I just sang in a local Handel's Messiah sing-along in some metro-area Catholic Church.

Such power exists?

I did not previously get a State license to do so.

Nor was I required to obtain a State permit to enter the sanctuary nor to sing inside that church.

Even the church janitor did not ask me for any vocal credentials nor personal phone number before I seated myself in the bass section of the congregant choir (being that the tenor part of the choral masterwork is almost as straining as the extreme-pitch-limits complex fugues within Beethoven's Missa Solemnis in D).

No one asked me to beller out to everyone in hearing distance my personal phone number, nor pay a 10-phone-digits-reminiscent admission fee (although the choral hierarchy suggested contributing to a free-will donation, which I sorrowfully declined). Weirdly enough, they did not ask my fellow singers nearby to do so either. Had they done so, they might have been shot dead on the spot. Or at least profusely spit on. Or viciously slapped, pushed down, and mercilessly kicked in the groin or throat.

After singing with all my gusto, I departed from the church - without being asked for my personal phone number nor being fined or even chided or condemned for anything....either by the City or County or even State or Federal Government.

Kinky. Will wonders never cease?

So, both advertising-revenue-accruing-and-dependent Facebook and G-Mail now want me to type in my personal phone number to gain an access code to enter into my destined-for-severe-editing-if-I-ever-get-into-it-again Facebook account and my G-Mail accounts....and G-Mail has illegally and unlawfully even had the gall to classify ALL my outgoing e-mails and content thereof (including and especially to all my close Christian friends who had never once previously nor personally expressed to me any dissatisfaction whatsoever with any of my many previously e-mailed Christian-Biblical-content messages) as: "non-solicited commercial bulk-mailed spam.

Jingle Jingle? Without the bells, nor letting God let it snow - as if we had any say about His choice of precipitation, plus time and duration of such.

True, some of my e-mails contained hotlinks to Christian-Biblical-content webpages hosted by my free webhoster, which free webhoster has the unspeakably-diabolical anti-social habit of displaying random banner ads (I suppose of a potentially commercial nature) on the tops and bottoms of my freely-hosted webpages I totally have no objection against....but if advertising-revenue-accruing-and-dependent Facebook and G-Mail almost-incredibly misconstrue such to be phenomenally-indirect intent by me (via my free webhoster) to trespass into deplorably-subversive potential commercialization against global well-being, what can I say? That, clearly, is something which advertising-revenue-accruing-and-dependent Facebook and G-Mail will have to figure out. As will all those with deep pockets and thick wallets who become aware of this deplorable activity instigated and imposed by advertising-revenue-accruing-and-dependent Facebook and G-Mail.

Interesting it is that the library within which I do some of my retired internet labor does not require me to tell them (and, through them, all indigenous library patrons) my personal phone number before I use their public unisex lavatory. Neither does McDonald's or Burger King or Arby's. Somewhat surprisingly, the State does not require to see my driver's license or ask for my personal phone number before I make use of an outdoor biffy in the local public park, or underhandedly borrow a tad of their taxpayer-funded toilet tissue to blow my nose in.

What will advertising-revenue-accruing-and-dependent Facebook and G-Mail next require of me? To disclose my secret phone number for their permission for me to occasionally urinate now and then whenever and wherever and however they designate and allow?

So, I guess to advertising-revenue-accruing-and-dependent Facebook and G-Mail, I might not be properly certified to use any of the aforementioned toilet facilities, being that I have not shown government-issued photo I.D. nor declared my personal phone number to them first. But they first should have asked me for my permission to ask me in the first place.

They did not first give God permission to create them in the womb, and perhaps blame Him for not first asking them before He actually starting creating them before they weren't even existing yet to be asked. Unsolicited spam?

I'm not in the business of faulting the Creator.

Other apostles-of-cyberspace use public toilets without first giving their personal phone number to harassers who might then terroristically besiege them with at-all-inconvenient-hours anonymous nuisance phone calls.

Second Corinthians 11:5 I think that I am not in the least inferior to these superlative apostles.
Second Corinthians 12:11 I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you, instead of mislabeling my missionary essays and sermonettes: "spam." For I was not at all inferior to these superlative apostles, even though I am nothing.

Strange it is, however, that advertising-revenue-accruing-and-dependent Facebook has taken it upon themselves to post pictures of hotlinked people on my Facebook homepage with the obvious intent of me perhaps desiring to and then maybe going ahead and actually soliciting them (when I used to be able to freely access my Facebook account and get into it)....without them first asking my permission to so solicit.

Not only that, they have posted photos of persons on my Facebook homepage who they probably did not first ask permission to post, and have posted such photos in places on my homepage where I was not first asked by Facebook to place them.

Micah 2:6 "Do not preach" by e-mail (thus they preach). "One should not preach of such things; disgrace will not overtake us."

To add insult to injury, advertising-revenue-accruing-and-dependent Facebook has repeatedly blocked and prevented me from accessing my Facebook account....because I actually clicked on the photo of whoever looked interesting to me. Such punishment was thoroughly non-deserved, yes?

Why should I be damned for simply saying "Hello" to some stranger and quote a nice Bible verse to them while I'm at it?

It's akin to asking a store clerk where some particular item is in the store, then being escorted out by a security guard or police for asking without first getting their permission to ask, and fined on top of it, then sent to court and imprisoned to boot.

Should I be whipped and scourged for just asking someone the time of day?

One e-mail service stated that: "it is spam to e-mail anyone anything unless they first e-mail you anything like asking you to e-mail them back anything."

Really?

But isn't it then also "spam" for them to first e-mail me asking me anything like to first e-mail them anything without them first e-mailing me anything like to ask me if they can first e-mail me anything?

Is it "spam" for my wife to e-mail me anything without first asking me if she can e-mail me anything? Every time? For how long before she has to re-ask for me to e-mail her anything, or me to re-ask her to re-ask me to e-mail her? And isn't it spam for me to e-mail God anything with Him first asking me if He can e-mail me anything, and - conversely - isn't is "spam" for God to e-mail me anything without me first asking Him to e-mail me anything, such as a request for Him to first e-mail me anything so I can ask Him to e-mail me back anything?

Actually, the true and best definition of "spam" is: whatever comes at someone repeatedly which they did not ask for, which they do not like, which is not good for them (as God defines "good for them"), and which they have requested the source of spam to stop conveying what is not good for them to them, and yet the source has not stopped conveying it to them.

Ecclesiastes 9:1 But all this I laid to heart, examining it all, how the righteous and the wise and their deeds are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hate man does not know. Everything before them is vanity.

G-Mail has never first asked my permission to mislabel my e-mails to the friends who like to receive e-mails from me: "spam." So they have mislabeled all my e-mails to everyone: "spam" - although no messages of a commercial nature were involved whatsoever.

Galatians 2:4 But because of false brethren secretly brought in, who slipped in to spy out our freedom which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage....

....must a pastor - called by God Himself - be "ordained" by an IRS-registered church or seminary to be considered by the Lord to be a bonafide genuine clergyman or priest or missionary or Sunday-school teacher?

Galatians 5:1 For freedom Christ has set us free; stand fast therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of Star-Tribune or Facebook or G-Mail-registration-required British-redcoat slavery.
Galatians 5:13 For you were called to freedom, pilgrim-pioneer American patriots; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the sinful flesh, but through love be servants of one another.
First Peter 2:16 Live as free men, enjoying Brit-taxation-free tea parties whenever you want, yet without using your freedom as a pretext for evil; but live as servants of God.

Is Star-Tribune-editorialist/Facebook/G-Mail or even State-certification required to be baptized? Be State-approved to receive a State License of Graduation for catechetical Confirmation, or State-issued Receipt of Genuine Authenticity for going forward at an Altar Call to receive Christ as Savior? How about renewable and mandatory red-tape-encumbered permission paperwork from the State to receive Holy Communion whenever instead of erroneously-mistranslated: "often" (i.e. simply once at passover time each year)?

What's that I heard about separation of synagogue/mosque from State...or whatever the ACLU, PAW, AUSCS, SPLC, etc. call it?

Can a non-State-licensed so-called "lay" or "deacon" non-bishop say a few words over the grave of those who request a few words to be said at the funeral, with or without being paid counterfeit-proof-but-inflated fiat-paper Federal Reserve Notes to so do? How about the captain of a ship giving a non-State-certified common-law-cohabitation-marriage nuptial to desperate lovers when he is not on board his vessel at the time? Or a judge who has been disbarred for advertising his stance on sexual social issues before some election, and chooses to refuse conjugal service of homosexuals demanding to commit instead of perform the crime of cutting into some heterosexually-gay's wedding cake in which the sugar and salt has quite noticeably been omitted by some homoqueer/homodike baker, and replaced with an extreme overabundance of either months-old baking soda or aspartame - no thanks to the homofaggot activist who hatefully contrived such yuck?

Second Corinthians 3:1 Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you, or from you?
Second Corinthians 3:2 You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on your hearts, to be known and read by all humans (be they male or female).

Must certification by a State-registered minister or reverend be first obtained to officiate fornication immediately previous to and for some single fornicator or married adulterer fornicating with some mega-indecently-exposed masseuse or grossly-immodest escort harlot downtown or out in the suburbs? Or is a State-licensed minister the only one who can join two homosexuals in a non-licensed offshore international sodomy union? Must a pastor be licensed and State-certified to divorce some gal who has fornicated with some guy in a massage parlor who does not want to continue to fornicate with him, and do State health department bureaucrats have a massive mountain of intricate rules and regulations for such situations?

Isaiah 28:13 Therefore the word of the LORD will be to them precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little; that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

Shall we get into whether State certification is required for a God-called/non-self-appointed non-State-licensed pastor, clearly authorized by the Lord, to officiate as witness and liturgist in a common-law non-State-license marriage and wedding ceremony of and for constitutionally-consenting privacy-of-their-own-bedroom-admissible adults of not necessarily either "minor" or "major" status, but advisably "past the bloom of youth" age described in Leviticus chapter 27 in a rented church building, shopping-center "family room," outdoor biffy, cave, international-waters submarine, or blimp -- registered or rather not specifically licensed with the IRS?

1 The LORD said to Moses,
2 "Say to the people of Israel: When a man makes a special vow of persons to the LORD at your valuation,
3 then your valuation of a [young-adult-to-middle-aged] male from twenty years old up to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the [nearly-100%-pure-gold Canadian-Maple-coin?] shekel of the sanctuary.
4 If the person is an inferior-gender female, your valuation shall be [only] thirty shekels.
5 If the person is a toddler or tween or teen from five years old up to twenty years old, your valuation shall be for a [superior-gender] male twenty shekels, and for an inferior-gender female [a measly] ten shekels.
6 If the person is an infant or toddler from a month old up to five years old, your valuation shall be for a male five shekels of silver, and for an inferior-gender female your valuation shall be [a mere] three shekels of silver.
7 And if the person is a senior citizen ready for Social Security checks at sixty years old and upward, then your valuation for a male shall be fifteen shekels, and for an inferior-gender [wrinkled-skin/sagging-tits/non-menstruating] female, [an understandably-paltry] ten shekels.
8 And if a man is too poor to pay your valuation, then he shall bring the person before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to the ability of him who vowed, the priest shall value him."

First Corinthians 7:36 But if any man thinks that he behaves inappropriately toward his virgin, if she pass the bloom of youth and need so require, let him do what he will: he sins not; let them marry.

First Timothy 5:14 So I would have younger women marry (with or without so-called "legal" State marriage-license certificate issued by the aborigine, Nazi, North Korean, Iranian, Saudi, Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Neanderthal, or now-substantially-extinct Roman government or extremely-sparse remaining remnants thereof), bear children, manage their households, and give the enemy no cause to revile us.

As far as I know, I (and the wife) currently do not need a State license nor official certification to breathe air outside the city limits, pollution aside. The County does not first ask to see my Driver's License or demand to know my personal phone number for us lovebirds to stroll through a public park, gawk at the hawks, sniff the flowers, gaze at the clouds, nor require inventory on how many inches of toilet paper I (or the wife) use to wipe ourselves whenever inside a public-park biffy, nor investigate and report on closely-inspected variable conditions of our eliminated stools.

First Corinthians 7:23 You were bought with a price; do not become slaves of legalistically-anti-Christian nitpicky bureaucrat wannabees and their demonic first-gotta-be-registered-and-licensed patsies.

Photographic proof is not required by most gasoline-providing service station owners and operators to substantiate whether I locked their unisex lavatory when inside with my left hand only. Yet.

Even unusually-and-imaginatively-situated squad-car cops do not require me to disclose my personal home phone number every time I come to a red stoplight; they merely watch me and see what I do, then both silently and appreciatively marvel how efficiently and calmly I do it.

Colossians 2:20 If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the universe, why do you live as if you still belonged to the world? Why do you submit to regulations:
2:21 "Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch"
2:22 referring to things which all perish as they are used, according to human precepts and doctrines?
2:23 These have indeed an appearance of "wisdom" in promoting rigor of devotion and self-abasement and severity to the body, but they are of no value in checking the indulgence of the sinful flesh (in contrast to non-sinful human body-parts flesh, whether graced with substantially brown skin coloration or questionably deprived of such).

To my knowledge, my use of gravity is presently not State-licensed, nor registered as certified, nor subject to the tyrannical control of yellow-journalistic Star-Tribune editorialists, nor either closed-clique advertising-revenue-accruing-and-dependent Facebook or G-Mail. Can't recall if that ever was the case with my parents and particularly grandparents. Or the protestant Rev Dr Martin Luther (the original, and not the racist plagiarist).

Shockingly, God the Eternal Omnipotent and Omniscient has not yet had to fill out a State-license certification form to convey His sunlight (belonging to Caesar or not belonging to Caesar) to us sacred servants of the Most High -- supposedly guilty of the alleged mortal sin of e-mailing Bible verses to fellow church members, some of whom are definitely beloved born-anew and somewhat-tanned saved-saint friends who we mutually have had the honor to extensively e-mail in the past after the Sun had set, and who reverently welcomed and appreciatively benefited by such e-mails fragrantly wafted abroad to each other.

Intriguing it would be if either advertising-revenue-accruing-and-dependent Facebook staff and management, and/or G-Mail operatives, demanded the Almighty to type in His personal phone number for access code entrance.

First Corinthians 6:12 All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be enslaved by anything.
First Corinthians 10:23 All things are lawful, but not all things are helpful. All things are lawful, but not all things build up....

....including becoming needlessly and uselessly exasperated wearing myself out trying to log into either Facebook or G-Mail.

Ecclesiastes 11:10 Remove vexation from your mind, and put away pain from your body; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

Who needs advertising-revenue-accruing-and-dependent capriciously-repressive Facebook and G-Mail anyway? We won't die without it.

Will we?

Replacements are available.

Esther 4:14 "For if you keep silence at such a time as this, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another quarter, but you and your father's house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?"

Titus 3:10 As for spammy-themselves advertising-revenue-accruing-and-dependent Facebook and G-Mail who are factious, after trying to access them once or twice, have nothing more to do with them,
Titus 3:11 knowing that such are perverted and sinful; they are self-condemned.