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It's been awhile since I wrote to this blog. Seems the other blog is getting all the attention (once a month even). I just wanted to voice my opinion on the crazy stuff in this election coming up. First of all, on homosexual marriage, not only is there no commandment against it, but after king Saul, no one has really been liable to keep those commandments. If you want to that's fine, but that is supposed to be based upon your own personal judgment.

If we take away people's judgment, then there is no basis for a true belief. In fact, usurping the authority of Christ's kingdom is exactly what the antichrist is supposed to do. Our country is based upon freedom of religion so that everyone can come to their belief on their own terms. If we really wanted to help people find God, we would promote the teaching of philosophy in our education system in addition to math and reading. David Hume, Thomas Hobbes, John Stuart Mill and Plato were good reads.

Whatever happened to actual learning by reading the works our society supposedly emerged from? Why do they keep us so ignorant of principals and philosophy and then impose christianity onto us in the manner of a superstition? What is this god that is so vain as to expect an absolute obeisance from us? If this were a person we would be contemptuous of such a low character. Imposing this sort of an image does nothing but steer thinking individuals away from the truths of theism.

The basis of theism is that we cannot ever know the absolute principals governing anything. All we can know is what a constant conjunction in some relationship has proven to us will continue to happen. God is the author of the principals and properties that govern the universe. We must accept all knowledge from that origin, because our minds are not set up to comprehend the beginning of time or the absolute basis of matter or space. If it is a teleological system, we cannot know, that knowledge is not available to us. We can suspect such a pathway, but there are alternatives, such that we need not believe that the future is planned, only that the system that we know parallels an absolute reality.

In my understanding, there are more conceptual existences, both function and form, than there are physical entities that can contain them. It is our job as rational beings to find those systems where both the form and the substance coexist, or where functions are actual functions rather than imaginary or coincidental functions. Conceptualizations are fine and dandy, but they are false until proven true by actually creating them. Limiting conceptualizations arbitrarily without basing them on our own contemporary capacity for rationalization is an egregious destruction of liberty. We need a full catalog of conceptualizations from which to find the paths of least resistance between concept and actuality. Limiting the catalog, limits our faith in god by rendering reason more difficult to obtain.

I prefer not to have religion dictated to me. It is wrong in the eyes of actual Christianity, and it is wrong in the eyes of true reason and philosophy. Hobbes shows, from the bible, that if god wants a people to follow a command, it will exist in scripture AND be attended by a miracle shown to those intended to follow this command. If the miracle is artificial the prophesy is false, if there is only a scriptural command without a miracle, the prophesy is false, if there is a real miracle and the command is not that of scripture, the prophesy is false. In addition, Christ told the apostles to go among the people as he went among them, which meant that they go out as teachers, not as law givers and dictators. There is nothing in the christian faith that allows laws to be based upon religious belief. Our founding fathers not only knew about this, they also were vividly aware that forcing religion down people's throats was the best way to turn people away from it. This is why we maintain freedom of religion in this country.

Banning gay marriage is nothing more than bigotry, what else would you expect from false prophesy? If it's only based on sentiment, is it right to disenfranchise entire families in the name of sentiment?

I don't believe in the death penalty either, all it does is justify murder. If it is sanctioned as an acceptable form of punishment in the eyes of the law, what is to prevent individuals from resorting to the same flawed reasoning in settling differences? If the State itself can't solve behavior problems without killing, how can we expect individuals to achieve this? Incarceration, on the other hand, immediately suggests resorting to the legal system to a frustrated individual, since it is a more difficult operation to feed and care for a prisoner. At the same time, a country burdened with prisoners needs a new government and new system of laws (or economy).

Eliminating three quarters of the budget for our military industrial complex would also go a long way in diminishing the romantic image of violence. That much money reinvested in the wealth producing sector of society (wealth = the sum of necessaries, conveniences and luxuries in a nation - Adam Smith, David Ricardo...) would generate a lot of jobs, bring down individual consumer debt and reduce inflation. All three of these being primary solutions to civil uncertainty and frustration. Plus, if we start producing and selling all kinds of neat stuff, our list of enemies will diminish and we won't need so much military based impoverishment. The more neat stuff we can come up with the more interesting jobs will get and the better education will look to our own disenfranchised populations too.

What we really need is a balanced government, which requires a third political party, as indicated at the top of this page, the class missing in government is the capitalist class - strangely enough, we have political hawks and democrats, both wealth consuming classes, the wealth producing class is not represented, which if it were, would lend more of a rational balance to our economic affairs.

Well enough of my ranting. Vote whether you want to or not!

Peace