ACTIONS NOT WORDS

1 CORINTHIANS 8:6

 YET FOR US THERE IS BUT ONE GOD, THE FATHER, FROM WHOM ALL THINGS CAME AND FOR WHOM WE LIVE; AND THERE IS BUT ONE LORD, JESUS CHRIST, THROUGH WHOM ALL THINGS CAME AND THROUGH WHOM WE LIVE.

THERE HAS BEEN A CONTINUOUS UPROAR

TO KEEP IN GOD WE TRUST ON OUR MONEY

SIMILARLY THERE IS AGITATION

TO KEEP ONE NATION UNDER GOD

IN OUR PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

I THINK WE MISS THE POINT

WITH BOTH SLOGANS

OUR ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN OUR WORDS

WHILE PIOUSLY CALLING FOR BOTH

THEIR ACTIONS SAY THERE FRAUDS

I THINK A BETTER SLOGAN COULD BE

IN GOD WE LIVE

AND THAT BELIEF COLORS OUR ACTIONS

OR

ONE NATION THE WAY GOD WANTS

POSTERS ON A WALL

DO NOT MAKE A BETTER WORLD

PEOPLE’S BEHAVIOR DO

MORALITY IN OUR SCHOOLS

WHILE OUR LEADERS

ARE IMMORAL

SHOWS THEM TO BE THE HYPOCRITES THEY ARE

AT THE END

WE WILL BE JUDGED

WILL OUR ACTIONS

MAKE US SHEEP OR GOATS

FRANK A VOLLMER

opinions

SLAVE MARRIAGES

SLAVE MARRIAGES

HAD NEITHER

LEGAL STANDING

NOR PROTECTION

FROM THE ABUSES

AND RESTRICTIONS IMPOSED ON THEM

BY SLAVE OWNERS.

SLAVE HUSBANDS AND WIVES,

WITHOUT LEGAL RECOURSE,

COULD BE SEPARATED

OR SOLD AT THEIR MASTER'S WILL.

COUPLES WHO RESIDED

ON DIFFERENT PLANTATIONS

WERE ALLOWED TO VISIT ONLY

WITH THE CONSENT OF THEIR OWNERS

.

SLAVES OFTEN MARRIED

WITHOUT THE BENEFIT OF CLERGY,

AND AS HISTORIAN JOHN BLASSINGAME STATES,

"THE MARRIAGE CEREMONY

IN MOST CASES CONSISTED

OF THE SLAVES SIMPLY GETTING

THE MASTER'S PERMISSION

AND MOVING INTO A CABIN

IF WE TEACH A DOG

TO BITE

AND IT DOES,

WHO IS AT FAULT.

OFTEN THE MARRIAGE CEREMONY

 CONSISTED OF MOVING IN TOGETHER.

COUPLES COULD BE SEPARATED

 AT MASTER’S WILL

AND CHILDREN BORN TO THEM

 BELONGED TO MASTER

 AND COULD BE SOLD.

TO KEEP A SLAVE POOR

AND UNEDUCATED

AND THEN TO BLAME THEM

 FOR BEING POOR AND UNEDUCATED

IS UNJUST

TO KEEP A FREEDMAN POOR

 AND UNEDUCATED

AND THEN TO BLAME THEM

FOR BEING POOR AND UNEDUCATED

IS UNJUSTIFIABLE

THE AGREEING OF THE SOUTHERN CHURCHES

WITH SLAVERY

 IS AKIN TO THE GERMAN CHURCHES

THAT EMBRACED NAZISM

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ESCHATOLOGY

THERE SEEMS TO BE TWO VIEWS OF ESCHATOLOGY

THE STUDY OF LAST THINGS

ONE CALLED APOCALYPTIC ESCHATOLOGY

CALLS FOR GOD TO ENTER HISTORY

AND STRAIGHTEN A WICKED WORLD

THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN RAPTURE

AND OTHERS

WHO BELIEVE

GOD IS A BOOGIE MAN

ARE FANS OF THIS VIEW

IT CALLS FOR GOD TO DO THE WORK

ANOTHER VIEW

IS CALLED SAPIENTIAL ESCHATOLOGY

WHICH SAYS

THAT GOD HAS GIVEN MAN

THE SKILLS TO MAKE A BETTER WORLD

THOSE WHO WORK AT MAKING A BETTER WORLD

LIKE PEACEMAKERS

HEALERS

THOSE WHO TOUCH THE UNTOUCHABLES

THOSE WHO DO THE CORPORAL WORKS OF MERCY

ARE FANS OF THIS VIEW

IT CALLS FOR MAN NOT GOD

TO REDEEM THE WORLD

WITH HIS GOD GIVEN SKILLS

WHO BELIEVE GOD IS EXPRESSED

BY OUR DEEDS

A GOD WHO WISHES MAN WELL

I TEND TO HOPE AND BELIEVE IN THE LATTER

GOD TEACHES US TO PRAY

YOUR KINGDOM

YOUR WILL BE DONE

ON EARTH

AS IT IS IN HEAVEN

HAS GOD

GIVEN US A FRUITLESS TASK

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TAKE UP YOUR CROSS

I DON’T BELIEVE

THE HISTORICAL JESUS

SAID THESE WORDS

TO THE JEWISH PEASANT

TO WHICH HE WAS SPEAKING

THEY WOULD SIGNIFY

DEATH AND PUNISHMENT

HE WAS USED TO LABOR METAPHORS

PICK UP YOUR LOAD

PUT YOUR BACK INTO IT

IT WOULD MAKE MORE SENSE

FOR THE TIME

HE WAS TALKING TO A PEOPLE

WHO HAD BEEN HARDENED

IT WAS LIKE A SITUATION IN THE CAMPS

WHERE FATHER FOUGHT SON

OR SON FATHER

 FOR A CRUST OF BREAD

AS ELIE WEISER SAID

THE BEST OF US DID NOT SURVIVE

BUT CHRIST WAS SAYING

IN SPITE OF EVERYTHING DO THE RIGHT THING

AS VICTOR FRANKEL

ANOTHER CAMP SURVIVOR SAID

I WOULD NOT LET THEM

DETERMINE HOW I THINK AND ACT

WHAT CHRIST WAS SAYING

PICK UP THE BURDEN

OF LIVING DECENTLY

AND FOLLOW ME

FRANK A VOLLMER

FAMILY VALUES

THEY SAY

FOOLS RUSH IN

WHERE WISE MEN

FEAR TO TREAD

WELL HERE I GO AGAIN

IN MOST OF THE BIBLE

A WOMAN IS A MAN’S PROPERTY

FOR SEX

CHILDREN

KEEPING THE TENT CLEAN

SUPPER ON THE TABLE

IF SHE COMMITTED ADULTERY

IT WAS CONSIDERED THEFT OF SERVICES

SHE COULD BE PUT AWAY

IF HER HUSBAND COMMITTED ADULTERY

IT WAS WHAT GOOD OLD BOYS DO

NO BLAME WAS PUT ON HIM

I WONDER IF THAT WAS WHAT IS MEANT

BY BIBLICAL FAMILY VALUES

JESUS NEVER MARRIED

PAUL PUT CELIBACY ABOVE MARRIAGE

MARRY IF YOU HAVE TOO

BUT IT’S NOT ADVOCATED

AS FIRST CHOICE

BIBLICAL FAMILY VALUES

ABRAHAM HAD A WIFE

BUT IT WAS ALRIGHT TO FORCE HIMSELF

ON A SLAVE

A MAN HAD TO MARRY A WOMAN HE RAPED

GOOD BEGINNING THERE

LEAVES ONE WARM AND CUDDLY

THE FAMOUS PASSAGE

LOVE IS PATIENT

WAS WRITTEN

TO A CHURCH

RIFT WITH DISSENSION

OR WHEREVER YOU GO I SHALL GO

IS A DIALOGUE BETWEEN RUTH

AND HER MOTHER-IN-LAW

OR THE TOPPER

WHAT GOD HAS JOINED TOGETHER

THEY BECOME ONE FLESH

CHRIST IS TALKING ABOUT DIVORCE

THE BEST I CAN FIND

IS THE WEDDING AT CANA

WHERE CHRIST IS SILENT

EXCEPT FOR ARGUING WITH HIS MOTHER

AND AT HER INSISTENCE

CHANGED WATER INTO WINE

DO I HEAR

NON SEQUITUR 

PERSONALLY

I’M A HORNY

HETEROSEXUAL MALE

I LIKE THE IDEA

ABOUT WIVES BEING SUBMISSIVE TO YOUR HUSBAND

JUST AS CHILDREN MUST OBEY THEIR PARENTS

OR SLAVES THEIR MASTERS

WOW

FAMILY VALUES

GIMME SOME GOOD OLD FAMILY VALUES

IN THIS AGE

WHERE WE ARE DISCOVERING

MORE AND MORE

ABOUT HUMAN SEXUALITY

CAN WE WITH CHARITY

ENFORCE OLD MANDATES

TO DO SO

WE ARE SAYING

THAT GOD MAKES FLIES

SO HE CAN PULL THEIR WINGS OFF

FRANK A VOLLMER

CAYLEE ANTHONY

THIS IS AN ODE

AN EPITAPH

A MEMORIAL

TO A YOUNG GIRL

A SEEDLING

NEWLY SPROUTED

THROWN AWAY

WHEN NOVELTY CEASED

WHEN LIFE STARTED TO CHAFF

THROWN AWAY LIKE SO MUCH LITTER

NO LONGER NEEDED

WANTED

A MONUMENT TO OUR SOCIETY

WHERE THE NEEDS OF OTHERS

ARE IGNORED

WHEN THEY IMPACT THEIR LIVES

ESPECIALLY THOSE

WHO CONSTANTLY PRATE

ABOUT FAMILY VALUES

WHILE CUTTING SCHOOLS

JOBS

HEALTH CARE FOR THE POOR

BETTER PERHAPS

TO BE THROWN AWAY AT BIRTH

 THAN TO BE CONDEMNED

TO A LIFE OF ECONOMIC SLAVERY

SO THAT THE ELITE HAVE MORE

CAYLEE

WILL NEVER KNOW THE WONDER OF YOUTH

THE WONDER OF WOMANHOOD

BUT CAN SHE NOT STAND FOR A MONUMENT

TO SELFISHNESS

THAT PERMEATES OUR SOCIETY

AND LEADS TO DEATH

AMONG THE LIVING

AND THE DEAD

FRANK A VOLLMER

LYMPHOMANIA REDUX

THE ENEMY IS BACK

IT NEEDS STRONGER MEDICINE

TO KEEP IT AT BAY

IT’S HARSH ON MY LOVED ONE

AND ME

BUT I FIND IT IMPOSSIBLE

TO PRAY FOR RECOVERY

OR REMISSION

WHEN THERE ARE MOTHER’S WITH SICK CHILDREN

AND NO INSURANCE

WAR VETERANS

WHO TREMBLE AT LOUD NOISES

LOOKED DOWN ON BY THOSE THEY FOUGHT FOR

WHILE THE POOR HAVE WHAT LITTLE THEY HAVE

REDUCED FURTHER

WHILE TAXES ARE NOT PAID

OR UNDERPAID

BY THE WEALTHY

BOTH INDIVIDUAL AND CORPORATION

NO I HAVE ALWAYS PRAYED

GOD’S WILL BE DONE

I DO NOT THINK IT IS GOD’S WILL

FOR THE EXAMPLES I GAVE

AND MANY MORE

FINALLY

JESUS SAID

WHATSOEVER YOU DO

TO THE LEAST OF MY BRETHREN

THAT YOU DO UNTO ME

BALANCE THAT AGAINST THE SELFISH

THE TREASURE KEEPER’S

WHICH ONE IS MORALLY ACCEPTABLE

FRANK A VOLLMER