The seven works of corporal mercy. One of them....

Ransom the hostage. 

Pay heed, England and America!

When did America or Britain last pardon a repentant sinner or give a 'dig-out' to one of their many citizens arrested abroad for trafficking in drugs and guns and children's lives? 

Forgiveness, repentance?

Even Judas could have been saved if he had repented before his death. (He died by suicide). Judas was the victim of his own contempt for that uniquely Christian missive which he did not understand,namely salvation by Works and Grace both. This is referred to in either the Letter of Peter or the Letter of John and at the Sermon on the Mount and in many other biblical stories. Salvation by grace and works is the key to all Christian thinking. Judas probably believed like Marx and his followers many centuries after The Great Betrayal that capital accumulation is the Universal Equivalent or "Moses and the prophets " ( Capital, Volume One). America has followed in the uncharitable, overweening traditions of the Biblical Judas-other types are available- and Irish doctors. The latter doctors are those active citizens,paid informers,who do nothing unless paid in cash.

A proper understanding of Jesus in the Beatitudes comes from the Father. Jesus himself is but the mysterious host of the Divine Word, someone known but only physically witnessed two millennia past and he is both body and symbol of God's mercy. This is held as the immutable and eternal truth by everyone sentient,that is,apart from Satan's fallen angels. Every wise person knows a multitude of those in Ireland and England.Primary amongst them in Ireland,we count Mc Cann,Smith and Boyd Barrett and idiots such as psychiatric confidence tricksters.

Wiseacres saved by grace alone-I am not referring to helots in terrorist gangs, criminals and drug pushers-argue for continuation of the post-Christian and Old Slavic traditions.

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1.3.2023

A memento mori

While I'm on the subject of salvation through good works, SOMETHING ELSE,from the Mouth of  the Master,PILGRIMS,TO BEAR IN MIND,"If someone asks for your cloak,give him your shoes as well" and "If someone asks you for a loan,do not ask for it back after you give it to him"....

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AND ANOTHER,

"Feed the hungry". If someone asks you for money,not only give it to him but ignore nonsense from the Saint Vincent de Paul Society about what they refer to as "organised begging ". That is how the Jews referred to Jesus and his followers.

But,I digress,where was I?

If someone asks you for food or something to eat,it is always because he is hungry or penniless.

IF YOU BELIEVE in social equity and public welfare or any sort of collectivism including the bogus collegiality of American evangelical outriders,give to charity. Only the self-employed do not give to charity. The self-employed believe only in the old Greek myth of eternal youth, virility and blissful days in front of the log fire in a mountain  hideaway. As any child knows, youthful days are far from blissful and parents are far from any child's youthful ideal and that is why they seek escape from the humdrum.

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4.7.2023

The lack of basic  Christian charity,good works and a tight-fisted architect of US debt profligacy,Ronald Reagan. A characterisation of an Irish-American apostate and Freemason

Behind a calm exterior,Reagan with his carefully modulated speech,calm delivery and unflappable manner was a man who was lost in the 1920's. He had a meagre pre-politics acting career as a typecast Western cowboy.

He was a man who was,as noted by diplomats and politicians both,a figurehead for right-wing Flat Earthers and a consummate practical joker. He was a fear ar meisce,a man child,a man completely out of touch with reality and feared by noone apart a  few stooges around him who knew that he was a vicious backbiter and stooge of Milton Friedman and Jewish, American and Japanese financiers. He was certainly not the stooge of the English who he frequently referred to as 'Limeys' and held in absolute contempt.

However,in his munificence to the Irish and in his procurement of large investments for Ireland from corporate interests and otherwise shrewd businessmen,we see the true American native type,the frontiersman, someone pushed into the spotlight by others. (All US Presidents are essentially grossly inhibited and naive figures in their lifestyles whatever about their roles in modern history).