Politics and Religion

George,

You are right, he hasn't changed much, or even attempted the kind of changes we need. The fundamental problems still exist. He has managed to get a few things done but he certainly hasn't brought about a change in the cultural and political attitudes in Washington. He's a politician like all the rest. What we need is someone who is willing to be a patriot, in leu of another word, who is willing to put the country first and the hell with a second term, or politics.

Of course a lot of the blame falls on us because "we the people" have been so damned complacent that we have let it happen. We are the cause of jobs fleeing this country and the corruption in Washington because we haven't been involved. Now in the computer age we realized just how stupid we are. We don't research anything, or even get involved in what is happening in our local government.

People out there in cyper-space have been able to create a world that doesn't exist with false emails and religion. Pass this on and if you do it in 30 seconds you'll be enriched! They pass it on do because that's what God wants. How stupid is that? Or, snopes checked these out and the world will end next week....pass it along....don't check it out yourself pas it along.

If there is to be an Armageddon it's quite clear that we'll bring it on ourselves because we don't think. We seem to forget that we have been given the ability to think, reason and resolved difficult problems and more importantly the nature of the majority of the world's population is based on peace, The basis of most, if not all of the world's religions in love. God is Love..right?

We're all being played and we're dancing to the tune of unscrupulous people. The worst possible combination is the miss-use of religion and politics. If you can join those two together you can control a nation.

Think about it...God wanted to destroy New Orleans because of the sinners. No, God, if you believe in God doesn't want to bring misery and destruction upon his children.

I think the answer is that we need to maybe practice what has been preached to us all of our lives, tolerance and a desire to make peace. That's a religious tenant and common sense. We haven't a lot of time to wake up. It is time to be peace-makers first within this nation and then we can try to export that as much as possible.

We are worshipping the Golden Calf [big time] and our words are designed to destroy not to heal or find common ground. We are the problem and it is important that we listen carefully to those who propose CHANGE and a better life for us all, especially when they deem themselves the chosen ones, the patriots, and use religion to sanctify what they politically proclaim.

Our long lived political parties are corrupted and our newest endeavor is already infiltrated by special interests. Our only chance of bringing about real change and attacking corruption is to open the political discourse to everyone and not just the few chosen. We need to forget our once devotion to a political party and unite in solving our problems, otherwise we are doomed and we will have to face the fact that we are broken beyond saving.

Change must mean the end of corruption and those who brought us to this place need to be imprisoned. Their ill gotten gains stripped from them. We either are devoted to this nation or we are not. We must first serve the American people and protect them. If we are willing to dilute this nation of it's wealth by unscrupulous means for our own benefit then that is treason in my mind.
E. Hatton