there since it was not allowed by law to bury someone who had killed himself within the City..."

The moral of this story,be you pagan, Protestant or Jew? 

Do not betray anyone least of all onto death and that is equally apt for social traitors, secret police spies and nationalist renegades such as the Provos whose motto is,"Get in close..." (Francie Quinn,the Moy,Co. Tyrone).

When they are "up to their old antics",the predictable consequences follow for collaborators and ageing Provos,many of whom have taken their own lives.

Approximately 1000-1200 received a Royal Pardon and more a Letter of Comfort in 1980-1 and more in 2008-9. (I received such a letter too and promptly as I recall tore it up and threw it in the bin,so highly do I think of fools such as Sean Lynch,Gerry Adams and the hangmen associated with Sinn Fein).

A confusing picture

 Which book of the Old Bible states that one should not profit from landlordism or lending money...is it the Book of Ezra,Sirach or Baruch or another Old Testament book...in any case,this is a sad reflection on the Jewish people judged by the Judeo-Christian tradition and its precepts .....

The doctrines of the New Testament prescribe bank lodgement and innkeeping and partaking of alcohol and St. Paul paid for his keep in Rome while condoning slavery (Letter to Philemon)..

..Real contradictions..real contradictions exist,therefore,in the Bible...Perhaps,in the Old Testament we can see early sig s of socialist ideaisation...

27.6.2021

Did Jesus not in the Parable of the Disobedient Servant sanction lodging a talent in a bank and gaining "interest on it"?

In terms of " going surety for someone else's debts" of Ecclesiastes - the Old Testament book describes as something  "only a fool would do"-how do we evaluate that with the Parable of the Good Samaritan where the outcast tells the innkeeper,"Take good care of him and when I am back this way,I shall pay you the balance". Not as glaring a contradiction perhaps as interest-bearing capital but still somewhat at odds with not going surety for someone else's debts.

If we understand the duty to be an assiduous guardian of what does not belong to us leavened with what Pope Francis calls the Seven Works of Mercy,sadly absent from the doctrines of the " by-faith-alone" outfit- there are at least 30 000 of those- yet often evident  in their approach to others and,all so often,and absent from the lives of those who make allusions to "works of charity". This being in the latter instances, sad and bitter reflections on the Catholic Church and on its earthly clergy. Similarly  those under its influence such as the many "worthies" attracted to it. The latter should be told.sternly and in the most strident tones,"Away from me,I do not know you..." These people do not heed the call of the poor and dehumanised are like the Rich Man whose door Lazarus suffered by only cognisant of the eternal ruin they have brought on themselves when it is too late.

Who then is "destined to be saved and who is destined to be lost"?

.....WE DO NOT KNOW from earthly standards and God alone knows that..

3.8.2021/22.8.2021.

Acclaim?

A bone of contention for self-seeking hypocrites like Paisleyites is Saint Paul as distinct from the Son of Man. His foremost follower in 1916 was Padraig Pearse who wrote,

"What care have I,

"For my fame in other men's eyes"

something patriots and Provos find repulsive.

On that theme,the point being that St Paul called on people to "get the credit for their good works".

Jesus scorns "the hypocrites who wear long robes and philacteries and like to be greeted with respect in the market place". He tells people to "go into their private room and pray".

Jesus relates the Parable of The Poor Widow who puts one little copper coin worth two pennies in the Temple Treasury. The Rich Man puts in 10% of his (ill-gotten) gains. He who walked the hills of Galilee and preached in the Decapolis and mixed with tax-collectors,sinners and publicans and scribes, dwarves and loose women and Nicodemus the Pharisee says that "this was all she had to live on whereas the Wealthy Hypocrite gave from what he had left over". 

How should we pray?

Pray the Our Father. When in a church,"Stand at the back" and let the hypocrites go to the front. That is something the political tub-thumpers will always do.

Remember the lesson of the Humble Sinner who stands at the back of the church and mutters quietly to himself, "Lord,have mercy on me a sinner". The Pharisee proudly marches to the front to thank God for all his blessings and excoriate the penitent sinner at the back,"Thank you,God,for not making me like this miserable sinner behind me". (It should be remembered that the Pharisees were lay preachers who had other occupations). 

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It is in fact the Book of Ezekiel (18:14) which orientates the believer against usury, landlordism and other types of riparian income making and capital accumulation.