The Pope, Politics, and the Truth.

The Catholic Church has many problems in the eyes of God.  The purpose of this article is not to enter in to a fight with Catholic loyalist.

Christ wants people to believe in him and willingly ask Him to be their Lord and Savior.  The church is supposed to assist Christ in winning souls.

Nowhere in the KJ Bible do the words Vicar of Christ appear. I would warn people against worshipping a person.

A person called by God to serve God is supposed to about God’s business.  This means teaching people about biblical morality.

Human morality is different from biblical morality.   The bible says that the lust for money is a sin, not money.  Humans will be politically correct and support homosexual relationships.  God clearly calls it an abomination unto the Lord.  

Now, there are many proud Catholics.  I even now that many of these proud Catholics do not have a personal relationship with God.

Therefore, those of us who know Christ and the KJ Bible are not the problem.  Jesus was asked why he spoke in parables.  Christ responds because this will be the test of who are of us.  Those who understand the parable are of God.   This means those who understand the Bible are of God. 

There was a time I could read bible a hundred times and still not understand the words.  After I prayed to accept Christ as my Lord and Savior, the Bible became easy to understand.

Now, many may say that the Bible was written by man to justify his mental creation, God.  I would encourage people to research the evolution of the KJ bible.

It is my opinion, that God does not ordain the Catholic Pope in the Vatican City.  God chooses his prophets.  God made the Church, made the position of Messenger of God, and dressed this messenger.

Therefore, I find no spiritual value to the title of Pope.  Any person who tells people about the value of following what is right will get some positive response from people,

This response does not mean that the speaker is ordained by God to serve God.  When people want to question my authority in the Body of Christ, I ask them to finish one sentence.  This sentence is “ my commission comes from…”. The rest of this sentence is the word “God”.

It is of great concern for a person who is given credit for representing people who believe in God to offer hope to committed homosexuals and other committed sinners.  He KJ Bible clearly states that neither, thieves, murderers, rapist  ...nor lover of men … shall inherit the Kingdom of God.

A person who is saved can still commit sin.  Therefore, this verse is not saying sinners cannot go to heaven.  It is saying that those who do not believe in Christ and who do not follow him will not go to heaven.

Therefore, a person who does not believe in Christ and does not follow Christ will not have life after death and go to heaven.  We who have been called by God to serve God have to be exact about the implications of sin.  We do not do any one any favors by not speaking the whole truth.

Now, on the issue about the Pope’s comments about the evils of capitalism and greed, I say God clearly believes in freedom.  In addition, God is not against entrepreneurship and the free market.

However, it was not  wrong for the Pope to offer his opinion.  In the mid 1990s, an ABC newsperson questioned the right of Priest to speak out against Nuclear weapons. For some reason this newsperson did not believe that priest had the right to voice an opinion.

Priests are people and have the right of free speech.  It is concerning when a religious leader offers a political opinion because there is possibility that many will interpret this opinion as a biblical opinion.

In my opinion, the Pope’s comments on Capitalism are not biblical.  Yes, I am concerned about the impact it can have in the psyche of Catholics.

However, I know better then to try to correct a Catholic.  I have had many discussions with people who do not know the Bible but are proud Catholics.

My intent is to help people with this article by keeping them from an anti-business and anti-success attitude that is becoming mainstream thought. God empowered every person with Freedom, Liberty, and Independence, which are validated by the US Constitution.

A true road to personal success is the one paved with these gifts.  Opportunities come from an unfettered free market.  Closed markets enslave and abuse people.

I think the greatest enslavement in the modern world is one with the shackles of negativity.   When you do not believe in anything, you do not invest in anything.

There are groups of people who do not want you to believe in your self.  Their purpose is to enslave you to their poor standards. 

When you are free to make your life, you can accomplish anything and you can accrue financial power.  You can use this financial power to elect quality leaders and to sue these leaders when they fail.  However, when they are in charge, we all have to take what they offer because we are left with nothing to defend ourselves with in life.

The Pope does have the right to speak his mind.  He does not have the right to claim biblical authority on issues that are clearly anti-biblical.  We all have a responsibility to protect freedom.  This means we shouldn’t be so easily led by people who want to steal our ability to defend ourselves.

Obama, the reason for economic disparity.

This president was elected supposedly because of “war fatigue” and animosity towards Wall Street over the financial crisis of 2008.  Mr. Obama’s proposed solution for abusive behavior of people in Wall Street was to give these people 800 billion dollars.

Mr. Obama’s continue spending enriches the very people the president criticizes for economic disparity around the world.  The US government borrows from the Federal Reserve.  This Reserve is a group of private banks.  The Federal Reserve is not a department of the US government.

People have less opportunity in America because Obama is taking more of their money in taxes and his anti-business and anti-wealth rhetoric interferes with economic investment.  When I first researched the national debt I saw on websites that Clinton left office with a 5.5 trillion national debt. Bush left office with a 8.5 trillion dollar debt.  We are now at over 17 trillion-dollar in debt. 

This is why I say Mr. Obama has over spent 9 trillion dollars. We are never given the real numbers.  I am confident that the national is greater than the 17 trillion dollars the government reports.  In addition, when I research national debt totals now the numbers are completely different.  It appears that the Internet that was supposed to free everyone with information availability practices data manipulation.

Now, the president claims he is concerned about income disparity because he cares about people’s troubles.  However, he is responsible for people’s troubles.  His policies retard economic growth.  His policies are responsible for higher taxes, which take money from people. 

I have found out that the true measure of life is not economic wealth.  The true measure of a good life is the spiritual wealth of Peace, Love, and Joy.

Resenting what your neighbor has is not going to make you happy.  Resenting what your neighbor has is going to make you angry and bitter.

It would be helpful if we appreciate what we have and enjoy what we have. I believe that much of the success of this failed president is the level of psychological distress in the members of the public.

The economic crisis 0f 2008 was responsible for people losing almost everything they had in life.  Many had to start over.  For some, this failure was more stress than they were capable of dealing with in life.

Generally, life is tearing people apart every day.  This leads to a lot of anxiety and depression.   People are unable to concentrate and plan.  People are to emotionally and mentally exhausted to even try again.

Mr. Obama’s rhetoric feeds into this disillusionment, despair, and hopelessness.  Many believe that it is bad and the president reinforces this idea with his speeches.

The problem in life is not “economic disparity”.  The problem is life is attitude. Have a good attitude and you will have a good life.

Part of having a good attitude is accepting life for what it is for you.  Dreams are nice.  However, destroying your personal psychology because life did not work out exactly as you planned is not the road to happiness.

Having friends, family, recreation, entertainment, diversions, and other simple pleasures in life makes for a happy life. Our perspective of the Modern Industrial Life is flawed because we are led to believe that we arte owed the perfect life.  The reality is that the life we have is the life we have earned.

I am not talking about money in the bank.  I am talking about our spirit.  Even if life is not perfect we can still enjoy life and feel good.

The president fails in understanding that people get more out of life when they earn it.  I believe a good life is earned with a Positive, Optimistic, and Realistic attitude.

We should proceed forwards with a good attitude. We should focus on what is good and decent in life. We should enjoy the simple pleasures of life such as a good meal, laughing with a friend, good music, and other simple pleasures.

We also need to be fully aware of what politicians are doing in government.  Yesterday, I was watching a documentary on something called HAARP.  This initiative is an array of antennas that can send a signal in to the upper atmosphere and disrupt this atmosphere.

Messing with the atmosphere is terrifying idea.  The abuse of power from such technology is frightening. The president who is crying about economic disparity is in charge while taxpayers’ hard earned money is being used on such dangerous projects.

I believe people in government are abusing the good will of the people.  The personal situation of a person has nothing to do with big bad Wall Street.  The lacks of opportunities in life have nothing to do with big bad Wall Street. 

We are prisoners of their overspending and their rhetoric.  When the president comes to the podium and sermonizes against greed, he changes your personal focus.  Only you can make your self-happy.   The presidents over regulation, over spending, and anti-success rhetoric have led to less business, career, and job opportunities.

Money is necessary for a good life.  However, I believe too many people are living beyond their means, chasing the Modern Industrial Dream. It is better to just enjoy what we have in life.  

This president has always had his peculiar vision of life.  This vision includes the idea that Wall Street is evil and responsible for everything bad in life.  Obama’s politics are fashioned with this vision in mind.  However, it is not that he cares about people.  The president just has a narcissistic need to be the smartest person in the room.  However, the president is just a parrot repeating the rhetoric of the counter-culture revolutionaries he has hung out with all his life.  Therefore, he is not an independent thinker with any original ideas. The people who support him –baby boomers- are people of the 1970s radical counter culture revolutionaries who did not like their parent’s lives. 

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Poor Customer Service at El Paso, Texas, USA Wal-Marts

I do not know about your Walmart.  However, here in El Paso, Texas they are falling apart.

Because of my business schedule, it used to be a convenience to have a major department store open twenty-four hours a day.  However, Walmart has the poor habit of updating its computer system at several times of the day.  When these updates are being done, none of the cash registers work.

I have had to confront this nasty Walmart habit five times in my life.  I used to shop mostly at 7101 Gateway West Walmart location.  Another encounter with Walmart’s updating system was responsible for stopping my business with this location.

This morning I was at the Walmart I had chosen to replace the 7101 Gateway West location Walmart. Again, I was confronted with this updating system. I got what I needed.  I went to cashier.  After two minutes, a female approached the register and tried to log in to the Walmart system.  The Walmart system kept denying her log-on attempts.

Having experience the nuisance before, I already knew what was going on. The Walmart employee needed to call for assistance.  Five minutes latter, the person this employee was calling for over the PA system finally arrived.  This employee quietly told her the system was updating, that there was nothing she could do, and to tell the customer that about the system update and that it would take about 30 minutes.

The employee was reluctant to come back to register and tell me the bad news.  The employee that was summoned came over to me with a sarcastic laughter and tried to tell me about their updating system as she was laughing and talking.

I scolded both employees.  I do not like having my time wasted.  I do not like being laughed at by any one, much less Walmart employees.

I do not know how they can say they do not know when it is going to happen, when in my lifetime I have encountered this updating system on five separate Walmart visits.  I do not work for Walmart, but I can tell you that here in El Paso, Texas, USA their computer system updates around 4 am and 4 pm.

It seems to me that when this system is updating Walmart is not open for business. Walmart should adopt a policy of closing its doors during this update time. At the least, they should announce over their PA system that at that moment they are not able to take customers payments at the registers.

I find it hard to believe that in the age of computers Walmart cannot find away to conduct this system update and not inconvenience the customer.  Again, I do not like having my time wasted.  People laugh because something is funny.  Ever time I have had a cashier of Walmart tell me their system is down and they cannot ring up my purchases the Walmart employee has done it with the same foolish nervous laugh.  Some one at Walmart needs to explain what is so funny about wasting a customer’s time.

Walmart is alive because of the money customers spend at their stores.  I am not without options.  It is sort of a convenience to have a store open I can use because of my crazy business schedule.  However, I can very easily adjust my schedule to include another company’s stores.

Today, I spoke with two cashiers and three so-called managers.  They all had a look of annoyance at my comments.  They had a” to bad for you, nothing we can do” attitude.

Now, the standard customer service attitude in El Paso, Texas, USA has become “screw you customer”.  I am used to this attitude when I visit a fast-food restaurant, a gas station, or any other businesses that have federal minimum wage employees.

I do not expect anything different from Walmart employees.  People in El Paso, Texas, USA want more than the federal minimum wage and they want to work in healthy work environments.  Therefore, they refuse to work at Wal-Mart and other companies.

Many companies in El Paso, Texas, USA are left with employees that could not get a better job.  These employees tend to be very immature, rude, and disrespectful to the customer.

I have a list of businesses in this city I will not give my money to here in El Paso.  I can now add the Walmart at 5631 Dyer to this list.  This store I believe has less than a year in operation and it has already hit the poor level of customer service that is the El Paso, Texas,USA standard.

One of the things that used to bug me about the Walmart at Gateway West was all the racist looks I would get from the Walmart employees who are proud of their Mexican experience.  No, I am not a sensitive person.  I have made an art at reading human behavior.  However, I do not need my education in psychology to discern a look of disgust.

The other thing that bugs me at Walmart is having to walk around closed isles cluttered with merchandise that needs to be stocked.   I understand that at certain times merchandise is going to be on pallets and will be in the isle.  However, a business that has its front doors open to the public needs to find a way of stoking merchandise without being an convenience to the customer.

People always ask, “I wonder what happened to that store” when they hear of a major corporation failing or being close to failing.  Some offer that it is the economy and changing markets.

The reality is that it is poor customer service.  Poor customer service comes from the top, i.e. the CEO, and runs to the bottom, i.e. the janitor.  The poor attitude at the Walmarts I have visited here in El Paso, Texas I suspect has a lot to do with the unified anti-customer attitude of the employees (management and non-management).

Executives and managers should correct the poor attitudes of their employees.  The fact that Walmart employees have such poor customer service tells me that no one is setting any standards at Walmart.