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I always thought if free people were legally well-armed throughout history organized religions like Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Confucian, etc. would not exist in the halls of power. It is not hard to understand why Christianity and Islam got off the ground against unarmed people all of the centuries before our Second Amendment was born. The faithful took all the best of it when they made the government the enemy. Over time, their religions became the governments they despised.
NOTE: FASCISM became the only government that was ever created —— then defeated —— in one generation. Defeated but not erased when you list all of the freedom-loving Americans Democrat Communists call FASCIST.
After watching the Communism/Socialism religion growing in influence and control over the most well-armed citizenry the world has ever known I am reconsidering my thinking on the subject.
There was not one government designed by and for private citizens until our Founding Fathers came along. So it is not hard to understand why the founders of the great religions attracted enough true believers in the early years to spread the word among unarmed populations —— usually spread by brutality, threats and intimidation.
QUESTION: Where would our Individualism religion be today had there only been one founder like Jesus Christ, Muhammed, Confucius, et al. instead of dozens of founders?
I do not have an answer for my question, but it appears that too many politically astute founders unwittingly abolished individual freedoms.
The one thing I will never understand is why so many poor damned souls light candles to the most despicable human being ever born?
p.s. Our Founders would have hanged Karl Marx’s true believers:
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. It is the freedom to refrain, withdraw and abstain which makes a totalitarian regime impossible. Eric Hoffer
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"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Guno צְבִי (09-17-2020), Phantasmal (09-10-2020), Trumpet (09-10-2020)
Flanders (09-10-2020), Truth Detector (09-10-2020)
Lighting a Candles For Karl Marx is better than lighting a candle for Crazy Trump.
Lock Him Up
Doc Dutch (09-10-2020), Guno צְבִי (09-17-2020)
Guno צְבִי (09-17-2020)
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-(Ib1yysguy)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
-(apple0154 )
"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
-(Desh)
Doc Dutch (09-10-2020), Phantasmal (09-10-2020)
Global Warming violates the 1st LoT by claiming a magical creation of thermal energy out of nothing, in the form of a temperature increase, which is somehow caused by a magical substance.
Greenhouse Effect violates Stefan-Boltzmann and black body science by claiming that an increase in earth's temperature is somehow caused by a decrease in earth's radiance.
Greenhouse Effect violates the 2nd LoT by claiming that the cooler atmosphere somehow heats the warmer earth's surface.
Flanders (09-10-2020)
To Dutch Uncle: I thought I covered everything:
etcetera
Abbr. etc.
And other unspecified things of the same class; and so forth.
noun — etcetera
1. A number of unspecified persons or things.
2. etceteras. Additional odds and ends; extras.
And
et al.
et al. abbreviation
Latin.
Et alii (and others).
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. It is the freedom to refrain, withdraw and abstain which makes a totalitarian regime impossible. Eric Hoffer
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
Flanders (09-10-2020)
Communists have done nothing to diminish my life.
I'm not sure that I know any, but if I do, they're not causing any problems.
It's Republicans who make life miserable, which is why I never pass on an opportunity to shit on one if it comes up.
Last week, I had to set someone straight for driving into my complex with a Blue Lives Matter flag on his car.
If he does it again, I'll have to stick it up his ass.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson, 1775
Religion....is the opiate of the people. Karl Marx, 1848
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose. Kris Kristofferson, 1969
Global Warming violates the 1st LoT by claiming a magical creation of thermal energy out of nothing, in the form of a temperature increase, which is somehow caused by a magical substance.
Greenhouse Effect violates Stefan-Boltzmann and black body science by claiming that an increase in earth's temperature is somehow caused by a decrease in earth's radiance.
Greenhouse Effect violates the 2nd LoT by claiming that the cooler atmosphere somehow heats the warmer earth's surface.
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