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From Chapter 10 My Travels With Brother Delvery
The Sunday morning church bells ring as Brother Delvery leads a prayer service. During the homily, children run in the aisles and talk to each other and anyone who will listen. Some of the children even run up onto the altar and try to grab hold of Brother Delvery. Part of our inner group tries to stop this disgrace of the sacred, but Brother Delvery shoots red-hot laser beams from his eyes that stop us in our tracks. Brother Delvery says:
You are not the parents in Pops house. You are the children, and these are merely younger children. If I had wanted you to discipline these young ones, I would have told you so. You must learn from them! They see wonder in the world. You have lost yours. They are spontaneous. You are deliberate. Even after a good fight they play again. You hold grudges. They see other children as other people to play with. You see people as objects of gratification, economic, sexual, and otherwise. When the children play, the object is the fun of the game. When you play business, the object is winner takes all, and who cares about Pops property, in particular, his children.
Grow up and learn from the children. Let me tell you the story of a baseball game. There are 17 kids who want to play baseball. They are all poor so have no balls, bats, or gloves. Then an 18th kid is seen on the other side of a black caste iron fence covered with rose bushes.
He is a rather proud chap who has trouble getting friends. What he does have are five baseballs, ten bats, eighteen gloves, and the other items usually associated with the game of baseball. As a result of his arrival, all the children star to play ball on a regular basis. The last boy tends to dictate the rules of the game, often in his favor. This agitates the other children, but they put up with the inconvenience for the love of the game. My first question to you is, Who owns the baseball equipment?
The 18th kid, I suppose,is the heard response.
Now who owns the game? asks Brother Delvery.
Hugh Christos, the Mensch says, They all do. They all take the game from the common ground of time and space, put themselves into it, and make it their own To this Brother Delvery says, You silly boy, go grab a game and hand it to me. You cant and you cannt literally take yourself out of yourself and put yourself into an object. That is silly. Everyone chuckles. Several members of the inner circle slap Hugh Christos on the back. Brother Delvery continues:
Dont laugh too hard, this magical concept is the modern, western definition of property. If Hugh Christos did not say it, one of you would have. This magical concept of property does not explain what it means when you say, You are my teacher. The concept of property is simply about relationship. They do in fact all own the game. The catcher has the relationship to the game as catcher, the pitcher as pitcher, and so forth. Should you be the uncle of the last kid, and see him ruling over the others in an overbearing style, what should you do?
Set the game straight and chastise my nephew or niece, Lee Stone says.
But you do not own the game, says Brother Delvery.
We are responsible for our family, including nieces and nephews chimes in Lee Stone.
Brother Delvery asks, but what of the game?
Curtis E. Monk says, We would need to interfere, being ever mindful that we are outsiders to the other children and to the game.
Brother Delvery drives home his point:
Big business, and all business is an adult game, a serious game, but it is still just a game. The reason Pop gave us games when we were children was so that we could learn how to play when we were grown up. The stockholder, the partner or the owner and the management may own the equipment, but the game, the business is owned by everyone and everyone has a right to say how the game is played. They also have their right to their share of the full rewards of the game.
We need to learn from the games of childhood how to be adults. If you see otherwise, you have an obligation to set the game straight. Grow up and behave like children. If you do not start seeing the world like little children, you will not see Pops house, in this world, or in the next. Look hard; see the child in the old lady, or the middle-aged man sitting next to you.

From my book, Travels with Brother Delvery:
Why are there 260 million Christians in this nation and we cannot find one willing to support the whole teaching of the Catholic Church as President. There are 66 million adult Catholics in this nation. We cannot find 500 willing to serve the whole teaching of the church in the U.S. Congress? There are 89,000 Catholics in the diocese of Lincoln Nebraska alone. We cannot find one willing to support the teachings of the church either in the legislature or as governor.
There are some 182 Catholic Institutions of higher education teaching political science. None has graduated a single suitable advisor to the president on such issues as the living wage, dignity in the workplace and abortion? There are said to be around half a million graduates from here.
Not one is qualified to even advise Congressmen on the moral issues of Rerum Novarum, Huminae Vitae and, the Church in the Modern World of the Second Vatican Council? Something is radically wrong. Is it in the teaching? Are we doing something wrong?
Is the problem in the hearing? Do our prospective leaders hear with the proverbial, ?Yes, but?? Our father who is in the heaven is not interested in ?Yes but?? He does understand, ?I tried but failed.? He does not understand, ?Yes, but??
Look at you church leaders. Look at how we guide our leaders. If the whole Christian population, some 75% of the people only voted for leaders who followed the whole of the Gospel, the leaders would listen and follow the Gospel, if only to get reelected. You religious leaders need to persuade the people to hold their political leaders to the fire. You need to guide those who are qualified to run for office. You need to guide them to the resources they need to run. You have to guide the people to vote for them.
It is political suicide for a liberal to be anti-abortion. He will not get the funding to run, and if he does find the funding, he will not get the votes to win. For the Pro-life conservative it is no better. If he campaigns against the trinity of the Market, the Military, and Money, he commits political suicide. If he argues for a living wage and for dignity in the workplace, he commits political suicide. If he campaigns against the capital punishment that Jesus the Christ suffered, he commits political suicide.
If he campaigns for compassion, he commits political suicide. He will not get the funding to run, and if does find the sufficient funding, he will lose the election.
Look at what you vote for and what we vote against. Look at how you lead your leaders. It is time to have a complete revolution of the mind and change.
To find out what we are about, go to Genesis. We are called to guard Pop?s planet and to keep it. Also, look at what it says when it talks about the death of Abel. Cain said, ?Am I my brother?s keeper??
Listen to the words that were spoken by the angels, ?Now that you mention it?? Now hear what Pop tells Cain. ?My blood, of your brother, Abel calls from the ground.? ?The Hebrew word is Dami, ??' or my blood. We are our brother?s keeper. When we do not help our brother and when we attack him, we attack not just him, but the blood and the image of Pop himself.
We are involved in creating a corporation, a corpus of people involved in working for the guarding and keeping of Pop?s property. We favor the concept of company, people who eat bread together.
The workers work, not for themselves but for nameless bureaucrats in the name of a stockholder, who is also nameless and faceless. The chief bureaucrat gives himself million dollar bonuses, cuts back the work force to save stockholder value, and save money for his next bonus.
We work for a community, people in common. They know each other, their names and their faces and are concerned with each other?s welfare.
Compare, if you will, the different concepts of justice, that of the Ango tribe and our own. The Crooked Knives say that justice is giving every man what is his due. This is like the young parent who vainly tried to figure out which kid hit which kid first. It is trying to find out which toy goes with which kid. The assumption is that there is going to be a divorce which each kid going his own direction.
Our conception of justice is fundamentally different. We say that when people come to court, we are to assume they are guilty, and that when they leave we are to assume they are innocent. There is only one way to do that.
We are like the wise older parent who does not care which toy goes with which kid or who hit whom first. Our goal is not divorce, but marriage. Our goal is to get the kids to play nice.
To focus on which toy goes with which kid, on making sure every man gets what is his, is to lose justice. The wise parent assumes that neither child has the whole truth, and therefore that both are to some degree guilty. The wise parent focuses on re-establishing the sibling bond.

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this is NOT a loaded question.........
what are obama's views on abortion? does he support pro choice, even if it's a form of birth control?

Honorable Barack Obama,

I was at the rally on yesterday here in Fort Worth, Tx and it brung tears to my eyes. I was apart of history and the way you explained hope just amazed my spirit. I am a faithful church goer and i work in my church and i have a brand new sense of hope for my spritual soul and my hope my future and my daughter's. I loved the speech and everything you said I took to heart and I have believed in you since you became senator I knew that God would guide you to lead America and put us back on the righ track.

I dont want to talk to much but thank you for believing in Dr. Kings dream and bringing HOPE back to America. YES WE CAN AND WE WILL!!!

Have a great day and thank you again for visting Fort Worth, TX

you got me thinking.................

thanx for the added.
may God bless you.