I recently wrote a blog about how even an
atheist can go to church to find scriptural relevance in their life and
someone wrote back to me with the opinion that bible stories are
totally irrelevant to our daily lives. Not true. One just needs to
listen and do the homework of application in order to gleam insight.
I
have friends who are firmly rooted in the camps of all the presidential
candidates. Likewise, there are many who despise each of the
candidates. We live in a democracy, well, democracy means "rule by the
people" but in fact, we live under the rule of the vocal minority.
Since not everyone engages in their right to vote and communicate with
their elected officials, only those who do vote get to pick the people
who shape our future and control our present. Only those who voice their
opinions to their elected officials get to make the rules. If you
don't like a law, have you voiced your opinion in opposition to it? If
not, not to act is to act.
If I write my elected officials
telling that marijuana, for instance, is a devil drug which causes white
women to have sex with black men resulting in syphilis (Harry Anslinger
said this), and you don't write to counter that opinion (Fiorello
LaGuardia did but the pharmaceutical, alcohol, tobacco and timber
lobbies were too strong), all the politician knows is what I, their
constituent and the lobby opines to them.
Gillibrand once
admitted to authoring and voting for bills and laws that she knew
nothing about. She was asked to vote for them by peers or lobbyists so,
she did. That is not a rule by the people but by the vocal minority.
Gillibrand co-authored the PIPA law then admitted that she never even
read it nor knew of the ramifications of it becoming law. This is our
fault that poor leadership like this is allowed to happen and it happens
more often then not.
We shouldn't vote for a candidate because
they are the incumbent, or they are smart, good looking, rich,
entertaining, a politician, a member of a party, religious or a good
businessmen. We have to vote for someone who will lead by the will of
the people. We need someone who doesn't hate a particular religion,
gender, sexual orientation, color or nationality. Surely, that criteria
alone reduces the playing field down to one or two.
I would not
use religion to force someone to live by my religious views and laws.
Most people would not allow themselves to be forced to live by the laws
of a religion that they didn't beleive in such as Christian, Muslim,
Jew or Spaghetti Monster. What may be a law for one may be an asinine
outlook for another. But, there are many good lessons that can be found
in all scripture which may also be used to inspire us or help us look
at an issue differently. For instance, the response of Samuel and God to
the Israelite's. The people wanted a king to rule, judge and reign
over them because they didn't trust themselves, Samuel nor God to rule
them. God's response was to outline the cost of a king to rule over
them; He will take your sons and wage war with them. He will appoint
for himself commanders of thousands. He will take your daughters for
perfumers and cooks and bakers. He will take the best of your fields and
give them to his servants. He will take your profits and give them to
his officers and to his servants. Then you will cry out because of your
king whom you have chosen for yourselves. This is exactly what our
country has done for the past 300 years and why we are currently asleep
at the wheel. We do we put these people in charge then allow them to
screw it up?
So choose wisely. Choose not the person or party
who will rule over you but, that you rule. Or, don't vote at all and
let your neighbor choose the person who makes all the laws and decisions
that you will have to live by. Worse yet, vote for the person who
won't listen to you at all and rule over you to their benefit and that
of their friends. It's all in the bible.
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