I recently (being yesterday) watched the movie, Religulous. One of the best shows I have ever seen. I say this not because I want to dispute others beliefs, but because Bill Maher makes brilliant statements that involve facts behind them. One of these are: That our country was founded not on religion, but for the escape and freedom from religion, as well as the right to the freedom to have your own religion if you so choose. Our founding fathers were brilliant men! They were amongst the few sparks of intelligent individualists throughout time. Fortunately, there were enough of them in the same area with similar ideas, which is how America came to be.
With our founding fathers largely being of different religious views (but could all agree that the conversation can stop at "I believe this, you believe that"") why is it, that our country has come to be known as a Christian country? It makes absolutely no sense. Everyone cries out that we need to fight to protect our freedom, fight to uphold the rights that are represented in the Constitution. But the vast majority of these people are hypocrits. They all cry about these issues, when they in turn shun those who choose to exercise these rights. I am an atheist. And proud of it too. I will get more into my own religious views later on in my blogging career. And for now, I am not trying to slander religion, I just asking, why is it that everyone believes that it is un-American to be non-religious? Why is being religious suppose to make you a moral person in this, the country where men are suppose to be free!, yet are chastised for being free.
Religion- just about every single one- preaches that self-sacrifice as well as charity are vituous and noble. We few who have the ability to think rationally are largely outnumbered by these "nobelmen", and because of the fear that we have allowed them to put into our minds, that being logical and self-sufficient is an immoral and corrupt basis of life. And because this fear has been allowed into our minds, we have stood by and allowed them to infiltrate our government, the thing that is suppose to be protecting our rights to NOT be afraid! I dont know the exact numbers, but just about every member of the senate as well as the house, pride themselves on being religious. Why is it that being religious is such a big thing to be proud of? Is it really impossible to be moral and virtuous without the words of some all-powerful Jew telling you how to be moral and virtuous? Every leader that we have had (I will admit, I do not know about the first 10 presidents) have been religious men. Obama especially. People FREAKED out during the election when he left his church and was "church-less" for a time being. There was such a frenzy behind him finding a new church that people forgot to look around and ask questions relating to what he will ACTUALLY DO for our country. Instead, in the frenzy, he filled us with HOPE for plans that will CHANGE our current "crisis".
Because of everyone freaking out and being all frenzied up and what not on what religion Obama was going to choose, he was able to easily avoid directly answering any question that should have been posed on what he was going to do. He never gave a straight answer in any of his talks or debates.
While everyone was then done being frenzied and now being hyped up on HOPE that things will CHANGE, he was able to begin his plans to continue building upon the smaller amounts of socialism within our capitalistic country. These small bits of socialism are the branches from the root of evil within our government, and ultimately, society. And of course, roots can NOT exist unless there are branches with leaves to collect the water. In this scenario, we are the water. We are the ones who continue to give them their supply for life.
I dont know for sure about you, but I am one of those rain droplets that refuses to fall from the sky. I refuse to lose my view, my spot in the clouds, to feed those who would mooch off of me. I refuse to allow all of my hardwork of absorbing heat, changing states of matter entirely(!), and then climbing my way to join the groups of other hard working individual droplets, to become the benefit to others.
Take my rain analogy into the sense of actual life (haha, got carried away, analogies are fun). I want to create an enterprise. A corporation. It wont be easy, especially because of all the stuff I have just talked about. But also because I will be the new kid on the block. I wont try and short myself by making it all sound breezy, it is going to be harder than any sort of hell mormons can think of for me. I am going to be working my ass off day and night, to build an industrial empire. An empire that will produce and create innovative products that people will want to buy. Choose to buy. My ultimate goal is to work hard and earn shloads upon shloads of mountains of money. And when I do, I will refuse to give that money to the unwilling, and the undeserving. I will refuse to share MY wealth with those who refuse to work for theirs. My empire will be huge. An empire does need workers. And I will pay my workers because doing otherwise would be cheating people who are earnest workers. But I will never, ever, donate a single penny to anyone who has not deserved it, nor to anyone who begs it of me. Much more, I will refuse to pay taxes for things I do not personally need.
Taxes for schooling. Hell's yes! I love to see smart people and people who learn. But not if they teach, and preach at times, the kinds of things I have and do hear at school.
Roads? Duh, of course. I use roads every single day and they are a damn sweet invention (thank you Roman men of genius).
To stop myself from going on for too long on a semi-different subject, I will poast another blog relating to "Taxes".
Ultimately, what it is that I am trying to say is that the government has the potential to be amazing. And I believe that our country is the only current country that does have this ability to be amazing. Possibly Japan as well. But it will only be great if we stop these insertions of socialistic ideals into what SHOULD be PURE CAPITALISM. Pure capitalism would promote no hobos- meaning, that you wont recieve money just because you have had a "tough life". It would promote businessmen- meaning, that you need to work your own ass off to keep your own ass off the streets. I have officially begun my personal campaign against religion, socialism, communism- and anything else that is illogical, irrational, and against capitalism in any way- within our government. I want to be free. I want to make an enterprise in a world where I wont have to even consider having it taken away from me by the means of the point of a gun. Will you begin your own campaign? Do you want you, and your children to live in a world where they are free to be religious, or not, without ridicule?
This world, even the one with religion, is only possible if you begin judging man by his personal philosophies. Not by letting his religion tell you what his philosophy is. But by letting his actions speak for him, speak and describe what his personal philosophy is.
Judge man by philosophy; not religion.
Avid Capitalist,
Avid Philospher,
Avid Free Human Being,
Chandler Swank
