Paula's views for the day...
If wishes were fishes, we'd all be kings -- or at least rich.
I wish a LOT of things, mostly just to be comfortable and not have to worry about where the next $310.00 is going to come from to pay our outrageous gas bill. What in the world has happened? Why do we have to pay for things that should be part of our pursuit of happiness, you know, life, liberty, the POH, etc. Where did we go wrong?
When I look around me, I feel a burning need to change things.
I want to make sure that everyone who wants shelter, has it.
Everyone who wants a job, gets it.
And that everyone is fed.
Is this so much to ask?
Our government used to care but now that they have delegated everything to faith-based initiatives, they've withdrawn any safety net that was in place. And the faith-based people think that now that they are receiving government money, they have the right to dictate what the goverment does.
I believe most strongly in the seperation of church and state. And if churches are going to stick their nose into politics, whether it's Catholic bishops denying adherents the right to take communion based on their VOTE, or Evangelicals and other fundies who target politicians because they don't like something they said, then they need to start PAYING TAXES and lose that nice exempt status as a religious organization.
Whenever the church rears its ugly head and begins to become a political entity, trouble is not far behind. Any student of history knows that theocracies are doomed to fail, and Thomas Jefferson knew it better than anyone. When King Charles the First lost his head (literally), and Oliver Cromwell took over England, disaster followed. Jefferson saw what these two men did in the name of religion, and decided that there could be no state religion.
Thus we became a pluralistic society and anyone who tries to change that, no matter how much they CLAIM to love this country, isn't an American.
And nothing they say will make them so...
Thank you...just had to get that off my chest; it's been really bugging me. :-)
Paula
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I wish a LOT of things, mostly just to be comfortable and not have to worry about where the next $310.00 is going to come from to pay our outrageous gas bill. What in the world has happened? Why do we have to pay for things that should be part of our pursuit of happiness, you know, life, liberty, the POH, etc. Where did we go wrong?
When I look around me, I feel a burning need to change things.
I want to make sure that everyone who wants shelter, has it.
Everyone who wants a job, gets it.
And that everyone is fed.
Is this so much to ask?
Our government used to care but now that they have delegated everything to faith-based initiatives, they've withdrawn any safety net that was in place. And the faith-based people think that now that they are receiving government money, they have the right to dictate what the goverment does.
I believe most strongly in the seperation of church and state. And if churches are going to stick their nose into politics, whether it's Catholic bishops denying adherents the right to take communion based on their VOTE, or Evangelicals and other fundies who target politicians because they don't like something they said, then they need to start PAYING TAXES and lose that nice exempt status as a religious organization.
Whenever the church rears its ugly head and begins to become a political entity, trouble is not far behind. Any student of history knows that theocracies are doomed to fail, and Thomas Jefferson knew it better than anyone. When King Charles the First lost his head (literally), and Oliver Cromwell took over England, disaster followed. Jefferson saw what these two men did in the name of religion, and decided that there could be no state religion.
Thus we became a pluralistic society and anyone who tries to change that, no matter how much they CLAIM to love this country, isn't an American.
And nothing they say will make them so...
Thank you...just had to get that off my chest; it's been really bugging me. :-)
Paula
Scribes Unlimited
http://www.scribesunlimited.com
posted by ScribesUnlimited | 1:56 PM
1 Comments:
Paula's in a pretty pissy mood today, so I'm not even going to explain the broken dish in the other room. :-)
Uhoh...
Paul
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