Monday, September 30, 2019

Radical Question #4: Why is the Political Language of Racism Used So Widely?


Radical Question #4: Why is the Political Language of Racism Used So Widely Today?

Answer: Because of the Nature and Failure of LBJ's Great Society.

Further questions may be posed to explain this answer.

Why did the Democratic Party vote against the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution? They were passed, respectively, in 1865, 1868 and 1870, thus 1) abolishing slavery and involuntary servitude, 2) affirming unalienable rights for all people equally, and 3) affirming the right to vote regardless of prior condition of servitude.

Why did the racist  Ku Klux Klan (KKK; founded in 1865) arise within, and remain the sole property of the Democratic Party?

Why did the racist Jim Crow laws (1877ff) arise within, and remain the sole property of the Democratic Party?

Why did the racist Segregationist Laws (post Civil War on following) arise within, and remain the sole property of the Democratic Party?

Why did the 1964 Civil Rights Act not pass without Republican votes in a majority Democratic U.S. Congress?

Why did Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY) become furious in 1968 with how the Democratic Party's Anti-Poverty program was decimating the Black Family. Fatherless was exploding to some 74 percent today, and poverty has only deepened.

Why did Barack Obama get elected in 2008 as the first Black President in U.S. history and in also gaining a large White vote? 

Further Answer: The Democratic Party, with a troubled racist heritage, and in political desperation, increasingly resorts to using the "racist" epithet against Republicans and any others who oppose them, regardless of what the facts may show.


Monday, September 23, 2019

Radical Question #3: What is the Simplest and Truest Statement on Politics Ever?


Radical Question #3: What is the Simplest and Truest Statement on Politics Ever?

Answer: Genesis 1:1.

The Hebrew text is this: bereshith bara elohim eth ha'shamayim w'eth ha'eretz.

The English: "In the beginning Elohim created the heavens and the earth."

Most simply, and as the Genesis text introduces biblical reality, this means that the one true Creator governs the heavens, and man and woman are given to govern the earth under the heavens.

And if we desire honest and true politics, we as image-bearers of God need to imitate the politics of the heavens.

This most simply means religious, political and economic liberty for all people equally.

Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Radical Question #2: In all Human History, what is the Only Written Idea that is Greater than Space, Time and Number?


Radical Question #2: In all Human History, what is the Only Written Idea that is Greater than Space, Time and Number?

Answer: The Name of Yahweh Elohim.

It is not found in any polytheistic religion. In all such religions, beginning with the Babylonian genesis, the gods and goddess are finite and petty.

It is not found in any of the ancient animisms, where the spirits are finite and unknowable.

It is not found in atheism or any secular construct. Here, nothing prior to or greater than the expanding cosmos is contemplated.

It is not found in Islam, where Allah is limited by the human concept of number.

Is there anyone in human history who can a) imagine space, time and number ending, or b) not ending?  In the former, we always ask, what is beyond or greater? In the latter, we cannot grasp it from our limited natures.

In the Hebrew Bible, the Name of Yahweh Elohim means the One is who is greater than space, time and number, as the grammar shows. The only written concept of such in human history.


Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Radical Question #1: What is the largest problem with the American presence in Afghanistan?


[In this new series of blog posts, my purpose is to pose simple radical questions and submit some simple radical answers for consideration and debate. The word "radical" (from the Greek radix and the Latin radicalis) means "root level." I will address a range of questions within the realms of theology 101 and politics 101.]

Radical Question #1: What is the largest problem with the American presence in Afghanistan?

Answer: Afghanistan allows for no religious liberty.

First, when the United States set to track down Osama bin Laden after September 11, 2001, it should have simply sent in the Navy Seals to take him out, on national security grounds, and with no folly of consultation with a corrupt Afghanistan government. We were defending ourselves against a violent jihad that seeks to destroy our religious, political and economic liberty. 

Second, the United States should have simply built an advance military fortress in a strategic place in Afghanistan, with the ability from there to strike any terrorist activity discernible. 

Third, this would have precluded the folly of these eighteen years of trying to build a nation that cannot be built, and it would have saved countless lives and trillions of dollars. 

Fourth, the United States is rooted in religious liberty and Afghanistan forbids it. Nation building there cannot work.

Fifth, it is a cardinal folly for the United States to seek to arbitrate between different interpretations of Islam. This is not our role as a nation founded on religious liberty.

Sixth, the United States should withdraw all its armed forces and support staff from Afghanistan - except for a strategic fortress and air base for counter-terrorism purposes alone - and leave the competing interpretations of Islam to settle their own matters.

Seventh, only if the Afghanistan government were to allow and protect full religious liberty for all people equally, could there be any negotiation to change these terms, and only then can war be truly justified by the Afghanistan government against the Taliban.

And eighth, the United States is free - in its strategic fortress and airbase - to build an adjoining fortress and city for Afghanistan refugees et al. who want religious, political and economic liberty.