TERRORISTS VERSUS CHRISTIANS

[extract from 2007 letter, K’lakokum to JDC]

    I was thinking today of an article I read some years ago about a cab driver who called it quits because there were too many kamikaze drivers on the road nowadays.  He spoke, of course, of highly urbanized areas, and he went on to comment about how an influx of immigrants has contributed to a rapid decay in general driving abilities.  Much of the problem is simply a diminishing in what used to be common courtesy.  It used to be standard driving practice, for example, to permit a bus to exit a bus bay or the curb lane to enter traffic ahead of you.  This common courtesy is now so absent that the Ontario government has found it necessary to legislate courtesy, and we now have the law that you must yield to any bus.

    I was coming onto Highway 410 from Highway 401, and I was the only driver on the acceleration ramp.  Coming up the 410 in the slow lane was one vehicle only, the other two lanes clear.  I merged in about three car lengths ahead of that vehicle, but he closed the gap in a second or two, leaned on his horn, passed me, cut in front of me and slammed on his brakes.  It used to be common courtesy that in heavy traffic, each car lets one car in, or in light traffic, that the car already established on the main roadway simply moves over a lane.  This is another courtesy which we can no longer expect.

    Earlier in the day, I had stopped for a black coffee at the Second Cup at Bayview south of Manor.  An elderly lady ahead of me, hands gnarled with arthritis, asked the clerk to put the cream and sugar into her coffee.  The clerk referred her to a self-serve side bar to do it herself.  The lady lacked the strength to open the little sugar packet.  Since I take my coffee black, this isn’t a problem I had thought about before.  But the lack of common courtesy which is built into the way Second Cup “serves” its coffee surely guarantees that they’ll never have the popularity of Tim Hortons.  [I did assist the lady.]  As a True Brit, you’ll be horrified with the way Burger King serves tea – they give you the cup of hot water, with the bag on the side.  Even if you request that they put the bag in first – the proper way to make tea [as you’ve mentioned many times] is to pour the water on the bag – they refuse, and they expect you to fiddle with it yourself while you’re driving.

    In the little events of ordinary life, what we are observing is an increasing absence of Christianity.

    Which brings me to the point of this letter.  I wanted to thank you for the loan of Secret Terrorists.  It only took a few pages to see why you are so enamored of it – it is very anti-Roman Catholic, as are you.  Your excessively pro-Anglican stance evades the fundamental similarities of the two denominations.  I’ll get back to that in short order, but first I want to go to the end of the book where the author states that the mark of the beast –- the beast being Rome – is Sunday observance.  Islam celebrates Friday; Judaism celebrates Saturday; Christianity celebrates Sunday – the three one-God religions can’t seem to agree.  I want to point out that the whole question is somewhat redundant because we don’t know what day it is!!!  In former lives, some of us Kangaroos were eye-witnesses to the creation of Venus out of Jupiter, to the resulting destruction of life on Mars, to the change in Earth’s year from 360 days to 364-and-a-bit.  The significance of the seventh day was in part mathematics, in part sacred geometry, in part galactic alignment --- and all of this changed with the worlds in collision – we don’t know what day it is now!! or if seven is still the significant number!!  The author has a compulsion to interpret the prophecy of Revelation, but every generation must understand every prophecy in a renewed way appropriate to its own age.  That’s why we all came back to these lives.

       Most of Secret Terrorists is standard conspiracy theory fare, and the author quotes secondary sources extensively.  The only section where he quotes primary sources was the one that fascinated me the most -- his section on the sinking of the Titanic.