Restoring Honor Rally

I just watched the Restoring Honor Rally on the Internet coming from Washington DC. Very few political comments. I did not hear one speaker attack the current president directly. I saw no violence or hatred for any race or nationality or religious group. No signs, no banners other than flags.

I was flabbergasted as a CNN reporter was talking, on air, about all the tea party flags and banners. As he was speaking they panned the crowed and other than the Stars and Stripes I saw a few Gadsden Flags, some shirts saying Faith Hope and Charity. Are these tea party flags? If so I must be a tea party member as both fly at my home. Shows you how distorted the view is in the lame stream press. No police cars burned or turned over. No poor old black man beaten by union goons like other rallies. Just patriotic Americans showing their love for God and Country.

I also saw some of the MLK rally in the same town. Signs calling Glenn Beck names, Speakers calling GB and conservatives names. Union banners and signs supporting just one political party. Do these raciest think the ideals expressed by Martin Luther King belonged to just one race? Do they also believe that the ideals and deeds of Abraham Lincoln just belong to white people? They accused Glenn of hijacking MLK’s agenda. Do just these few own MLK? His niece spoke at the GB rally as did many many folks who were there on that original momentous day. We must all embrace the ideals expressed by MLK, all races and faiths. Is that OK with you Rev. Sharpton or do we have to ask for your permission to speak?

At the GB rally they had speakers representing all. They pointed out that all parties have made mistakes and what really matters is that we are all Americans and we have to help each other. There were over 240 clergy of all faiths from Christian, Muslim, Jewish and others gathered on stage behind GB. They linked arms and pledged their support. The press will downplay this event and probably ridicule the folks that were there. John Stewart will mock GB as he always does showing his dislike for real American values. He used to be funny before he drank the Obama kook-aid and became a hit man for uber liberalism.

There were 300 to 325K estimated by the media. It does not matter as there were a lot of folks there who want government to listen to the people and turn the government around. Return to the constitution and get off our backs.

Get on your knees folks and pray for our country. That is what Glenn was saying. Ask God to help our leaders and our country and ask for courage for all of us to do what is right. Show Faith Hope and Charity to all.

God Bless America.

For the Birds!!!!

This story was passed on to me by a blog reader and suggested I post it as an entry so here it goes.

I bought a bird feeder. I hung It on my back porch and filled It with seed. What a beauty of a bird feeder it was, as I filled it lovingly with seed. Within a week we had hundreds of birds taking advantage of the continuous flow of free and easily accessible food.

But then the birds started building nests in the boards of the patio, above the table, and next to the barbecue. Then came the poop. It was everywhere: on the patio tile, the chairs, the table ..Everywhere!

Then some of the birds turned mean. They would dive bomb me and try to peck me even though I had fed them out of my own pocket.And others birds were boisterous and loud. They sat on the feeder and squawked and screamed at all hours of the day and night and demanded that I fill it when it got low on food.After a while, I couldn't even sit on my own back porch anymore.

So I took down the bird feeder and in three days the birds were gone. I cleaned up their mess and took down the many nests they had built all over the patio.Soon, the back yard was like It used to be .... quiet, serene.... and no one demanding their rights to a free meal.

Now let's see. Our government gives out free food, subsidized housing, free medical care and free education, and allows anyone born here to be an automatic citizen.Then the illegal's came by the tens of thousands. Suddenly our taxes went up to pay for free services; small apartments are housing 5 families; you have to wait 6 hours to be seen by an emergency room doctor; your child's second rate class is behind other schools because over half the class doesn't speak English.

Corn flakes now come in a bilingual box; I have to 'press one ' to hear my banktalk to me in English, and people waving flags other than 'Old Glory' are squawking and screaming in the streets, demanding more rights and free liberties. Just my opinion, but maybe it's time for the government to take down the bird feeder.

If you agree, lets kick the current officials, in Washington DC out of office, when we can.

If you don’t agree, just continue cleaning up the poop

Can this country be saved?

I really hate to see what has happened to this country. I know what you are going to say, “stop living in the past”, “things were not that great in yesteryear”. But just in my life time, I have seen a country that had an attitude that said we are the best, smartest, hardest working, and freest country in the world. A country that put a man on the moon who now has to rely on others to do the heavy lifting.

Now we are being told that we have gotten rich, fat and lazy. We produce very little and more and more folks are depending on government for their daily living. Generations have been brought up on government handouts and subsidies becoming a way of life for families, for generations. More than half of the population really pays no income taxes at all. Oh yah, they take money out of your weekly pay check but when you total all the income taxes you paid against what your income tax return is after April 15th, many get more back than they paid in and those folks no matter how they look at it, pay no income taxes to live in this country.

Most of these government handout were never intended or even thought of by our founding fathers. Nowhere in the constitution does it say that a living is to be provided by the federal government. Most current government programs like Social Security, Welfare, Unemployment Insurance, and even the collection of Federal Income taxes has happened in the past 90 years.

My family for the most part and I have traced it back in most lines to before 1700, were poor farmers. We lived and prospered without these government handouts. When I was a kid we were poor. My father was poorly educated and his employment was very limited, yet he nor my family would have ever accepted or sought out any government welfare type programs.

My dad picked fruit, chopped wood, sold door to door, worked as a handyman and any other legal thing he could find when he was out of his normal line of work. Many holidays and hard times churches, fraternal organizations and other charities would leave food, clothing and other things at our house to help our family. Our extended family, grandparents etc. also helped in lean times. We did it without government charity just the charity of folks who cared to do a good thing.

I used to see folks using food stamps or cashing welfare checks at the grocery store and look away in embarrassment for those folks. I thought how ashamed they must be to have others see them forced to take a handout. Now it is kind of a normal thing and nobody even notices.

I know what you are saying, you are old and probably getting social security checks. Yes I am. I did not want to participate in social security and in fact worked for quite a time for employers who did not participate in the program. Try to find that today. Anyway I was forced to take part and paid my money. Now the government had taken some of my freedom away and some of my self reliance. Instead of planning and saving for retirement I had the government doing it for me. I did save in addition but many folks have nothing but social security these days. Once you are trapped in a government program it is very hard to get out of it and that is the plan in my opinion.

Today folks like us would be lined up outside the welfare office looking for a government handout just like our moms and dads did, as did our grandparents. Children are being raised with this expectation. They think this type of life style is normal and they get accustomed to the life. They accept that there is little need to try as the government will take care of them. They think they are entitled to have government take care of them. But deep down inside there is resentment and the feeling that “the man”, is keeping them poor and down.

In my opinion, this is building a kind of class status in this country. The lower class welfare witch, redneck trailer trash society. Cruel words aren’t they, but most people have said them at times to describe these folks. Then you have “the put upon” middle class who are just hanging on to keep from slipping into the lowest class. Then of course you have the rich. I guess the rich are those people who make more than you do and are to be hated. Instead of working to be like them we think it is the duty to make them share what they have with us less fortunate folks. In fact we elect political representatives who say they are going to get them and tax them and make them show charity to us poor folks.

I realize it is discouraging to see the guy driving by in his new BMW going to his multi-million dollar home and know there is no way in hell you will ever be like that at your age. I know that there are many folks who would love to have a good job, any honest job that would at least make it possible to acquire those things for our families that make life really worth while without getting government handouts. But after years of looking and trying those good jobs are just not there anymore. The question is Why?

Tell me why in your opinion this is the case if it is the case. In my next blog entry I will tackle the WHY.

Sticks and Stones

The saying goes “sticks and stones my break my bones but names will never hurt me”. Well that is not quite correct in my view. Names do hurt and they are being used a lot these days by people to try to defend their point of view when they have no other defense.

Let me start off with a little scenario or analogy. Lets say I am a father of a large family. We are walking along in a nice neighborhood. A much nicer neighborhood than what my family lives in or will ever have. We see a very attractive house and during the night, we decided to break in and set up our stuff, kids, pets, and other belongings in the homeowners living room.

Next morning the homeowners come down from their bedrooms and sees my family camped out in their living room and say, “ What are you people doing her”? I reply “well we were walking along, saw this wonderful house that is more than you need and decided that you should allow us to live here as well”.

Of course the homeowner would say, you have got to leave, this is my house, you are breaking the law, I paid for this house and if you don’t go I will call the cops. At which point I say, "I will do your yard work and clean you car. My wife will do the house work and other work you do not want to do, so it is a fair trade and we are staying".

The homeowner calls the cops and tells them what is going on. The local police say this is a federal problem to call them. The homeowner calls the feds and they say will look into it, but do not have the time until sometime in the future, probable after the elections or something to that effect. The home owner calls the local police and says that feds will get to it but until then it is a local problem. The local police say they do not have the money or manpower and can’t do it. They are broke.

The homeowner turns to me and says you have got to leave I do not want you here. At that point I say (…..Now here is my point in this ……) I say as the illegal alien in his home. “Well you just don’t want us here because you are a racist and a bigot”. There you go use an inflammatory term that has nothing to really do with the situation but labels the real victim here the homeowner as the one with the problem.

If you disagree with anything to do with gay rights or practices you hate gays or you are a homophobe. I saw a bumper sticker the other day, it had a gay pride sticker on it and the words stop the hate. As a heterosexual man I disagree with a lot of gay culture, but I nor anyone I know sit around and talk about how we hate gays.

If you disagree with the current administration, you are a racist because the president is black I guess. If you are afraid of the way the country is going, and give your opinion about what you see as wrong, you are a fear monger.

Can we no longer just have a difference in opinions without calling each other names? Can we just listen and then say “well your point is well taken, but here is my opinion on the subject”. We do not always need to agree, but we should be listening to each other without calling names. We should have stopped doing that in grade school.

I Pledge Allegiance

"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

That is the pledge of allegiance that we all have taken from time to time, well at least most of us have. What does it mean? Well it is not as old as most think it is, and it was not done by the founding fathers but a socialist minister. Nobody is put in jail for not saying it in public and I have known Jehovah’s Witnesses like my childhood friend who would not even stand for the pledge. That is fine in my belief. It was an expression of is particular faith and the freedom he enjoys in this country. My own faith would encourage me to take the pledge but I respect anyone for what ever reason who does not want to take the pledge. That is freedom and liberty.

In my view it is something we should all do to reaffirm what we believe in as far as the values of this country. No the founding fathers never wrote these words, but I am sure they would approve.

Most of the current upset about the pledge has centered on the term “under God”. Those zealots who crap their pants any time the word God and the United States are even in the same paragraph have done their best to get it thrown out but recently the appellate courts have ruled that it is not unconstitutional to have it in the pledge.

Do we not believe in liberty? Do we not have an inbred awareness of justice? What is liberty anyway? I define it as the ability for a citizen to live their lives free of government interference. I believe that is what the founding fathers wanted as well. A small federal government that did just those things that the local community could not.

We have in recent past sold our liberty to a bigger and bigger federal government. Many of our citizens have sold their freedom and liberty to the government by accepting and building a lifestyle based on having the government “take care of us”. Slaves were taken care of not freemen.

I like to take the pledge, but I am afraid we do not really have a republic anymore; they do not listen to us at all. We are not one nation; we are apparently Democrats and Republicans. Most do not believe in God and we are very divisible as progressives and conservatives. Justice for all really means, “How can I get more for me and mine” not justice for all.

There are grassroots organizations sprouting up all over the country. Groups like the Tea Party and the 9-12 projects. Contrary to what the main stream press is trying to say, these are not Republican supporters but people of all political groups who want real change. I feel they want to influence both national political parties to return to the values and principles this country was founded upon. So that this country can again be the best hope for the world. Find a group locally and take part in returning the government to and by the people. November 2010 will be a good start of a new beginning.

First Year Evaluation, the Results

In my last blog entry I asked you readers to list the positive things our President Mr. Obama had done. Here are the results.

Well I don’t know what to say. There has been a big lack of posting on the blog or many emails coming to me about the yearly evaluation of our President. I asked for everyone to list the positive things he has done. As you can read on the blog there have been a couple of comments mostly just foolishness, but I will accept some of the comments as positive and ignore the profanity and out right crap. Looking at the number of folks that hit the blog there should have been many more comments about the programs and tasks the President has accomplished. Maybe like a lot of folks I know they don’t know of anything he has done.

I had 9 of my friends contact me with their remarks but as most of my friends have the same view as me, they had very little to offer other than what I had already said last month about him.

One comment that kept coming time after time was that he has toned down the cowboy shoot first ask questions later mentality. Maybe too much but that was seen as a positive.

Anther was that he seems to evaluate things, in some cases longer and maybe too long, and reach a decision with more thinking behind it. But most felt he is painfully slow and does not stick to what he and his team decided. You could not say that about President Bush. He stayed the course no matter what, maybe even when it was the wrong thing to do and should have been changed.

He does use a Teleprompter but even with that he is easier to listen to and even if he is not conveying a message correctly and his message is not convincing, he puts on a good show. President Bush stammered and stuttered and was not easy to listen to or see as he made grotesque facial gestures.

He has inspired many minorities and maybe encouraged them to make more of their lives.

But nobody has talked or noted a program that he has implemented. Yes he has tried, but so far he has gotten nothing done. We are no better off than when he came into office as far as NEW programs he has put in place. He has changed some policy but what new programs?

I think he should be very humble and admit he has made some mistakes even if he had good intentions. He should concentrate on getting the economy back in good shape, forget most of the rest of the stuff until we have more people employed.

Stop all social engineering and tell the country that we are going to have to stop the spending, cut many many programs. This will hurt but is need if we are going to ever recover. Stop talking about how we got there but what we as citizens need to do to get ourselves solvent again.

Mr. Obama is a bright young man and we all thought he would be a president with new ideas and that we would see change that we could count on. Well he was a great campaigner and he sounded good, but he is stuck in campaign mode and can’t seem to stop comparing himself to President Bush. Who cares about that? His supporters are dong the same, they are looking to blame someone else, the Republicans, the conservatives, the talk show hosts, anyone but Obama. As Harry Truman said “the buck stops here”. He has got to listen to the people. The people are upset and are trying to tell him what they want and expect. They were the same people who voted and believed in him. Why will he not listen?

In my opinion he is being advised by guys with an agenda that is way out of step with the American people. They are very progressive folks. Only about 19 percent of the voters last time think of themselves as progressive. (liberal) The rest were people who were much more moderate, but the Presidents advisors somehow think the election was in support of far left progressive principles but it was not. He has got to rid himself of these folks and replace them with more moderate advisors who are closer to the real citizens.

He is our only President, and we must hope that he can wise up and lead, not just follow some failed ideological fantasy that he seems to be bent on doing. If he does not change he will just be another Carter/Nero on history. That would be tragic for our country.

First Year Evaluation

President Obama has been in office for a little over a year. I want to give him his yearly evaluation. After all he is my employee and I always gave my employees a yearly evaluation. But before I can evaluate his actions and accomplishments, I have to know what he has done. If I hear that it is all Bush’s fault one more time I am going to have blood shoot out of my eyes. I didn’t hire him to make excuses, I hired him to fix things. He was a Senator and must have known what was going on so his play for pity is not valid anymore.

In my opinion there have been plenty of mistakes, and I am not going to list them here. There are a few things I will give him in fairness.

He did inherit a mess of an economy. President Bush and Congress took a couple of years off so things got out of hand real quick. Remember the Democrats were in charge of congress after the 2006 election and they did absolutely nothing. I mean nothing but fight with each outer as they are currently doing with the health bill and budget. They could pass anything they want, they had the power and did not need the Republicans at all. The excuse of calling them the party of NO is ridicules. They did not have the power to say no.

He did win the Nobel Prize after just 2 weeks on the job, I will give him that, but I think Howdy Doody would have been awarded it as well as it was just awarded to the people of the US for not having President Bush anymore.

He is a nice young man with a nice family. He is a good speaker especially with a teleprompter. He seems to have a good personality and most people like him as a person. I think he has inspired many minority folks and given them inspiration to try to achieve things they might have thought were beyond their grasp.

TO DO LIST

Now my readers I want you to list on this blog or send an email to me listing specifically what things President Obama has done. I am not talking about warm and fuzzy things, I am talking about specifics. Hint-----seniors like me got a $250.00 check to compensate us for not having a tax cut like the other 95 percent of the folks. But be careful I don’t see this as a good thing. I would have rather had the money go to reduce the deficit and not to just meet some stupid campaign promise. So in you answer list why overall it is a good thing.

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I will respond to your input and either agree with it or give you what I see as problems. Here is my main point; "I DON’T THINK HE HAS ACHIEVED ANYTHING". I may be wrong and I hope I have missed something but try as hard as I can I can't think of anything he has done. Some things are on the horizon but as of this day there is nothing I can find. Prove me wrong, please. I will listen with an open mind. Please do the same for me.

Remember these are to be the positive things, not what he did wrong. I have a long list of those and do not need any help….No just the good positive things like HR6567 giving all big fat old men a new BMW free….

I am an OLD Man

Ok, I am an old man. I know it is not that good to live in the past but if we do not learn from the past, like they say we are doomed to repeat our mistakes.

In reviewing my life I have seen many things change. Some for the better and some, in my opinion, for the worse. I was brought up in a small town. Population was bout 7 thousand souls. That same town is now about 40 thousand people. I do not live in that town anymore but the one I do live in has had a similar growth. I am going to briefly list some of the changes I have seen in my life.

The town I lived in had one main street, called, you got it, “Main” street. There were other streets of course but they all branched off of Main. People parked their cars on the street and there was plenty of parking spaces. There were no parking meters. There were a lot of people walking up and down main street shopping at the variety of stores on the street.

There were no shopping malls or strip malls or Walmarts. No supermarkets of any kind. If you wanted meat, you went to the butcher shop that had saw dust on the floor and maybe 20 or so deer hanging ready to be cut up and wrapped to be placed in cold storage. That of course depended on the time of the year. Nobody had freezers and real refrigerators were not that abundant.

There was a bakery with all kinds of fresh made goodies. Women usually made their own bread, but occasionally as a treat, we would get store bought bread. Most of the time it was not sliced, but finally some bakeries started slicing the bread for their customers. Our bakery had gals in little Dutch girl outfits that I remember. Sometimes they would sneak a treat to one of us kids just for fun and hope that our moms would let us have some of what ever they were selling. Boy the place smelled heavenly.

Most women did not drive cars. Most women did not work out of the home. My mom did as my dad’s construction occupation was mostly seasonal. Unfortunately our bills went on all year long, thus mom worked.

When you went to one of the car dealerships on main street they were nothing like what we have today. Just a store front, with maybe 3 or 4 cars on the floor, and a service bay in the back. If you wanted a new car you looked at the models they had in the store and you ordered one in the color and style you liked. It would be delivered sometime later. There was an alley on both sides of main street and if you had to get your car serviced you had to go down the alley and into the service department of the dealer.

Most men were embarrassed if they had to take their car in for services as most men could repair their own cars and it was kind of a knock on a guy if he had to have someone else do the work. Of course there were folks like doctors who just did not have the time.

There were no rows of cars on a lot out front. There were no used cars either. There were some used car lots on the outskirts of town, but the new car dealer did not deal in them. Most folks bought used cars from private parties or the cars were passed down to family members. People kept their cars for a much longer time than they do these days. Most people I knew saved and bought a car cash. This was especially true in my family. However my family never had a new car until long after I was married. Most families had only 1 car unless you had a business or lived on a farm where you may need a truck or van. My uncles had new cars as they were traveling salesmen and made a lot of money. Maybe as much as $10,000 a year. I wanted to go to college so I could make that much money some day.

There were service stations (gas stations) that really gave you service. When you drove up someone would rush out and ask you what you wanted. He or she would wash your windows, check the tire air pressure and fill your tank. You got real service and if you were a regular customer sometimes the companies would through in some gift like stake knives or dishes to encourage you to do business with them.

A lot of people had telephones in my town, in fact most people did. But most people were on what was called party lines. Maybe 3 or 4 other families had to share one line. You could tell if it was you line by distinctive rings. One ring and a pause, two rings and a pause etc. If you were snoopy you could listen to other peoples conversations. If you had to make a long distance call to relives in a far off place like the Midwest, usually the most experienced person in the family, in my case one of my grandfathers would contact the long distance operator and made the connection. It was very expensive to us and all the kids were expected to be quiet and talk clearly and concisely so as not to run up too large a phone bill. Phones were for serious conversations not toys as they are today.

There were no freeways, toll ways and few multi-lane roads. Most roads between cities were merely two lane roads. If you got behind a logging truck or something, you had to pass and take your life in your hands. A trip to my grandfather in Salem Oregon was a two day trip on mostly a two lane road. Today I can do the same trip in about two hours. Gas was about 19 cents a gallon, but consider that my father made thirty five dollars a week, so still that was a lot of money in those days. My mom did not drive when I was very young and if we had to go to a city for shopping we took the bus. That was the normal mode of travel in those days. Most cities had trolley cars and busses and people used public transportation even more then we do now. In the West because of the great distances most people had one car, but many people shared rides to and from work.

There was no TV and no Video games of any kind. I did not have a TV until I was a senior in high school. We would go to the old movie house maybe twice a year or so and us kids would play out what ever the movie was about for quite some time until we saw another movie. Many times we played pirates or cowboys, or soldiers or monsters from the black lagoon or what ever caught our attention. When us kids got home, no matter rain or shine, we would quickly get our chores done and go out to play until a mom would call us in for dinner. After dinner we were at it again until one of the moms would call us in for the evening. We had to do our homework then and maybe listen to a show on the radio. The only thing that would stop us from this routine was if we were sick or had to go someplace or were being punished by our parents. We could play late into the evening in perfect safety as we never heard of children being murdered or kidnapped or worse as it is today.

There were neighborhood schools. There were no portables and each class was small enough that one teacher could keep it orderly. Children who had special needs were sent to the special needs school. Everyone spoke English and we walked to school in most cases. If the school got over crowded, the citizens just built another small neighborhood school building.

There were many churches in my little town. Almost everyone went to one or the other. I attended two churches as my mother and father were of different faiths. Us kids traded off going to each church. In the summer when we were not working in the fields as most kids did then, we would go to vocational bible school. The one we went to was one that another kid in the neighborhood went to and we enjoyed going there. People did not seem to be so segregated and separated by the building they went into. God was God and he loved us no matter which building we went into.

My little town is now about 40 thousand people. “Main” street is dilapidated and run down. The stores are either empty or are junk (antique) stores. The city fathers try to encourage new business to locate downtown, but with every family having 2 to 3 cars, if everyone were to go downtown there would be no place to park.

There are shopping malls, strip malls and every kind of big box outlet you can think of. Traffic on main street is just awful and you can sit for a long time trying to get down "Main" to get to one of the malls. The town looks like one large used car lot with every brand you can think of. Everyone is in a hurry and the few people you see on the street have a phone up to their head or are text messaging each other.

The little shops and stores are all gone. There is little personal contact with the people working in the malls. Just get what you want, swipe your credit card and go home and play a video game or watch pro sports on your 60 inch hi-def TV. Kids don’t work or play, unless the interact with some caned game. We have kid here in our neighborhood now and they only time I see them outside even on nice days is when they are waiting to get on the bus to go to school.

I miss my little quiet town….

My understanding of GOD

I have talked a lot about my political and social philosophy. Both of these subjects can bring forward strong feelings from the reader. As ever, I do not ask you to agree with me, just read and if you have any other views please leave them on the place for comments on the blog or via direct email to me. I really appreciate it.

To live my particular religious flavor, so to speak, is very hard. My time, money and daily efforts are spent actively practicing my faith. To me it is a way of life and I really take seriously the phrase “do unto others as you want others to do unto you.” I do not push my denomination on anyone nor do I publicly advertise it. If you were in my home and asked me about it, I would gladly share with you. However, my intent, contrary to what many feel, is appropriate is to live and practice my religion in such a way as to be an example so that others may want to know and simulate my example.

I am defiantly not without sin. I have done many things that I am ashamed of and if I could do them over again, I would hope I would do them better. To anyone I have wronged or offended in the past I am truly sorry and I offer my apology. However there are people who I feel have offended me and I will gladly forgive them but first they must offer their apology to me. Not for my welfare but for what I see as their eternal progression and road to repentance.

Basically I believe, and these things may be in contradiction to my particular denomination, the following points.

There is a God ---- Heavenly Father--- Supreme Being --- or what ever you want to call him.

Everyone is born with a belief in God. Oh how about all those atheists or agnostics etc.? Well let me explain. If you believe in God as is described in your particular scripture and organizational denomination, that is how you understand God to be and you can call him by what ever name you like. Including Allah. If you believe that God is a myth and only superstition, and there is and never was such a thing well that is fine, but you still have a God that you are staking everything on and lets call him NoGod.

So if those who believe in the traditional God are correct when they die, if there is no God well I guess that is it. If there IS a God they will be rewarded for their faith. Now those who do not believe and die. If there is no God all is well, BUT if there is a God you are in deep doo-doo. One of the basic sins in all religions is the sin of denial of God….Look it up. So would it not be smarter to at least believe with reservations? I think so. So I still maintain that everyone has a God, either the traditional one or the modern NoGod.

Another point I believe in is, that even if you do not believe everything your religion preaches, would not, or is not, your life, and how you lead it, better than what it would have been if you had no moral training, standards at all? I know the life I was leading before I adopted my faith was on a very destructive path and honestly I feel I would not have been alive today and I am certain I would have not been married all these years to the same woman.

Unfortunately in today’s world religion and modern life are at odds with each other in many ways. The practice of most religions takes time and effort. You got to get out of bed and go to church or wherever you go for your organization. Many of us have so little free time and to sacrifice part of a day, or if you practice the principle of keeping the Sabbath Day holly it is all day. For many it is more than they can do. It is not that they do not believe, they are just running as fast as they can. They will get into their religion when they are old before they die…right!!!!!

Also for many and I think the young in particular, their life style tends to put them at odds with what they have been taught by religion and the root of the problem for them is the big G word and that is GUILT. Nobody likes to feel guilty. We grow up into adults and we do not want mommy, daddy or God telling us that what we are doing is wrong. So we don’t go to church and justify our actions to ourselves and others and say we are not religious. But deep down many know they are really fooling themselves and if they had the strength of character they would change their lives.

Many have participated in their particular religion in the past have felt hurt or wronged by what went on in the past. Maybe a clergy, or other member or some event has done something to cause this hurt. People in religions are human and thus make mistakes and commit sins. Condemning religion because of the actions of other people is very destructive and hurtful to mostly ones self. It is not religions fault but the fault of people in religion. Many times these hurt people stop attending church, and that is a loss to them. Most religions teach repentance and forgiveness and in my belief I feel we should go that path before giving up.

Many folks get caught up on the scientific and religious contradictions in today’s world. In the statement to follow I want to say that my particular denomination is at odds with my personal belief. There is the contradiction between creationism and the big bang theory. The smart crowed knows with no room for wiggle that the world was created by some scientific principle and that all on earth have evolved from that point and we continue to evolve. The earth is much older than what the scriptures say and that cavemen and dinosaurs prove that there were creatures on the earth much older than what is taught by religion.

Let me put what I believe, not my religion, believes here. The stories of creation in the old testament were past down from early times by way of mouth and then later put to paper. They were not really written by Moses and are not literal. They are stories meant to illustrate how man understood the process of creation when their scientific knowledge was not sufficient to understand what had happened. They have no concept of time, as we still don’t understand the difference of what I call God’s day and what we call a day. I believe that God’s day in our time may be millions of years or billions of years.

As all things on earth are done, they are done in an organized and defined way. No clapping of hands or thunder but in a scientific and specific organized method as all things on this earth are done now. Erosion, earth quakes, volcanoes, storms, and many other things that are in place that change or evolve our world in a normal explainable way.

God is not that mysterious, and he wants us to know and understand his ways. Science is his way of allowing us to discover how he did what he did. Many scientists feel they will be ridiculed by their friends if they slant to the religious side, so they go along with the mainstream. They ignore the things they can not understand or explain away in scientific methods. Yet they have seen so many things happen that the doubt lingers.


One of my professors said it best and I remember it well as I was studying to be an MD. Neither creationism or evolution can be proved as a law. They are theories and you should never assume they are cast in concrete.