It’s been a busy week with a new job, several gigs, and work on a lot of new material so I can start gigging on week nights playing solo classical guitar and Celtic harp. I also wanted to leave the last two articles hanging. It looks like no one bit at either. I’m going to have to back up and re-examine my methods. I want to get other people as upset and riled about our prison at Guantanamo Bay as I am. I don’t see any evidence of that yet.
My book for April is “The Politics of Jesus” by Dr. Obery M. Hendricks, Jr. I am about halfway through it. I will post a book report when I finish it. I can say that it is a revolutionary work particularly suited to my sensibilities. I have never been impressed by the Christian mysteries any more than those of any other religion. I have always taken a very empirical approach to metaphysics.
Obery bypasses the mysteries to focus on the political strategies and tactics of Jesus. He maintains that Christianity took a wrong turn at Constantine and as a result, many Christians do not see Jesus for the political activist he was executed for being. Obery analyses the Regan and Bush, Jr. presidencies by these values with particular attention to the impact of their policies on the poor. I’m in the midst of the chapter on the current President. More soon.
rbs
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