Thursday, May 30, 2013

I Bet Some of You STILL Don't Believe this Nation is not Founded on the Bible and Christianity

No Worries! Here is More Evidence

     Now, before I begin to post what I intend to post for this particular blog I want to post something rather curious and interesting that I found on Youtube. So, this video here IS a long one, but I gotta tell you it is immensely interesting. Instead of a group of Christians pushing the idea that this country was founded on Christianity and the Bible, this film proposes the idea that it is all a ginormous plot to make the Founding Fathers APPEAR as Christians when they really meant something very different and very bad.
     Apparently, the creators of this film would have you believe that the real plot by the Founding Fathers in allowing themselves to appear as Christians was to purposely mislead people about the supposed 'spiritual battle' that humankind is in. This is great giggle material so grab your popcorn and maybe even some booze.

     This is another interesting video that goes from one extreme to the other as it says that this nation was NOT founded on Christianity (which I agree with) but rather is evil and against Christianity as a whole (say WHAT?).

     I want to be sure that before you go further that you understand deism. Just in case there are people reading this blog who do not understand deism and what it is and how it applies in various circumstances (or how people try to apply it) here is a very good video that gives excellent explanations and examples.

     Here is another excellent video that provides excellent information as to deism and its meaning.

     Pay attention, all ye who think this nation belongs only to those believing in God and the Bible. Look, I am an American, born and raised in the United States and the fact I am of Native American heritage really says a lot about how far back my ancestral roots go. I love this country. I love its people (even though some think I should NOT have rights because I am lesbian; and yes I sometimes refer to such people as assholes and mother fuckers). I love and respect and cherish the freedom I am allowed to live with, and I am especially grateful that I can go to sleep at night and not have to worry that when I wake up in the morning my freedoms and my country will have ceased to exist.
     I put together and write blogs such as this one because I see a very dangerous trend growing at an almost malignant rate. Many citizens and religious groups in the United States seem to tune out those ideologies that helped to found this nation. Somehow, many of these individuals and groups have twisted the ideals of freedom and expression as so allowed by our founding documents, and have haughtily asserted that such things are only intended for those with God and Jesus and the Bible as their source of morality. This is both a tragedy and a travesty.
     As a nation WE cannot allow spiritual and religious fears and prognostications based on those fears to unravel what this country has worked so hard to accomplish over the last two hundred-plus years. Frankly, a good start to preserving this nation would be to toss the notion of this nation being founded on the Bible and Christianity. To do that there are a lot of people who seriously need to be deprogrammed when it comes to the insanity of claiming the United States is a Christian nation.
     I am not stating that people of the Christian faith should be persecuted or deprived of any right. Freedom of religion and consequently FROM religion is excellent. What I AM stating is that Christians (or any other religion for that matter) have the right to believe whatever it is they choose to believe but they need to STOP misinterpreting religious freedom as any kind of Christian right or entitlement to run any government office or to create and preside over legislation that all citizens must live by or else.

     Listen to what this man says about the Founding Fathers and the people they governed in relation to religion and its gradual infiltration of government.

     I like this as it specifically addresses one of the most popular misquoted statements that support the idea this nation was founded on Christianity.

     Three cheers for delusional Christian rhetoric in politics. You can believe in whatever you want, but don't think for one minute I will stand silent as some Christian individuals and groups attempt to strip me of my rights or anyone else of their rights simply because we choose to reject the highly unethical spiritual elitism that is a lie, and that states the country was intended for Christians, was founded on the Bible, and was created only for believers.

     Do you really think that this country was founded on absurd ideals that lend support to or encourage or insinuate or back claims that this nation's leader is the anti-Christ? How fucking stupid can you get? Well, apparently pretty stupid since a variety of presidents have been labeled as the anti-Christ to include Kennedy, Clinton, both Bushes, Nixon, LBJ, and most recently Obama. There is no question whatsoever in my mind that the Founding Fathers would scoff at such hideously insane comments and the notoriously bipolar religion/scriptures such comments are founded on.

     Out STANDING!! Out-freakin'-standing, Mr. President!!! FINALLY an American politician who is not afraid to address ridiculousness of religion in government.


Wednesday, May 29, 2013

The United States: Founded on Faith, God, Christianity, and the Bible?

Popping the Long-Standing Bubble of Misunderstanding


     We will first start with a couple of videos that show a bit of what some people claim to be the truth in regards to the founding of the United States of America. Pay close attention to the presented statements and who supposedly made them. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and even Patrick Henry are a few of the fellows listed as having endorsed the idea that the USA was founded on Christianity.

     Pastor John Hagee renders a heart-felt rant that the USA was created by Christians for Christians. That's right, Hagee, you are all for limiting any religion so long as it isn't yours. Total turd.

     Oh, look what we have here. A cross between a Christian fundamentalist and Ike Eisenhower...with just a touch of General Patton. Stop eating the Twinkies, buddy.

     Now, dear friend, let us rebut the first three videos. Notice that the statements offered are statements made by the very same folks that some claim to have made assertions that this nation was founded on the Bible and Christianity.

     This country's Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were NOT founded on Christianity or the Bible or on or by Jesus. This guy addresses the issue here in a clear and concise manner. Very well done.

     Don't you just love it when people try to backtrack or reform the available information into something that better suits their needs? The Founding Fathers DID express great concern in relation to ethics and moral standing when contributing to the foundations of this country, yes. However, they did not view mixing religion and politics as a good idea on any level. And yes, Jefferson DID pen the 'Jeffersonian Bible' with the intent and purpose of removing the bullshit (like the virgin birth of Christ...which Jefferson thought absurdly ludicrous and useless) and leaving the information that provided something of relative value. I love it when Christians try to debunk valid, provable history.

     Here is a bit on the Jeffersonian Bible that some of the uber-religious, must-prove-America-was-founded-on-the-Bible folks of the nation should really watch.

     And here is another link for the viewing pleasure of those refusing to let go of the thought this nation was founded on the Bible and Christianity.

     Christians are loathe to ANY information that would result in any kind of loosening of their grip on the absurdly INCORRECT idea that this nation was founded on the Bible and Christianity. They simply cannot let this idea go, can they? Of course not. Doing so would be an admission if huge lies and purposeful misinterpretation of founding documents. So, what is done is careful formulation of MORE lies that are intended to validate the utter stupidity that the United States was founded as a Christian nation, by Christians, and for Christians.

     Our founding fathers knew better than to mix religion and politics.

     Politics requires reason, not religion. Once you mix religion and politics you fuck things up royally. That isn't to say that religious folk cannot think; many intelligent people are religious. The politics of any nation and the rules and laws and regulations of any nation should be founded upon reason and not under any circumstance founded on what some invisible guy in the sky or His employees say to do.

     Ask a person who believes that this nation was founded on Christianity WHEN the Pledge of Allegiance and the nations money added the phrase 'Under God' and you will find many of them truly think they were initially written with such. Nope. Didn't come about until the 1950s.



Saturday, May 4, 2013


Maintaining Our Country's Foundation


Now, we do have in our Bill of Rights the right to a trial. When I heard and even read articles that vehemently asserted that the accused man really does not even need to go on trial because of all the evidence against him (video, witnesses, etc.) and therefore he should be sentenced straight away, my stomach lurched with horror.

     Yes, what was done was terrible indeed. However, he still has to go to trial and be found guilty. I mean, and I hope I am saying this correctly, because the deed he is accused of is considered an act of terror against the US and the people of this nation does that mean he can be denied the right to trial? I am not saying that is what is happening. I just want to know if there is anything in our Constitution or Bill of Rights that states acts considered to be treason and a threat to national security automatically negate rights? I do not think so.

     Much of the conversation/articles that supported some type of revocation of the rights of this man carried an air of, "Well, he hates the US and its citizens and our government. Considering such, why should the rights afforded by the Bill of Rights of this nation that he hates so much extend to him?"

     Then there was the issue of the man not being properly read his Miranda Rights. Why in the world did they allow him to continue? Was it because they were afraid he would not say anything at all if they did? Wouldn't that be his right to remain silent? Was an attorney present for the man, and if so why didn't the attorney stop the man and insist Miranda Rights be read? Shocking to me also was an article in which  Representative Peter King, R-NY, is noted as saying he "totally disagreed" with the decision of the magistrate to read the accused his rights at a hearing.

     By asking these questions I absolutely do not intend any disrespect for the victims and their families or Boston. I love this country and our citizens, yes. Granted I say this without being a victim and without having any of my family and friends fall victim, but if people allow their anger and hatred for this man and his violent cause to create some kind of validation for breaching rights that are at the very core of this nation's foundation, well, if that happens a very dark, very ugly precedent may be set.

     Our justice system may not be perfect in application, but one of the reasons we have the laws and Constitution and Bill of Rights of this country is to strive for fairness and equality in the eyes of the law. There is, I think, an implied understanding and assertion by the drafters of our founding documents that what makes a nation strong, THIS nation strong, persevering, and lasting is a persistence to be just, and that the drive for justness/justice does not include the allowance of strong emotions of revenge/vengeance to dictate where and when and why rights may or may not be extended to the accused. 

     I understand the fear and the anger, the resentment and the sheer loathing for the accused. Like many people of this nation I still vividly recall 9/11 and the fear, sorrow, hurt, and even rage that I felt. But the last thing people of this nation should do is establish any kind of habit, political or otherwise, that undermines the purpose of our foundation and what sets this nation apart as an example for the rest.

     It is important that Americans remember the manner of approach taken in the prosecution of some of the Nazi leaders for war crimes at the trials at Nuremberg. Many government leaders including Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, and to a lesser degree FDR at first supported summary executions.

     However, while the world waded through the aftermath of WWII, trying to comprehend the scope of the inhumane, atrocious, and evil actions that brought about the deaths of tens of millions of people, US Secretary of War, Henry Stimson argued for the war trials to be commenced with the basic rights of due process as so noted in the US Bill of Rights.

     Stimson argued that such an approach would help to uphold the "democratic notion of justice" and that the purpose of the trial was for "prevention and not for vengeance." Because of this approach the Nuremberg Trials will be remembered in part for being consistent with due process.

     It would serve this nation and it's leaders and it's people well to remember and consider this.