Kindergarten Politics

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Remaking America

Barack Hussein Obama is now President of United States of America. He has been consistent in his promise to Remake America. He promised again in his Inaugural speech. America can Change, now. America can become a people whose men, women and children will find their freedoms in the Government. America can change, and become like Boxer in Animal Farm. They're wrapped in pretty words, an emotionl snare: Remake America. Does America see the threat? Does America see insult?

Keeping the Gods Straight

Religions confuse things. Things are confused in the name of Religion. Take the gods, for instance. To confuse things, They (Those whose knowledge of Religion is based on gossip) say Jews, Christians and Muslims have the same god. That is so, not true! Here's the straight path to the differences in these three religions, with two gods among them. It's quite simplified, considering the many years covered. And I've kept the words intentionally simple, for clarity. The Jews came first. The name of their god was unpronounceable, so they used the letters that translate to YAHWEH. Other adjectives were sometimes use to identify their god, like God, just to make life easier. For centuries, they lived, played, worked and warred. Then Jesus was born, sometime in the season of Herod. The Romans, who ruled the Jews, didn't like Jesus, and oversaw his death. The Christians came along after Jesus died. Jesus was a Jew, and he never changed his religion. He was a man, a very special man, but man, he was. (note: theological omission, for clarity) He was recognized as the Savior the Jews were looking for. The ones who recognized that Jesus fulfilled the Laws of the Jews, followed him, Jesus. The followers were called Christians first in the Greek town of Antioch, decades after Jesus left. Christian means, (surprise!) followers of Christ, another name for Jesus. Christians did not change gods, they added a Savior. Jews and Christians still worship the same God, the same one as Abraham, and all those other old guys named in the Hebrew Holy Books and Christian Bible. (The religion of the Jews is Jewish, the culture is Hebrew, their land named Israel in 17th century BC.) The Christian Bible, in its Old Testament, you'll find the several Jewish Holy Books whose names mean, roughly, Law (this was divided into five books), History, Poetry and Prophecy. Again, the Christians added to the Jewish heritage, they did not dismiss it, and they kept the same god YAHWEH, using various adjectives like Lord or, again, God, avoiding the tongue-twister. The Muslims entered the scene in about the 6th century AD. It got sticky years before, after Ishmael, illegitimate son of Abraham, was born. Ishmael had to leave his father Abraham's place and found a rock and received promises. Down the road, Mohammed arrived, descended from Ishmael. Whatever God it was that Ishmael prayed to, I do not know, but Mohammed found a God, named Allah. (The name of this God is significant when you check out its origin.) The history of the Jews isn't lily white, but their season of slaughter is centuries past. (The Atheists, whose god isn't a topic here, slaughtered Christians in the first few hundred years of Christian existence.) The Christians had its season for killing, called the Christian Crusades. The Crusades was an war to reclaim the land, lifestyles, and lives overtaken by Mohammed's followers. This god named Allah, always was, and is now, foreign to both Jews and Christians. by hepsy

No Room for Torture in Civilized Sanity

Torture has no business in civilized sanity. But, if torture is confused with the discomfort of water-boarding, pink panties on the head, being scared by dogs, hearing my religion insulted or seeing my holy book trashed/burned/drowned, then someone needs a better vocabulary. Torture, in my dictionary, is an inhuman act malevolently inflicted. Conjure its effects: children maliciously ravaged, or stuffed in a closet with their own eliminations to be as food, or pounded in the jaw with a hammer. Envision the cruety that leaves its life-long mark on the tortured. I think of the people whose bodies are forever maimed, limbs distorted by constant breaking and legs that wobble, if they're still attached, for the same reason, the result of intentional brutality. I think of the missing fingers and boiled bodies, eyes gouged and decapitations, inhuman acts to entertain or for twisted honor. This is torture. For anyone who confuses discomfort with torture, I can only pray that your world will remain innocent. -I wrote this as comment to "Water-Boarding: Is It Torture?" by C Rich