Lets “Try It Again (Uncle) Sam”—Part Three

Sorry, I left off my most important point (the last two paragraphs, below) on Part Two.

Our forefathers, we are told, came to these shores in search of freedom, both religious and political. The motto of our most famous monument, the Statue of Liberty bears this motto: Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

And so here we are! We have usurped this land from its original owners—or at least from the people who preceded us. And we put them into prisons without walls, where most of them live to this very day.

We have sought to convert them to Christianity—just as we have moved on to other lands in more recent years in an effort to convert the people living there, who have their own religions, to our Christian ways. Note: By the way, I do not recall having Muslims, for example, knocking at my door with the hope of converting me.

Evidently, many Christians don’t realize that a person’s religion is just that—thinking. It is best accomplished, by each of us individually, through IQ and education. For those not lucky enough to have much of either, active conversion, while effective, is not genuine, because it has had no fertile source from which to flourish.

And now, the American people, in general, do not want to have any Mexicans knocking on our doors or climbing our fences, as our forefathers figuratively did, without an invitation. And when they get here, we are happy to pay them a pauper’s pay to work themselves to death doing our most menial jobs.

My most important thought is: If you’re going to have Mexicans (used in the generic sense) legal or illegal working for you, for God’s sake, do not pay them starvation wages for the most dangerous, exhausting, and often degrading work they do for you, and which no one else in this country will do. They deserve better, and if you can’t afford them, do it yourself.

ARW
7/31/10

Lets “Try It Again (Uncle) Sam”—Part Two

Our forefathers, we are told, came to these shores in search of freedom, both religious and political. The motto of our most famous monument, the Statue of Liberty bears this motto: Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

And so here we are! We have usurped this land from its original owners—or at least from the people who preceded us. And we put them into prisons without walls, where most of them live to this very day.

We have sought to convert them to Christianity—just as we have moved on to other lands in more recent years in an effort to convert the people living there, who have their own religions, to our Christian ways. Note: By the way, I do not recall having Muslims, for example, knocking at my door with the hope of converting me.

Evidently, many Christians don’t realize that a person’s religion is just that—thinking. It is best accomplished, by each of us individually, through IQ and education. For those not lucky enough to have much of either, active conversion, while effective, is not genuine, because it has had no fertile source from which to flourish.

ARW
7/31/10

Moral and Ethical Views No. 1

Let’s “Try It Again (Uncle) Sam”—Part One

First, let’s talk about ourselves, rather than any other countries. We’re going to talk about overpopulation and greed. Both are problems also caused and experienced by other countries, but we should try to reform ourselves before calling on the rest of the World; and besides, we cause most of the harm, and the harm that we cause has enormous consequences for the rest of the world.

Pure Reason should tell us that the more children we have, the more population we have, and the more of the World’s once-and-only resources we consume.

It stands to reason that the more babies a couple has, the more resources that family will consume. Many resources are irreplaceable, and thus generally consumed to a greater degree by large families than by small families.

And this leads to similar discrepancies caused, generally, by families that are rich being able to afford to consume more than can families that are poor.

Running through what I am writing is the thread of morality and the charity of consideration. However, because I am atheist, what I write may carry less moral weight with the average believer simply for that very reason.

ARW
7/25/10

Moral and Ethical Views

One Road, Many Paths

One Road, Many Paths

Henceforth, I’ll be including a new feature designed by me especially for those who can’t spell. No, that’s not right—it’s designed especially by me for those who can spell. Well, you’ll get the idea. Example below:

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Inn sum Kay-says, their arhh werds with differ-rent mean-ings that halve thuh saim spell-ings.

Sew Fahr., inn enknee case, eye can know long-rrh! sleap at nite. Hah-pee inn-venting!


A-are-UU
7/18/10

Illegal Immigration

DISHONESTY, A CARDINAL SIN

One of the very most serious of all human failings is dishonesty of any sort, the more so because the person who commits it does so of his own free will. Listening to a discussion of illegal immigration just now is what brings forth my thoughts.

Immigrants coming across the border illegally are doing so dishonestly. Many, of course, come to peddle drugs. Many others who make their trek across the desert do so to look for work—dishonest too, but somewhat mitigated out of their need for work so desperate that they are willing to face a distinct possibility that they may die in their attempt.

What is largely being ignored by people on this side of the border is that those immigrants, though guilty, are not as guilty as the Americans on this side of the border who are willing to hire them—undoubtedly in most cases, because they can get away with paying them wages far below the value of their work.

So it is, before the judge of common decency, that the employers who hire them have committed a sin of far greater depth. Many of those who knowingly employ illegals absolve themselves by going to church, where kthey ask God to forgive them.


ARW
7/10/10