"A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth."-Jacques Barzun
"Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.” Edward Abbey
"A Liberal is a man afraid of losing his privileges. A Conservative is a man afraid OF his privileges."
"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country." - Thomas Jefferson
"All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind." - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations
"No society can surely be flourishing and happy when part of the members are poor and miserable." - Adam Smith, Wealth Of Nations
“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy” - James Madison
"Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear." - W.E. Gladstone
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Thursday, June 3, 2010
The Conservative Man
"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward." --- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Another ingenious quote from another great politician, Franklin Delano arguably the greatest president to live at the White House. He states that the conservative man has no ability to adapt to the changing times. He is rigid in his stance, and wants to go back to an earlier point in history. It is somewhat understandable, sometimes people just want to stay in the prime of their life and never age. They don't want the nation to change without them either. The problem is, time only flows one way. Like it or not you can not halt the progress of a nation without its destruction. That's what conservatives fail to see, there is no going back to the good old days when they were allowed to own slaves and beat women, because progress will always win. With this sense in mind, why do people still try? Time stops for no one, why do they think it will for them?
Another ingenious quote from another great politician, Franklin Delano arguably the greatest president to live at the White House. He states that the conservative man has no ability to adapt to the changing times. He is rigid in his stance, and wants to go back to an earlier point in history. It is somewhat understandable, sometimes people just want to stay in the prime of their life and never age. They don't want the nation to change without them either. The problem is, time only flows one way. Like it or not you can not halt the progress of a nation without its destruction. That's what conservatives fail to see, there is no going back to the good old days when they were allowed to own slaves and beat women, because progress will always win. With this sense in mind, why do people still try? Time stops for no one, why do they think it will for them?
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Liberty for Safety
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety, and will lose both." --- Benjamin Franklin
A completely accurate point, said by one of the Founding Fathers. He tells us that we cannot sacrifice our own personal liberties for the sake of a little temporary safety. Nothing is more accurate in this day and age with the US P.A.T.R.I.O.T act looming over our shoulders. A fine example of how right the Founding Fathers could be on some things. How can a person give up liberty to insure safety, when safety can never possibly be assured. Any number of things could still happen regardless of you throwing away your personal liberties. If one keeps throwing away liberties to try to get a little more security eventually we will wind up with nothing. The government will control every aspect of our lives. At that point will it really matter if we are safe, we will not be truly alive.
A completely accurate point, said by one of the Founding Fathers. He tells us that we cannot sacrifice our own personal liberties for the sake of a little temporary safety. Nothing is more accurate in this day and age with the US P.A.T.R.I.O.T act looming over our shoulders. A fine example of how right the Founding Fathers could be on some things. How can a person give up liberty to insure safety, when safety can never possibly be assured. Any number of things could still happen regardless of you throwing away your personal liberties. If one keeps throwing away liberties to try to get a little more security eventually we will wind up with nothing. The government will control every aspect of our lives. At that point will it really matter if we are safe, we will not be truly alive.
Christianity
One of the largest factors that turn’s many new age thinkers off of religion is the hypocrisy within the religious communities, specifically in the United States of America and Europe. The foundation of Christianity lies within the beliefs that one should always love and respect the people around them, and that everyone is equal. Throughout history the Christian community has not stuck well with this plan. Whether it be the Crusades, or the 1960’s America Christianity has been putting down people around the world and in their own countries.
One of the biggest problems that free thinkers have right now with Christianity is the politically active sect of Christianity. From the moments that Conservative Christianity was born, the Left Wing Secularists were immediately alienated. These Neo-Conservatives believed that laws should be based off of the will of god as they saw. They tried to enforce their version of morality upon the people of the USA. These Christians lost their connection to any form of Christianity. These Christians believed that war was the right way to solve conflicts and homosexuals were lesser humans. They did not love their neighbors as themselves; instead they looked to alienate the people that did not accept their moral opinions as fact. In this new age, many leading Christians such as the pope, dictated that Christianity was not only the singular way to get to the afterlife, but also that anyone that did not believe in Christianity or follow their “morals” was to burn in hell, a concept of absolute torture for all of eternity. Yes, the Christians whom were told by Jesus to love everyone and never hate, believed that people that didn’t follow their will were to burn in hell. Needless to say, people were afraid. People worried, “What if there really is a hell and I have to spend all eternity within it,” so they took the choice that they felt would give them the best opportunity to get to heaven. The French Philosopher and Mathematician of the 17th, Blaise Pascal, most famous for his Pascal Triangle a detail of Polynomial Expansion, Pascal exclaimed, “It is better to believe and god not exist, then to deny his existence and be wrong.” Blaise Pascal is illustrating the chief point that Christians use to convince people of his existence by guilting people into believing it is true. They make people afraid and think, “What if there really is a small chance that there is god?” Of course these people will choose god over living an eternity in hell if he doesn’t exist, but they are thinking more that the followers who turn a blind eye to scientific proof and accept all of the rhetoric shoved down their throats.
The current estimated number of Christians on earth is around 2.2 Billion that is 2,200,000,000, which is around 1/3 of entire population of the world. Many Christians, especially the leaders of the church would argue that this is proof that Christianity is the one right religion, and that it must be true if 2.2 billion people believe it. The means from which Christianity grew this much is horrendous. The majority of Christianity was spread through war and on the backseat of the racist ideas of Social Darwinism.
Imagine a war, when one people conquer another people they usually bring their ideas about the world and religion with them. This is what happened in the early 15th century with the invasion of Central and South America by the Spanish Conquistadors. Not only did they enslave and destroy the culture and population of the native Maya and Inca, they also brought along their religion, which happened to be Christianity and preached it to all the people living there. They regarded the Maya and Inca as uncivilized and portrayed their religion as an evil, devil worshiping cult that worship people upon periods. To this day the ancient Maya and Inca memories have been desecrated by the belief by modern people that they performed such rituals. This fact has never been proven by any historians. The Christians of Spain ruined these people and in the process of it converted most everyone to Christianity. Christianity is the most prominent religion now with all of Central and South America.
This same thing happened in Africa during the 19th century by “Missionaries.” Social Darwinism was a popular theory that some humans were better than others, and naturally on the coattails of this was Christianity was a much better and civilized alternative to what the tribal Africans were now practicing. These missionaries went into Africa as the European countries were conquering their land and basically said, “Look at us, look how civilized we are because we are Christians.” This is the ultimate ironic statement considering the ones slaughtering people were the Christians who love their neighbors as themselves.
After the Imperial Conquests of Africa by the European states, these lands were interchanged through the hands of different countries. This is in no way singularly isolated to Europe. The United States of America, which, by many of the ignorant fools who buy into every statement of the church, think is a Christian nation, invaded the island nation of Hawai’i in the mid 1900’s. They took this virgin nation by force and raped its resources and society. They shortened its name to Hawaii because it was more “Americanized.”
These perverse acts were committed by the same people that consider the USA a Christian nation. Although these actions were not sanctioned by the church directly it shows the hypocrisy of the followers of this religion. In the early 1900’s the majority Roman Catholic state of Italy invaded Ethiopia, who throughout the years of conquest by the imperialist Europeans, remained an independent country and in the process beat Italy in a war. The Italians, like any good spiteful, vengeful, self contradicting Christians returned after the invention of hand held machine guns and slaughtered the Ethiopians in the thousands, there were approximately 750,000 causalities. This shows the inability of the Christians to follow their “Sacred” Scriptures.
Nowadays, Christians within the United States still on occasion perpetuate these violent outbursts. On May 31, 2009, George Tiller was murdered inside of his own church by Scott Roeder. Roeder was a right wing extremist Christian who was a rigid pro-lifer. George Tiller was one of the last remaining abortion specialists who performed late-term abortions. Roeder shot Tiller in the head at point blank during Sunday Mass. This man, Roeder, claimed to be pro-life. How pro-life can one be if they consciously choose to take a gun up to person’s head and pull the trigger? The obvious contradiction easily shows us that their testaments can not be taken seriously.
Although they are the majority within the United States, these Christians ideas should be made sure to never enter the constitution, even if we must enforce separation of church and state by force. If the United States was ever to become a theocracy it would be a huge step backwards, and eventually we would be returned to a nation where Women stayed in the house and Black men and women were slaves to wealthy white men.
One of the biggest problems that free thinkers have right now with Christianity is the politically active sect of Christianity. From the moments that Conservative Christianity was born, the Left Wing Secularists were immediately alienated. These Neo-Conservatives believed that laws should be based off of the will of god as they saw. They tried to enforce their version of morality upon the people of the USA. These Christians lost their connection to any form of Christianity. These Christians believed that war was the right way to solve conflicts and homosexuals were lesser humans. They did not love their neighbors as themselves; instead they looked to alienate the people that did not accept their moral opinions as fact. In this new age, many leading Christians such as the pope, dictated that Christianity was not only the singular way to get to the afterlife, but also that anyone that did not believe in Christianity or follow their “morals” was to burn in hell, a concept of absolute torture for all of eternity. Yes, the Christians whom were told by Jesus to love everyone and never hate, believed that people that didn’t follow their will were to burn in hell. Needless to say, people were afraid. People worried, “What if there really is a hell and I have to spend all eternity within it,” so they took the choice that they felt would give them the best opportunity to get to heaven. The French Philosopher and Mathematician of the 17th, Blaise Pascal, most famous for his Pascal Triangle a detail of Polynomial Expansion, Pascal exclaimed, “It is better to believe and god not exist, then to deny his existence and be wrong.” Blaise Pascal is illustrating the chief point that Christians use to convince people of his existence by guilting people into believing it is true. They make people afraid and think, “What if there really is a small chance that there is god?” Of course these people will choose god over living an eternity in hell if he doesn’t exist, but they are thinking more that the followers who turn a blind eye to scientific proof and accept all of the rhetoric shoved down their throats.
The current estimated number of Christians on earth is around 2.2 Billion that is 2,200,000,000, which is around 1/3 of entire population of the world. Many Christians, especially the leaders of the church would argue that this is proof that Christianity is the one right religion, and that it must be true if 2.2 billion people believe it. The means from which Christianity grew this much is horrendous. The majority of Christianity was spread through war and on the backseat of the racist ideas of Social Darwinism.
Imagine a war, when one people conquer another people they usually bring their ideas about the world and religion with them. This is what happened in the early 15th century with the invasion of Central and South America by the Spanish Conquistadors. Not only did they enslave and destroy the culture and population of the native Maya and Inca, they also brought along their religion, which happened to be Christianity and preached it to all the people living there. They regarded the Maya and Inca as uncivilized and portrayed their religion as an evil, devil worshiping cult that worship people upon periods. To this day the ancient Maya and Inca memories have been desecrated by the belief by modern people that they performed such rituals. This fact has never been proven by any historians. The Christians of Spain ruined these people and in the process of it converted most everyone to Christianity. Christianity is the most prominent religion now with all of Central and South America.
This same thing happened in Africa during the 19th century by “Missionaries.” Social Darwinism was a popular theory that some humans were better than others, and naturally on the coattails of this was Christianity was a much better and civilized alternative to what the tribal Africans were now practicing. These missionaries went into Africa as the European countries were conquering their land and basically said, “Look at us, look how civilized we are because we are Christians.” This is the ultimate ironic statement considering the ones slaughtering people were the Christians who love their neighbors as themselves.
After the Imperial Conquests of Africa by the European states, these lands were interchanged through the hands of different countries. This is in no way singularly isolated to Europe. The United States of America, which, by many of the ignorant fools who buy into every statement of the church, think is a Christian nation, invaded the island nation of Hawai’i in the mid 1900’s. They took this virgin nation by force and raped its resources and society. They shortened its name to Hawaii because it was more “Americanized.”
These perverse acts were committed by the same people that consider the USA a Christian nation. Although these actions were not sanctioned by the church directly it shows the hypocrisy of the followers of this religion. In the early 1900’s the majority Roman Catholic state of Italy invaded Ethiopia, who throughout the years of conquest by the imperialist Europeans, remained an independent country and in the process beat Italy in a war. The Italians, like any good spiteful, vengeful, self contradicting Christians returned after the invention of hand held machine guns and slaughtered the Ethiopians in the thousands, there were approximately 750,000 causalities. This shows the inability of the Christians to follow their “Sacred” Scriptures.
Nowadays, Christians within the United States still on occasion perpetuate these violent outbursts. On May 31, 2009, George Tiller was murdered inside of his own church by Scott Roeder. Roeder was a right wing extremist Christian who was a rigid pro-lifer. George Tiller was one of the last remaining abortion specialists who performed late-term abortions. Roeder shot Tiller in the head at point blank during Sunday Mass. This man, Roeder, claimed to be pro-life. How pro-life can one be if they consciously choose to take a gun up to person’s head and pull the trigger? The obvious contradiction easily shows us that their testaments can not be taken seriously.
Although they are the majority within the United States, these Christians ideas should be made sure to never enter the constitution, even if we must enforce separation of church and state by force. If the United States was ever to become a theocracy it would be a huge step backwards, and eventually we would be returned to a nation where Women stayed in the house and Black men and women were slaves to wealthy white men.
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