By Rev. MICHAEL BRESCIANI

As a boy I marveled at the documentaries that showed how people approached what they perceived as God around the world. Some worshipped rocks and trees (animism) while others picked some venerable ancient personage and elevated them to the place of deity (avatars).

When missionaries encountered the Sawi tribesmen of South America they found cannibalism and it was considered a way of gaining complete power over someone by eating their brain. When documentary commentators described the tribe’s religious beliefs in their narratives, I found it hard to give much credence to them in light of their other frightening cultural practices. Could those who think its fine to eat other people have stumbled across the true path to God?

Differences in culture can be as innocuous as simple color preferences, like the fleshy pink houses all across Lisbon’s hilly neighborhoods; versus the stark white dwellings so favored in the cities towns and hamlets of France. The Louisianans eat mudbugs (crawfish) and in North Carolina a breakfast of white gravy and biscuits makes the day for millions of country folk in the beautiful rolling hills of Appalachia.

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By Rev. MICHAEL BRESCIANI

Most of the journalists I know are not bloggers, but bloggers wouldn’t have half as much to say if it weren’t for those writers. After one blogger responded to an article I wrote entitled “Religion and Politics Don’t Mix –A Modern Fairy Tale” I made this reply. Be it article or blog, I knew it must be shared.

The author of the response chose to point our the following quote:

And Benjamin Franklin said: “If we look back into history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution.  The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practiced it on one another.  The first Protestants of the Church of England blamed persecution in the Romish Church, but practiced it upon the Puritans.  They found it wrong in Bishops, but fell into the practice themselves both here (England) and in New England.”

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By Rev. MICHAEL BRESCIANI

In the Obama campaign he was asked what he thought of Jesus Christ. His reply was that when he first heard of Christ he thought that Jesus was a person he would like to know more about. No one can say if he has taken up that quest as yet, but here is something he has obviously missed so far.

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By Rev. MICHAEL BRESCIANI

June 6 is D-Day, June 14 is Flag Day and this year we will celebrate Father’s Day on June 21. These observances have long been a deep and revered part of American culture. Look out, here comes change.

June has traditionally been a month of honoring fathers, soldiers and patriots; now thanks to the social engineering of Barack Obama we have a whole month to celebrate lesbians, bi-sexuals, gays and transgenders. In America there will be about 290 million people who will likely not be rushing out to observe this month long celebration.

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Worst Attack on First Amendment Freedoms

of Speech, Religion in American History

By Rev. MICHAEL BRESCIANI

While America slept on Wednesday April 25 we woke up to find headlines about how Michelle Obama likes to sneak out and eat at fun restaurants. Not so well covered by the media was the passage of the Hate Crimes bill re-introduced and passed in committee by John Conyers (D-MI).

The bill co-sponsored along with 42 other representatives and crafted by openly gay Congressmen Barney Frank is riddled with gay agenda politics and disregards the will of the people. It was introduced between sessions when little attention is being paid to discussions or votes in the house and is rife with skullduggeries. Have legislators now come to the place where their own personal lifestyles can get some lawful credence if they think it deserves it?

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                                                             By Rev. MICHAEL BRESCIANI

Excited media and political pundits are chomping at the bit to discuss the merits or the failures of President Obama’s worldwide romp through Europe and Muslim countries. Here is one view.

Bowing to the King of a Muslim Nation, Proclaiming America is not a Christian nation while in Turkey and romping through Europe apologizing for arrogant Americans, Obama returns to an insulted and belittled nation. Will we get an apology? Not likely!

Liberal historians and secular academicians in the U.S. may have of late been able to re-write history and plug it to a generation that is graduating from high school with fifth grade reading skills. They have not been allowed to erase the voluminous works of U.S. history archived and protected so far by law. That history defies, denies and decries the lie that America is not a Christian nation.

It is those revered documents that when contrasted to Mr. Obama’s rhetoric in Turkey before the public and President Abdullah Gul that tend to leave a sick feeling in the stomach and a feeling of betrayal in the heart.

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By Rev. MICHAEL BRESCIANI

President Obama’s show of anger with AIG for giving out bonus money to its top execs has raised the ire of the nation, and in AIG it has started an open rebellion. America may have a lot of enemies, but AIG would hardly make the top ten list of real bad guys. What’s the spin?

The Washington Post is reporting “a mob effect” inside AIG. The Post said “A tidal wave of public outrage over bonus payments swamped American International Group yesterday. Hired guards stood watch outside the suburban Connecticut offices of AIG Financial Products, the division whose exotic derivatives brought the insurance giant to the brink of collapse last year. Inside, death threats and angry letters flooded e-mail inboxes. Irate callers lit up the phone lines. Senior managers submitted their resignations. Some employees didn’t show up at all.”

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