The Knights of Fright

The Holy and the Holy Gate to Hell

The knights of fright are hungry sharks who invade our dreams. 

They rob us of hope; they will steal our lives, our livelihood, with their lies.

They won't rest... 

America’s Shame: “From the moment President Trump was sworn in, LGBTQ people were erased from White House, Department of State, and Department of Labor websites, and he has been targeting the LGBTQ community ever since. We have seen egregious attacks on the transgender community, including ongoing efforts to ban transgender soldiers from openly serving in the military and revoking non-discrimination protections for transgender youth at school.” 

Information Source: Trump Accountability Project... GLAAD. 

The apostle Peter wrote,” ‘Man is a servant of God’: This is noted in the first epistle of Peter and lays a part of the basic groundwork of Christianity.  

In the early age, many theist sects, including Christians, became enchanted with images and icons. Some Christian sects embraced them, turning simple prayer gatherings into events of spectacular pageantry, by overriding the simple rites and rituals of the Theist path of earlier times.

Numerous denominations have now evolved into gloriously spectacular, pompous, and pious judgmental entities that are now totally bogged in a mire of their own making.

Mainline Protestant traditions are turning Mankind into beggars; We are victims of the unscrupulous who sell 'salvation' through theatrics and talk show-type programming, and frequently diminish and minimize other religions while touting theirs as the One True Faith.

 

Over time, Christians divided into denominations, vainly trying to override and undermine the plain teachings, the simple insights, and ancient wisdom of the virtues, nature, and reality.

Early theists had no interest in deities to aid in a personal quest for salvation. The greatest of the theists, such as The Awakened One - Buddha and The Enlightened One - Jesus, both taught humbly, plainly, and simply without grandeur and pomposity.

Today, many church leaders rule instead of lead.

Once true; ‘Man is a servant…” is true in the sense that he serves God but no longer; today the church has reduced Man to nothing, today, men and women have been relegated to a state of servitude, now being restricted, ruled, and dominated by an unbelievable and unreachable set of creeds and doctrines.

It’s winter, and you’re a homeless youth living on the street: Facing reality; for a gay youth living on the street, there will be anxiety, isolation, tears, challenges, confrontations, depression, diseases, hardship, loneliness, poverty, violence, and self-harm. 

We need people who will help make communities peaceful places…

The church should be the first place to find

peace of mind and heart – but not now,

Thanksgiving - Christmas ... 

Holidays

There will be no one: No family.

No drumsticks - mashed potatoes; soda pop... pumpkin pie...

No holiday gathering. No cards.

No garlands or wreaths. No baubles and tinsel.

No candy canes; other sweet treats.

Today, a curious mixture of religious and secular groups uses violence and politics to spread myths and lies to suppress an entire community of people.

Even suicides are connected to religious zealots.  

Religious Liberty Groups continue to wage war against LGBTQ.

The deaths of our young LGBTQ youth-teen are preventable. But many church leaders are doing nothing to stop bullying in schools. Why! Because they don’t want to. The deplorable are the leaders of the parade of these despicable acts… This is repugnant - reprehensible!

A conundrum of contradictions: What happened to personal intimacy with God? Now we have bell towers [which many city ordinances have silenced] Many churches are walled with brick and iron, enclosing their community.

We have officially defined charted pathways into heaven. A great part of society is moving forward. Too many churches have failed to spiritually evolve and remain as stoic as they were in a long-ago past.

Self-determination is the right of the people. Roman Catholic as well as many Protestant doctrines have sorely failed to awaken the potential of Man, to enlighten his mind. 

The Holy Righteous have removed the intimacy and comfort of a simple path and concentrated on filling Man’s mind with the wonders of an eternal afterlife: a promised better future.

Conformity and Uniformity are their goals: Man is figuratively and literally kneeling before icons, reciting preprinted prayers begging for mercy. Lighting candles and fingering worry beads. He can no longer speak directly; he must have an intercessor and deal with ritualistic penance for his sins for his soul to be saved.

As a comfort, he’s handed literature intended to soothe his soul, but what about tomorrow? Tomorrow, well, just might be a better day.  

What happened to prayer between me and my God?

Many believe in Jesus, a barefoot man who spoke clearly, plainly, and simply - so simple that even a child could understand his message. He mingled with - traveled with, and made friends with the disreputable, lowly, and notorious, is now heavily marketed by churches. Many items for sale show Him with arms stretched wide, nails in his palms and feet, and blood dripping from his heart: Yes, He’s hanging there on the cross!  

What I don’t understand is why? The focal point of His life story is the triumph over death. Instead, he is marketed to the masses as the Man on the Cross, and everyone is to forget the miracle (?) that is supposed to have occurred when He pushed aside the stone, leaving the tomb of darkness-of-death. Perhaps this icon is sold because this scene isn’t easily captured for exploitation and marketing, and the gristly scene of a bleeding man on a cross is much more memorable. 

Curious isn’t it, that few if any take notice or mention this or have tried to market even so much as a microscopic grit of the stone this man pushed aside? A splinter of the cross is easily marketable year-round, but the icon of a stone can’t be easily used and is left forgotten until the yearly spring pageantry that comes with the glorious rising of the Son and the Sun. 

Nutwits have insulted our common sense and intelligence; my gay family members and friends have been abandoned, abused, disowned, and discarded; they’ve bled and died because of deadly rhetoric. Child abuse hurts everyone. Our relationship with our children was meant to be a lifelong relationship. There is no excuse for bullying or beating a child. Everyone has a right to peace. At the end of their miserable lives, I hope the Deplorables will be remembered - not for their compassion or generosity of the spirit but for their deplorable lack of respect for their fellow man.

My post is a personal criticism and rambling essay...  I'm angry and unrepentant about my anger or what I've written. 

We are being thrust through the holy gate of hell

Rachel Wolff – LGBT-Q, Ally& Friend 

August 2016

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