May 29, 2007 journal, to know and to understand exactly where we are in these times of great sorrows is a rare miracle. I have recently begun to look at myself to see just where I stand and how I express it. I have been looking at the church and I see so much is wrong. I am reading a book that sets up the power structures almost back to the Tower of Babel. Wars are planned and banks are created out of nothing that become our captors with debt. There are unmistakable clues along the way but we must have the foresight to see it clear. A U.S. helicopter is down in Afghanistan by enemy fire killing all seven people on board. Castro accuses the U.S. president of trying to kill him as he has threatened many others. Hugo Chavez has shutdown a hostile television broadcasting company to administration. There are riots in the streets. Activist Cindy Sheehan gives up her fight against the war. Dick Cheney does not want the list of his private visitors revealed visiting him wherever. These are agents of the Illuminati in my opinion & more of the Rothschild world control. Considering what all has happened we are lucky to be alive through the infinite mercy of God Almighty. We are nearing the end of this day of grace for sure and will see miracles. The tongues of every American/world leaders are bridled by the Anti-Defamation League to benefit the rulers of evil. The goals are to stamp out true Christianity in the country and the world. Every war for the past 300 years at least has been started and financed by the bankers that rule the world today. Those bankers win no matter which party is in power. True history is carefully obscured and now the New Testament Bible is being rewritten. Where is Antichrist, just look on your dollar bill and he is manifested all over the place. Shall we in favor of this fallen money deny the witness of Christ that is within us always? dear Joe-it was so good to see you and hear you speak your words of wisdom and to relax by the seashore for a few moments. Please do come down with Gabriel and see my new arrangement of art. The book the colorful apocalypse by Greg bottoms is a book of lies and has no art inside whatsoever. I did not authorize them to use our painting on the cover yet Chicago Press is acting like the Chicago mob and will not recall the book. with all they have advertised it even in the New York Review of Books magazine, it is showing to have sold only 200 copies by Nielsen bookscan which accounts for 70% of book sales so add a 100 and you have 300 books sold even with the powerful reviews such as L.A. Times. thank God it's a dog. bottoms tries to make us out as racist and anti-Semitic while he makes fun of the South and Christian people. he knows nothing about art or religion. you have the book on your site which appears to me that it suggests howard finsters art to be in the book but there is no art in the book, just criticism and lies. bottoms says I'm an extreme right-wing fundamentalist Christian but I am not and i claim no political affiliation. He used plagiarizing to write the book computer generated, its a jumbled up shameful mess. raw vision of writing a critical review of it. you can read the reviews posted on Powells Books including many posted by bottoms himself answering those critical of the book. bottoms appears to be insane like his schizophrenic brother. bottoms teaches English at Vermont university and he appears to be a lot like the demonic staff at Virginia Tech. He was raised not far from Blacksburg Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley. bottoms uses lies when truth would suit better. He even criticizes avam saying the waitress in the Joy Cafe had a ring in her nose but she did not because I was there. Bottoms calls our work black water (dung and urine) saying it imprisoned us. surely you do not want to promote that type of book on your website. bottoms diagnosis the three artist as insane also myrthice West. He diagnoses all four of us as insane including finster. he says Christian artists that have seen a vision are like his brother Michael who turned to religion but is now in prison for trying to burn his family house down. Bottoms describes my vision to paint art saying I saw the Book of Revelation but I did not and never have made that claim. I simply saw the coming of Lord and the world on fire. I never claimed to see any part of Revelation. that is the vision of the apostle John and I never would claim any such thing. Bottoms uses what he calls creative nonfiction memoir writing saying it does not have to be accurate. a famous nonfiction writer said on TV recently that it does have to be absolutely accurate on people. so far we have been unable to find a lawyer. The book is a 182 pages with 62 pages of it about me and 55 about Norbert so two-thirds of the book is about the two of us. He changes everything to a lie and it is not funny. We cannot allow Greg bottoms to write our art history. He is obviously and dangerously messed up mentally. The colorful apocalypse book of lies is an anti Christian book also an anti Southern book designed to discredit truth and scramble the message of Christian artists into the modern mixed up world of university life that produces such results we have seen on the Virginia Tech campus in the news lately. Chicago University Press is all too eager to rally behind this half whit writer to trample the lives and the influence of those having a true Christian experience. Greg Bottoms is a cheap unqualified writer who can only spread hatred and falsehood in the literary world in his attempt to take a short cut to fame while he may in fact have added 'lier' to his name. The desperately competitive book publishing world is all too willing to sacrifice a few poor souls as what Bottoms describes repeatedly in the "poor south" and one from the too far "North". Bottoms makes a mockery of freedom of speech under the modern fancy title of 'creative nonfiction memoir' writing. We cannot allow Bottoms book to write the history of our Christian inspired visual messages. Greg Bottoms is pitifully ignorant of art and Christianity offering himself as a psychiatrist to save the world describing our work as blackwater when it is the work of his damaged mind coming out of his deep dark infessed household that is the destructive black water. bottoms uses the depression thing but I am not depressed. He uses white Jesus and God's favorite people as fabrications because I never addressed either of these subjects.