A Pastor's Thoughts

This is my response to President Trump's Press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, being asked to leave a quaint little restaurant 200 miles from D.C. Every time I look at the news, there is another story of someone hating someone else.  People are kicked out of restaurants because of the hats and T-shorts they wear, schools are cleared when someone carries an American flag into class.  The primary motivation for public discourse these days is hate. People would rather lose everything and be politically right than to try and get along.  As long as people stand holding the banner of hate, they think they will win and the world will turn into a utopia.  Many godly people have tried to create a utopia in towns across the globe.  John Calvin felt that with the reformation behind him, he could make Geneva a town based on the gospel of Jesus Christ and his law.  That plan did not last long at all.  Perhaps Calvin missed the point that God himself gave the Jewish people the blueprint f

Self driving cars consist of software controlling a car.  Facebook consists of many software programs.  Twitter, instagram, Google, Amazon and every other website and app people use are pieces of software written by people.  Software is simply instructions, written by people, telling computers what to do.  For many years I was a computer programmer.  The way the process is supposed to work is that people gather and determine what the end result is supposed to be.  These requirements are then given to programmers who make choices on how to bring about those results.  There are many, sometimes hundreds of choices that a programmer can make on how to bring about the desired results.   As we enter the realm of “machine learning” or “artificial intelligence” computer programmers, people, will be deciding how to bring about the results that the directors want.  Currently, Facebook has told its users that it will determine what is true news and fake news.  Those choices are being made by

Recently I have been hearing many people speaking about why the world is so messed up, especially in California.  They believe that when beings are born, they are perfect, good, righteous, sinless, wholesome and equipped to live in a utopia.  I called the “things” that come out of the womb “beings” because now, even gender and sex and neutral.  Thirty seconds before birth, this “thing” is not even a person or human.  Not until this being comes all the way out and the parents decide they want it, will it be called “human.”   So, why is there crime and sin and disobedience in the world if everyone who is born is born perfect?  Society teaches these young people to hate, to be racist, to commit crimes, to hurt and to steal.  The institutional racism, the systematic lying and cheating teach these young people this evil is the right way to go.  Therefore, the progressives say, tear down all the institutions and start over.  Destroy and deconstruct everything and start over, then we wil