I took a Google nostalgia tour, which saves money and repairs memories. I combined nostalgia with shocks.
Nostalgia, looking back at happy times, brings up memories of passing moments, not so significant at the time, but overwhelming later.
The crash and burn tactics of the denominations, especially the faux-conservative ones, have brought their pathetic methods to light. I often wondered, "Why didn't the clergy object to the obvious destruction of Scriptural doctrine, clergy qualifications, and the family"?
I think the Baby Boomers were too afraid of losing their seats on the gravy train. As one Methodist named Klinger said to me, "Klinger Lake was named after my family." I thought that was rather shallow.
But the Pastoral Epistles remind us that the same things were going on in glory years of Imperial Rome, rich and powerful, but dying without knowing it.
Christians rescued babies who were exposed in the wilderness if they were not wanted. They risked their lives to do that.
Pagan worship was so dominant that the first Christian Emperor created a new capital and established an Eastern Roman Empire that was Greek and Christian. History largely ignores 1100 years of the Byzantine Empire, which fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453.
The early Christians had to worship among the dead, to keep away from retaliation. Many altars are box-like to remind us of the coffins used as altars.
My parents in the 1950s said, "America is going the way of Rome." I heard that endless times, and now I wonder if any parents have enough history to say that, assuming immediate responses.
There is a chance that the strength of the past will revive to support the Four Freedoms and the Bible with the most to offer - the King James Version.
The denominations and their fading seminaries oppress and ridicule the KJV, yet wonder why their enrollments are dragging, literally. The New Testament records that aspect of Imperial Rome too. Just read Romans 1 until it becomes clear (near the end of the chapter).
