God is Misrepresented by the Patriarchy

Staff Writer, DL Mullan

Religion / Politics 

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A good phrase for what we have been observing in the right, alternative right, and conservative media is: the lack of godliness. Talk show hosts jump up and down screaming about god. These men pray on air and act arrogant that their pick for President of the United States ascended into office.  

Should we say prey on air instead?

The last few weeks has shifted the plane of existence into a gambler’s dream. Our timeline is now filled with new possibilities of reality. Some good results are ridding the world of the New World Order slave system. The bad outcome manifests as threats to social equity by antiquated superstition disguised as patriotism.

With the promise of jobs and a better economy, President Donald Trump swept into office like a tsunami. Yet, he and other conservatives believe their divine right of kings promises them the power to revoke any women’s right or health initiative. The rapture of ego has grown to the point that the patriarchy cannot relate to the People they were entrusted to serve.

“Watched protests yesterday but was under the impression that we just had an election! Why didn’t these people vote? Celebs hurt cause badly,” Trump tweeted early Sunday morning.

This statement supports the out of touch religious mindset of the administration. The protests were to inform the government that women will not be sitting this administration out. Women know their rights and will be exercising those rights to the fullest extent that their creator has deemed.

“Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law. Take away the law-establishment, and every religion re-assumes its original benignity.”
~Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man, 1791

On the other side, the alternative right media has poked fun, made horrible comments, and relished in derogatory statements about women and men who protest against the alt rights’ adopted religious edicts. These holier than thou egotists are not Christians but hiding behind that identity to force their agenda onto others. These imposters revel in the putting down of people as a form of social control, especially of non-followers and women.

Christian comportment should subtract the judgment and misinformation coming from this segment of the media. If one can call right, alt right, and conservative religious sources in any way shape or form news media at this point, it would be difficult to support factually. Alternative media for the most part worships the cult called religion in order to garner fandom and support.

Journalism is not about exalting religion but pointing out the faults and corruption of government. Mainstream media has faltered under corporate rule as does everything monopolies and privatization touch. News for new’s sake is a dying institution.

Where does this disparity leave the American People when objectivity is sacrificed for illusion? The Fourth Estate is not only For Sale, but in disrepair with a cemetery plot being dug in the driveway. Is the new media as corrupt and subjective as the old establishment media?

The American states have gone far in assisting the progress of truth; but they have stopped short of perfection. They ought to have given every honest citizen an equal right to enjoy his religion and an equal title to all civil emoluments, without obliging him to tell his religion. Every interference of the civil power in regulating opinion, is an impious attempt to take the business of the Deity out of his own hands; and every preference given to any religious denomination, is so far slavery and bigotry.”
~Founding Father Noah Webster, calling for no religious tests to serve in public office, Sketches of American Policy, 1785

If the majority of alternative media purports to be media than it will have to do so at the altar of facts, freedom, and reason or the Republic is lost before it even restarts. Empirical reporting cannot happen when colored with the filter of propaganda be it political or religious. Alternative media has to be one or the other: factual media or a church. Media for the People cannot be both.

“The legislature of the United States shall pass no law on the subject of religion.”
~Founding Father Charles Pinckney, Constitutional Convention, 1787

Yet that direction is where states like Texas demand America’s course to drift from our promise and the current federal administration intends to tread with the exuberant climax of the right, alt right, and conservative media.

This blind adherence to cult tenets has left alternative media to push causes not outlined specifically in their own religious doctrines. The alt right media has grabbed onto women’s issues like their view is god’s view, except it’s not. How’s this list for a reality check:

·  Drinking alcohol

·  Smoking cigarettes or cigars

·  Gambling

·  Dancing

·  Watching R-rated movies

·  Listening to secular music

·  Watching MMA (Mixed Martial Arts)

·  Using birth control

·  Sporting tattoos or piercings

·  Sending your kids to public school

·  Owning a luxury car or other extravagant possessions

·  Working on Sunday

·  Observing Halloween

These items denote all the topics NOT discussed in the Bible. Why? Because men wrote the Bible, not god. If an all-knowing god had written the text then the future would be represented, but no word about women’s issues like birth control, equity, equality, or even abortion exist. Still the People are convinced that their religion represents these political juggernauts.  

Men are representing their interpretation of what god wants as the patriarchy has for thousands of years. There is no basis for religion in women’s issues, modern, progressive, or otherwise. So in reality god is being misrepresented by the hubris of certain media outlets, religious leaders, and politicians to their own ends. Hint, hint, Mr. President.

“I never liked the Hierarchy of the Church — an equality in the teacher of Religion, and a dependence on the people, are republican sentiments — but if the Clergy combine, they will have their influence on Government”
~Founding Father Rufus King, Rufus King: American Federalist, pp. 56-57

The shame is on those media outlets who believe that their platform is to preach instead of maintain the checks and balances of this Republic. Religion should never take place of reason. Religion should never dictate law or policy. Yet here we stand on the crossroads of history and we have a patriarchy too in love with itself to see a defining moment of freewill is at hand but instead to hand out reprisals based on mythical parables.

“Knowledge and liberty are so prevalent in this country, that I do not believe that the United States would ever be disposed to establish one religious sect, and lay all others under legal disabilities. But as we know not what may take place hereafter, and any such test would be exceedingly injurious to the rights of free citizens, I cannot think it altogether superfluous to have added a clause, which secures us from the possibility of such oppression.”
~Founding Father Oliver Wolcott, Connecticut Ratifying Convention, 9 January 1788

We are faced with such oppression twice over. Americans are faced with the choice of economic and spiritual tyranny. So many have taken to the streets to secure their freedoms from both.

Since Roe v Wade was established in law by the Supreme Court in 1973, women have been protested, attacked, and their physician’s murdered for the ideals of Christianity. The Clinton years were rife with violent conservative misconduct against women. Women have seen the ugly side of religious doctrines masquerading as moral authority.  

In many respects, Christians have a very selective memory when it comes to history and facts. Even conservative, alt right media cherry pick their version of reality to feed their followers a false sense of self and entitlement. If the topic is not about homosexuals or gay marriage then the ire is raised about women having the ability to make decisions about their lives and health.

“It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and an usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin. Let us, then, look to the great cause, and endeavor to preserve it in full force. Let us by all wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.”
~Founding Father James Monroe, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1817

Have the People fallen into the abyss of communitariansim so far that they believe their religious ideology is worthy of lawful acknowledgement?

As a people will Americans rise above the confines of ego, hubris, misrepresentation, and selective inclinations to recover our Republic from the hands of tyrants?

Or shall we slip from one political nightmare and surrender to a theocracy of dunces?

If the new media does not avail itself to reason, then spiritual tyranny is the future. There is no one god. There is no god. Men have written and defined society at the determent of all others.

This uneven course is sure to implode America into a new battleground for elites to feast. As reason dictates, we must refuse the temptations of ego-driven ideologies and do the work of the People. Without reason, America has no chance at all in defeating the tyrants of this world.

No matter how we feel about theology.

Source: Addicting Info, National Post, Bible, 

Welcome to the Republic

Staff Writer, DL Mullan
Separation between Church and State
________________________________

Well, what's left of it. 

The United States of America was founded on solid principles of freedoms and rights. In the last 240 years, Americans have been pulled away from this foundation through lies and manipulation. Today, our Republic transformed into a democracy and now is an oligarchy.

A few Americans have taken up the mantle to return the pendulum to the other direction: back to a Republic. In this fight against a worldwide regime called Globalism, the people are standing up against tyranny. Here in the states, our fight has turned from Truth, Justice, and the American Way and into an unwavering theocracy.

A theocracy is a country that is ruled by religious leaders. Does that sound like Americans are being directed back to our founding principles of individual freedoms and rights? When we have politicians in congressional seats, governorships, or even on school boards directing our lives in accordance with their religious belief system instead of following the laws, we do not have a Republic.  

And, you cannot have it both ways.

We have politicians acting in the role of religious leaders who are taking away rights from the People, demonizing medical procedures, preferring one gender over another, and pushing one religion over everybody else.

Houston, we have a problem. Or should I say: Austin?

We have an alternative media that is chalk full of religious zealots that support these political maneuvers. God, this! Jesus, that! To convince listeners, readers, and fandom that if GOD is not placed back into politics and the public sphere that they are all going to hell! The demons will win!

What a bunch of crapola.

Evil happens when good men sit and do nothing. We have a whole bunch of do nothings in this nation. Only the brave are standing up against the Global takeover of the People’s resources and wealth.

God has nothing to do with it. God is the creation of the elite power structure to keep you all slaves. Mental slaves. Emotional slaves. Financial slaves.

I am wrong? Let’s talk this out… So Jesus came to Earth but there is hardly a record of him in ancient times to corroborate the Bible. If he was so groundbreaking wouldn’t everyone be writing about him, good or bad? The first stories of him were written decades after his supposed disappearance and in Greek, not in Aramaic. The Council of Nicea to formulate this newfound power base, I mean religion, did not convene until about 300 years later. Anyone who questioned or argued that Jesus was not divine was excommunicated or killed. The Bible was then created and we are not sure about where these texts derived from or who actually wrote them. Many texts are hidden in the bowels of the Vatican like many ancient manuscripts. Since then the Bible has been rewritten over 200 times. Women are often demonized in Biblical stories and/or made subservient to men.

Do I have that all straight?

When you add comparative mythology/religion into the mix you discover that older religions were stuffed into the Jesus story. The Bible is not original. The Bible steals from other cultures.

That is nothing new. Christians have been stealing pagan traditions for hundreds and hundreds of years. Christmas tree, anyone?

Then the New World was opened up to the peoples of Europe. Tired of the wars between feuding and feudal kings and lords as well as the tyranny of the Catholic Church, people moved away from that system.

Only to set up the exact same oppressive system here!

The Founding Fathers of the United States did not intend for any one religion to reign supreme in this new nation. As a nation that has people, cultures, religions, music and food from around the globe, we can never say we are for only one religion. It is impossible and frankly quite dishonest.

Why the United States of America is a Republic:

There’s a reason why the American founders created a republic, and not a democracy. Republics are the best form of government for protecting the individual from the tyranny of the majority. And there most certainly is a tyranny of the majority that always manifests in democratic style systems.

Here’s how it works: in democratic or republican systems, there is a kind of majority rule. In democracies, the 51% rules over the 49% and has total control. The 51% can do whatever it wants, because in democracies there are not structures in place to protect individual rights.

If 51% vote to steal your bike, you are without a bike. If 51% vote to kill you, you are out of a life. It does not matter if it is right or not, what the majority says is what happens.

A republic is different though, and it operates for the protection of the individual against the majority when they get out of control. It is very important to protect the rights of the individual in a political system, for that is how governments are limited in their power and scope.

Yet we have a religious caste who have separated themselves from the rest of America and voted in their like minded politicians to create this terrible imbalance. Due process has been replaced by bullying the People with Problem Reaction Solution:

• Abortion laws to take away individual rights from women.
• Drug testing laws to take away individual rights to the Fifth Amendment.
• Laws that safeguard polluting corporations and neglectful employers against the health and safety of workers.
• And, even laws to limit or take away social benefits from individuals even though the religious caste of politicians have moved all our industry and jobs to foreign shores, made higher education too expensive, and created wars to send young people to fight instead of maintain the infrastructure of our own country.

So the religious leaders masquerading as politicians have created poverty, destruction, and the murder of millions and millions of children with their righteous policies of war and conquest.

In this sense, religion has been used to overthrow the very foundations of our government. Treason comes in all forms: Globalism… and right is might. In 1776, our Founding Fathers threw off the yoke of religious based government. The divine right of kings was over.

Yet we have alternative media outlets screaming and yelling about abortion and how their religion is going to fix women… real good.

No abortion. No birth control… next women will have to sacrifice more of their rights for this man made religious cult. Then we won’t be able to own property, have a vote, or be educated at all.

What was that quote from Malala Yousafzai:

"The extremists were and they are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them," Malala said. "They are afraid of women, the power of the voice of women frightens them…”

We have that patriarchal fear in this country too.

The patriarchy is not dead. Patriarchy is when a family, group, or government is controlled by a man or a group of men. When men can do the same acts as women but women are scorned, given the blame, and yet men take none of the responsibility, then you have a patriarchy.

And I did not have to pour pig’s blood all over me in a vain attempt at menstrual reverie and call it art to do it either. I just looked up the definition in the dictionary. Drama queen not included.

If the religious right in this country really wanted to stop most abortions they could, right now, today. They could do it by following their own religious edicts and not by taking away anyone’s individual rights to do it.

Here’s how men could turn abortion around:

• Abstain from sex, period
• Do not have sex unless you and your mate want to create a zygote
• If you have sex against your religious beliefs no matter if it is with a prostitute, one night stand, girlfriend, or wife, a condom must be used at all times
• After you and your mate are done having children: have a vasectomy
• When you get diagnosed with Erectile Dysfunction, refuse the little blue pill

In accordance with the conservative views on sex, marriage, and abortion, all men in this group should be adhering to the above rules. Men need to take responsibility for their actions and stop laying it at the feet of women.

If you aren’t abiding by your own religious mandates. then you cannot take the moral high ground on any type of reproductive procedure. A zygote is created with a sperm and an egg… a woman cannot have a child on her own. You are one half of your own problem.

Get a clue.

Conservative mandates and our Republican form of government do not mesh. Religious versus individual rights. In a Republic, an individual’s rights trump religious dogma. But the conservative values are to nullify individual rights and have been trashing our Bill of Rights on a regular basis:

• Blanket law enforcement laws and militarizing police
• Blanket intelligence laws; mass spying
• Illegally invading sovereign countries; regime change
• Drug testing for employees and food stamp recipients

So much for compassionate conservatives.

But today is about setting the record straight. The United States of America is not a conservative country. It is not a religious country. We are supposed to be a Republic, for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

The god reference was taken out because it was placed in during the red scare of communism. It is not original to our pledge. So I leave it out because it is religious propaganda and against our founding principles.

A nation under One GOD, a candidate said… here’s what our Founders had to say about that:  

1. “If I could conceive that the general government might ever be so administered as to render the liberty of conscience insecure, I beg you will be persuaded, that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution.”
~Founding Father George Washington, letter to the United Baptist Chamber of Virginia, May 1789

2. “Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought to be deprecated. I was in hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy, which has marked the present age, would at least have reconciled Christians of every denomination so far that we should never again see the religious disputes carried to such a pitch as to endanger the peace of society.”
~Founding Father George Washington, letter to Edward Newenham, October 20, 1792

3. “We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition… In this enlightened Age and in this Land of equal liberty it is our boast, that a man’s religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws, nor deprive him of the right of attaining and holding the highest Offices that are known in the United States.”
~Founding Father George Washington, letter to the members of the New Church in Baltimore, January 27, 1793

4. “The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature; and if men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves of artifice, imposture, hypocrisy, and superstition, they will consider this event as an era in their history. Although the detail of the formation of the American governments is at present little known or regarded either in Europe or in America, it may hereafter become an object of curiosity. It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of Heaven, more than those at work upon ships or houses, or laboring in merchandise or agriculture; it will forever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses.”
~John Adams, “A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America” 1787-1788

5. “The Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.”
~1797 Treaty of Tripoli signed by Founding Father John Adams

6. “Thirteen governments [of the original states] thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence of miracle or mystery, and which are destined to spread over the northern part of that whole quarter of the globe, are a great point gained in favor of the rights of mankind.”
~Founding Father John Adams, “A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America” (1787-88)

7. “We should begin by setting conscience free. When all men of all religions shall enjoy equal liberty, property, and an equal chance for honors and power we may expect that improvements will be made in the human character and the state of society.”
~Founding FatherJohn Adams, letter to Dr. Price, April 8, 1785

8. “I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibit the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state.”
~Founding Father Thomas Jefferson, letter to the Baptists of Danbury, Connecticut, 1802

9. “In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. It is error alone that needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”
~Founding Father Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to Horatio Spofford, 1814

10. “Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, then that of blindfolded fear.”
~Founding Father Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr, August 10, 1787

11. “I am for freedom of religion and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another.”
~Founding Father Thomas Jefferson, letter to Elbridge Gerry, January 26, 1799

So the next time you want to throw the Constitution and Bill of Rights under the bus of the religious fervor, then you better get your facts straight.

The alternative right, right, conservative base, Christianity, and whatever else extreme views are out there to undermine the Republic, remember that the Founding Fathers are NOT on your side. You stand against the Republic when you lecture and promote your religion over American values and individual rights, if you agree with them or not… it is not for you to say.

From the Center, just one step to the Left… where common sense apparently still lives.

Source: Federalist Papers, NBC News, Merriam Webster, AddictingInfo

Welcome to the Republic

Staff Writer, DL Mullan
Separation between Church and State
________________________________

Well, what's left of it. 

The United States of America was founded on solid principles of freedoms and rights. In the last 240 years, Americans have been pulled away from this foundation through lies and manipulation. Today, our Republic transformed into a democracy and now is an oligarchy.

A few Americans have taken up the mantle to return the pendulum to the other direction: back to a Republic. In this fight against a worldwide regime called Globalism, the people are standing up against tyranny. Here in the states, our fight has turned from Truth, Justice, and the American Way and into an unwavering theocracy.

A theocracy is a country that is ruled by religious leaders. Does that sound like Americans are being directed back to our founding principles of individual freedoms and rights? When we have politicians in congressional seats, governorships, or even on school boards directing our lives in accordance with their religious belief system instead of following the laws, we do not have a Republic.  

And, you cannot have it both ways.

We have politicians acting in the role of religious leaders who are taking away rights from the People, demonizing medical procedures, preferring one gender over another, and pushing one religion over everybody else.

Houston, we have a problem. Or should I say: Austin?

We have an alternative media that is chalk full of religious zealots that support these political maneuvers. God, this! Jesus, that! To convince listeners, readers, and fandom that if GOD is not placed back into politics and the public sphere that they are all going to hell! The demons will win!

What a bunch of crapola.

Evil happens when good men sit and do nothing. We have a whole bunch of do nothings in this nation. Only the brave are standing up against the Global takeover of the People’s resources and wealth.

God has nothing to do with it. God is the creation of the elite power structure to keep you all slaves. Mental slaves. Emotional slaves. Financial slaves.

I am wrong? Let’s talk this out… So Jesus came to Earth but there is hardly a record of him in ancient times to corroborate the Bible. If he was so groundbreaking wouldn’t everyone be writing about him, good or bad? The first stories of him were written decades after his supposed disappearance and in Greek, not in Aramaic. The Council of Nicea to formulate this newfound power base, I mean religion, did not convene until about 300 years later. Anyone who questioned or argued that Jesus was not divine was excommunicated or killed. The Bible was then created and we are not sure about where these texts derived from or who actually wrote them. Many texts are hidden in the bowels of the Vatican like many ancient manuscripts. Since then the Bible has been rewritten over 200 times. Women are often demonized in Biblical stories and/or made subservient to men.

Do I have that all straight?

When you add comparative mythology/religion into the mix you discover that older religions were stuffed into the Jesus story. The Bible is not original. The Bible steals from other cultures.

That is nothing new. Christians have been stealing pagan traditions for hundreds and hundreds of years. Christmas tree, anyone?

Then the New World was opened up to the peoples of Europe. Tired of the wars between feuding and feudal kings and lords as well as the tyranny of the Catholic Church, people moved away from that system.

Only to set up the exact same oppressive system here!

The Founding Fathers of the United States did not intend for any one religion to reign supreme in this new nation. As a nation that has people, cultures, religions, music and food from around the globe, we can never say we are for only one religion. It is impossible and frankly quite dishonest.

Why the United States of America is a Republic:

There’s a reason why the American founders created a republic, and not a democracy. Republics are the best form of government for protecting the individual from the tyranny of the majority. And there most certainly is a tyranny of the majority that always manifests in democratic style systems.

Here’s how it works: in democratic or republican systems, there is a kind of majority rule. In democracies, the 51% rules over the 49% and has total control. The 51% can do whatever it wants, because in democracies there are not structures in place to protect individual rights.

If 51% vote to steal your bike, you are without a bike. If 51% vote to kill you, you are out of a life. It does not matter if it is right or not, what the majority says is what happens.

A republic is different though, and it operates for the protection of the individual against the majority when they get out of control. It is very important to protect the rights of the individual in a political system, for that is how governments are limited in their power and scope.

Yet we have a religious caste who have separated themselves from the rest of America and voted in their like minded politicians to create this terrible imbalance. Due process has been replaced by bullying the People with Problem Reaction Solution:

• Abortion laws to take away individual rights from women.
• Drug testing laws to take away individual rights to the Fifth Amendment.
• Laws that safeguard polluting corporations and neglectful employers against the health and safety of workers.
• And, even laws to limit or take away social benefits from individuals even though the religious caste of politicians have moved all our industry and jobs to foreign shores, made higher education too expensive, and created wars to send young people to fight instead of maintain the infrastructure of our own country.

So the religious leaders masquerading as politicians have created poverty, destruction, and the murder of millions and millions of children with their righteous policies of war and conquest.

In this sense, religion has been used to overthrow the very foundations of our government. Treason comes in all forms: Globalism… and right is might. In 1776, our Founding Fathers threw off the yoke of religious based government. The divine right of kings was over.

Yet we have alternative media outlets screaming and yelling about abortion and how their religion is going to fix women… real good.

No abortion. No birth control… next women will have to sacrifice more of their rights for this man made religious cult. Then we won’t be able to own property, have a vote, or be educated at all.

What was that quote from Malala Yousafzai:

"The extremists were and they are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them," Malala said. "They are afraid of women, the power of the voice of women frightens them…”

We have that patriarchal fear in this country too.

The patriarchy is not dead. Patriarchy is when a family, group, or government is controlled by a man or a group of men. When men can do the same acts as women but women are scorned, given the blame, and yet men take none of the responsibility, then you have a patriarchy.

And I did not have to pour pig’s blood all over me in a vain attempt at menstrual reverie and call it art to do it either. I just looked up the definition in the dictionary. Drama queen not included.

If the religious right in this country really wanted to stop most abortions they could, right now, today. They could do it by following their own religious edicts and not by taking away anyone’s individual rights to do it.

Here’s how men could turn abortion around:

• Abstain from sex, period
• Do not have sex unless you and your mate want to create a zygote
• If you have sex against your religious beliefs no matter if it is with a prostitute, one night stand, girlfriend, or wife, a condom must be used at all times
• After you and your mate are done having children: have a vasectomy
• When you get diagnosed with Erectile Dysfunction, refuse the little blue pill

In accordance with the conservative views on sex, marriage, and abortion, all men in this group should be adhering to the above rules. Men need to take responsibility for their actions and stop laying it at the feet of women.

If you aren’t abiding by your own religious mandates. then you cannot take the moral high ground on any type of reproductive procedure. A zygote is created with a sperm and an egg… a woman cannot have a child on her own. You are one half of your own problem.

Get a clue.

Conservative mandates and our Republican form of government do not mesh. Religious versus individual rights. In a Republic, an individual’s rights trump religious dogma. But the conservative values are to nullify individual rights and have been trashing our Bill of Rights on a regular basis:

• Blanket law enforcement laws and militarizing police
• Blanket intelligence laws; mass spying
• Illegally invading sovereign countries; regime change
• Drug testing for employees and food stamp recipients

So much for compassionate conservatives.

But today is about setting the record straight. The United States of America is not a conservative country. It is not a religious country. We are supposed to be a Republic, for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

The god reference was taken out because it was placed in during the red scare of communism. It is not original to our pledge. So I leave it out because it is religious propaganda and against our founding principles.

A nation under One GOD, a candidate said… here’s what our Founders had to say about that:  

1. “If I could conceive that the general government might ever be so administered as to render the liberty of conscience insecure, I beg you will be persuaded, that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution.”
~Founding Father George Washington, letter to the United Baptist Chamber of Virginia, May 1789

2. “Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought to be deprecated. I was in hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy, which has marked the present age, would at least have reconciled Christians of every denomination so far that we should never again see the religious disputes carried to such a pitch as to endanger the peace of society.”
~Founding Father George Washington, letter to Edward Newenham, October 20, 1792

3. “We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition… In this enlightened Age and in this Land of equal liberty it is our boast, that a man’s religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws, nor deprive him of the right of attaining and holding the highest Offices that are known in the United States.”
~Founding Father George Washington, letter to the members of the New Church in Baltimore, January 27, 1793

4. “The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature; and if men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves of artifice, imposture, hypocrisy, and superstition, they will consider this event as an era in their history. Although the detail of the formation of the American governments is at present little known or regarded either in Europe or in America, it may hereafter become an object of curiosity. It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of Heaven, more than those at work upon ships or houses, or laboring in merchandise or agriculture; it will forever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses.”
~John Adams, “A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America” 1787-1788

5. “The Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.”
~1797 Treaty of Tripoli signed by Founding Father John Adams

6. “Thirteen governments [of the original states] thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence of miracle or mystery, and which are destined to spread over the northern part of that whole quarter of the globe, are a great point gained in favor of the rights of mankind.”
~Founding Father John Adams, “A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America” (1787-88)

7. “We should begin by setting conscience free. When all men of all religions shall enjoy equal liberty, property, and an equal chance for honors and power we may expect that improvements will be made in the human character and the state of society.”
~Founding FatherJohn Adams, letter to Dr. Price, April 8, 1785

8. “I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibit the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state.”
~Founding Father Thomas Jefferson, letter to the Baptists of Danbury, Connecticut, 1802

9. “In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. It is error alone that needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”
~Founding Father Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to Horatio Spofford, 1814

10. “Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, then that of blindfolded fear.”
~Founding Father Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr, August 10, 1787

11. “I am for freedom of religion and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another.”
~Founding Father Thomas Jefferson, letter to Elbridge Gerry, January 26, 1799

So the next time you want to throw the Constitution and Bill of Rights under the bus of the religious fervor, then you better get your facts straight.

The alternative right, right, conservative base, Christianity, and whatever else extreme views are out there to undermine the Republic, remember that the Founding Fathers are NOT on your side. You stand against the Republic when you lecture and promote your religion over American values and individual rights, if you agree with them or not… it is not for you to say.

From the Center, just one step to the Left… where common sense apparently still lives.

Source: Federalist Papers, NBC News, Merriam Webster, AddictingInfo

21st Century Witch Trials Begin: Religious Persecution Affirmed by SCOTUS

Staff Writer, DL Mullan

Religion / Constitution

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“Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law. Take away the law-establishment, and every religion re-assumes its original benignity.”

- Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man (1791)

The Supreme Court displayed its ineptitude this past week as it sided with a corporation on its religious beliefs. That's right, folks, corporations are people too. They have religious rights over their employees. 

Sound to idiotic to be true? We only wish.

"What this ruling does is it moves in the direction this court has been moving already, which is talking about corporate personhood -- really treating corporations like people, saying that the corporation has a religion itself and that should be imposed on its employees," said Emily Tisch Sussman of the liberal Center for American Progress Action Fund.

Still do not believe we are enslaved by the corporate governmental structure? Here's the breakdown:

Monday's 5-4 high court ruling allowed some family-owned or other closely held businesses to opt out of a federal requirement to pay for contraceptives in health coverage for their workers.

What this decision amounts to is the Witch Trials. Contraception is the witchcraft and women are the witches. When are people going to grow the hell up? Your religion does not dictate other people's rights or freedoms. Sharia Law, uber-conservative Christian style has been established in the United States by the Supreme Court. 

In America, if you are a woman: you pay double for your health insurance and now birth control, get paid 30% less for the same amount of work, and are expected to mindlessly follow edicts that some old guys make up just because, even if you do not subscribe to that religion. 

Welcome to the 21st Century Witch Trials, where brains are optional.

“Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.”

- Thomas Jefferson, A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom (1779)

Exactly, Mr. Jefferson, but who is listening? Apparently not the Supreme Court who should know better. When religion and politics mix, people get burned at the stake.

Maybe it's time women went the way of Lysistrata but with a positive outcome instead of catering to men's needs in the end like SCOTUS just did with Hobby Lobby. The battle of the sexes is a long one because religion and society are male dominated concoctions. So why comply?  

If you haven't gotten the clues yet, the Founding Fathers of our nation as well as other thinkers of the time were dead set against religious glorification in law.

"Christian establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption, all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous projects."

- James Madison, letter to William Bradford, Jr. (1774)

And, of course:

"During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution."

- James Madison, General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia (1785)

But what do I know? I'm just a woman.

Source: Daily KOS, CNN Politics, Project Gutenberg,