Melinda Pillsbury-Foster
Friday, October 13, 2006 4 pm PDT
This Week's Show
Our Guest: Bonnie Adamsson
Spiritual Politician, the show that exposes the nastiness in every part of our lives will host Bonnie Adamsson, an evangelical Christian and activist whose study of the Bible refutes what is being said by the churches that have allowed their faith to convert them into foot soldiers for a fascist state. The show airs Friday, October 13, 2006 at 4 PM PDT
Ms. Adamsson is a life long student of the Bible. She and many of her fellow Evangelical Christians, many in Bush's home state of Texas, are coming to the conclusion that, far from being an instrument of the Will of God, President Bush is actually either a tool of the Beast or the Beast himself. This frightening and illuminating program is a do not miss.
Ms. Adamsson is a long time activist for the environment. Her husband, Alan, died three years ago of the effects of nuclear testing after years of suffering with four different kinds of cancer that had invaded his body. He was 42 when he died. Ms. Adamsson calls for a Christian Stewardship relationship with the Earth to model the relationship Christ charged us to have with each other and will also talk about that Christian Movement now starting.
Bringing government into alignment with the Lessons of Jesus:
The focus of our show is how to bring government into alignment with truth of our spiritual nature. So America started with the idea we are all, inherently free. We are free to choose, free to live, to breath, and to live our lives as we see fit. Government does not own us; government is just a contractor, providing service.
That framework is in alignment with the spiritual truth that each of us connects to God directly, needing no agency as an intermediary. To be free is to be free in the spirit ans so in the flesh that temporarily holds the spirit.
When Thomas Jefferson said we were all possessed of inherent rights, existing before government he was extending a spiritual truth into a civic form. It is that Mission Statement from the Declaration of Independence we need to keep in mind.
Because we are free and reject, as did Christ, the use of deceit, manipulation or violence we need to be conscious about our relationships with others and find ways to grow into the sense of connection and community that makes us One in Him.
This is especially true for Christians but it is true for everyone else as well.
Nearly every major spiritual viewpoint enunciates the idea that we are connected to each other and should be good to each other. Christians just have an even more exacting mission. Christians are to love every one, treating them as they would Jesus.
Jesus was very clear about how we were to treat others. He did not say that it was alright to be abusive, deceitful, and violent if we used government as our tool and agent. There was no exception, He wanted all of our hearts, minds and souls. Christ did not lay out any plan of government, but left it to the conscience of the individual, the same way He connects to each of us.
We are Americans but we are also members of a human family that connects us to something truly wonderful and immense.
So our job here at the Spiritual Politician is to look at Government as a human tool we use every day. We need to consider if government is working in a way that speaks that common understanding about our connections to each other and, if it is not, we need to change it.
Americans have had many successes over the last 231 years since our founding and, learning from both mistakes and successes we can consider that question. So here at the Spiritual Politician we look at the truth behind of rhetoric.
Given what is going on today in Government what we may decide to do it reboot the whole system.
To provide the examples of what has gone right and what has gone very wrong we here at the Spiritual Politician have put together several different kinds of segments you will hear on our show from time to time.
Founder and president of the Arthur C. Pillsbury Foundation
Books by Melinda: Links to Melinda's sites:
How the NeoCons Stole Freedom
Shards of Verse Melinda's Poetry
Greed: The NeoConning of America
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