7 Ideas (Its a start)
“Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance”.
Robert Quillen
Lin Yutang once said “Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don’t believe in the good old words because we don’t believe in good old values anymore. And that’s why the world is sick”. That being said I wish to tackle one of the main problems, from a conservative viewpoint, and with apologize to George Carlin and his infamous ‘7 words’ skit and update them with a conservatives eye towards our so-called elected representatives, some of which do not seem to be “Justly elected” nor actually representing the people who send them to Washington
I submit “The 7 ideas you can’t discuss in Washington”.
1. Christian Values.
“America was NOT founded on Judeo-Christian Values”. This is the most prevalent statement today trumpeted by liberals in the media and in particular NPR, even though they are a dying breed (something about low ratings because no one is listening….). This statement is usually defended by the left by taking and actual quote from one of our founding fathers
Thomas Jefferson. To be fair the exact quote is “Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone upon man.” Interesting that they pick up on his statement as proof without noting that nowhere in there does he say Christianity should be chosen as a basis for a morale system of government. Even more telling the left conveniently does not mention that in later years Jefferson wrote a letter to the Committee of the Danbury Baptist Association in Connecticut (January 1, 1802), “Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should “make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” thus building a wall of separation between church and State. “
Where the judicial activism comes in is where the courts conveniently ignore the “prohibiting the free exercise thereof” and totally remove any and all references to public displays of faith and trust in a higher power. Where the inequality comes in is that these rules seem to only apply to the Christian beliefs. One would be hard pressed to find any public school allowing any public display of the Christian faith without some on the left making it a social issue that all references of Christianity be scrubbed from the public discussion because its either “Hate speech”, “Intolerant”, or just “mean spirited”. That being said, why does the US government allow our tax dollars to go to schools that ‘must include’ teaching the students the basic tenants of Islam?
The answer always starts out with “We must be tolerant of other belief systems” and their arguments either degenerates to anger at the “Hate mongering Christians” intolerant of other belief systems, or “Our curriculum requires Islam to be taught in the context of History”. If that is the case then why isn’t Christianity taught in the context of History? At this point the discussion always switches into the circular reasoning mode and hides behind the “We must have separation of church and state”. My son, who recently turned 22, got his first taste of this mentality when he was going to High School. We received a note from his public school informing us that there was going to be a guest speaker talking about the Islamic faith and it was required that my son attend. I sent a letter to the school board saying no he will not be attending and that opened up a ‘can of worms’ so to speak. I was called to attend the next school board meeting to explain my intolerance. Imagine myself at the age of 40 being called into the principal’s office….
I was rebuked for being a hate monger, Islamaphobe, and a few other names not really ready for public discussion. My statement to the entire school board was, “I know arsenic is a deadly poison and taking enough of it would kill me”. “I don’t have to sample it to find out now do I?” After a moment of silence I turned and walked out. To be fair and I believe that we all have a basic freedom of choice I asked my son if he wanted to attend the indoctrination, I mean “Discussion of other belief systems” and his reply was “No, not really”. I asked him why and he said “Because they scare me”. (Instead that day we went fishing and had some quality time (Andy Griffith show theme playing in the background)) End of story.
Next posting I will tackle idea #2, those dreaded “family Values” so check back later.
Remember we here at the Disturbed Nation WILL NOT DEBATE WHAT WE KNOW TO BE TRUE because we are right and they are wrong.
