As in the song "Lawyers In Love" we have a land, a nation with too many in high places willing to do anything for money neglecting people, honor and principle but a change is coming. No more falling for the lie of living only individualistic and independent lives leaving us divided and conquerable by powerful special interests but a people, a nation collaborating for the greater common good in various groups all across the nation. A land of people working together to help one another with a vision moreover as Jesus would have us be. Love, Mercy, Forgiveness, Kindness....something about another Land. The change is coming
Monday, June 15, 2009
GOP Vows Unity Against Public Healthcare
Oh yes here we go again, the Republicans not caring about the poor or the 50 some million without health insurance and so ready to instransigently stand in the way of it. These 50 million do not get insurance any other way so essentially the Republicans are willing to allow the continued misery and financial ruin of so many without health insurance. A publicly supported system is the only way you realistically fill the gaps we now fully know since the system we have now has been this way for decades. It is so proven a failure and not worked and millions have paid the price for that. So who are these Republicans? The rich and already set up with health insurance, you can bet your life on that. The people that put money and an old tired corrupt system over people. It is the shame of this country that we are the only civilized nation allowing millions of it's citizens to suffer without any healthcare and yes make no mistake about it, once you go to the doctor and confirm your illness you have a pre-existing condition and yes, without health insurance. It's the catch 22 that right wing critics never consider as they complain "Well why don't you go to the doctor?" Why" Because once you do, without health insurance, you then have a pre-existing condition without health insurance so you don't go hoping somehow that you get insurance before you have to confirm a pre-existing condition but how many people have found they are too late to treat cancer or heart disease or some other disease because they have to delay around pre-existing conditions and oh yes the Republcan right wing critics love to say then that is just your own fault. That kind of stupidity is why the right wing is out of power now but their brains are so trained to continually defend the interests of power and money that they cannot ever allow themselves to feel or act like they understand the pain of others and, yes, another reason they are out of power now. After all we and so many have been through it is only an out of date, out of touch stupid political party that can now say "We vow unity against public healthcare". They might as well say "We vow unity for the continued suffering and financial ruin of millions of American families. Oh yes, American families.
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
The Religious Right's Religious Cult Mind
So what are the trademarks of the many religious cults we have seen like David Moses's Children Of God or Sun Myung's Moonies? The trademarks range from stubborness and refusal to listen to the opinions of others that might disagree, shielding adherents from opposing views or moreover to completely turning off any voices of disagreement and dissent. I have religious right friends that do little else but listen to right wing radio talk show hosts and religious right radio and T.V. Some of them have no idea that the Bush administration made any serious mistakes or that the last Republican congress was one of the most corrupt in U.S. history.
Encouraged by religious right leaders, there is a kind of sub-culture growing all over this country fed and propagated by a kind of cult mentality where this one sided state of mind is projected onto it's followers; people and families all across this nation. With 95 percent of all radio talk shows on the political right wing side it is not hard for this growing group to maintain it's closed world mentality, but it is a very dangerous state of mind that develops from such one sided news and media. So many sources inform us of the failures of former President Bush, the debacle in Iraq and the failure of right wing economic ideology and yet the religious right refuse to hear it unabashedly tuning out points of views that differ from the politics they have set their mind on. Parents of children on the religious right forfeit their highest responsiblility by refusing to hear the whole truth resulting in the inability to cull between the truth and the lies when it comes to war and the lives of their children that are on the line in that war. They shut out differing points of view in almost the same kind of strange deadheaded way so many cults stubbornly shut out anything contradicting their view of the world. An intransigient stubborness that is a clear earmark of mind manipulated cults. The revealing yet disturbing thing about this is that this is not a characteristic of true spiritual strength otherwise a errant cult could not in fact have it but rather it is a characteristic of mental and emotional behavior that could apply to many. The point being that when the religious right maintains it's deadman's grip on such errant and failed policies it cannot be under a true spiritual strength to remain so firm in their view but instead are under the same kind of controlled mental and emotional behavioral phenomena as religious cults and no doubt vulnerable to the dark spiritual influence that plagues religious cults. This should be a point of prayer for all those grounded in the truth.
The religious right has been at the head of leading so many in this nation into tragic misguided endeavors such as treating Bush like he is the anointed of God, support for the immoral Iraq war and finally it's well documented almost holy sanctification of the "no government regulation on business" economic ideology that finally brought us into economic collapse and ruin.
There is a long period of fervent contemplation and self-examination that should be upon the religious right these days but with the constant rightwing mass mental "conditioning", the tuning out of political debate fully refusing to listen to the other side of an issue in print or on TV and the fully blanketing mantra from radio talk shows running through the minds of the religious right, any checking of one's self or internal examination of opinion is never given the chance and it is becoming clear that eventual deprogramming, or that is convincing them that their political views are not the same as the timeless unchanging truth of the word of God, will be an interesting endeavor perhaps even interesting enough that it will have to be left up to Jesus himself but the religious right will say they are ok with that, just ask them. It was however the establishment religious leaders, those with stature and position to protect that at first being eager to here Him, in believing He would back up their false ways, only went on to crucify Him. Look at the politics of the religious right, this is so much of what that is all about, protecting the status quo and protecting the wealthy. They twist and dilute the words of Jesus, the words He plainly spoke, in order to protect their status quo, money serving material supporting ways. Some things never change and some refuse to change even in the extreme, in the extreme like a religious cult.
Encouraged by religious right leaders, there is a kind of sub-culture growing all over this country fed and propagated by a kind of cult mentality where this one sided state of mind is projected onto it's followers; people and families all across this nation. With 95 percent of all radio talk shows on the political right wing side it is not hard for this growing group to maintain it's closed world mentality, but it is a very dangerous state of mind that develops from such one sided news and media. So many sources inform us of the failures of former President Bush, the debacle in Iraq and the failure of right wing economic ideology and yet the religious right refuse to hear it unabashedly tuning out points of views that differ from the politics they have set their mind on. Parents of children on the religious right forfeit their highest responsiblility by refusing to hear the whole truth resulting in the inability to cull between the truth and the lies when it comes to war and the lives of their children that are on the line in that war. They shut out differing points of view in almost the same kind of strange deadheaded way so many cults stubbornly shut out anything contradicting their view of the world. An intransigient stubborness that is a clear earmark of mind manipulated cults. The revealing yet disturbing thing about this is that this is not a characteristic of true spiritual strength otherwise a errant cult could not in fact have it but rather it is a characteristic of mental and emotional behavior that could apply to many. The point being that when the religious right maintains it's deadman's grip on such errant and failed policies it cannot be under a true spiritual strength to remain so firm in their view but instead are under the same kind of controlled mental and emotional behavioral phenomena as religious cults and no doubt vulnerable to the dark spiritual influence that plagues religious cults. This should be a point of prayer for all those grounded in the truth.
The religious right has been at the head of leading so many in this nation into tragic misguided endeavors such as treating Bush like he is the anointed of God, support for the immoral Iraq war and finally it's well documented almost holy sanctification of the "no government regulation on business" economic ideology that finally brought us into economic collapse and ruin.
There is a long period of fervent contemplation and self-examination that should be upon the religious right these days but with the constant rightwing mass mental "conditioning", the tuning out of political debate fully refusing to listen to the other side of an issue in print or on TV and the fully blanketing mantra from radio talk shows running through the minds of the religious right, any checking of one's self or internal examination of opinion is never given the chance and it is becoming clear that eventual deprogramming, or that is convincing them that their political views are not the same as the timeless unchanging truth of the word of God, will be an interesting endeavor perhaps even interesting enough that it will have to be left up to Jesus himself but the religious right will say they are ok with that, just ask them. It was however the establishment religious leaders, those with stature and position to protect that at first being eager to here Him, in believing He would back up their false ways, only went on to crucify Him. Look at the politics of the religious right, this is so much of what that is all about, protecting the status quo and protecting the wealthy. They twist and dilute the words of Jesus, the words He plainly spoke, in order to protect their status quo, money serving material supporting ways. Some things never change and some refuse to change even in the extreme, in the extreme like a religious cult.
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