Wednesday, March 31, 2010
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Monday, March 22, 2010
Religion is the opiate of the masses!
"Religion is the opiate of the people/masses" declared Karl Marx which arguably spelled the doom of communism before he even finished his thoughts and people put them into practice. Wow, after a day of hearing people's reactions about the health care bill on t.v., at work, and hearing what some politicians are saying it has almost turned into a religious ordeal. One person I know against it said it was unbiblical and there's nothing in the Bible to support it. Another person at my work, likening the passing of the bill to a further step towards socialism or communism, said those were ungodly. And yet others argue that a democracy and capitalism is Godly while anything looking like Socialism or Communism is of the devil. To those who believe this way I have to ask:
1. Please show me in the Bible where God condones freedom of religion because mine says "you shall not worship any other God but me."
2. Please show me in the Bible where God condones freedom of speech because in mine it says to keep away from unwholesome talk and rather all things said should be towards the edification of others to God.
3. Please show me in the Bible where God condones Capitalism because in mine there is plenty of talk against being greedy and making your life mission seeking after money and possessions.
Religion should not even be in discussion here. To use the Bible as a political know how book because it may mention something about government is like someone using Karl Marx in defining God because it mentions God; albeit in a bad way. The Bible is not a "how to run a government and political system" book, it is about God and His relationship with people throughout time culminating to His Son Jesus Christ dying on the cross for our sins, resurrecting from the grave overcoming death so that we may not feel death. It is not a book on how to run a government. Socialism and Communism are un-American, and un-USA - if that is a phrase. They are not more unbiblical than democracy and capitalism. Both are truly unbiblical because if you want to be biblical you need to have a theocracy with Christ as King and ruler of all. Until America votes for that to happen, no matter what form of government we have, it will fail because it is based on people's beliefs and we're all different and want different things. I am American and would argue having freedom of religion and speech over the main stays of Communist USSR, which was freedom to have a job and free health care. Many people I know there still would rather have that than the American version of freedom. Anyway, I'm done. Just please keep Jesus Christ and God out of this political mess!!!!!
1. Please show me in the Bible where God condones freedom of religion because mine says "you shall not worship any other God but me."
2. Please show me in the Bible where God condones freedom of speech because in mine it says to keep away from unwholesome talk and rather all things said should be towards the edification of others to God.
3. Please show me in the Bible where God condones Capitalism because in mine there is plenty of talk against being greedy and making your life mission seeking after money and possessions.
Religion should not even be in discussion here. To use the Bible as a political know how book because it may mention something about government is like someone using Karl Marx in defining God because it mentions God; albeit in a bad way. The Bible is not a "how to run a government and political system" book, it is about God and His relationship with people throughout time culminating to His Son Jesus Christ dying on the cross for our sins, resurrecting from the grave overcoming death so that we may not feel death. It is not a book on how to run a government. Socialism and Communism are un-American, and un-USA - if that is a phrase. They are not more unbiblical than democracy and capitalism. Both are truly unbiblical because if you want to be biblical you need to have a theocracy with Christ as King and ruler of all. Until America votes for that to happen, no matter what form of government we have, it will fail because it is based on people's beliefs and we're all different and want different things. I am American and would argue having freedom of religion and speech over the main stays of Communist USSR, which was freedom to have a job and free health care. Many people I know there still would rather have that than the American version of freedom. Anyway, I'm done. Just please keep Jesus Christ and God out of this political mess!!!!!
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Health Care; taxes and burden
Has anyone else been watching the Dems and Reps say their bit over the Health Care Bill today and this evening, I have. Thanks, C-SPAN. In different words both sides have been saying the same Dem or Rep line; health care for those who can't have or afford it right now VS. it'll cost taxpayers a lot of money over time.... You can guess which side says what.
I have voted Republican in every presidential election since 1988 until this last one but no, I did not vote for Obama either; thank you 3rd party. I have not read or even tried to read the entire Health Care Bill to know exactly what is there but the thing that irritates me most comes from the Republicans, "it'll cost the taxpayers money" and "bring the debt up even more". My response, "didn't you, Republicans, under Bush, who I voted for twice, have 8 years to work on health care and do absolutely nothing about it? Did you not vote for 2 wars, which has placed a huge financial burden on my son who is only 2 years old because he will be the one trying to figure out how to pay for it?" How can the Republicans use the excuse of "too much money" and "tax payer burden" when that's all they did with 2 wars during their 8 year tenure? I believe one war may be argued justifiable while the other I would not. This Health Care Bill may be a pipe dream and may turn out bad for us and the economy; but with 2 wars with no end in sight for either one of them and both of them draining our funds so there is no money to use on people in the U.S.A. solely on the REPUBLICAN shoulders of Congress, they need to shut up about taxpayer burden and inflated debt!!!!!
I have voted Republican in every presidential election since 1988 until this last one but no, I did not vote for Obama either; thank you 3rd party. I have not read or even tried to read the entire Health Care Bill to know exactly what is there but the thing that irritates me most comes from the Republicans, "it'll cost the taxpayers money" and "bring the debt up even more". My response, "didn't you, Republicans, under Bush, who I voted for twice, have 8 years to work on health care and do absolutely nothing about it? Did you not vote for 2 wars, which has placed a huge financial burden on my son who is only 2 years old because he will be the one trying to figure out how to pay for it?" How can the Republicans use the excuse of "too much money" and "tax payer burden" when that's all they did with 2 wars during their 8 year tenure? I believe one war may be argued justifiable while the other I would not. This Health Care Bill may be a pipe dream and may turn out bad for us and the economy; but with 2 wars with no end in sight for either one of them and both of them draining our funds so there is no money to use on people in the U.S.A. solely on the REPUBLICAN shoulders of Congress, they need to shut up about taxpayer burden and inflated debt!!!!!
Saturday, March 20, 2010
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Saturday, March 13, 2010
The Hurt Locker
I finally watched The Hurt Locker. I can't say much about EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) other than I was stationed along side them in Iraq at Camp Victory where the movie took place. When we all first arrived in Baghdad the base was big enough for them to bring back ordnance and blow it up in the back half of the area. There's no way in the world I would want to be a bomb tech, I like being alive and getting my adrenaline rush in more adventurous ways like jumping out of an airplane or seeing new lands. There is one thing I did not think the movie did justice and needed more content; when bomb tech, SSG William James, was home it didn't go into what his mind was thinking, what life was like. It alluded to what was going on when he was in the grocery store, pulling leaves from the roof and talking to his son but I wish it would have brought it out into the open more as part of the movie. War is a drug. That phrase started the movie and in many respects it is very true. I would argue it is not war itself but what one does during a time of war. I know of many soldiers who extend or request to go back to Iraq or Afghanistan, we call them war junkies. But coming from my own experience, talking to many of those soldiers coming and going, and working next to many war vets at the V.A. now, war is not the drug, it is our role during war. Many of us did things that had life or death consequences, sat in meetings deciding missions, and went on convoys for those missions. Coming back and having to decide what kind of cereal to buy or picking leaves off the house seems trivial and unrewarding. Those of us at the VA who did those things above now sit in a cubicle processing paperwork bored out of our minds every day. I totally understand why the good SSG wanted to go back and keep doing the bomb thing over and over again. Though he is home with his family and friends he is alone in his thoughts. He is struggling with feeling important in his work as a bomb tech and being home with his family doing "trivial" things. It's like a chaplain in the guard once commented after returning from a year in Kosovo. "I met and worked with the church leaders for the Serbs and the Muslim Imams for the Kosovars to keep them from killing each other. I then return home and attend my first church meeting where the congregation is arguing over having either blue or red carpet in the sanctuary." Trivial!!!!! I wish The Hurt Locker would have discussed his actions at home more explicitly where everyone would have understood what was going on in his mind. I wish it would have been more about the movie than making it look like he wanted to abandon his family again for war in the end. I am not a war junkie and war is not my drug..... but doing what I did there and doing what I do now has no comparison. If it wasn't for my wonderful wife and 2 kids I would be volunteering to go back to Iraq and to Afghanistan as much as possible.
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