God was unhappy, and punishing us

  I know a guy who is a self-professed Christian. He does a lot of things for his church group and gives motivational talks on how to be a better Christian man, husband and father. On the onset I felt he was a “good” person, caring for others, and genuinely wanting them to be better people. It wasn’t until we had a conversation where he said that everything wrong with America was because of Gay’s and Atheist’s that I saw his true colors.

  Wait a minute, I said…. Two, minority groups have screwed up the entire United State of America... how is that exactly? He said it was because God was unhappy, and punishing us.

  Let’s break this down. First off, calling the United States of America, America is egocentric, sense America consists of north and south and a lot of other countries. Next, homosexuals and atheists destroying the United States, I did some research and found two atheists, Pete Stark of California and Ernie Chambers a Nebraskan Senator. As for homosexual, there is Barney Frank, Gerry Studds, Steve Gunderson, Jim Kolbe, Tammy Baldwin, Jared Polis, and Mark Foley with a maybe for David Dreier(some are no longer serving but have in the past 20 years) (Members_of_the_111th_US_Congress) So what is the count, 2, which are, 1 federal and 1 state official, who are atheist, and at least 7 homosexuals…. OMG! How can you not see the conspiracy!

  Why does god seems to hate exactly the same people Christians do? Christian’s say they follow Christ, use him as the ultimate guide for who they are supposed to be like, emulate. Christ died for all sins for all time. What sins are Christians willing to die for, certainly not for the sins of unbelief or homosexuality? I don’t think Christian should be a religious title, nobody seems to follow Christ, they should be paulians, or peterians, or matthewmarklukeandjohnians or someofthenewtestamentians.

  The facts are every bill, good law, shady law, discriminatory practice, unfair tax, loophole, guidline, oversight, etc. was passed by a group of Christians, or at the very least, monotheistic religionists that share the same god head, just different messengers. If this country is fucked up, it’s because of Christians; maybe this is what your free will to worship your god leads to, his allowance for you to fuck shit up all by yourselves. Maybe you should stop blaming god for the woes of the United States of America as a form of celestial punishment, and start blaming yourselves, the Christians who put the pin to paper.

... Musings ...

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." ~WILL DURANT~

I found it was hard for me to except "ignorance" in my own life. I always counted my self, if anything, not ignorant. But my pride, which has gone the way of the dodo, prevented me from seeing truth of my limited knowledge about most topics.

Facebook has been good to point out my short comings when debating others. I speak mostly on religious topics because that is my background, but I would dabble in evolution, abiogenesis and cosmology with an arrogance of higher learning which had no substance. It didn't take long for me to become a 'listener' to those kinds of debates not just a participant, eating a bunch of crow will do that to you. I quickly learned that my logic and critical thinking skills were lacking. It's with these new and growing skills that have sharpened my knowledge base, increasing it to a far more stable footing. After all in the book I studied for half of my life so far illustrates the point of ignorance passing on ignorance quite well, "If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch." ~Matthew 15:14~

Websters define's ignorance as : the state or fact of being ignorant : lack of knowledge, education, or awareness. Remember, it has nothing to do with ones ability to learn, or where they were educated, it only means there is a gap that needs to be filled. That was a hard pill for me to swallow but once it's down, it provides a challenge to increase my knowledge, education and awareness. I'm ignorant, about a great many things but what I do about it is the true test. I will say it again, I'm ignorant, but then again so are you, and everyone else. Take ignorance as the marker or litmus test for the need to improve, trust me, I'm a doctor... not really but it sounds good, so I will leave you with this quote,

"If the King's English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!" ~MA FERGUSON, Governor of Texas (circa 1920)~

~Just in case you don't get it, Jesus spoke Aramaic, Hebrew and maybe even Latin or Greek, not English.