I use to believe stuff like that, but then I also use to believe that Honesty is the best Policy, Do unto others, The meek shall inherit the earth, man is basically good, America is the land of the free, etc. I use to believe in all the good stuff. Now I lay in bed at night questioning MY belief system.
We have been lied to so much, that distrust is at the forefront of anything I read or hear now a days. I feel so divided and like others have mentioned, almost succumbing to the numbness that THEY want us to succumb too.
When I read such blatant hypocrisy as this:
FORT LAUDERDALE — Finding inspiration from God, The Last of the Mohicans and The Lord of Rings, Katherine Harris told hundreds of conservative Christians Saturday that she is “a work in progress.”
She told the crowd that she studied under Francis Schaeffer in Geneva, Switzerland. Schaeffer is considered a founder of the modern evangelical movement, which encourages advocating Christian beliefs in public life. Schaeffer, in his book A Christian Manifesto, called for Christian activists to demand “biblical morality” in government affairs.
Determined to stay in the race, Harris said she is getting inspiration from Bill Bright’s book, The Joy of Supernatural Thinking — Believing in God for the Impossible.
Obviously she’s ‘preaching’ to her choir. And does anyone actually believe she’ll spend her 10 million dollar inheritance to become a senator? If you payed attention to the 2000 election and the part she played in Florida, there is no way one could see any god in her.
This led me to the koolaid thought. She is definitely a follower. She is a numb-nut.
One has to wonder if we are all being brainwashed by the Bush followers:
The group displays excessively zealous and unquestioning commitment to its leader and … regards his belief system, ideology, and practices as the Truth, as law.
Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged or even punished.
Mind-altering practices … are used in excess and serve to suppress doubts about the group and its leader(s).
The leadership dictates, sometimes in great detail, how members should think, act, and feel…
The group is elitist, claiming a special, exalted status for itself, its leader(s) and members (for example, the leader is considered the Messiah, a special being, an avatar – or the group and/or the leader is on a special mission to save humanity).
The group has a polarized us-versus-them mentality, which may cause conflict with the wider society.
The leader is not accountable to any authorities…
The group teaches or implies that its supposedly exalted ends justify whatever means it deems necessary. This may result in members’ participating in behaviors or activities they would have considered reprehensible or unethical before joining the group…
The leadership induces feelings of shame and/or guilt in order to influence and/or control members. Often, this is done through peer pressure and subtle forms of persuasion.
Subservience to the leader or group requires members to cut ties with family and friends, and radically alter the personal goals and activities they had before joining the group.
The group is preoccupied with bringing in new members.
The group is preoccupied with making money.
Members are expected to devote inordinate amounts of time to the group and group-related activities.
Members are encouraged or required to live and/or socialize only with other group members.
The most loyal members (the “true believers”) feel there can be no life outside the context of the group.
They believe there is no other way to be, and often fear reprisals to themselves or others if they leave (or even consider leaving) the group.
Part of me says detach, move, get high or go crazy. The other part says expose, expose expose.
It’s hard work trying to stay a step ahead of THEM. THEY keep changing the rules and their use of god is downright painful to watch.
We must fight for God and Country, but it is a very different battle compared to Theirs.
