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The gods of the various religions, including Yahweh of the old testament, have been responsible for most of the wars that have resulted in the largest losses of human life in the course of human history.
Your sentiment, while likely well meaning, is just that; sentiment.
No thank you; I choose life as it is and as it comes…

Yet to mention the idea of God to Liberals is to get that look that says “I’m sorry you are an ignorant, superstitous moron.”

No true believer in God would do the things I see American Capitalists doing to their fellow man for the sake of a buck. No true believer would commit the moral atrocities that Liberals do and try to pass them off as moral behavior. This is one reason we have so mnay crazy people in America who are on the verge of cracking. The unresolved giilt of evil living, the free wheeling use of drugs that bend the mind ans the moral senses, the anger at being treated as a thing by others who just want to use you for their gratification — these and a hundred other daily abuses that people must endure because we do not accept that God has told us “Love your neighbor.”

A truly Christian society would be marked by a strong sense of community where money would not be the most important thing on earth, where charity would mean universal health care, not health if you can afford health, respect for other nations instead of seeing them as little brown people to be exploited for their raw materials, war as a last and regrettable response rather than the always first response to every disagreement. Perhaps the best example we had in the last century was Dorothy Day.

There is so much to say and this is such a limited space, but the starting point is to find peace within by finding the love of God within. That love gives peace, and a peace that is then able to be given to a sick world.

What no one’s talking about is that many Americans can’t find jobs due to discrimination. And all this background checking makes it easy for employers to discriminate (that’s why it used to be illegal!)
But Americans aren’t angry about all this ’cause they’re taking tons of antidepressants and sedatives then sitting in front of the TV set where they can get titillated and stimulated till they fall back asleep–and dream of more titillation and stimulation…
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Which is one of many reasons I left; my sister recently joined me abroad and is working at a decent job.
Your post is like looking at my previous life as a working stiff “on the floor” of warehouses and manufacturing plants. I managed to go from blue collar to white; from machinist to engineer; at base it never changed because I never got above the status of employee.
Great post and a serious look at what is!

If you’re not aggressive, not “money-motivated,” care more about other people than just making a financial profit, you’ll have trouble succeeding in today’s job market. Used to be that, as a result of the Privacy Act and probably other laws as well, employers could only check your references and ask your former employers about your work history–how long you’d worked for them, what your salary and duties were, etc. Now employers can actually make you take a physical (with one of their own doctors) and can access your medical records! They can have your body physically examined to see whether they approve of you as an employee. I’m talking about basic jobs answering phones, working in customer service, etc., that don’t require physical labor at all. They also can test you for drugs, check your credit history and, of course, your criminal background. (It’s as though your applying for a job arises some sort of suspicion in them.)

But in the process of all that background checking and medical probing, they can find out your religious, political and racial background, whether or not you’re disabled, what your sexual preferences are, etc. All this used to be illegal because we wanted to encourage employers to hire Americans, but now suddenly it’s okay in the USA, so we have a lot of unemployed Americans who can’t pass all those background investigations. Also now that you’re required to show two forms of ID, employers can see your date of birth. I called the EOC and they actually told me that it is now legal for employers to ask potential employees their age! I believe this is a result of the Patriot Act. And age discrimination is a serious problem as many employers prefer to fire older, better-paid employees and replace them with younger, less-experienced employees whom they can pay a lot less.

What no one’s talking about is that many Americans can’t find jobs due to discrimination. And all this background checking makes it easy for employers to discriminate (that’s why it used to be illegal!)

But Americans aren’t angry about all this ’cause they’re taking tons of antidepressants and sedatives then sitting in front of the TV set where they can get titillated and stimulated till they fall back asleep–and dream of more titillation and stimulation…

Live long and prosper?

And every motor would STOP.

That my ears could hear all the birds. And the silence of humans.

Speaking of killing sprees, that is.