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Payback
Day for the U.S. of A.
by Darwin
Bedford, Spiritual Reality Therapist
e-mail: terror@realitylink.org
You
can bully some of the people all of the time, and you can bully all of
the people some of the time, but you cannot bully all of the people all
of the time. Didn't the Americans learn anything from Abraham
Lincoln?
The
U.S. dominates world trade and does so unfairly.
The U.S. also has great influence over the World Trade Organization and
it is well recognized that U.S. foreign policies are disliked by many
countries.
The
US trade
policies cause grievous human suffering in many parts of the
world. According to The Hunger
Project chronic, persistent hunger takes the lives of 24,000 people
every day. That equates to 100 jumbo jets crashing
every day! The U.S. must accept responsibility for a
significant number of these deaths.
And
according the World
Health Organization tobacco use kills 11,000 people every day.
Yet the International Monetary Fund and World Bank forces some countries with
international debt to grow export crops such as tobacco, coffee, and
cotton rather
than food crops for domestic use. The death toll from tobacco within the U.S. alone is
1,300 per day and that equates to five jumbo jets crashing every
day. The two issues of hunger and tobacco alone amount to
35,000 deaths per day.
Of
course the dramatic deaths of innocent American civilians that occurred
in the terrorists attacks appear much more senseless and impressionable in
comparison to the silent deaths caused from American protectionist
policies, however, a death is a death, is a death -- and what
goes around eventually comes around.
The
American people claim to live by the Golden Rule of Christianity (do not unto others what you would not have them do unto
you), but when it comes to "building" and protecting the American
economy
then anything is permissible--even murder.
So
my message to any Americans who may be reading this is that
the terrorist attacks come as no surprise to me as anti-American
sentiment has been building all around the world for quite some
time. Decades of abusive and subversive foreign policies are
finally catching up to you.
The
U.S. foreign policies are so successful for them that they can afford to
be the most generous nation on Earth and still come out ahead. The
U.S. Government is brilliant in the area of public relations and at deceiving
its own people. Actually, the "U.S. Government" is a
misnomer because in reality it is largely controlled by the people who
pay for its incumbents to be elected. Multinational corporations
now have far too much influence over governments. The problem lies
in that a corporation is not democratic. A corporation is not
responsible to the citizens as a whole, just to its shareholders.
The sole purpose of a multinational corporation is to profit through
international trade.
George
W. Bush, the appointed president, is just a puppet for multinational corporations and the
Religious Right
political movement.
With him as president American democracy may as well be on Prozac.
In the
picture above he is praying (in public again) while the terrorist attack is
occurring. Does he think a god is going to push his hand through
the sky and stop a plane from crashing? Instead of leading
his people into prayer he should be revealing some breakthrough
thinking.
He
should be saying to the American people: "Look, we have gone too
far with exercising our might over other nations, especially those of
other faiths and political ideologies, and we must take corrective
action immediately to defuse any hostilities towards us."
And
to Osama bin Laden he should say: "We have treated you
unfairly and now you have taught us a valuable lesson. We recognize
that you are a good person at heart and that you were just
trying to help your country's citizens. We will leave you alone except
for listening to you and cooperating with you in attempt to undo some of
our hostile actions towards you. We will also seek to cancel all
trade sanctions against you and we will take measures to curb
multinational corporations from taking advantage of the countries
of your concern."
But
instead he is leading his people (and the world) into war. Yes,
war might stir the economy up some, manufacturing military arsenal and
so on. And of course the American people have to defend their way
of life as decreed by their God against the way of life decreed by other
nations' gods. So then, if there has to be a war then there has to
be a war.
However,
if there were no gods (and many know that there are not) and if it was
alright for other nations to develop to be richer and mightier then
yours, then perhaps the world would flourish in prosperity
instead.
As
long as
the U.S. continues to purposely disadvantage selected nations then you
can count on further terrorist attacks on Americans and their most honored
symbols. America must now decide if they want to develop the same
sort of scenario that they have been supporting in Israel.
Please
help America decide because the Bush administration needs all the help
they can get.
Thank
you for the time that you have taken to read this post. I enjoy
reading comments that people may have regarding articles that I write so
I invite you to e-mail me at
terror@realitylink.org.
(Posted September 22, 2001)
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Letter
of Apology From Christendom
by Darwin
Bedford
e-mail: darwin@atheists.net
Today's Christians are wanting to separate themselves from the
triumphalism of Christendom or pre-modern Christianity.
"Christianity cultivated and imposed its version of 'correctness'
on everyone and everything in Western society." writes Dr. Charles
Taylor who is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at McGill
University. He goes on to say, "For Christianity to
contribute positively to contemporary society, it must pay attention to
what has happened. Only then will Christians shed their earlier
triumphalism and seek instead to learn humbly from, as well as
contribute charitably to, their neighbours in the new diversity of our
times."
Personally,
I think that it is only due to triumphalism
that Christianity is so widespread. If Christianity were to
succeed in shedding its triumphalism then its number of adherents would shrink to
that of the Flat Earth Society (whose members still believe that the
Earth is flat). Although there are still many instances of
Christian triumphalism in our laws and in our social fabric, I, as the
Atheist
Messiah and provider of spiritual leadership, have decided to participate in this official declaration of its
ending.
Firstly, there needs to be an apology from the perpetrators
of Christendom for all the suffering it has caused in our lives. So
lets begin the healing process in the wake of Christendom (and for
that matter in the wake of monotheism in general). Below
is my own personal "Letter of Apology From Christendom",
the words of which I would like to hear an official of Christianity,
such as Pope John Paul II,
say to me on behalf of all Christians.
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Letter of Apology:
To
Darwin Bedford:
I apologize for the Christians and Christian energies of all times for
their trespasses committed and their lapses in manners and
conduct. It is totally unacceptable.
I just found out (oh boy was I asleep) how pathetically we have really
been treating you. This realization has made me sick (physically
and mentally) and I sincerely seek your forgiveness through repentance.
There is no excuse for the way we have treated you and, from what I
understand, still do. There is no reason for anything but
unconditional love, unselfish sharing and total caring for who you are
as an individual.
For all your lifetime we have done you so very wrong abusing you one way
or another, consciously or not (no excuse will ever be acceptable here),
and have in fact fueled the fire that retarded our mutual advancement to
our total possibility. We did evil, because we have been absent of
guilt.
If we feel guilty then this is a good sign that we are not entirely
evil.
I want to apologize specifically for some of our transgressions:
1) We apologize for violating your person when you were just a few
days old by hurting you by cutting the foreskin from your penis.
We did so without your permission and we regret that you view its
altered appearance as unnatural and "silly looking." We
understand your point that you now look like you could be a follower of
our religion when in fact you are not. We're sorry that you have
taken this action as receiving early notice in life of the Christian
institution's intention and powers in exercising control over you without your
consent.
2) We apologize for forcing you to stand up to recite the
"Lord's Prayer" every day of your schooling and for forcing
you to listen to readings from our holy book, the Bible. This was in spite
of you making it abundantly clear that you did not believe in our God
nor our holy scriptures. We regret that when you finally obtained
permission to be excused from the religious activities in the
classroom, that you were made to sit directly in front of the Christian
who read them over the school's public announcement
system.
3) We're sorry that you were left
with no playmates every Sunday
of your childhood because we forced them to participate in Sunday school, even though they strenuously
objected. We also acknowledge that you hold the content of what
we subjected them to as falsities.
4) We apologize for numerous times in your life that you were
asked to pray to our God
at social gatherings even though many a time it was known that not
everyone present was a Christian.
5) We apologize for all the funerals
that you have attended of people you knew where the format has been
restricted and seemed like Christian
infomercials.
6) We apologize for "torturing" you, as you say, for having
to hear songs and music rejoicing the birthday of our Lord
wherever you go in public for two entire months of every twelve.
No more, I promise--as of now this will change. I will
encourage my fellow Christians to be more mindful of your rights and of
the position you and many others have for our religion. We
will no longer seek to confront you with our religion at every opportunity.
In fact we will proactively endeavor to minimize and eliminate the
situations in which this is now occurring. We will lobby
governments to remove the domination of our religion in all acts and
laws governing the diversified, multicultural society of today.
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As
you can see, my life has not been seriously affected by
Christianity--for I never subscribed to its teachings in the first place
nor lived in a one-religion community. However, others may have horrific
stories to tell. If you have suffered in your life due
to Christianity or another religion then I invite you to compose your
own version of an apology. You may experience some release of
suppressed emotions. This would be especially true if you were
able to express it to others. So if you you compose a
self-written apology from a religion, e-mail it to me. I will post
it at the location linked below. I will not post your name nor
your e-mail address unless you explicitly express to do so.
Thank
you for the time that you have taken to read this post and I invite you to write or
e-mail me regarding it. You need not disclose your name or address unless you are
requesting a direct response to your comments or questions. I will post all worthy responses for people to read.
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Write to:
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