Failure is Victory

I watch a lot of Christian videos on Youtube. One of Youtube’s prominent features is video recommendation. Their computers make wild guesses based on things you’ve already seen, and probably based on other types of Internet surveillance, and they show you videos they think you’ll want to watch. They also show you targeted ads.

For a long time, I was bombarded with ads for Mormonism, which is not, not, NOT Christianity. Mormons believe Jesus and Satan are brothers. They believe works will get you into heaven. One of their “prophets” denounced the “heresy” of salvation by faith, which is THE central belief of Christianity.

The only way for a Mormon to get into heaven is to do Mormonism wrong and accidentally accept enough true Christian doctrine to get him in the door.

The original Book of Mormon says black people will turn white and “delightsome” when they become righteous. Look it up if you don’t believe me. They didn’t allow black men to become priests (or allow black men and women into their temples) until 1978. They think American Indians are really descendants of Jews, which is not what DNA or common sense tells us. They believe God has a sort of wife, and that other beings were created through their union. They think God has a physical body, right now, in heaven (which is supposedly a planet).

They don’t believe Jesus is really the eternal, always-existing God, in the sense that Christians do. They think he started out imperfect and became God through obedience. Mormons also think they can put dead people in heaven by baptizing them by proxy.

It’s pretty strange.

If you look at the history of Mormonism, you will see a lot of proven fraud. I don’t mean individual Mormons defrauded people in their personal affairs. I mean Mormons committed fraud in creating doctrine and sacred writings and so on. It’s fundamental fraud that indicts the faith as much as the participants.

Look up The Book of Abraham. Joseph Smith took some Egyptian material concerning embalming and tried to pass it off as the story of Abraham’s life. Apparently, he did not realize that scholars who were familiar with hieroglyphics would eventually decode the Egyptian material and tell the world its true meaning.

As for Joseph Smith, the founding false prophet of Mormonism, he was arrested and tried in 1826. The crime was “glass-looking” or “money-digging,” which means he pretended to use magical stones in order to find buried treasure. It was a con game, and Smith admitted his guilt. The court records still exist.

I’ve had a number of commenters and email correspondents try to tell me Mormonisn is Christianity. Of course, they were all Mormons. Mormons are the only non-Jews who seriously believe Mormonism is Christianity. Jews can’t tell the difference. They probably think Jehovah’s Witnesses and Christian Scientists are Christians.

Youtube can’t tell the difference between Christianity and Mormonism, so I got ads for a long time.

Lately, Youtube has been trying to get me to watch a video about David Goodall. He killed himself recently. He was a prominent botanist. He was still going to work at 102, when the university that employed him told him he would no longer be allowed to go to his office because it was unsafe. He became dissatisfied with life and traveled to Switzerland, where a doctor helped him commit suicide with Nembutal. He was 104.

I have watched a number of videos in which Christians testified about dying and coming back to life, so maybe that’s why Youtube thinks I’m interested in assisted suicide.

I have not watched the video. I have no interest in it. Goodall’s story is a tragic tale of utter defeat. This man had over 104 years to get to know God, and he didn’t make it. He thought he had the right to take his own life, and he died in sin.

Some people think every suicide goes to hell. Some think suicide is not a sin. I suppose there must be cases in which suicide is forgiven. What if you try to kill yourself, but while you’re in the process of dying, you repent sincerely? What if you throw yourself on a bomb to protect other people from a terrorist attack? As law professors say, every case is different. Generally, though, I would expect people who kill themselves deliberately to go to hell.

God gives us forgiveness for all our sins, but we’re supposed to repent in order to be forgiven. If you know you’re doing something sinful, you choose to do it anyway, and you die as a result, how can you hope to be forgiven?

Leftists want people to think Goodall’s experience is an indictment of England’s “backward” laws, which required a frail old man to travel hundreds of miles in order to end his suffering. That’s terrible. They want to make it easier for misinformed people to do things that will condemn themselves to hell. Their policies will help people die in unbelief.

Euthanasia is a wonderful thing…for lower animals. It’s great that we are allowed to spare animals pointless suffering. But animals are not human, and human beings are not animals. Animals can’t go to hell. They can’t sin, because sin requires the ability to distinguish good from evil.

The life of an animal is not sacred. You can kill an animal simply because you’re hungry or you need a piece of leather. You can kill an animal because it digs up your garden. Killing a person to end his suffering is like killing him for stealing your tomatoes.

People are very important. God told me this: no one is disposable. Euthanasia makes us out to be no more important than bugs and rats. Every one of us is here for a reason. We have assignments. We don’t have the right to quit before our time.

It’s too bad we can’t see Goodall as he is now. We can see him in a video, praising his uninformed decision…before receiving the consequences. We can’t see him in hell, in flames, crying and screaming in pain and regret.

The disinformation that surrounds us in this world is amazing. We swim in it every day. The enemy destroys people with lies, and then to make things worse, he persuades the rest of us to admire them after they’re placed in hell. The damned are still alive, suffering horrors beyond description, while we smugly celebrate them up here on hell’s roof.

I finally clicked the little links and told Youtube to quit showing me that video. I don’t know if it will listen, but I certainly hope so.