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 Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 7:40 am
Well...I'll get around to writing something here in a little bit.
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Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 5:15 pm
On Abortion.
As a libertarian, I have to say that it is not the government's call wether or not abortion's should be allowed, or not. But, as a human being with ethics, I simply cannot turn my head and look the other way. How can one terminate the life of an unborn human being, and simply walk away from it? How is it that one can look at abortion with the same impartiality as swatting a fly, or squashing an an? This is the real problem. It is not a societal issue that people should have the option of having an abortion, which they should, but that they would want one.
People often state that the reason's for having an abortion are that raising a child is cost prohibitive. So we've become a nation of penny pinchers? Then why is it that this same person would just as easily spend their money on marijuana or alchohol, as opposed to raising a child? The reason is this: we have become a nation of irresponsibility. Much like the Buchanan's of The Great Gatsby, we have lost sight of our responsibility. We've become a nation of care free party goers, who'd much rather fancy themselves on epicurean and ephermeral delights than to sit down and do something worthwhile. We'd much rather give the man a fish than teach him and have him earn his fish for a lifetime, since there are always more fish. No, we'd much rather simply subsidize this and that, and we'd much rather just sit with one hand on the hookah and the other on some lass or lad we've managed to get our paws on. We've lost the responisbility, that certain nobility, and that certain idealistic drive that built this country and carried it to its current platau of power.
To fix this problem, it'll take more than government intervention. The government has never been what made America great. It never has or will be what made America the greatest nation, the veritable Titan that has stood across the continents and oceans for so many years now. It was its people. It was not FDR that rolled across the fields of France and the islands of the Pacific during World War II. It was not Abraham Lincoln who marched southward during the civil war, or Lee who marched upwards. And it was not George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, or John Handcock who shrugged off the shackles of British bondage and created the first democracy in over a thousand years. It was her people, that noble breed of man who has stood up for more than 200 years and called himself an American. It were these men, of all races and creeds, who helped fight off all of her enemies and made America what she was. And then we have languished in our own greatness, with the attitude that someone else will come along and take up the banner. Or worse yet, that America doesn't deserve her greatness for some reason, that everyone is justified in hating her. But I wander. America, and her noble breed of man, must shake itself of this intelletual and moral miasma, and once again remind the world what being American is about. And part of that is not killing off the next generation.
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Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 7:47 pm
The Problem with Islam
People often speak of Islam as a religion of peace, just like Christianity and Judaism. They say that it is only the extremist Muslims who are causing trouble for the world, and that they are only taking their religion to the extremes. For a long time, I thought that too. I thought that Mohammad was just as good of a teacher as Jesus to some extent, and that they had all of the same morals as a Jew or a Christian would. Then I read a book that, quite honestly, is similar to having what you know torn out of your head and stomped on. It was such a mind blowing revelation, that for a moment I could feel what it must have been like to be one of Jesus's disciples when the truth was revealed to them.
The Politcally Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) by Robert Spencer is the book I am talking about. As of this post, I only finished reading it a few days ago. It isn't his politcal commentary that you should read it for. It isn't his defense of the Crusades you should read it for. It's for the examples of Muslim doctrine.
Although Spencer makes a compelling arguement for the Crusades, and for Western Culture as a whole, it's his simple quoting of the Quaran (Koran) that makes this an absolutely neccesary read for anyone at all interested in current events. The book, repeatedly, simply pulls quotes out of the Koran and juxtapose them from excerpts from Christian scripture to show just how much of a contrast there is. Here are a few things that I learned in this book that I never learned in my whole A.P. European History class.
The Jizya- The poll tax imposed on the Christians, Jews, and other infidels who lived under Islam's bladed fist. History classes teach that it simply wasn't that bad under the Jizyah. This is a bold faced lie. Dhimmitude, as being under the Jizyah was called, meant daily humiliations. You had to dress in a certain fashion, often uncomfortable clothes that no one would want to wear such as canvas. The poll tax was an almost unbearable sum, and dhimmis were gave very few chances ot earn money. Also, you could not renevate your old churches, or build new ones if you were a dhimmi. And you couldn't worship loud enough for Muslims to hear you. Your house couldn't be taller than a passing Muslims reaching hand, not to mention portions of your hair must be shaved off in order to further mark your presence as a second class citizen.
The Crusades- Were not a precursor to Western Imperialism. Simply put, the Crusades happened after centuries of Muslim aggression against the Western world, i.e. the invasion of Spain and France, alond with constant harrasment in the Med. Also, the Byzantine Emporer, in a desperate call for help, asked the Pope for assistence, and the Pope granted it. Also, the violence that te Crusaders wrought, although a fall from the lofty ideals they had carried with them, was also characteristic of warfare of the time.
The Koran supports that abuse of Women- In a whole chapter dedicated to this, Robert Spencer points out that repeatedly in the following verses:
2:223
2:282
4:3
4:11
4:34
I'm not going to write them all, simple because it would take forever. Simply stated, however, all of them repeat over and over again how women must be beaten, subjugated, and are overall inferior to men.
This is not all that the book entails. It is an enlightening experience to say the least.
Sources:
Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) by Robert Spencer, Regnery Publishing, Inc.
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