about me

Bill Etem. Ex-Math teacher. Ex-Lot of things. Ex- Football Coach at Notre Dame. Alright, alright, it was at the high school in Los Angeles, not the university in South Bend, IN, and I was only an assistant coach for the junior varsity....Formal Education: B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Minnesota. Currently living in the Minneapolis - St. Paul area, which is an urban version of Siberia, a huge ice sheet beneath concrete jungles, an inner-city ghetto full of gangsters surrounded by rich, luxurient suburbs which extend out to the fertile croplands. It's a typical American metropolis, only colder, crueler and more brutal with arctic blasts than all others......I've been all through and around and up and down France, Germany, Italy, Canada, many of the 50 states in of the USA. I've lived in East Dakota and in South Dakota, in Southern California and in Colorado, and for 20 months in Mexico, mostly in Oaxaca. That's a fine place to lay low for awhile, at least until the heat is off. Speaking of heat, you'll sweat all day and all night in places like Vera Cruz and Acapulco, but Oaxaca is high up in the mountains, and cool fresh breezes blow in from the Sierra and keep you comfortable as you lay low south of the border, or is it `lie low'? I can never remember.

`Constitutional History of the Western World' is my main book. It is certainly not a comprehensive history of Western Civilization, but it covers the most important issues. It's also a polemic and an exercise in rational thinking. I fall into a sub-category under Christian Fundamentalism and I've devoted over 20 years to researching and writing it. See my Facebook wall for my resume.

Christian Fundamentalism is founded upon scriptures such as John xiv. 23-26, where Jesus says that those who love Him keep His words, and those who don't love Him don't keep His words. In Galatians i. 8 St. Paul says that even an angel from heaven is accursed if he alters St. Paul's gospel. St. Paul states in II Timothy iii. 16 that scripture is inspired by God. Revelation xxi. 18-19 tells of curses which will fall on those who corrupt the Book of Revelation, such as by altering it. Denying it's authenticity would be a form of altering it. God is love - I John iv. 8 - and God wants only what is best for us, and everyone knows how important a little discipline is.

There are over 400,000 words in my book, and they all pertain, one way or another, to Jeremiah xxxi. 31-34, to the Divine Law which God writes on the hearts of His people.

To say there is no True Church is to reject Christianity. This is because, though the term `True Church' is never mentioned in the Bible, nevertheless, John xv. 6, John xiv. 23-26, Matthew xvi. 13-19, Ephesians iv. 1-6, Galatians i. 8, Jeremiah xxxi. 31-34, etc., etc., tell us, in so many words, that there is a True Church. And if one rejects those scriptures one rejects Christianity.

My book scrutinizes the main sects in Christianity in an attempt to locate the True Church.

If a person has the Divine Law mentioned in Jeremiah xxxi. 31-34 written on his heart, then, logic says he will not advocate anything evil, unjust or idiotic. This suggests the true Christian must be something of a great expert on human laws and government policies, at least enough of an expert to never advocate anything evil, unjust or idiotic. Equal sharing of the wealth among those who work was not an idea which was invented by 19th century Communists - it's right out of the Gospel - note Acts ii. 44, Acts iv. 32, Matthew xxv. 31- 46 etc. - and is almost 2,000 years old - though of course it fell out of fashion in the centuries following the early Church, and I see this fall as one piece of evidence, amid many other pieces of evidence, of a falling away from the True Faith by people under the sign of the cross.

If you want something lighter, perhaps something in the genre of adventure fiction, then you might try `Amanda's War'.

favourite books

The Bible, the books of Michelet, Lea, Lecky, Lord Acton, Balzac, Buchan, Robert Louis Stevenson, William F. Buckley Jr., Gibbon, Graetz, Grote, Gregorovius etc., etc.

my websites

http://facebook.com/billetem