Bush, Homos, Abortion
2004
A bad thing happened to me in 2004. I lost respect and for the majority of Americans.
They reelected George W. Bush; the worst president I have ever experienced.
He failed to prevent 911 by ignoring terrorism threats. He failed to get Osama Ben Laden and instead moved troops to Iraq. He lied and exaggerated the threat of WMD; went against the UN inspection teams and invaded Iraq. Tens of thousands have died. He cut taxes on the richest of Americans and increased deficit to make Social Security insecure so he can eliminate it. He promoted no child left behind to undermine public schools to make way for private school vouchers. He panders to the religious right by giving federal money to religious charities and weakening the American tradition of separation of church and state. His antiabortion ideology has impeded progress on stem cell research and influenced the UN to outlaw therapeutic cloning. He assigned only antiabortion judges. He has no respect for the environment and has impeded international action on global warming. He has helped promote the global population explosion and endangered women by instituting the gag rule. He ran the dirtiest campaign I have ever seen, based on character assassination, lies and exploitation of prejudice toward gays. And then, the height of hypocrisy, Americans said they voted for him because of his morals. Whenever I see a W04 sticker on the SUV in front of me it reminds me of the contempt I have for my fellow Americans.
I hope I will get my respect back, but I am not hopeful. As the price of oil increases due to Bush’s policies, the average spoiled American is going to get mean and ugly.
Homosexuals
It is fairly well established and accepted today that homosexuality is a natural inborn feature of human nature affecting about 3-5% of the population. It would seem that if more people would come to see this fact, then the prejudice directed at homosexuals would decrease.
From an Evolutionary perspective it’s hard at first to see how homosexuality could arise in a population since it would seem to mitigate against procreation. Since life’s features can be explained by Evolution, then homosexuality must have survival value in ways other than procreation. In many animal populations there are redundant males who lose out in the struggle to breed. These include most pack animals; wolves, deer, seals, etc. Thus most males are not needed. Human populations also show competition for mates. Males show aggressiveness and wealth, females show health and beauty in the from of perfect bodies. Some males will lose out in the struggle to breed. Excessive male competition would be undesirable thus a degree of male homosexuality would be beneficial to a tribe. Also, males free of familial responsibility would be free to add to a tribes knowledge and weaponry. Female homosexuality would tend to bind females in cooperative unions helpful in child rearing and gathering food. All these factors would increase the survivability of the tribe in ways apart from direct procreation.
It’s a shame that our society is so polarized in the acceptance of homosexuality. This seem to come mainly from the conservative Christian community. It’s part of the general antisexuality that has defined Christianity since the days of St. Paul. Jesus said nothing about homosexuality. In fact an unbiased examination of his life would make one wonder if he was not himself a homosexual. He never married and the disciple he loved most was a man.
Christians should consider all these things. It may lead to a more tolerant attitude.
Abortion
No one is in favor of abortion. In a perfect world, all babies would be born to live happy and useful lives. But, abortion is a fact of modern life. Since science extended the human survival rate and life span, all forms of birth control have become necessary. I am tired of the continual religious political pressure to outlaw abortion. These people should have a lesson in today’s reality and understand the relation of population control to civilization. It is a widely used form of birth control of last resort mainly practiced by poor people. There are an estimated 50 million abortions world wide per year. Still, world population rises by about 100 million each year. The average Russian woman has had seven abortions. In much of Eastern Europe the rate is the same. Where would we be if not for these abortions? World war III may have happened by now. The world population would be about a billion greater and rising faster. Instead, we have hope that man can control his destiny with civilization peacefully advancing.
The reason birth control is necessary is that science has cured so many childhood diseases that the death rate is much lower today than in the past. If the death rate of 1900 were projected forward, half the people alive today would not be here. In earlier times, the death rate was even higher. The problem is that the religions don’t understand it. They think God controls procreation. They continue to argue against birth control and abortion. The forces of religion want to reinstitute poverty ignorance and regain the power they had in the Middle Ages. Over populated Poland had banned abortion. Latin America is firmly controlled by the church. Abortion and birth control is illegal in most countries. Poverty, ignorance due to over population abound. The Church is counting on the excess population immigrating to the U.S. Africa is in desperate condition mainly due to the missionary anti birth control policies. Islam is on the march, planning to dominate by overpopulation. Here in the U.S. the religious right has teamed with the Catholic Church to influence the government, to restrict abortion.
Abortion is going to go on regardless of whether it’s legal or not. The effect of making it illegal is that many more women will die. Too bad for us all that the religions don’t care about the future of the human race. Eventually they will, because the present policies will only make the collapse sooner and more certain.
A bad thing happened to me in 2004. I lost respect and for the majority of Americans.
They reelected George W. Bush; the worst president I have ever experienced.
He failed to prevent 911 by ignoring terrorism threats. He failed to get Osama Ben Laden and instead moved troops to Iraq. He lied and exaggerated the threat of WMD; went against the UN inspection teams and invaded Iraq. Tens of thousands have died. He cut taxes on the richest of Americans and increased deficit to make Social Security insecure so he can eliminate it. He promoted no child left behind to undermine public schools to make way for private school vouchers. He panders to the religious right by giving federal money to religious charities and weakening the American tradition of separation of church and state. His antiabortion ideology has impeded progress on stem cell research and influenced the UN to outlaw therapeutic cloning. He assigned only antiabortion judges. He has no respect for the environment and has impeded international action on global warming. He has helped promote the global population explosion and endangered women by instituting the gag rule. He ran the dirtiest campaign I have ever seen, based on character assassination, lies and exploitation of prejudice toward gays. And then, the height of hypocrisy, Americans said they voted for him because of his morals. Whenever I see a W04 sticker on the SUV in front of me it reminds me of the contempt I have for my fellow Americans.
I hope I will get my respect back, but I am not hopeful. As the price of oil increases due to Bush’s policies, the average spoiled American is going to get mean and ugly.
Homosexuals
It is fairly well established and accepted today that homosexuality is a natural inborn feature of human nature affecting about 3-5% of the population. It would seem that if more people would come to see this fact, then the prejudice directed at homosexuals would decrease.
From an Evolutionary perspective it’s hard at first to see how homosexuality could arise in a population since it would seem to mitigate against procreation. Since life’s features can be explained by Evolution, then homosexuality must have survival value in ways other than procreation. In many animal populations there are redundant males who lose out in the struggle to breed. These include most pack animals; wolves, deer, seals, etc. Thus most males are not needed. Human populations also show competition for mates. Males show aggressiveness and wealth, females show health and beauty in the from of perfect bodies. Some males will lose out in the struggle to breed. Excessive male competition would be undesirable thus a degree of male homosexuality would be beneficial to a tribe. Also, males free of familial responsibility would be free to add to a tribes knowledge and weaponry. Female homosexuality would tend to bind females in cooperative unions helpful in child rearing and gathering food. All these factors would increase the survivability of the tribe in ways apart from direct procreation.
It’s a shame that our society is so polarized in the acceptance of homosexuality. This seem to come mainly from the conservative Christian community. It’s part of the general antisexuality that has defined Christianity since the days of St. Paul. Jesus said nothing about homosexuality. In fact an unbiased examination of his life would make one wonder if he was not himself a homosexual. He never married and the disciple he loved most was a man.
Christians should consider all these things. It may lead to a more tolerant attitude.
Abortion
No one is in favor of abortion. In a perfect world, all babies would be born to live happy and useful lives. But, abortion is a fact of modern life. Since science extended the human survival rate and life span, all forms of birth control have become necessary. I am tired of the continual religious political pressure to outlaw abortion. These people should have a lesson in today’s reality and understand the relation of population control to civilization. It is a widely used form of birth control of last resort mainly practiced by poor people. There are an estimated 50 million abortions world wide per year. Still, world population rises by about 100 million each year. The average Russian woman has had seven abortions. In much of Eastern Europe the rate is the same. Where would we be if not for these abortions? World war III may have happened by now. The world population would be about a billion greater and rising faster. Instead, we have hope that man can control his destiny with civilization peacefully advancing.
The reason birth control is necessary is that science has cured so many childhood diseases that the death rate is much lower today than in the past. If the death rate of 1900 were projected forward, half the people alive today would not be here. In earlier times, the death rate was even higher. The problem is that the religions don’t understand it. They think God controls procreation. They continue to argue against birth control and abortion. The forces of religion want to reinstitute poverty ignorance and regain the power they had in the Middle Ages. Over populated Poland had banned abortion. Latin America is firmly controlled by the church. Abortion and birth control is illegal in most countries. Poverty, ignorance due to over population abound. The Church is counting on the excess population immigrating to the U.S. Africa is in desperate condition mainly due to the missionary anti birth control policies. Islam is on the march, planning to dominate by overpopulation. Here in the U.S. the religious right has teamed with the Catholic Church to influence the government, to restrict abortion.
Abortion is going to go on regardless of whether it’s legal or not. The effect of making it illegal is that many more women will die. Too bad for us all that the religions don’t care about the future of the human race. Eventually they will, because the present policies will only make the collapse sooner and more certain.
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