Why do Americans toss out their God given Freedoms with the Bath Water?

If you are one of the many who think that this nation is headed to hell in a hand basket then you have also got to be willing to admit that two of the vehicles taking us there are structured politics and structured religion.  If you think that either or neither of these are true then resign yourself to remaining unaware and don’t be surprised when other things began to adopt structured politics and structured religion’s brand of Americanism.

I say this because both have been slowly erasing a freedom that we were granted so may years ago but many of us either did not wish to see it or saw it but refused to stand up to stop it.  I’m talking about a freedom that was first granted to us by God Almighty himself when he sent his only son to this planet, delivered to us a new agreement between us and him and sealed that agreement with his own blood as he died on that cross.  I am talking about a freedom that was later recalled by a few slave owners and non-slave owners who hammered out a deal we now refer to as the Constitution and Bill of Rights.  I am talking about a freedom that was and is currently being triple sealed by the blood, sweat and tears of our former and current military who willingly places their earthly lives on line each and every day so that we all, every last one of us, can enjoy and exercise that freedom.  I am talking about a freedom that some activist still march, protest and demand.  The freedom, America, is the freedom to choose.

Structured politics says that one must be of Republican or Democratic brand in order to vote and if you are calling yourself and Independent then you have no real choice of whom you wish to vote for.  If I register as a Democrat then I will receive only that ballot to choose the person I think best fit the office to which he or she is running.  The same can be said if I register Republican but what if I listen closely to both or all three candidates and decide that for my money the Independent is the best choice.  Can I exercise my right to freedom of choice and vote for that person or are the avenues to choose whom I wish to support so fixed that I am forced to choose from a list of people I do not wish to support.  If I agree with the stance of a Democrat on one issue but disagree and agree with the Republican on another while considering all the issues I am passionate about the best choice for me would be the Republican then why can I not vote for him or her.  Is it because no other registration choice is available except Democrat or Republican or is it because I am too afraid to rock the boat and demand to exercise my full freedom of choice?

Structured religion says that I must serve God in a particular way and if I fail to follow the policies and procedures as established by this structure then I condemn myself to hell.  In order for me to acquire the promise of God of eternal life, it is there way or the highway.  So what if I read the same passages that they do and come away with a different interpretation than they have?  Does this mean that I am less than a Christian or headed to hell?  Does it mean that I should not exercise my freedom of choice and choose my own destiny after all in the end; I am the only one who will be held accountable for my decision by God?  What if I follow a few of their rules but fall short of following them all, does this mean that I am forever lost and those who claim to be true Christians should turn their backs on me and shake the dust from their sandals?


Consider from whom your freedom of choice and all other freedoms was granted, and then ask yourself if any mortal or man-made corporation has more power than the Almighty.  Once you have done this, make your decision.  Do you wish to follow the path of God’s only son or do you wish to follow the path of man or man-made corporations?   It’s time to re-capture our total right to choose and make those decision based on how we interpret the events or occurrences in our life time and not leave our direction choices up to the media, structured politics, structured religion, big business or chance.  It’s time to say that I am neither a Democrat, a Republican, an Independent or any other political brand.  I am an American citizen with the freedom to choose not only the direction my life will take but those to whom I wish to grant power to.  This was a right granted me by the greatest power known to man and it was not from man which means man will never get total control of it.  God saw me worthy of this task, this job, this honor and I will not forsake him by turning it over to anyone for any reason.  It’s my life, it’s my choice and only I will make it.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Movie Review-Harlan Coben's Shelter

  The movie Shelter is based on the bestselling series by Harlan Coben, it follows the story of Mickey Bolitar (Jaden Michael) after the death of his father leads him to start a new life in suburban New Jersey. When another new student disappears, Mickey finds himself tangled in a web of secrets. With the help of two new friends, Spoon (Adrian Greensmith) and Ema (Abigale Corrigan), they reveal a dark underground that may hold the answers to decades of disappearances. Keeping me totally engrossed from the first episode to the last was not really the storyline or the actions and dramas, it was how awesomely those actors and actresses played their roles.   It seemed so effortless, watching them, that it was easy to forget it was a movie/series. I could not control my anxiousness to start the next episode.   Not many movies can make me feel the same emotions that the players were supposed to feeling but man, this was one and that journey this series took me on was one that...
Read more

The Truth about Malcolm X’s Murder Begins and Ends with Louis Farrakhan

What made Malcolm Little stand out from all those born during his era went far beyond intelligence to a point of realism.  History tells us that as a young child, he was subjected to his “Lansing Michigan home being burned to the ground” and the body of his father, Earl, being found “lying across the town’s trolley tracks”.  Both of these incidents were reported by the police as accidents even though there were evidence that the white supremacist organization Black Legion could have been behind this.  He was also subjected to his mother losing her mind, having to be institutionalized and all eight children, including himself” split up amongst various foster homes and orphanages”.   This education and the education of the streets allowed him the opportunity to reexamine his life and the direction it was going while he spent months and even years behind bars for the crimes he committed during his youth.  He finally decided to dedicate his life to a higher cal...
Read more

A Tree shall be Known by the Fruit that it Bears

  I find it quite humorous when I hear people claiming to be one thing or another.   Claiming to be a republican, a Democrat, or an Independent but the thing that seriously bothers me when people claim the title of Christian and yet act like a total hypocrite. Hypocrisy is defined as “the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform; pretense” and if we are to be honest with ourselves and those around us, not one person can ever claim to not have claimed to be one thing while their actions depict something else.   I don’t think that any one mortal can ever claim that they have not fallen into this trip at least one time or another in their lives.   Because we are human, and accidents happen, it is okay to admit that we have faults and work to fix them instead of covering them up but of course many of us will go to our earthly graves pretending that this has not or currently happened to them. Hence the title of...
Read more