CHARGING ADMISSION FEES TO HEAR THE GOSPEL

How much did Jesus charge to listen to the sermon on the mount? Can you quote a gospel verse as evidence?

The answers are:
1. Jesus charged nothing for the Sermon On The Mount.
2. No fees for Jesus's Sermon On The Mount are ever mentioned in any of the gospels.

You can certainly make up other justification for charging fees for ordinary citizens. You just can't do that by quoting any gospel verse on the life of the historical Jesus. Leaving a livelihood and becoming a full time follower dependent upon the charity of others is not the same as an ordinary citizen paying an admission fee to listen to a sermon. It's a category mistake. The full time follower and the ordinary citizen are different like apples and oranges. Jesus had no admission fees for any ordinary citizen.

Charging fees to hear the gospel is the Hill$ong Model. User pays. Fee for service.

PROPOSED MANDATORY QUALIFICATIONS FOR POLITICIANS.

You must have qualifications for every job in the world except being a politician. I suggest that a Cert IV in Politics would be appropriate. Graduates at this level would have theoretical and practical knowledge and skills for specialised and/or skilled work in politics and/or further learning. It would include basic understanding in:

- political philosophy

- history of politics

- ethics

- political law

- economics (and the many problems with trickle down theory)

- science as related to political decisions (eg climate change)

Such a course would also have a mandatory 1 month on the dole with a reflective essay written on the experience. A pass would entail empathy with the poor.

This would eliminate some of the dregs of society who are currently in politics. (eg Pauline Hanson, Donald Trump).

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Biagio da Cesena - The man who pissed off Michelangelo (Nudity in Art)

To return to the Last Judgement: Michelangelo had already finished more than three~fourths of the work when Pope Paul went to see it. On this occasion Biagio da Cesena, the master of ceremonies and a very high-minded person, happened to be with the Pope in the chapel and was asked what he thought of the painting. He answered that it was most disgraceful that in so sacred a place there should have been depicted all those nude figures, exposing themselves so shamefully, and that it was no work for a papal chapel but rather for the public baths and taverns. Angered by this comment, Michelangelo determined he would have his revenge; and as soon as Biagio had left he drew his portrait frorn memory in the figure of Minos, shown with a great serpent curled around his legs, among a heap of devils in hell; nor for all his pleading with the Pope and Michelangelo could Biagio have the figure removed, and it was left, to record the incident, as it is today. - Vasari's "Lives of The Artists" (Translated by George Bull, Penguin; Middlesex, England: 1965; p. 379)

Note how Biagio is depicted with the ears of a donkey and how the snake is about to bite his penis. Don't piss off artists. They can take revenge in many different ways.

The Farmacy's "Dr" Alan Greenberg , "MD" not a medical doctor.

Wonderful news if it were true. It is, however, fake news. The person in the photo is not a medical doctor.
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FROM https://allangreenbergblog.wordpress.com/about/

About Allan

Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, Allan Greenberg was educated at the University of Witwatersrand, where he trained in classical, Gothic, and modern architecture. He worked for leading Scandinavian modernist architect Jørn Utzon, with whom he worked on the Sydney Opera House. After receiving his Master of Architecture degree from Yale University in 1965, he spent two years in the City of New Haven’s Redevelopment Agency and later served as Architectural Consultant to Connecticut’s Chief Justice from 1967 to 1979. He received his U.S. citizenship in 1973.

WHAT IS A PODCAST? A WASTE OF TIME.

What is a podcast? I can answer that! It is a time wasting painful listening to 50% "what I did before the show / what I'm going to do on this show / what will come in the next podcast" and 50% worthwhile material hidden amongst the rest - somewhere - if you can find it. What is really ultra annoying is that, if the podcast was in text format, I'd be able to read it in a minute rather than wasting half an hour or more being bored to death with trivia. It is a format that I utterly detest.

SPORT AS A PREPARATION FOR WAR

FROM Aldous Huxley "Ends And Means" (1937) pp.187 - 188

Sport can be either a preparation for war or, in some measure, a substitute for war; a trainer either of potential war-mongers or of potential peace-lovers ; an educative influence forming either militarists or men who will be ready and able to apply the principles of pacifism in every activity of life. It is for us to choose which pan the organized amusements of children and adults shall play. In the dictatorial countries the choice has been made, consciously and without compromise. Sport there is definitely a preparation for war doubly a preparation. It is used, first of all, to prepare children for the term of military slavery which they will have to serve when they come of age to train them in habits of endurance, courage, and co-ordinated effort, and to cultivate that esprit de corps, that group-vanity and group-pride which are the very foundations of the character of a good soldier. In the second place, it is used as an instrument of nationalistic propaganda. Football matches with teams belonging to foreign countries are treated as matters of national prestige; victory is hailed as a triumph over an enemy, a sign of racial or national superiority; a defeat is put down to foul play and treated almost as a casus belli. Optimistic theorists count sport as a bond between nations. In the present state of nationalistic feeling it is only another cause of international misunderstanding. The battles waged on the football field and the race-track are merely preliminaries to, and even contributory causes of, more serious contests. In a world that has no common religion or philosophy of life, but where every national group practises its own private idolatry, international football matches and athletic contests can do almost nothing but harm.

The choice of the dictators has been, as I have said, definite and uncompromising. They have decided that sport shall be used above all as a preparation for war. ...