A Knight's Blog

Technology is transforming at a rate that tech majors two to three years into their Bachelor's courses discover that all they learned is now obsolete. Our world is rapidly changing and many are having a hard time adapting. The sensation that tech and the times is moving too fast is called "future shock." I remember a time when there were few television channels, no internet, VHS tapes you had to rewind, cassette tapes (instead of CDs and iTunes) you had to rewind, and video game systems like NES, SEGA Genesis, SNES, and Gameboy that played 6-18bit games (2D). In those days we had land line phones, the receiver with curly wire you had to hold to your head, and cellphones were giant, and when they did become smaller they were flip phones and only for emergencies. Fast forward and now we have Blu-ray DVD instead of VHS, digital music iTunes instead of cassettes, and video games that have surpassed 64bits and actually are so life like they complete with the movies. The i...

This world is dead. It is full of death, people slaying one another, relationships collapsing, and people caught in their pollutions, passions, and pleasures that are eating away them like maggots. The more we yearn for celestial, the more we come to hate this world. We begin to see all around us are walking skeletons, dead men and women walking. The only ones who are alive are other Christian beleivers. Jesus spoke of this when He said, " For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it ." (Matthew 16:25). Christ saw what many cannot see, we are walking corpses on this earth, and there is only life if we give up our life to follow Christ and let Him breath life into us,"So Jesus said to them again, " Peace be with you; as the Father has sent Me, I also send you . And when He had said this, He breathed on them and said to them, " Receive the Holy Spirit ." (John 20:21-22). Once we choose to "de...

"Hell is paved with good intentions." (Samuel Johnson)  "A problem arises when you spotlight the bad you forget the good."  "Hollywood wants to help children who were hurt by sexual abuse, but any cause that is good can turn geuesome. Take the Spanish Inquisition, it started as an amiable outreach, but i became an angry organization that killed and displaced people."    "The best intentions, some of worst things imaginable have been done with best intentions." (Alan Grant, Jurassic Park III) Tonight at the Oscars, Spotlight , the controversial film about investigative reports who exposed the child abuse scandal in the Catholic Church received the Best Picture Award . Spotlight is a perfect title, because it means the enemy is going to use this film to put a blemish, a spot to block the Light of God through this film. One would hope a movie that exposes the child abuse by cardinals and priests would merely act as an impo...

St. Louis IX Devotion has become less of religious motion in modern times. The kind of devotion I am speaking of is the original definition, "religious worship, religious observance, prayers." There are plenty of people who live according to the contemporary definition of devotion, "love, loyalty, enthusiasm for a person, cause, or activity." When we hear word devotion, the image of sports fans, Star Wars fans, and father or mother devoted to their family comes to mind. But this was not always so. Devotion was once measure of someone spiritually, an outward measure to be sure, but one nonetheless. In today's churches one has merely to attend Church consecutively for a month or even years and they are considered devouted. But this measure is according to the modern definition, are these loyal sheep praying, attending religious worship, and observances? They will cry, "aye! Every Sunday." Ahem, devotion denotes beyond the standard Sunday mass or serv...

Tsar Ivan IV "The Terrible" There is a notion in the Church that we are not to punish people severely. The words of the Word of God are used to make this claim, " But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also ." (Matthew 5:39). The concept of an "eye for an eye" died when Christ spoke these words to His disciples. But do they mean what is inferred in our times? Turn the other cheek literally made it impossible to be slapped again in 30 A.D. because of way Jews slapped using the back of their hand, and it seems the "do not resist an evil person," more accurately could be understood as do not seek to defraud them in court, or persecute them back with bitterness in your heart. No Christian is going to claim Christ was against the Law, for Jesus said, " Don't misunderstand why I have come. I did not come to abolish the law of Moses or the writings of the prophets. ...

Christ the King, 15th Century Painting (green line/beam added by Jeffrey Gassler) It is no secret that there is strong antichrist sympathies in Hollywood. If Biblical films are even made these days they are heretical and hearken to a view of God that is heathen and cruel. Films like "Noah" starring Russell Crowe, and "Exodus: Gods and Kings" starring Christian Bale were abominations and butchery of Old Testament Scripture. If Hollywood really does have mafia of Jews who persecute anything that pays homage to Jesus, it can be said of the last Biblical epics that these same Jews supported seem to be persecuting their own Torah and Tankh. However, nothing can compare with antichrist spirit that moves against any movie that proclaim Christ crucified and risen. The Passion of Christ , directed by Mel Gibson was proclaim antisemitic, Son of God did not show very well, and Risen will probably be ridiculed for using the forbidden name of God, Yahweh, which in Jewish ...

The world spins as men try to defend their interests. Nations conspire against nations, and they all gather to proclaim peace, while each seeks to achieve a piece of each other. It seems we live in a world in perpetual conflict, if it is at war there is no peace, if it is at peace there is threat of war. The Lord says of this sorry state, " They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. 'Peace, peace,' they say, when there is no peace ." (Jeremiah 6:14). The News media has become the heralds, trumpeting the uneasiness that eats at all societies. Will this peace last? Or will we enter into those dark days when men became like savages, soothing their teeth like swords with skins of other men and painting their blades with stains of blood. There seems to be yearning in the fallen state of man to wage war or threaten war. Every lull in the leviathan's breath makes one wonder when flames will rekindle and the ranks of young lads swell like the coal...

The title of Holy Roman Emperor had major ramifications in the Middle Ages. The titled denoted a heritage to Roman Emperors, the Cesars but had Christianized elment of 'Holy.' In a practical sense, Emperor was greater than King, it was to be "King of Kings". The political and theological correlations connected to this title were complex. There were essentially three kinds of holy Roman Emperors: the German Holy Roman Emperors, The Popes in Italy, and The Eastern Holy Roman Emperor of Byzantium. Each  sought to assert supremacy, but all three types of Holy Roman Emperor were quite different. The Holy Roman Emperor of Europe (Germania) Charles the Great, Charlemagne The restortation of the Western Empire was puzzlingly affair. The Western Roma, the Empire in the West had fallen to Visigoths in 476 A.D. All vistages of the empire's rule were destroyed, and all the kingdoms and nations once under Roman rule return to their tribal ways creating in essence t...

Indians are fast becoming followers of Immanuel. The numbers of followers of Christ are growing in a country that has history of theocracy. In India turbulent history, it has been ruled by Hindus and Buddhists, Muslims, Christians (British Empire) and now is Hindu again. But there was a chance for India to become officially Christian thrice. Gandhi approached the faith and sought to adopt it, and lead India to Immanuel. He was captivated by the concept of no caste system, "There is no longer Jew or Gentile, Greek or Scythian, slave or free, male or female, all are one in Christ." (). Ghandi wanted to abolish the caste system of Hinduism which at the top echelon is Brahmin who considers themselves to be deities, and the lowest caste being Untouchables, who cannot be acknowledged, touched, or talked to by higher castes. In the Hindu caste system priests are at top and engineers and entrepreneurs near the bottom, thus priests get paid more than an inventor of the next gre...