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Premium Member The Theological Insights of Archie Bunker

Last Saturday night I dropped by for a few beers at Kelsey's Bar.
Archie Bunker was there, drinkin' beer and chompin' on a nickel seegar,
Expoundin' on religion and his pinko, atheist son-in-law, Meathead!
If you dared to contradict him, he'd tell you right off to drop dead!

"Edith gits her guidance from The Reverend Fletcher but the Bible is my guide!
Now you take Adam and Eve.  She took a bite of apple and to God she lied!
So woman brung about the downfall of man and God got purty sore I hear,
And saith, "Clothe thyselfs in fig leaves and git the 'ell outta here!"

"Meathead said Christ was Jewish - musta been on His mother's side!
But what does that atheist know about such things - God he don't abide!
He don't believe Christ is the Son of God but the Bible says it's so!
To prove that, ever'body gits Christmas off to jubilate as we know!"

"God can do anything, buddy!  He can turn your jawbone into an ass!
Don't listen to nothin' Meathead says about religion - he's so full of gas!
I say God created the world in seven days - Edith said it was six days,
'Cause He rested on the seventh - maybe so - He works in mysterious ways!"

"God don't make no mistakes - that's how He got to be ruler of the universe!
So don't go blamin' Him for your troubles - without Him things could be worse!"
My head was spinning when I left Kelsey's Bar and it wasn't because of the beer!
'Twas Archie Bunker's curious doctrinal insights that brought it on, I fear!

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
© All Rights Reserved
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Christians Divided

Why are we all so divided
With strong opinions all decided

Are we really following Jesus in our lives
Or arguing on doctrinal issues
Constantly taking sides

Jesus was a shepherd of people while on earth
Teaching love and that we all have worth

To sinners He reached out in love
Sharing wisdom from His Father above

Love was His focus, not taking sides
Arguing and fighting only divides

It is courageous to stand for what we believe
If done with hate instead of love others will flee
  
Jesus our Shepherd prayed for all to be one
Seeking sheep to follow Him to learn love
God's will to be done

God asks us Christians to seek more sheep for His fold
To be a light of love 
Help sinners come in from a world so cold

None among us is sin without
But God loves and forgives us no doubt

If only we could embrace people like Jesus did
Not just who we think are right, rejecting those we think are wrong
Sharing God's love with people of all religions, every race
rich or poor, weak or strong

Any kingdom divided will be ruined
A house divided against itself is doomed

Why would anyone want to know Jesus unless they could see
A light of love shining through you and me
Form: Rhyme

Wems Henry Temmy Psalm 17-

To the restless, that have met their waterloo 
Be not discourage or give up on Him
Religion may not always be true 
Yet you would have seen truth light so dim

Use that as a means to finding the real you
And in God you will surely come out of the blue

To the rejected, that have never been of reckon 
Be not of despair for you is His coming
May be not through religion but you He beckons
Yes, with Him you won't believe what you are becoming

Claim, He is your destiny 
Vanished is all your agony 

To the broken, that are ones in love
With the cool breeze of reckon in state
But soon the blow seems not from above
How faith never make it come, what you await 

Redemption ride still have room for you 
Won't it be nice being one out of the few

 To the blue, that never seems to know joy
Like how love fades into becoming hate
That you view how beautiful it could be to enjoy
Living large in a well furnished estate 

Get to know, you are never out of plan
That you shall feel warm during harmattan  

Still shouting all about the Good News across region 
Listen to its whistle blow but not necessarily through the doctrine of religion
Save one, save all dying souls in the hand of doctrinal forces 
Blinded by what human systematically endorses
Form: Rhyme

They Hide You From Yourself

Religious dogma, be it any faith,
any handed down belief,
any once sincere doctrine
now has but one purpose
and that is to
hide God from yourself.
By doing so
it controls your freedom
of self-inquiry,
demands that your blind faith
is better than seeing, than knowing.

Religion wants you to seek
but never find,
to follow a ritualistic way
and be awed by the path ahead
but never take that path.

All religions have great truths in them,
but the greatest truths are deliberately buried
too deep for the faithful to find.
until they come to see
that crumbling wall around their own power of knowing,
That those notions of hell and sin
are a religiosity created only by fear.

If you have to,
respectfully, reverentially,
break that doctrinal wall down,
and not one ancient brick at a time
but in one hammer blow
of adamantine of insight.

God Misplaces the Dead

They were accounted for,
they were officially dead,
but the alarming fact was
that large numbers of the dead
had gone missing.

Occasionally, still pinging cellphones
were found in Hades, Purgatory, and
other Bardo states.
Olympus was drunkenly silent,
as were almost all of the seven heavens.

In nirvana,
the footwear of some of the deceased,
had been left in a pile awaiting a divine fire,
footprints were seen
as if waiting for a cooling wash 
in the fountain of everlasting life.

The missing had presumably
transported themselves
to some less boneheaded ideas
of the life after, one not yet imagined
by any dogmatic priesthood.

God was accused of not packaging 
the deceased properly.
However the missing  were never found
having discovered their own way out 
of all that doctrinal,
inconsequential madness.


Incomprehensible Existential Conundrum Confronts Mine Consciousness Part I

Descendent of proto humans
dumbfounded, mystified, stupefied, et cetera
despite plethora of technological trappings,
whereby world wide web virtually linkedin
allowing, enabling, and providing
instantaneous electronic feedback,
I still experience dearth
of mental, psychological and social
meaningfulness amidst cerebral chaos
courtesy healthy mailer daemons

occupying sixty plus shades of gray matter
more valuable then any terrain
designated as Silicon Valley or Wall Street
constituting nexus of brain power,
where metaphysical thoughts proliferate
and ponder such basic thought
such as who art yours truly
what (I declare)
will constitute date with death
and where will corporeal flesh
and spirit separately journey?

Since time immemorial
millennium generations
happenstance bestowed *****sapiens
ability to become self aware
double edged figurative sword
allowing, enabling, providing...
forebears of yesteryear
to marvel at life, and
reckon with death,
which mixed blessing
wrestling with living and dying

also confronts man/womankind
during twenty first century
said inscrutable dilemma,
albeit reconciling mortality
linkedin with consciousness
heightened, tested, under_scored...
particularly at demise dearly departed
inadvertently affect
upon surviving family members
hijacking, offsetting, upending...

fracturing emotional composure
prompting immediate questions
regarding purposefulness living
nee, being born essentially to die
predestined to pass away
identical fate decreed upon
all animals and plants
bolstered by believing deity
foreordained every creature
past, present, and future,

yet most pronounceable afflicting
non denominational, non
religious, non sectarian
case in point Unitarian,
vis a vis visa versa secular humanists,
especially nonsensical poet wannabe
riddled with perplexity
about nature of being alive
wondering what explains
essence constituting individual fluke

finding meaning scuttling
across world wide web
hither and yon, to and fro
dumbfounded at futility
absolute zero adequate answers
(again, unless one subscribes
to codified doctrinal dogma
i.e. religion, faith, creed...)
I attest as garden variety primate
baffled, flummoxed, nonplussed...

Premium Member HEART THAT PLEADS TO GOD FOR HIS MERCY

May 24 Heart for God Bible Meditations Based on Nehemiah 1-3

Key Verse – Nehemiah 1:5 And said, I beseech thee, O LORD God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments.

HEART THAT PLEADS TO GOD FOR HIS MERCY

Our heart pleads to God for His mercy that is reigning with His goodness
Fully rejoicing our souls against bitterness
For us to praise Him midst challenges’ heaviness
Along His blissful gladness we can experience of contentment’s fullness.

Our heart pleads to God for His mercy that is declaring His name
Fully forgiving our sins out of repentance and genuine share
For us to approach Him, sanctified from guilt’s blame
Along His wondrous ways we can claim.

Our heart pleads to God for His mercy that is presenting His compassion
Fully warming our spirituality against coldness of carnal perversion
For us to love Him with sincere devotion by heavenly vision
Along His helpful concern we can recognize with His daily provision.

Our heart pleads to God for His mercy that is exalting His lordship
Fully calling for our submission to His leadership
For us to surrender to Him for acceptable worship
Along His bestowed relationship within His welcoming fellowship.

Our heart pleads to God for His mercy that is testifying about His Word’s fervency
Fully strengthening our faith against doctrinal complacency
For us to serve Him with devotion’s persistency
Along His upholding guidance we can depend on for its consistency.

Our heart pleads to God for His mercy that is showing His grace
Fully enabling our being to face every ministry’s challenging phase
For us to glorify Him upon His Word’s truth-brace
Along His empowering might we can cling to in running the Christian race.

Our heart pleads to God for His mercy that is championing His wisdom
Fully illumining our minds about Biblical stewardship in His kingdom
For us to serve Him against vain boredom
Along His steadfast authority we can rely on with great commission’s freedom.

May 24, 2026

Premium Member FAITH IN GOD WHO HEARKENS TO OUR VOICE

March 23 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Judges 13-15 

Key Verse – Judges 13:9 And God hearkened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came again unto the woman as she sat in the field…

FAITH IN GOD WHO HEARKENS TO OUR VOICE	

God hearkens to our voice of faith in our prayer-communion
With His goodness of mercy’s companion
That keeps us in His presence-reunion
Where His watchfulness covers our doubt-filled opinion. 

God hearkens to our voice of faith in our vision-beholding
With His light by His Scripture’s upholding
That ushers us through His Spirit’s leading
Where His guidance directs us toward right doctrinal standing. 

God hearkens to our voice of faith in our sin-confession
With His forgiveness along His compassion
That sanctifies us around His pardon’s provision
Where His holiness secures us against oppression of transgression. 

God hearkens to our voice of faith in our stewardship
With His Word of truth for our discipleship
That strengthens us in His work-partnership
Where His favour commends our service-filled worship. 

God hearkens to our voice of faith in our joyful cheer
With His gladness through preachings we hear
That inspires us toward drawing to Him near
Where His peace conquers every fear. 

God hearkens to our voice of faith in our supplication-need
With His readiness to supply us indeed
That keeps us blessed inside His gracious deed
Where His miracles breed midst discontentment-seed. 

God hearkens to our voice of faith in our cry against pressure
With His help of serene pleasure
That relieves us from stress within His care’s treasure
Where His healing insures our recovery beyond measure.

March 23, 2025
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member Canadian Broadcasting Corperation

Not so TREU, will monopolise through and though
It will be better, if you could forget about your
And the long two weeks' that broke who..?
Maybe me? Or you? What can people do?
Well Gandi did peaceful non compliance i'll bet
That reality is not being taught to children today
By sociialist teaching and their doctrinal apprentice's 
Or you can choose to euthanise, its a slanted word
Situation that echoes a term known as genocide
There is also the word infantacide, there are phobias
And misnomers so theres plenty coming right at
You.' (Reality tv should amuse) anethesise you mind
In a world that were'e told is kind? And be sure to say
Take care ' Treat others with respect, let the authoritys
Break their necks; or pepper spray any 75 year olds in
Their way.!
Its only double standards if you don't look the other
Way... Deau.)
Form: Verse

Premium Member FAITH IN GOD WHO TEACHES US TO PRAY

October 27 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Luke 11-12 
 
Key Verse – Luke 11:1 And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.

FAITH IN GOD WHO TEACHES US TO PRAY	

God teaches us to pray with faith’s fervent zest
So that we can do our very best
Despite besetting trial and test
As we prioritize Him along heavenly interest.

God teaches us to pray with faith’s look upward
So that we can fulfill our task as His steward
Despite tendency of sliding backward
As we continue in moving onward.

God teaches us to pray with faith’s earnestness
So that we can claim for His assured graciousness
Despite attacks of unbelief and doubtfulness
As we seek Him midst spiritual steadfastness.

God teaches us to pray with faith’s stability
So that we can stay submissive under His authority
Despite lingering bouts of carnality 
As we trust Him along glad sincerity.

God teaches us to pray with faith’s working
So that we can be diligent in our service-tasking
Despite slothfulness toward wrecking
As we strive well in our righteous Christian trekking.

God teaches us to pray with faith’s settlement
So that we can study His Word by His truth’s commitment
Despite confusion because of doctrinal disagreement
As we learn from Him for effective ministry involvement.

God teaches us to pray with faith’s Scriptural leadership
So that we can obey Him along His fellowship
Despite weakness and weariness in our labour-partnership
As we thank Him midst victorious worship.

October 27, 2025
Form: Quatrain

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