Dear Fellow Believers,
Two months after 9/11, in November of 2001, I ventured to Toronto at the invitation of George Apic
to deliver a series of four talks in a downtown auditorium. George had put flyers around the city advertising my arrival. The main thrust of these addresses was God's use of evil.
In the wake of the terrorist attacks, churches were hustling to distance God from the evil. As people sought answers, church attendance was initially up around the world. Unaware that the business of the church was not
answers but rather love-bombing with donuts, swelling membership rolls, and then locking down souls in the fog of tradition, the initial rush into church doors soon became a mass exodus out of them.
My goal at this gathering was twofold: 1) herald a God who created evil as well as good for the ultimate benefit of His creatures, and 2) expose organized religion as a cult forwarding the lie that
God dwells in man-made temples.
Not many people showed up. Well? Not many people want anything to do with a God Who fails to run the universe in accord with human emotional desire. Attendance was disappointing but it ultimately did not matter to me as I always do my work unto God and not unto humans.
Rodney
Paris has taken the 22 year-old audio off the magnetic tape and digitized it, while adding video and helpful text frames. So here is talk 1 of 4—timeless truth in spite of the topical imperative of the day.
Thank you for all your love of me and the support of this work. I stay encouraged because of you.
From the edge of the bottom of the Floridan peninsula,
Martin