Manifest Destiny Is Unbiblical, Unjust

“Manifest Destiny became a commonly held ideology in the early 19th century and was the belief that the United States had a God-given right to aggressively spread values of white civilization across the land mass of the North American continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. It wreaked havoc on creation and entire communities of indigenous Americans including the Five Civilized Tribes, who were forcibly removed or annihilated based on the assumption that they were an impediment to God’s purposes being realized. Manifest Destiny justified the conquering of the indigenous peoples of Texas, New Mexico, California, and other parts of the Southwest; and the inclusion of the Oregon territory in the United States. Christians must confess the many ways we have contributed to this tragic history by acknowledging and repenting of our sins. We need to repent of our attitudes about the divine right of conquest, white supremacy, ethnic superiority, Manifest Destiny, the pursuit of wealth, and the brutalization, domination, and murder of thousands of Native people who have lived before us." Mae Elise Cannon ☀

America Is Not A Christian Nation

“Instead of preaching a gospel of self-sacrifice and generosity, right-wing Christians support the mega-wealthy who yearn to stifle democracy and move us further toward plutocracy: Keep the riffraff from voting. Keep alternative views out. Live in the bubble of like-minded people, not the marketplace of ideas and diversity where Jesus lived. Instead of proclaiming confidence in God’s care, they push fear: fear of immigrants, fear of the dark-skinned, fear of Islam, fear of Ebola, fear of education, fear of honesty, fear of the poor, fear of gays and lesbians, fear of women, fear of the gospel that Jesus actually proclaimed. America Isn’t a ‘Christian Nation,’ via Never Has Been ☀ via azspot.net

If I was President of The USA

If I was President of the U.S...
 I would: Impose a tax on people whom marry those with criminal records (major ones)
 Impose a tax on women that have kids with multiple fathers
 Taxes on those who have kids out of wedlock
 All government assistance would be ineligible to pedophiles, child, elder, animal and domestic abusers, criminals, anti Americans and terrorists
 Healthcare would be Medicare for all, no co pays or premiums
 Guns would be heavily taxed, ammo too, requiring gun licensure and universal background checks, plus insurance and registration. Assault and military style weapons would be banned
 Gay marriage would be legal in all U.S. States and territory's
 Social welfare and government assistance would be expanded and increased
 More jobs would be created
 Would ask wealthy Americans to help pay off our national debt, corporations too
 Church's would pay taxes but only 2% at most
 Would improve govco agencies such as USPS, NASA, FDA, CDC, FBI, CIA, NSA, FCC, etc
 Would promote more tolerance for gays, atheists, Muslims, etc
 Marijuana would be legal in all states and territory's
 Police and EMS/fire better trained and funded nationally
 Improve foreign relations and UN. Standing
 Decrease funding to Israel and Egypt but will still support them
 Improve relations with Russia, European States, China and The Middle East
 Support women's rights, civil rights too
 Dog and animal cruelty would be punishable by death, child and elder cruelty as well
 Make NRA members register for the seletive service i.e. Military and all right wing militias too
 Anti Americans spied on would be ok, brought in for questioning and detained if need be
 Would tax oil companies tenfold and lower gas prices as well
 Taskforces to improve government corruption and city's like Chicago and Detroit plus ones in Indiana, etc
 More international aid to 3rd world areas and countries
 Schools better funded esp. in poor areas and neighborhoods
 Teachers can be armed with handguns
 NRA would be taxed and asked to help in national, international security measures
 Old age homes would get funding and required training for better conditions
 More homeless shelters and nationally funded food pantries
 Better public transportation and roads
 Major overhaul of mental healthcare system
 Focus on medical, technological, science and space research
 Animal, gay, atheist, Muslim and homeless plus immigrant rights, focus on
 Taskforce to eliminate political corruption
 Continued war on terror, aid to Allies
 More will be added here in another post like this in the future

Right Wing Fallacies

So many right wingers claim snopes.com news items are not true when in fact they are, thoroughly researched by an educated couple that are not even registered Democrats nor liberals. Plus with sources provided. This also reminds me (see article Obama Is A Republican, from The New American Conservative, I think) of claims of (non existent) voter fraud in the last two elections even though President Obama won fair and square through grassroots movements and large numbers of minority voter turnout (hell GWB never even contested giving the Presidency to Obama, unlike he did with Al Gore back in 2000).

azspot.net Quote on President Obama

“I don’t expect any conservatives to recognize the truth of Obama’s fundamental conservatism for at least a couple of decades—perhaps only after a real progressive presidency. In any case, today they are too invested in painting him as the devil incarnate in order to frighten grassroots Republicans into voting to keep Obama from confiscating all their guns, throwing them into FEMA re-education camps, and other nonsense that is believed by many Republicans. But just as they eventually came to appreciate Bill Clinton’s core conservatism, Republicans will someday see that Obama was no less conservative."-Bruce Bartlett ☀
via azspot.net