The Manhood of God and Other Commentaries

By John M. Cragin

It is better for adults or mature pre-college. It consists of an examination of the biblical God of Abraham and the effects that men had on HIS (or her?) nature, hence the title "The MANHOOD of God. Attached to that basic theme is some fictional commentary on SEX. To that is Added commentaries on -- and here I switch to my version of what you wanted as CATEGORIES: Light- hearted Religion, Science (e. g. glacial records and Climate change); Economics/ Fiscal Responsibility), Politics.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Nov 16, 2012
• ISBN: 9781477270042

John M. Cragin

LTC John M. Cragin, US Army (ret'd) was born in Joplin, MO in 1924.After graduating from Joplin Senior High School in 1942, he went, voluntarily into the Army where he spent about a quarter of a century retiring in 1967.He married and had four children, now adults, with children of their own.Upon retirement from the army he received a Legion of Merit citation and went directly to a teaching position at Missouri Southern College in Joplin where he taught Physics, Mathematics and Computer Science for twenty- two years, retiring as Professor Department Head of Computer Science. His Academic degrees were BS (USMA), MS (Perdue), Dr. Ed. (University of Arkansas).His publications, aside from news paper columns for over a decade after his retirement from Missouri Southern State University were Coauthor, with fellow faculty members at West Point, of the textbook for the Senior Course in "Armament Engineering," later published as a Field Manual for Equipment Design by the U. S. Army Ordnance Office at Duke University. His Doctoral Dissertation was titled "The Affects of Mastery Learning on Self-concepts and Attitudes."

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Published by AuthorHouse 03/25/2013

ISBN: 978-1-4772-1618-7 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4772-7004-2 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2012917155

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Contents

Preface

Part I: Bending Genesis

Part II: A Little More Serious

Part III: More To The Point

Critique and commentary by the author of The Manhood of God (MoG) by J Cragin

Essay # 1: Glacial Records missing in Climate debates

Essay # 2: ISLAM vs. Radical Islam

Essay # 3: State-capitalism, Free markets and Private Enterprise

Essay # 4: Neither a borrower nor a lender be!

Essay # 5: The Afro-American And Anglo-American

Essay # 6: Checks and Balances

Essay # 7: Comments On The Debt

Essay # 8: Buy Bonds Back @Mkt Now

Essay # 9: Exercise for Elders

Preface

I lay in my bed at night intending to sleep but my mind wanders and invents ways of saying some things—Technical, Philosophical, Religious, Political etc. This is just one of those nights. I can’t sleep so I might as well get up and use that Title that has kept me awake. This will start with a short story based loosely on the book Genesis by King James (If you wondered, that was a poor ha ha). If you are thin-skinned about the Genesis basis then read no more. I disclaim any intent to hurt anyone’s feeling. I’m one of you, a homo sapien, the one and only race. I am a simple story teller, as you will soon discover. I may, occasionally, in telling this tale, enter the saga myself. Don’t worry about it!. I’ll be alright.

Part I

Bending Genesis

Long ago there was a great city named Babylon in Mesopotamia. It’s where many shepherd boys went on Saturday