History & Comment for September 29, 2025

A look at historical and current events on this day, comment and humor so dry it would make a camel thirsty. 

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This is History and Comment for Monday the 29th September 2025.

There are a couple of religious topics that have come up in recent days.  It is amazing when you consider Biblical concepts and how well they apply to current social issues or social issues of any age.   

We have discussed that the various elements of the LBGT spectrum are not a continuous spectrum.   The root causes may have similarities but they are different.  As are the reactions.   It is rather clear that they all have psychological and emotional issues.  In Gay men this is often, very often, a damaged relationship with their Fathers.   This point appears to be the one single universal factor. Or at least extremely common among a constellation of factors.  

Another factor is gay men frequently are attracted to men who have qualities they see themselves lacking.  A form of the idea opposites attract.  

We are dancing around not so much physical issues but ones of the mind.   When we move the discussion to the Trans Community,  it becomes outright delusional.   The kids that claim  they are cats and want to be treated as such, have no physical traits of a cat or dog or pony.    If they actually believe they are another animal, I believe that would meet the clinical definition of delusional.   Then how is a person who is distraught they are male or female and wish to be the other not cross the same clinical line?   

Why is it the social answer to the issue to mutilate them through surgery or cross hormones?    Often on children or minors who do not have the facilities to judge long-term effects. No amount of surgery will ever make a human a cat.    Dozens of biological markers will always come back human and never cat.    And large doses of even same sex hormores is fraught with side effects.   It is not a simple medical treatment. Still society insist the best treatment is to facilitate the delusion, while completely dismissing any psychological treatment first.   A pre-teen child who believes they are a cat or the opposite sex, needs first psychological treatment,  long before they need surgery or hormones.  

Man’s ways are rarely if ever God’s ways, without a serious submission of man’s will.   Paul takes several chapter in the Book of Romans to dive into the idea of the carnal human mind is at odds with the will and mind of God.   He sums the thought with a call to action in Chapter 12, verse 2.   “And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”

Paul is saying in all manner of things we much first fix the mind, to get our minds in alignment with God.   

Can we fix all of the folks who claim LGBTQ with psychology?  That is doubful,   but without a doubt the results might be more positive.    There is a common cry that it would be better to have a trans kids than a dead one. Suggesting there is a high chance of suicide.  That alone suggest a psychological element.     But what is not talked about is the suicide rate in those that have had radical transformations remains very high.   Simply put, the surgeries and hormones do not fix the mental issues.   

On a more positive note.   My YouTube feed has offered a number of videos discussing WW II POWs who were housed in the American Countryside.    Often these POW camps were in areas that could use extra farm labor.   One such camp was Camp Atterbury here in Indiana.   The main camps were often accompanied by remote camps close to needed farm work.    Kimmel Park in Vincennes, Indiana was one such branch camp. 

Like many stories, it would be difficult to make hard statements that would be without exception.    American tried to follow the Geneva Convention in the way they treated POWs.    The story is many Germany solider who were encamped in rural America were greatly impressed with the American generosity, industrial might and the properity that was abundant despite it being during war time.   American society did have some hardships during the war, but they paled in comparison to those of our allies and several orders of magnitude above the conditions in Germany.   

The German soldiers were impressed that some of their host families whose farms they worked on were fluent in German.   There are stories that in some cases local families invited the prisoners in for Lunch or special dinners.   That prisoners could be feed and treated so well made a significant impression to the soldiers.  So much so, they often felt guilt that they were living better in an American POW Camp than their families were back in Germany.  

It was not uncommon for some POWs to wish to stay in America and others maintaining contact with their local host years after the war.    

Again, we can look to the Bible to find where in this case the actions of society aligned with Biblical concepts.    The Book of Proverbs makes the statement in Chapter 25.  “ If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward thee.”  

In the New Testament, we have several examples that applied to that time and conditions.  Roman Soldiers could compel a citizen to carry his armour for one mile.   Jesus taught to carry it two.   

Paul again in his letter to the Romans quotes proverbs and expands on the idea in the last paragraph of Chapter 12.   This thoroughly Christian idea that a person should return good for evil flows through the Bible from Cover to Cover.  Some might point to the old Testament mandate of an eye for an eye.   But when considered in context that is also lenient.  The concept there is the punishment should fit the crime and not escalate it.   

It is in no way human nature nor easy to return good for evil.  But the concept foreshadows the idea that God is far more loving and forgiving than we can imagine.   

My last point is not so religious but looks at the condition of America.   Granted we have far more interactions with Government than did folks a century ago.    Yet, America remains maybe the most free place on the face of the earth.   By design we are free from the bonds of social status or class.   There is no royalty.   Ou r basic rights are not some priveldge granted by our Government, but they are proclaimed to be God given and the Government is restrained from infrindging them.    That single point alone should be taught in every school room every day.   Contrast this to Canada or Europe, while in day-to-day affairs they may appear to be on the same plane they are not.