Foundations of America

So I was listening tonight to part one of a 2 part sermon on America by John Hague's son. My parents are big fans of this minister. He was "preaching" on the 3 foundations of America that if they are broken or destroyed then we no longer have an America. The 3 things were Faith, Education, and family. He was discussing family first and how the divorce rate in this country is at an all time high, and how many couples are living together but not getting married. He mentioned that since these couples are not getting married they are "simply throwing marriage and the ideologies of marriage away". Since these couples are "throwing" that away that the homosexuals want to "catch" it and have the same rights as a man and woman couple. He also claimed that alot of these couples living together saw their parents get divorced and they do not want to go through that. Well alot of couples that are simply living together are not throwing away the theory of marriage because of what their parents went through. Alot of couples that never get married come from families where there parents did stay married. My parents just celebrated 43 years together. Both are "baby boomers". What people do not realize is that these couples that just live together and never get married mainly do not get married because some of them may of had been involved in a really bad relationship in the past, or they may of witnessed something like domestic violence when growing up. Some couples I know choose to never marry because they cannot afford too or feel like since they already have a child together and the kid may or may not have the father's last name. No one really knows what kinds of circumstances people go through in life. Christians mainly read the bible first and never ask the right questions because they believe the "good book" is always right.

Education was the second thing that was being "preached" on. He was claiming that religion needs to be allowed back in schools. That the Bible needs to be taught in science class to explain where humans come from. The whole "God created Earth and Man". That we did not come from monkeys. A typical Christian wanting to deny the theory of evolution. That is what I was taught in science classes. When I was in high school we had a Christian group where they could bring their bibles and read from them. A kid could do a "silent prayer" during classes or whatever and we had a minister lead in prayer at foot ball games. And besides isn't something called the separation of church and state in this country. And isn't a school run by the state? I never had a problem with a before school group, please notice the word "before". Schools need to be allowed to teach kids the facts. the biggest problem with education in this country is the fact that kids now a days have hardly any help at home. The way kids are being taught these days is leading to too much homework at home which leads to stress and loss of interest in school which creates more drop outs.

And finally Faith. So where do I go with this. Preachers like Mr. Hager are scared that people are losing their faith in religion. Most of that is blamed on society. What is making people lose faith in religion? Most young people will probably tell you that they walked away from religion due to them realizing the truth about religion in this country. Alot lose their faith because of big name ministers on television doing something stupid. Or they were like me and have something bad in their life happen like a family member dying and looking up in the sky and asking why God did not prevent this from happening.

I wish people would face the simple fact that Christianity is loosing popularity. It wants to shove itself down your throat and indoctrinate you into it.

*The author of this blog discusses why he left religion in an older blog post*.

A Friendly Reminder

This is just a friendly reminder to all my readers (old and new).

If you have not read my older posts please read those first. I am saying this because if you are a new. reader you are not really sure what you are going to read and if you are one of my regular readers then you already know what I say on this blog.

I do not hold back my opinion on things I see going on in the world. If I offend you then please find another blog that is willing to cater to your beliefs or opinions. I tend to swear in my posts but I do try to keep it to a minimum. I am human after all and I am not perfect. This is NOT a G-rated blog. I try to keep PG, sometimes it goes PG-13, but there are times it goes to an R-rating especially if it is a Rant post. As I said I am very opinionated on certain topics.

So welcome back to the chaos that is this blog....

The Long Road

To my readers and followers,

It has been nearly a year since my last post. I wrote back in October 2015 and here it is July 2016. If had been writing in between then and now my blog would of celebrated its 2 year anniversary back earlier this year.

The world has changed alot since Oct. 2015 and so has mine. I finally finished school back in Dec of 2015. I have been working a full time job also. I enjoy what I am doing now. I am doing PC work for a company. So as you can see alot has changed since my last post.

The world has changed too. Look at this year's presidential campaign. Mass shootings are on the rise. Terrorism is still running rampart. Great Britain left the European Union. We have the Zika virus spreading. I may of misspelled it but you get the idea. Windows 10 came out last summer and is still freaking people out.

My blog got lost in the shuffle of all I have had going on.I have worked 2 jobs and trying to finish school and now I am done with school. Plus I felt like I had lost interest in writing this blog, but the past few weeks I have been getting notices on my blogs facebook page that people have been viewing some of my older posts. I also have had friends want me to write again.

We will see if this blog like a phoenix can rise again...

Happy fourth of July 2016.