Bringing The Dream Back To The People

 What in this cycle of midterm elections is different that all other election cycles? Nothing. Not one new strategy or angle that I've noticed. Fund raising meet the candidate dinners for way too much money, donate now emails, multiple times a day and the awful slogans. "Bohner's gonna be mad!' Really? Who pays for this crap? Who came up with this garbage? Have you, any of you, noticed ads for marketers stating 'Looking for people who think outside the box'? Followed by the list of requirements to be considered: Masters degree in marketing, 5 yrs minimum experience in related industry. This is the problem. If all possible candidates have studied the same strategies and have spent 5 or more years implementing them how could they possibly think 'outside' any box? They are in the box! They might even be the box. Would it not make more sense to look outside for people who have not been in this so called box? They used to call that looking for new eyes.

So now that you've raised some money how do you utilize it effectively? Who are you trying to reach and how do you get your message out to them? First use social media and use it the right way. Don't just show how wonderful you and your group of college students are, bring in the unemployed worker, the under employed, the laid off factory workers. Show the real people and not the beautiful ones. Post pictures of the poor, post their words not sound bites. Second, get out and engage your target demographic. Go out and talk to them, ask them what they need, what they want, listen to them and take notes. Record them, write down their answers. Show them you really care and make sure you do really care about them and prove it. Make them the stars of your social media. Help them get voter ID, make sure they can get to the poles to vote. Give them hope one at a time. Remember they are more, so much more than just a vote, they are living feeling, loving people looking for that dream we told them about as children. Give them back their dreams.     https://twitter.com/WendyDavisTexas

                         
                                      

Humanism and Devil Worship: Is the Humanist Satan's Follower?

Not long ago my now ex found Jesus for the third time in her short 3+ decades of life. I had come to realize that is what she does just before cheating on her current lover. And she did. During this time of infidelity she came from a so called woman's bible study group (they never used bibles in this said group) and told me I was an Atheist and therefore a Devil worshiper. This lends itself to the question of how these women might know my beliefs. Either she, the ex, had told them or this grand bastion of "Christianity" G*tew*y church (*=a) did what they brag about and did a complete background check on the ex and learned she lived with me a "non-believer".

Can I a humanist, quasi-atheist, worship the devil? Well, no. I do not believe in either a god or the counter part. Here is what I believe: god and the devil are man made personifications of the inherent good and bad in all men. My Native American relatives share a common tale about a child who dreams about two wolves. One is white and represents the good in us and the other is black representing the bad. Whichever one you feed is the one that grows strong and takes over. Same story of good and evil, just told differently. The outcome is the same. All people struggle with this no matter their religious beliefs, all people. Do I care if you believe in god? F*ck no. Do I care if you are a good person or a bad one? Yes. To give a little insight to the beliefs and differences within the Agnostic/Atheist/Humanist category see the links below. Was my ex a good person or a bad one? Prior to her rejoining the "church" she was mostly good. She did struggle with her past and has great difficulty letting go of it, but she had been making better than expected progress until this "church" got a hold of her. She has now turned into the person she had asked me to never let her become again, vain, self righteous and in self denial. This does not mean I am anti-religion or anti-Christian. I am however anti-false Christian. The world seems to be overflowing with them these days.
Someone's been feeding the wrong wolf.



http://www.religioustolerance.org/humanism.htm
http://www.religioustolerance.org/atheist.htm
http://www.religioustolerance.org/agnostic.htm


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Corporate Religion: How Wrong For Chistianity is This?

Corporate religion is that what it is now? Corporations are houses of worship? This ruling is in direct conflict of the Bill Of Rights.

AMENDMENT 1

 Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or      prohibiting the free exercise there of;

Notice the punctuation mark?

http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/semicolons.asp

What we find is this is a complete statement, not a passive thought.

So are these SCOTUS judges grossly lacking in grammar skills? By their ruling on the Hobby Lobby case they in effect have passed a law establishing a religion.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/establishment_clause

This is the slippery slope Judge Ginsburg was referring to in her dissent. This ruling was made without regard to the beliefs of others; those employed by the corporation. Moreover, this ruling has the potential to greatly damage the reputation of Christianity as a whole. 

An interesting look at this by Sally Kohn from The Daily Beast (excerpt below the link)- 

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/02/hobby-lobby-sex-lies-and-craft-supplies.html

Richard Cizik of the National Association of Evangelicals: “When anyone can use religion to claim an exemption on anything, religion loses meaning. Rather than a personal belief embedded in our souls, faith would become a set of arbitrary rules any corporation could choose from to skirt the law.”

Moreover, Cizik warns, this “puts government in charge of deciding what is or isn’t religion.” That doesn’t sound very free, does it?

If I were the religious faithful, I would be fairly annoyed at 90 percent of corporate America chomping at the bit to use my deeply held values as an excuse for their own misdeeds. Also, while the Bible does not take a firm position on abortion or when life begins, Jesus is pretty clear on one point: “You cannot serve both God and money” (Luke 16:13 and Matthew 6:24). 

http://biblehub.com/luke/16-13.htm

http://www.biblestudytools.com/matthew/6-24-compare.html
Scroll down in the bible study tools for an overview of the passages, I find the first one rather interesting. It has to do with the 'hypocrisy and outward' show in religious duties; not making a show of it. A little farther down in verses 19-24 we find the reference to what I have alluded to in another post about the Conservative Evangelical movement.


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The Conservative Evangelic Church, Fascism and Why you should care.

I will now attempt to clarify the actual purpose of the Conservative Evangelic Church. God and Jesus have nothing to do with it. It is about control, crowd control if you will, one big multi layered con job. It is rooted not in Christianity as they claim, but in Fascism.Ur-Fascism.
I will borrow from a book, near and dear to my heart, by Chris Hedges,'The Christian Right And The War On America', Free Press, Simon & Schuster, copyright 2006 Chris Hedges -


"Ur-Fascism-is based upon a selective populism, a qualitative populism, one might say. In a democracy, the citizens have individual rights, but the citizens in the entirety have a political impact only from a quantitative view- one follows the decisions of the majority. For Ur-Fascism, however, individuals as individuals have no rights, and the People is conceived as a quality, a monolithic entity expressing the Common Will. Since no large quantity of human beings can have a common will, the Leader pretends to be their interpreter. having lost their power of delegation, citizens do not act; they are only called on to play the role of the People. Thus the people is only a theatrical fiction. There is in our future a TV or internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People.
   Because of it's qualitative populism, Ur-Fascism must be against "rotten" parliamentary governments. Whenever a politician casts doubt on the legitimacy of a parliament because it no longer represents the Voice of the People, we can smell Ur-Fascism."

This is what these Mega Churches were created for. They don't actually use the bible, instead the 'preacher' tells the people what is meant by the words held within.One of the most effective ways to grab control (con) is to tell them what they want to hear, and assure the people that that is the way, the only way. They only way to salvation! They twist the bible to fit their needs. My favorite is the tithing. You must tithe 10% of your earnings (or more) it's not your money it's God's money! Follow me and do as I tell you and your life will get better, better then you ever dreamed! God wants his followers to be wealthy! Etc. What they are doing is enticing you to buy your way into Heaven.I have heard the raping of the bible they use to entice (tempt) the congregations. Try this one-"for where your treasures lay so shall your heart." TITHE! Tithe to the church and your heart will be in the church. Problem here is the actual verses go..."gather not your treasures upon the earth where they can rot and rust and mold, and be stolen by man, but gather your treasures in heaven, for where your treasure lay so shall your heart." 

See the difference? It's what I call a massive misinterpretation. It should be pointed out that Jesus told his followers not to give to the Temples, but give directly to the poor, hungry and those in need. He also told them to open their homes and invite them in, in other words Jesus was telling his followers NOT TO TITHE. Go and read the New Testament, I f'ing dare you, it's in there. Add to that these preachers may not tell their congregations how to vote, but they will tell them they voted wrong. Do you know why they put on such big shows every Sunday? Herd mentality. Remember the last big concert you attended? How long did the 'Wow' from that last? About a week, right? See you all next Sunday......



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