The "gates of heaven" scene in the film adaptation of Voyage of the Dawn Treader was quite moving. Some of the ultrapious will probably lecture the rest of us as to the shortcomings of the characters for preferring to return to the regular world rather than adventuring on to "Aslan's country" when provided with the opportunity. However, perhaps the greater truth is that we do not desire such a pilgrimage before it is our intended time.

If Ed Rendell thinks it is wussification to cancel a game for count of snow, perhaps he will slip on the ice and shatter a hip or have a loved one die in a traffic accident on an iced road.

Would Obama even give a tinker's darn about Michael Vick if that piece of NFL ghetto trash wasn't Black?

Obama congratulates Michael Vick. So in Il Duce's eyes, some dogs are not worthy of the love lavished upon the Kennedy son of a bitch living at the White House.

National Shrine Altar

Quite revealing that the scenes in 24 that liberals object to are those where Jack Bauer is socking it to terrorists rather than ones where a representative of the government is seizing property from innocent civilians as epitomized by Bauer's carjacking of the waitress in season 1.

Is sickening the hoops one has to jump through just to sell second hand junk and crafts at a flea market in a way that doesn't bring the jackboots knocking down the door.

Tax codes have almost next to nothing to do about raising revenue. Rather, they are nooses stangling the last glimmers of independence and self-sufficiency from people that are no longer free but not yet quite aware of that grim truth.

Would Deficit Panel Impose Sanctions Upon Itself?

The deficit reduction commission was a panel charged with suggesting way to curtail America’s decline into paupery.

Foremost among these ranked increasing the retirement age to nearly 70 years. If such a proposal were ever enacted, it would be the first time in decades that the ruling elites have taken Biblical revelation into consideration.

You see, the Good Book teaches that that is about the end of the human lifespan and anything beyond that is usually categorized as a descent into suffering.

To state things bluntly, dear readers, the government eventually plans to cross its fingers hoping that you will just die on the job.

But whereas you will be extolled the glories and delight of sacrifice, it is doubtful the same will be required by the likes of those seated on the commission.

For example, the co-chair of this panel was retired Senator Allan Simpson. As part of the sacrifice we are all expected to shoulder with a smile, has Allan Simpson forsaken the benefits the members of that deliberative body have been known to accumulate once they leave it?

So before we ever cut back on the elderly tottering along the edges of destitution, perhaps we should curtail the lavish benefits extended to those elevated to membership in the federal legislative body already millionaires to begin with or whom often use their time in elected office as springboards to additional fortunes, accolades, and honors.

Perhaps better yet, lets abolish Congressional salaries all together. Then those entering these national halls will be more prone to depart from them under their own power long before they have to be pushed out in a wheelchair.

by Frederick Meekins

A hyperfundamentalist has posted that holiness is legalism to the liberal. However, not all examples of legalism equate with misunderstood holiness. Wearing a ball cap with the brim forward or a collared shirt only makes you a person wearing a cap with a brim forward of a collared shirt. If you are aroused over a shirt without a collar with all other significant portions of the anatomy concealed, you are the one with the serious mental problem.

An article in an edition of Nieman Reports, a publication of a journalism foundation at Harvard, titled "There's More To Being A Journalist Than Hitting The Publish Button" laments how the rise of blogs and social media has resulted in "ignorance, anger, and anti-elitism". In other words, the duped masses simply doing as they are told are on the verge of dwindling.

Afrosupremacists Condemn Haley Barbour

Ragheads Target Food Supply

Government Hints At Expanding The Definition Of Actionable Child Abuse

Garbagemen Trained As FBI Spies

Deer Rescuers Fined For Exposing Fire Department Cowardice

Christmas Polar Bear

Delaware Church

Congressman Threatens Violence Unless Free Speech Abolished

Did Anti-Defamation League Get Ventura FEMA Expose Flushed Down The Memory Hole

Given that Jews don't usually fair to well in mass detention facilities, you'd think they'd want this kind of reality exposed.

Mt. Olivet Cemetary Chapel

Advent Lutheran Church

Red Zion Church

Cogitating Gnomes

Elven Sock Monkeys

Cops Detain Man Freed By Court, Court Not Overly Concerned

Michael Vick wants a dog. If sex offenders that have served their sentences are relegated to tent cities on the outskirts of society in order to protect children from these perverts reoffending, then this piece of human excrement (who doesn't even rise to the level of a son of a bitch since that would be an insult to canines everywhere) shouldn't be allowed to have a dog.

Is The Periodic Table Fraudlent?

In comments at the National Cathedral, theologian Harvey Cox remarked that the moving of the Spirit today eludes creedal formulation. Isn't that statement itself a creedal formulation?

Obama Demands You Die In Place During A Nuclear Attack

As they whisk his sorry rear to an undergound fortress. Many other countries have prepared such shelters for common citizens. But not the United States. A nuclear incident will be a way to remove the excess population of one of the nation's whose people would stand the most against the New World Order.

Obama Plots To Create Life In His Own Image

Does Prison Fellowship Give Christmas Gifts To Crime Victims' Children?

The annual Prison Fellowship Angel Tree direct fundraising letter has arrived in the mailboxes of Christians across the nation.

On a positive note, the ministry didn't role out the organization's usual sob letter supposedly written by a convict, incarcerated for a sentence of about nine years, asking for a handout for his daughter.

I guess if they had continued repeatedly sending the same plea as they have done year after year since at least 2005, the discerning would have realized it was nearly time for this deadbeat to be released.

Thing is, this year's appeal still left much to be desired.

One woman is quoted as saying, "It was hard to see...him [her father] in prison...Angel Tree just showed us that he was thinking about us while he was there."

Perhaps all well and good. But what is Angel Tree doing for the children of victims no longer able to let their children know that they are thinking about them thanks to a number of the very same convicts Prison Fellowship no doubt depicts as being put behind bars by an inequitable criminal justice system rather than by felonious misdeeds?

by Frederick Meekins

Father Accused Of Abuse For Feeding Children Organic Food

Government Censors Ventura FEMA Camp Expose

Since TSA government molestors are sticking their hands into the underpants of airline passengers, if possible the victims should either urinate or release gas when they are attacked in this fashion.

Liberals Pat Themselves On The Back For Allowing Blacks To Reside In Their Presence

84 Million Mexicans To Be Granted Special Border Crossing Status

In regards to the Department of Homeland Security program urging shoppers to report suspicious activity: are Americans going to be given guidelines of what to look for or are you going to get a knock at the door in the middle of the night because some pissant cashier thinks the quantity of a sale item you purchased is peculiarly large?

Butch Napolitano wants the nation's shoppers to report suspicious activity they see taking place in the stores of America. Does this include procuring with Food Stamps the most expensive cuts of meat regular working people can't afford?

Maybe John Boehner weeps when he thinks about America's children because he ponders the craphole futures they will likely have thanks in part to liberal harpies such as Barbara Walters & Joy Behar.

If Barbara Walters thinks men shouldn't cry, perhaps we should return to the era where mouthy, uppity women like her got a good backhand across the side of the face for leaving the kitchen.

Is Miley Cyrus A Dope Fiend?

Innkeeper's Bad Press Not Necessarily Deserved

As the opening act of the Greatest Story Ever Told, each character mentioned in the Christmas narrative has had a number of literary traditions and homiletical assumptions added that may or may not be directly traceable to the text of the Holy Bible. One of these is none other than the Innkeeper.

When we are confronted with the dichotomy of the Second Person of the divine Godhead, enthroned in Heaven throughout all previous eternity, being born into a filthy barn with the stench of feces and urine all around, knowing this account not from the standpoint of the characters within but rather as the beneficiaries of the complete Good News of the Gospel message, we are horrified on an instinctive level and look for someone to blame for this apparent breech of cosmic protocol. Often, the Innkeeper is thrust into the role.

But is such an outrage warranted? Though literature and tradition can be useful tools of instruction, enlightenment, and illumination if they are kept in check by the foundation provided by the Word of God, it is to the Word of God that the investigation must turn if we are to distinguish undisputed fact from what may turn out to be nothing but well-intended imagination.

The text reads in Luke 2:7, “And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.” With that passage, one has exhausted the corpus of Biblical references regarding the Advent Inn though definitely not the speculation or debate surrounding the figure that no doubt tended this mentioned structure.

Technically, there isn’t even an innkeeper directly mentioned. One can conclude that the expansion of the role that he played in interpretations of the Christmas Story is more about giving pageant parts to kids who, to put it bluntly, don’t quite measure up to the charisma of those selected to play Joseph and Mary but who are a cut above those selected to play shepherds and animals in terms of intelligence.

The Innkeeper also becomes a foil through which assorted ministers, church music directors, and aspiring ecclesiastical playwrites make assorted points that these respective thinkers feel either need to be made but are not explicitly spelled out in the portion of Scripture under consideration or even placed as hints to draw applause to their own vaunted sense of holiness or spirituality.

The first misconception construed about the Holy Family and tossed at the Innkeeper is that these wanderers were homeless and that this particular businessman typifies the attitudes exuded by commercial interests towards the destitute. This line of reasoning was popularized years ago by Jesse Jackson and is no doubt widespread today as assorted charities often capitalize on these kinds of sentiments prevalent this time of year in order to shame the general population into complying with solicitations for donations.

Racemongers such as Jackson constantly hold their ears to the rails of the public discussion ready to pounce on any thinker daring to make the error that all within a protected demographic happen to partake of a certain characteristic not inherent to what makes an individual part of the particular group in question. Then why isn’t this same care of thought applied to those finding no roof over their heads?

As Rush Limbaugh astutely rejoineded at the time, Mary and Joseph went to Bethlehem to pay their taxes. Thus, their state of lacking a domicile was merely a transient one. Technically, they were no more homeless than someone going to the beach and finding nothing but “No Vacancy” signs lit along the boardwalk.

The dilemma faced by the Holy Family in no way justified the increased social spending Jackson was calling for at the time nor infuse the most debauched among indigents, unwilling to lift their own fingers in the effort to elevate their status, with a sacredness or purity with which they should not be esteemed. Unlike Mary and Joseph, many of the homeless end up in this lamentable condition because of their willful refusal to pay their bills rather than because of an eager compliance in seeing that their obligations are met.

A related criticism of the Innkeeper accuses the Innkeeper of being insufficiently religious or spiritual. Those out to find fault with him will respond, “He should have been able to find room for the birth of the Messiah by either kicking out another paying customer or by giving up his own bed.”

This suggestion makes a number of assumptions that cannot necessarily be supported one way or the other from the text as it was inspired by the moving of the Holy Spirit.

For example, no where in the Gospel account is the Innkeeper explicitly portrayed. Mary and Joseph may have learned by other means than directly from the proprietor’s mouth that the inn was full and they wandered about the town looking for an alternative place to stay until the blessed event transpired and there was no where else where they could get off the street.

If sufficiently secluded and in dire enough of an emergency, Mary and Joseph might have dashed into the nearest stable without even notifying the owner or caretaker. The manger in question might not have even belonged to the innkeeper.

Even if Mary and Joseph interacted directly with the Innkeeper, there is no proof that the couple even told the Innkeeper of their unique plight. As difficult as it may be to remember, the Nativity took place in pre-Internet times when pregnant women didn't go around posting pictures of their bare bellies with stretch marks and protruding navals for all the world to see.

Joseph was initially of the mind to hide Mary away privately all together away from public view in Matthew 2:19 and Mary's cousin Elizabeth went into seclusion for five months following the conception of John the Baptist according to Luke 1:24. As such, if the Innkeeper even met Mary and Joseph, he might not have even known that she was pregnant if the couple went to extraordinary measures to conceal that she was with child.

Since, according to tradition, the Innkeeper placed Mary, Joseph, and the Baby Jesus in a livestock sty, the Innkeeper must not have been an overtly devout individual if that is the way he treated the Messiah and the human vessel through which the Son of God entered the mortal realm in human flesh. But even if Mary and Joseph pulled rank (something they would not have likely done given what we are told in regards to their character), why should the Innkeeper have believed them at the time?

To pious ears, that may sound shocking. However, it must be remembered that at that point in history, Mary and Joseph were no more renowned than any other Israelite.

Before going into the stable, Jesus hadn't even been born. Mary knew that a miracle had occurred within her. However, even Joseph was disinclined to believe his espoused's account until he was persuaded otherwise by no less than the intervention of God Himself.

As an Israelite, the Innkeeper could have been aware of prophecies that the Messiah would be born of a virgin. However, short of a detailed anatomical examination or divine encounter of his own, how would he have known Mary was telling the truth or simply pulling his leg to swindle something out of him as religious charlatans have been known to do throughout history. If we are going to add extraneous details to the Christmas story, perhaps we might as well applaud this willingness to assist while keeping the potentially deceptive that we can't verify at arms length.

Living 2000 years after the events chronicled in the Gospel accounts, we are privileged to know from beginning to the end this particular portion of the Story of Stories. There is more than enough to meditate and ponder upon in those pages without having to drag through the mud the character of a character that what is known of is little more than historical conjecture and literary speculation.

by Frederick Meekins

Regarding the church on Glenn Beck that was pressured by its pastor during a worship service into opening a homeless shelter in the congregation’s building, is the parish going to pick up the tab when members are stricken by pestilences such as Meningitis traced back to the vagrants brought in?

All well and good that you cannot be constitutionally compelled to acquire health insurance to against your will. Just don’t constitutionally compel the rest of us to pick up the tab for your sorry rear’s bills when you haven’t paid a single penny into the insurance or public health system.

Why should we adhere to Sharpton's interpretation on FCC regulations? He'd didn't even receive any theology training to be a minister.

Did leftist hags Behar and Walters, who mocked John Behnner for crying, gripe about Nancy Pelosi's weeping over a situation she miscategorized historically in blaming 60's violence on conservatives rather than hippy scum like herself?

George Washington University Endorses Shacking Up

Contrary to Glenn Beck, not everything will be OK when the socio-economic collapse hits.

Contrary to Glenn Beck, not everything will be OK when the socio-economic collapse hits.