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Essays

"The Threshing Floor Trick"
                       or
("Heavy Breathing in Well-tickled Ears")

"There comes an hour in the afternoon when the child is tired of 'pretending'; when he is weary of being a robber or a red Indian. It is then that he torments the cat....men seek stranger sins or more startling obscenities as stimulants to their jaded sense. They seek after mad oriental religions for the same reason.  They try to stab their nerves back to life, if it were with the knives of the Priests of Baal." -GK Chesterton

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"People may call them by different names, but the idols of secularism, whatever people name them, turn out to be the same Baal and Moloch, the same bloodthirsty tyrants.  As always it is the blood of the weakest, the most vulnerable, that they crave. Today the unborn, the partially born and the handicapped newly born are daily sacrificed to the false gods of 'Choice' and 'Autonomy' and 'Liberation', on stainless steel altars, by priests robed in surgical whites, in store front temples, run by the likes of Planned Parenthood."  -Robert P. George

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"I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me will come one who is more powerful than I.....His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear the threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire."  --Matthew 3: 11...12


"The Threshing Floor Trick"
or
("Heavy Breathing in Well-tickled Ears")


NOW at first, we burned bras,
A big step for "The Cause"....
We look back with a great deal of Pride!
There The Template we bent...
An uplifting event!
A milestone on The Cultural Slide.


We no longer "do" bras.
We've progressed to God's Laws.
Sacred Writ we choose to rewrite.
NOW we're burning the pages,
Of the Ancient of Ages....
His Word, up in smoke!.
 Outta Sight!


Female "freedom" defenders,
With our Gender Agendas...
We're the reason the Church is a-quiver.
Life or Death for the small?
Hey, Babe! You make the call!
>From NOW on there's no need to deliver...


It's now written in stone:
"Define life on your own!"
It's your Rite!
It's the Law....
It's official!
We're Autonomous Chicks,
With The Rite NOW to pick!
You may grow your own Lamb Sacrificial!


NOW we follow Baal's Voice,
As he whispers..."Pro-Choice!"
Heavy breathing in well-tickled ears.
We chased after his Star,
We gazed on from afar...
Wise Womyn who bow with no fear.


Since we started Our Quest
Toward this Star of the West...
Oh, Baby! We've come a long way!
We bring gifts to his Lair...
To our Prince of the Air,
Where NOW he has taught us to prey.


NOW nothing can shock,
Those serving Moloch...
Our "freedom to luv" has been bought.
We may do as we please;
He's the one we appease,
As we offer him gifts we begot.


So, let freedom ring!
Concubines of this king!
His attraction's so strong and so sweet!
He appeals to our passion....
And since passion's in fashion,
We NOW Choose to place lambs
 At his feet.


The "New" Passover Feast,
Is the Feast of this "Beast";
The Last Supper for son and for daughter.
At the Temple of Baal,
The High Priestess impales,
Silent Lambs we bring NOW
 To the slaughter.


NOW born out of boredom,
We resort to this Whoredom...
Like Gomer we're walking the street.
We're plying our trade,
On this bed we have made...
The destruction is nearly complete.


NOW it's really quite simple,
Turning tricks in the Temple,
As the "stable" and consorts of Baal...
Yaweh's Law we paraded,
Stepped on and degraded.
Western Culture we offer for sale.


We're a prostitute nation,
Cutting short the gestation,
Of our weakest and tiniest souls...
But for NOW it's quite clear:
We're both happy and freer!
Dancing 'round all these Asherah Poles....


So, please make the conversion,
To  Unholy Perversion....
This unique diabolical plan.
Soul and body we sell,
On this broad way to hell....
Payment made with
  The Blood of our Lambs.

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NOW it's even reported
We've been Supreme Courted!
There's no stigma, no shame...
....We're all Free!
Hey, John! It's all legal,
Quite noble and regal!
All approved back in '73.

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Dear Lord, we have strayed!
Defiled we have stayed,
On this bed with false lovers galore!
With the Wages of Sin,
Does Your Judgment begin...
NOW exposed upon this Threshing Floor.


Lord, your Love we're aborting,
But still You come courting!
Inviting us home to Repent!
Please reveal our vile Shame!
Put an end to this game.....
Teach us all of Hosea's Lament!

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"Do not rejoice, O Israel;
do not be jubilant like the other nations.
For you have been unfaithful to your God;
You love the wages of a prostitute
 at every threshing floor." 
-Hosea 9:1

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"What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of?  Those things result in death!  But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.  For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus  our Lord."  --Romans 6: 21-23

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 "Denied Jehovah, we turn to Moloch, for man cannot live without gods.  The battles on our earth always begin in the heavens. It is Moloch come again who has devoured [millions of] unborn babies with the blessing of our Supreme Court. Is it not hypocritical to ask God to deliver us from the horrors of nuclear holocaust when we 'cause our sons and daughters to pass through the fire' of the great abortion holocaust? And when Moloch comes can Lucifer be far behind?" --Peter Kreeft

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"The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, 'Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!" ---John 1: 29
  

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"The Threshing Floor Trick"
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