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Some People Are So Gullible They Believe Anyone

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You take for instance the idle worshiper. He actually feels that that rock is going to help him. He goes to it for advice consolation and of course in offering of gifts.

On the other hand, there are those who believe the government (AKA democrats) will take care of all their needs. Oddly, some feel that it is all owed to them. All they have to do is keep those dems in office and all will go well. Hence, they will do lie, cheat and defraud to insure that they have Big brother in there to provide for them their handout. For those that have some reasoning left, that only lasts until they have their dictatorship set up. Then it will be the dems who will be doing all the receiving. Those that voted them in will have absolutely no say, no money, no food, and, of course, no medical.

It does all seem to be sort of the same thing. However, the fact is that the rock might be more helpful. It isn’t trying to control what you do, what you say or what you think, which is the desire of the dems.

Lest anyone get the wrong idea that I am encouraging rock worship, I am just saying, rocks are less dangerous. They have no desire to take over and rule the world, like Lenin, like Mao, and yes, like Hitler.

Gold in Them There Hills

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I remember, maybe a dozen years ago, a man on TV with a big bushy beard said, “We are standing over millions of dollars worth of gold. All we need to do is dig it out.”
Perhaps he oversimplified it, but that is about it. People, in order to dig it out can end up spending fortunes and still not recover their investment. In irony, they work against themselves. The more gold that is dug out, the less it is worth… that old law of supply and demand again. The more gold there is, the less it is worth. As it becomes harder to find, the value goes up.
Still, it is an oddity of just how much work a man will go through to avoid working. I mean, it is hard work mining for gold and there are no guarantees. It might cost you a thousand dollars to dig out 700 dollars worth of gold. It can be very discouraging. It can also cause a man and his family to go hungry should they come up short.
Then again, a man may stumble and fall in just the right place to dig up a three thousand dollar nugget. Just not a whole lot of logic to it all.
On the other hand, the guy that sells the machinery to the miner, he makes his money either way. Then there are those people who buy the gold itself. He buys it. Then he sells it again for maybe 5 or 6% more. He will definitely make his fortune. Basically, that is how Rockefeller made his fortune. He let the wild caters risk finding the oil. Then he bought the crude oil, refined it and sold it. He never took a chance and he always made a profit. Every barrel he bought made him a profit.
To be sure, those gold miners need food and supplies. They cannot pick it up off the earth. It all must be paid for and, of course, the suppliers are happy to supply them for a price. That eats into the profit of the miner.
And so it is that a man will give his labor and his life for a little gold. All the while, he will ignore that which is free and far more valuable. Man cannot buy eternal life. But, he can have it free for the asking. All he need do is accept Jesus as his savior and eternal life is his.
It is sort of like the old man said, we are standing in a place where we can have eternal life. However, in this case we cannot work for it. We must not work for it. It is free. If we try to work for it, it corrupts it. We must accept it without trying to earn it. In truth, we do not have the power to earn it.
Mostly, why should we try when it is offered to us free? Jesus did all the work. He paid for it with His blood. What can we add? It is one of the rare things. We acquire it straight from the source. No merchant is involved. No church or store or clergyman can demand a payment. The middleman is totally and completely eliminated. Jesus has paid for it in His blood and He chose to charge nothing in return.
How can any person in his right mind pass up something like that?

Relations in the Workplace

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When I was younger, I saw no problem with workplace romances.  I mean, how many romance novels are based on secretaries marrying their bosses?  It does sound nice.  Sometimes, it actually works.

After years of looking back over things, I do have a little different perspective.  There are at least five possible problems that can surface with close relations in the workplace.  There might be more.

  1. The obvious one.  It has two edges.  A person might show favoritism to a subordinate.  I have seen this firsthand and it can get ugly.  It can become a fast morale problem.  On the other hand, to keep from showing favoritism, the person might be rougher on the favored one.  That is almost as bad.  It can hold back a person who deserves credit and advancement.
  2. While a relationship is great today, it might turn sour overnight.  It can cause a disruption and might ever bring things to a stop in the environment.  Many times, it means that one or the other; or both might have to leave.
  3. Fraternization during business can be slow progress and can be distracting, throughout the office.  Anyone who has been around office life very long knows exactly what I mean.  While the couple is supposed to be working, they just might be doing other things.
  4. It can result in love triangles.  Now really.  Is this what a manager wants in his office…outbreaks in the office of one person fighting another over the desires of the third.  This can really get bad if more than three are involved.
  5. One or the other or both might be married.  Now that’s a disaster waiting to happen.  Need I explain?

I am far from being an expert in the subject.  However, I have seen many instances of friction in the workplace without the romances.  There is competition: anger because the other guy was promoted; so and so got the weekend off and I had to work; and so on.  There is no need inviting more problems.

It is the small list of what managers have to cope with continually.  I have seen it and I’m sure anyone that has had a job for a while has seen it too.

Of course, this is something to be decided by the leadership of each business.  If the management can deal with, or if they think they must deal the problems, it is up to them.

However, it becomes an entirely different problem with the “office manager” is a captain and the commanding officer of a platoon.  Guess what, if the battle is raging and shells are landing all around, the last thing that captain is going to want to deal with is a love triangle.

It does happen.  It is the natural way of things.  You get men and women in the same fox hole and the commanding officer is going to have problems.  Worse yet, is if one of the people in the relationship is the captain.  You talk about fireworks.  You talk about moral and morale problems.  Guess what?  It is going to shred discipline.  A well oiled company can be torn asunder just almost instantly.  I mean, if you’re a corporal and you are competing with the attractive corporal who is having an affair with the captain….

It is why I don’t like women in combat.  I think most of those who have seen combat firsthand will agree with me.  However, it seems those experts, the ones who have never been shot at know better.  That is the way they are trying to run these armed forces and they are weaker because of it.  It is difficult to prove, of course because this country has not been in a really serious war in decades.  The closest thing to it was Iraq, but considering the American superiority, it can hardly be classified as a serious war.

True.  Some of our guys were killed, but compared to Iraq’s losses???  It was not much more than a training exercise, one in which we were able to test our equipment and tactics.

However, it doesn’t stop there.  What if all those in your combat company are men.  Then, right in the middle of everything, one of your men comes in and complains that the other man in his fox hole keeps hitting on him.

Guess what?  When you allow homosexuals on the font lines, you get the same problems as with women, only worse.  If I were a CO of a company, I certainly wouldn’t want those kinds of problems while I’m actually trying to fight a war.

As a S/Sgt in the Marines, I never had to deal with anything like that, thankfully.  It was really difficult enough.  Every one of the men I was in charge of wanted to be treated fairly.  Being human as they were, some wanted to be treated more fairly than others.

Thank goodness, I never had to deal with romances, triangles or homosexuals.  I think I would have asked for a demotion to private.  I’d let others have to deal with that kind of thing, thank you.

One more, important thing to remember.  When you have problems in the office, you can fire those involved.  When you are in a battle and the enemy is closing on your position, you’re stuck with what you have.  There’s no firing anyone.  Indeed, in situations like that, a leader just might be forced to use a little physical discipline to snap those soldiers into shape.  It does happen, though maybe not with the women.

Complaints

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I guess I do my share of complaining, maybe a little more than I should. Sometimes I am a little ashamed of myself, especially when I find out how wrong I am in my complaint. However, I do try to reserve my complaints for those who deserve it.

More than that, I like to think my complaints just might help others. For instance, when I complained about the two Wendy’s employees that were busy shooting the breeze with each other when they saw me and others waiting at the counter. Right in front of them I counted loudly to five and said, “Okay. You don’t want my money. I’ll go somewhere else.” And I did. I have not been back.

On the other hand, there are those who will complain at the drop of the hat. I saw them in high school and I saw them in the corps. In the Marines, I heard it said that you can tell a happy marine by how he complains. I have to admit there is some truth in that.

Certainly, I noticed that civilians like to complain too. Moreover, the complains often precede the crime. The man that complains about having nothing is likely to go out and try to steal what he can’t buy. In some cases, he takes what he shouldn’t have. In still other cases, a person might kill the person he was complaining about just a short time earlier.

I have been told to avoid the complainer, the one who complains just because he likes to complain. Today’s complaints turn into tomorrow’s feeling of being treated wrong. Then of course, he feels like he deserves that which he doesn’t. Or maybe he does deserve that thing he lost. Either way, when he thinks he deserves what he doesn’t have, when he feels he has been wronged, he is likely to eventually do more than complain. Then, he gets in trouble and, if you are around him, you might get in trouble too.

If you have read your Bible much, you will have likely read about complaining. In many cases, God dealt with the complaining. He did have punishments for them, as well as those who were with the complainers. Those who kept their mouths closed and just put up with the trials were punished with those who grumbled. Never could totally figure that out, but it is the way God did it. Perhaps there is a lesson in that. Sometimes it’s just not enough to not complain. Sometimes we should open our mouths in praise and in thanks when those around us are grumbling. I don’t know. Just a personal observance.

Nonetheless, I’ve got to admit, sometimes I just like to complain, even when I know I shouldn’t. When I catch myself doing that, I try to ask for forgiveness and to thank God for the abundance which I have. I think it helps. Maybe it helps others too.

Still, those Wendy’s employees. I hope they got the message. Somehow, I don’t think so. Sometimes, no matter what, the complaining just doesn’t do anyone any good. It just gives Satan a toe hold. And we all know Satan knows what to do with a toe hold.

Let’s Remember What is Really Important

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  1. Man cannot live without air. It’s a fact. The air must be of the proper mixture. Too much or too little of any one gas in the mixture can be deadly within minutes. God knows that so, when He made earth, He provided us with air in abundance. You don’t have to go out and buy it, though it is possible. All we need do is breathe. I think it goes without saying that air is the most important earthly thing for us. As we humans are apt to do, we take it for granted.
  2. Water. Two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. Chemists have found it an oddity in many ways. For instance, it is one of the few compounds that expands when it goes from a liquid to solid. If you don’t believe me, try putting a soda in the freezer for a couple of days. No, no. Don’t do that. It will make a mess and you’ll blame me. Nonetheless, it is why ice floats. and… if ice did not float, it would cause more problems than I can put in one post. Incidentally, water is important too. It is the second most valuable substance to man. A man can go just about 3 days without water. After that, he will fail to breathe. That is to say, he will no longer be able to take advantage of the most important substance, air.
  3. Food. Unlike air, food must be sought, raised or hunted. In some cases, it does grow on trees, but even then, nowadays, farmers grow it. As a side note, to get food, we must have air and water. I guess that makes the air and water doubly important. The time a person can survive without food varies. However, I think we can safely say most people will not survive without some food for more than a month. Fortunately, God has provided us with food too. It just is that sometimes we have more difficulty getting it. Oddly, most of us enjoy eating. That is, unlike water and air. We drink water and we breathe air. However, we don’t normally so much sit down around a table and talk about the days events as we breathe and drink water.
  4. Salt. Nowadays the docs try to caution us against eating too much salt but it is necessary. God knew that and he provided us with a lot of that too, though sometimes it does need to be found where it is. If nothing else, we could drink seawater, just make sure we don’t overdo it. As the doctors say, we do need to watch our intake. It is especially needed for those who work hard out in the sun.
  5. By the way, while speaking of the sun, we must not overlook that. It provides us with light, heat, energy (even in fossil fuel and wind mills) As somewhat of a minor function, it does tell us what time of the day it is and what part of the year. Also, without the sun, it just might be a little difficult finding water, that is, even ignoring the warmth thing. Every day Mr. Sun evaporates tons of water, which is dropped on various land masses. This provides streams, rivers and lakes. Just think how much water the sun needs to continuously evaporate just to keep the great lakes full. Yeah, the sun’s pretty important too.

I’m sure you know I can go on and on about the important things, sort of like a reminder. It is good to remember them and give thanks for them every now and then.

The point is, have you ever thought about how important gold is. I mean, if gold was really all that important to us, don’t you think God would have made it more abundant. To me, the value of gold is in the minds of man. Really, we could live without uncovering another ounce of gold for the next century or so, wouldn’t you think.

It does have real practical uses, but mostly it just sits around in formed in shiny bars, under peoples mattresses and hanging around the necks of folks like Mr. T. It’s nice to look at, but it is simply not that important. Yet, every day, people are on TV telling me I must go out and buy gold, in case of a financial disaster.

I guess, if it is held within reason, it is okay. However, the way I look at it, it just gives the other guy a reason to shoot me. I don’t need the gold. He doesn’t need the gold. Why should either of us get shot over it?

I really think it would be a good idea for all of us to remember what is really important. I will take that one step farther and suggest we remember WHO is important. You know. Family, friends and the really nice guy that was good enough to give you a job so you can buy those potatoes, tomatoes and the occasional steak.

On the other hand, those dems sure think they know what is important, control and they will do anything, lie, steal and kill to get it. Don’t try to tell me they won’t. They have.

Using Single Passwords

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If I have heard it once, I have heard it a thousand times, “Don’t use the same password for all your accounts.” Sound advice. Unfortunately, by law, we effectively must use one password issued by the Social Security Administration. That is right. I have a Social Security Number and so do most people. And, as the sound advice above suggests, if someone has my SSN, it is very easy for them to steal my identity.

Now let’s see. My hospital has the number. My bank has the number. Many of those who dealt with me when I was in the Marines conceivably have my number, as my SSN was also my service number. At one time, I was actually required to put my SSN on my mail, on the envelope, on the outside, for everyone to see. I’m surprised that no one stole a bunch of IDs when that first came about.

I don’t know how we solve the problem. I’m not sure the Feds want it solved. After all, it isn’t their problem. Besides, I think those in power like controlling everyone with one number from infancy till death. They likely find it far easier, same as us using one number for all our accounts. They use but one number to keep track of us all.

However, there is one possibility, maybe two. I heard a suggestion for passwords that just might work for SSNs; Use the same number as now, but with the addition of 3, maybe 4 letters. The letters would be easy to remember. Only the feds and the person would know these four letters. If a situation arises where someone is using a questionable number, the rightful person could simply identify himself with the letters. The imposter could go to jail.

The second would be similar but the different. The person with the number would suggest a phrase, maybe as many as 10 or 15 words. The words would be easy to remember, easier than the numbers in the previous idea. The phrase would be used similarly.

Actually, there is another way, simpler. Shoot anyone steeling someone else’s ID. I guarantee that would work.

Okay. I agree. That is extreme. Let’s not go that far. Nonetheless, we need to make sure these thieves pay the price. It needs to be divided into 3 groups. There are those who make the theft possible, for instance those producing false IDs, credit cards, or the like. There are those who use the counterfeit products and then there are those who use the products for their personal gain.

Each, when caught, should be punished severely. I would suggest 10 to 20 years. It is far worse than the theft of money. If people are caught and punished as such, the ID thievery would greatly decrease.

Is it going to happen? I doubt it. It seems those who have the power to manage such things aren’t interested. It doesn’t benefit the lawyers and, at this point, it has not gotten enough noise. As they say, the squeaky gear gets the oil. So, until something is done, may I suggest you be very careful with your SSN, well as much as you can.

Oddly a Heart Attack

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I have always had this fear of dying, maybe a little more than others. Then a few days before my 50th birthday I went into the hospital with a little pain near my left shoulder blade. After some tests, they decided to do a cath test of my heart. It revealed a 90% blockage of a main artery. I mean I was a walking talking heart attack waiting to happen. However, up this this point, all I had was a little pain.

The doctor decided to put a stint in to help the blood flow. As he was working on it, I started feeling two spots of burning pain, one on each side of my breast bone. Then I started feeling nausea and dizzy. I figured this was it. The death I feared was very near. I felt panic and fear. I also felt pain.

Finally, I just gave up. In my mind, I said, “Well, I guess this is it. In just a while, I’ll see Jesus face to face.” Suddenly, the fear and panic were gone. Just a short time later, the pain went away too. There on that table during that procedure, I felt the presents of Jesus.

As I said many times before, I was saved at 13. However, there on that table, during that procedure, I felt a peace that most will never understand. I knew that if I had died then and there, Jesus was right there to take care of me.

He didn’t take me that day, but it changed my life, my outlook. I still fear death. However, I do feel a peace about it. I know that when my time comes, Jesus will be right there. He will help me through it and He will take me home.

That day at that time, I never felt so much peace before or since, odd as that might seem in the midst of a heart attack.

Incidentally, what caused the pain was a small piece of plaque that broke loose and floated downstream blocking a smaller artery. It did kill a small part of my heart. It’s still not something I ever want to go through again, but if and when it happens, I know Jesus will be there to take care of me.

I can’t imagine anyone wanting to go through something like that without Jesus. I strongly suggest you accept Jesus as your savior. I am sure that if you don’t and something like that happens to you, you will not be feeling peace. You do not want to face Jesus without accepting Him as your savior. It would be far better for you to feel the same peace I did. Now, at 73, I am more sure of that then ever.

Will God Destroy The US for Her Sin?

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That is a good question. I wish I could give you a simple straight forward reply. However, I am not a prophet. God has not told me. I did have a couple of pages addressing this thought but then I realized that I don’t need so many words.

Fact 1: He can do it if He wants. We have been forewarned and we have certainly had our chances.

Fact 2: He doesn’t have to. We are doing a pretty good job of it by ourselves.

Fact 3: The natural result of sin is destruction. If God takes his hands off this country, destruction will quickly follow. Only his mercy will spare us.

Fact 4: As a nation, we have turned our backs on God. I know of no reason that He should not turn his back on us.

Bottom line: If we maintain this course we can count on destruction whether He causes it or sits back and watches. It does not take a prophet to see that.

Success

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I have had no formal training as an evangelist. If I were fortunate enough to address an audience of a hundred and 3 of them made decisions to accept Jesus as their savior, I would consider it a success. If it were 5, I would be ecstatic.

I guess most preachers would hope for something greater than that; maybe 10 or 12. I mean, when the plan of salvation is presented, it is usually rejected. I really don’t have the foggiest idea why. It is really a good thing to accept Jesus as your savior. Yet, many reject him. I suspect, mostly the things of this world are more important to them than their eternal souls.

Well, some have better success than others. Billy Graham certainly had his success. He had a mostly simple straightforward way to present the plan of salvation and certainly God did his part. Paul, the one who wrote much of the New Testament presented the gospel to his thousands, and in a way, he is still helping to persuade people to accept the Lord today through the printed word.

A person might ask, who could possibly be more successful than that? Yet there is one, percentage-wise, who has us all beat. Moreover, he had a very simple sermon. “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown.” Simple and straightforward as it was, it apparently had 100% effectiveness. Everyone who heard the words repented and worshiped God.

Wow! I wish I could have that kind of success. However, there were two more things that made the conversion different. First, Jonah did just about all he could to keep it all from happening. He hated the people of Nineveh and he did not want to see them saved. In other words, perhaps the most successful preacher in history wanted to be an outright failure. Secondly, when the people repented God relented and did not destroy the city. Now that angered Jonah and he pitched a fit. (my interpretation)

In essence, it appeared God used Jonah’s rebellion for success. After all, it was very likely that the people of that great city knew of Jonah and what all he went through to keep from going to the city. When they saw Jonah arrive, when they all saw the sad expression on Jonah’s face, the people likely decided that God did really did mean it and that if they didn’t repent something bad was going to happen.

Now, that was success. Oddly, it was his determination to fail that made it succeed. It does make me wonder. What would have happened if Jonah would have done as he was told immediately. Maybe his success would have been 80% or 70%. I don’t know. It’s a guess and likely not a good one. Maybe, had Jonah done as he was told, no one would have listened and the city would have been destroyed, which was the very thing Jonah wanted.

At any rate, the people of that great city backslid and went back to their previous ways. Then, God did as he said he would. The city was destroyed so badly that some doubted the story of Jonah. No one could find the city. Then, one day they did. They not only found proof of its existence but also of its destruction. I have no idea if Jonah lived to see it or not. At any rate, those people did have their second chance and they ignored it.

I just wonder, how much is God going take from the US before he destroys this great country? At this point, I’m not sure we are not that much better than Nineveh. How long will God allow us to ignore his messengers and destroy the US?

Just as He destroyed that great city, He can also destroy this great nation. He needs no one’s permission and He need not send any warnings. We have the examples of the Bible. If we ignore them, then we will likely ignore any other warnings.

Certainly, one of those things that He will not overlook is the killing of babies. Children are very special to Him. Calling it family planning does not make it look one iota better to Him

If They Would Just….

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Most of us just want to do our work each day and hope the rest of the world would just leave us alone.

When I say the rest of the world, what do I mean? Well, there are the thieves. Their attitude is that whatever they can take will be theirs. I mean, they steal from the stores. They steal from the banks and they steal our cars. Through what some call it white collar crime, they steal our identity and they steal our property. Moreover, on the large scale, they steal our country. This is generally little by little and bit by bit. Even the slow train gets there eventually as the slow thief eventually takes what is ours, even to and including our freedom.

The problem is that they just won’t leave us alone. We bar our doors. We arm ourselves and we put bars on our windows. Yet, the stealing persist. The bars and windows only work for a while but the thieves persist. We have police and court systems but they can only do so much. From what I understand there are people that steal homes, somewhat with the blessing of our systems.

There are, of course the killers. Some use guns. Some use dope. Some even use automobiles. The truth is that a knife can kill someone just as dead as a gun and it is not nearly as easy to trace. For that matter, a rock will work and has been used many times in the commission of a murder.

That’s right. Those thieves and killers are after us and they just won’t leave us alone. But it is more than that. The casinos are after our money and many politicians seek our freedom. My question is what do they offer in return. The casinos say they are fun. They are for enjoyment. Seems strange to me. I never did like giving away my hard earned money. The politicians offer equality and safety. They tell us that we can’t take care of ourselves so they will.

That is an old ploy. It is what the surf policy of the dark ages promised. You pay homage to the royalty and the royalty will keep the nearby city state from taking over. If they take over, then you will owe homage to the other royalty. In a way, it seems odd. Does it really matter if we have to pay our taxes to the present king or the one that takes over.

At any rate, that went on for a while. Then the city states started grouping together. It was still the surf system but larger. London became Britain. Paris became France. Other little city states were swallowed up. Some kingdoms became history, but not much. Today, most folks don’t know most of the kingdoms that were gobbled up. There was a little war here. There was a little war there. Before you know it, there is no longer a country of Wales. Normandy is suddenly just an area of France and Alsace Loraine becomes a little piece of land for two countries to fight over.

Meanwhile, the citizens of the world keep calling out, “If they would just leave me alone!”

Why is all this you ask? To be sure there are three reasons. It started after the flood with a man called Nimrod. He was a man who set himself against God by his disobedience. His desire was to keep the world population together while God told them to spread out. In essence, Nimrod was the first one who wanted world control.

God stopped the effort by giving them different languages, which accomplished his command for them to spread out. Ever since, there have been those who wanted to rule the world and some had some success. The Pharaoh, the king of Babylon, of Persia, of Greece, and so on and so on, etc, etc.

My guess is that I don’t know all those who had set their goal to control the ancient world. I mean, there were men in Asia, Africa, and northern Europe as well as those we study in and around central Asia. It was and is a goal of Satan. If one man controls the world, then he can control the world by controlling the one man.

Certainly there are those who just like to control things. You put ten men in a room and one of them will want to control the other nine. Most of the rest will be followers. I don’t know why this is but it is. Hence, the knights, the kings, the emperors all sought ultimate control. Rarely, occasionally, they had good reasons. After all, one man united Europe just it time to keep them from being overrun by the Moors, who came up through Spain with the intention of ruling Europe.

Then, you have those who want to rule the world by religion. I don’t mean Christianity, I mean religion. In essence the largest of all empires was that of the Roman Catholic Church. Though it passed itself off as a religion, it was nothing more than another method of world domination. Those who spoke contrary to it were in danger of losing their life. That is not Christianity. That is another form of controlling, no better than any other at the time.

So, when a person seeks to be left alone by those who would like to control him, most likely he will include the Catholic Church as well as those who fought wars to further their empires. (Wait a minute. The Catholics did fight wars to further their influence. The pope, himself took up his armor and sword in his battles. I really don’t think Peter would have done that.)